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Join our family in the countryside and connect with nature in Umbria, Italy

  • Last activity : 30 Apr 2025

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  2025 

 Min stay requested: at least 3 weeks

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  • Description

    Description

    Hi everyone, we are a family of four, Jennifer, Stefano, David who is 11 and Ariel who is 5. We live and work in our countryside agriturismo in central Italy, an organic farm established in the early Eighties. We have 8 donkeys, chickens, pigeons, pigs, cats, dogs. We are surrounded by woodland with beautiful walking paths, here are a sauna in a cave in the forest, a swimming pool, a vegetable garden and olive trees. We produce organic extra virgin olive oil, jams, meat, vegetables.
    We have 3 holidayhouses wich we rent for guests and a small restaurant.

    Workawayers will not help for our business.

  • Types of help and learning opportunities

    Types of help and learning opportunities

    Art Projects
    Help with Eco Projects
    Gardening
    DIY and building projects
    Animal Care
    Farmstay help
    Babysitting and creative play
    Creating/ Cooking family meals
    Help around the house
    General Maintenance
    Help with Computers/ Internet
    House sitting
  • UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

    UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

    UN goals
    No poverty
    Zero hunger
    Good health and well-being
    Quality education
    Gender equality
    Clean water and sanitation
    Affordable and clean energy
    Decent work and economic growth
    Industries, innovation and infrastructure
    Reduce inequality
    Sustainable cities and communities
    Responsible consumption and production
    Climate action
    Life below water
    Life on land
    Peace, justice and strong institutions
    Partnerships for the goals
  • Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Living in the Umbrian countryside is an experience in itself, connecting with the pace of nature and breathe in the cultural traditions of the heart of Italy. We will share all our knowledge about growing and tending plants and animals, and the principles of organic farming, about italian food, and about living and working in an italian "agriturismo".
    Jennie has a passion for naturopathy, yoga, arts, creativity. Stefano for food, plants, tools, wood and fishing. We can help you learn and improve italian and introduce you to our beautiful region.

  • Projects involving children

    Projects involving children

    This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.

  • Help

    Help

    For this year, we would like to try the experience of the long stay of workaweyers, in terms of months, for building a good relationship to give our family and our work a continuity and a good rhythm of constructive work and leisure time on both sides.

    We are looking for people preferentially with a bit Italian speaking (as Stefano and the kids doesn't speak english very well), who can help us with the many things that need doing around our family house and farm.

    We need help with gardening, wood cutting, cooking lunch, keep clean the inside and outside spaces, maintenance works and take care of the chicken and rabbits. In summer we need help with watering the plants, harvesting of vegetables, fruits and production of jams and preserves, clean the swimming pool, play and stay with the kids as they will be at home while we have more guests coming in the agriturismo and are more busy.
    If you have any experience in handcrafts, wood works, carpentry, gardening, painting and repairs you are perfect for our place!

    Would be nice to have new pictures and videos of our work and our place. So, if you are creative in this, we will really appreciate your help!

    Usually we work in the morning and the afternoon is free for your time. We have lunch together which is usually prepared by workaweyers. Saturday and Sunday are free so you can explore the area if you like or spend your time in the agriturismo.

    So, we prefere to host people for long stay but we can host also for shorter periods.

  • Languages spoken

    German: Fluent
    English: Fluent
    Italian: Fluent

  • Accommodation

    Accommodation

    We offer an apartment on the ground floor of our big farm house. Regarding food you will have breakfast by your own, lunch is usually all together and dinner is seperated as breakfast. Ingredients are always provided and obviously you’ll have access to all our own products (meat, olive oil, vegetables, fruit, eggs...).

  • What else ...

    What else ...

    We live in the countryside, the next town is 4 Km from us, very small, but there is anything you need. 20 Km from us there is Orvieto, a small city, and vary nice to visiting. We are surrounded by many wood, paths and streets for walkings and for mountain bike tours, many nice town to visit with each his own interesting story. Nearby there is the Bolsena lake for very nice one day stay, where you can also canoing or windsurfing, and the same on the Trasimeno Lake too. In the surrounding there are nice walls for climbing and a very nice fitness club with also an indoor climb wall. There are interesting caves to visit with guides, and not far there are thermal bath, free or in spa. We live in a very nice place! To discover and to love.
    During summer time almost every day you can find something to do in the towns nerby, as music, live music, coctails, outside cinema or theatre, dancing, walkings with guide, and mostly food.
    We can have times to spend together and you can explore by yourself.

  • A little more information

    A little more information

    • Internet access

    • Limited internet access

      Limited internet access

    • We have pets

    • We are smokers

    • Can host families

  • Space for parking camper vans

    Space for parking camper vans

    This host can provide space for campervans.

  • How many Workawayers can stay?

    How many Workawayers can stay?

    Two

Host ref number: 648536197497

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