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We’re creating a food forest, eco-campsite, and simple sustainable lifestyle on our mountain land in Piemonte. Come help us with gardening, building, and daily life — and enjoy peace, nature, and warm family vibes with us.
🌿 Welcome to our off-grid family life in the Italian Alps
Hi and welcome! We’re a small family living off-grid in the beautiful mountains of Piemonte, one hour north of Torino. Our place is a sanctuary of peace and nature — forest, open fields, creeks, and wildlife all around.
We came here to live simply and sustainably, but discovered how much we enjoy sharing this life with others. That’s why we love to welcome helpers to join us, learn, laugh, and create together.
👩👩👦 About us
Sabine – passionate about herbs, our vegetable garden, and all things nature. A creative soul who also works as a hypnotherapist and loves open-hearted conversations.
Wouter – traveler turned host, always curious about sustainable living, handy projects, and showing our son the magic of natural life.
Owin (our baby boy) – full of joy, energy, and “helping hands.” You’ll often find him exploring the garden, forest, or climbing on mum and dad.
🌱 Our place
Our 1.5-hectare property is a mix of forest and open land. Here we are creating:
a food forest
a vegetable garden
a small-scale eco-campsite
Life here flows with the seasons — chestnut harvests in autumn, woodstove cooking in winter, fairy-tale blossoms in spring, and fireflies in summer nights.
🛠️ How you can help
There’s always a variety of tasks, depending on the season and your interests. For example:
Gardening and planting in the food forest
Small building or maintenance projects
Firewood and land care
Helping with the campsite
Creative ideas for natural living
We don’t expect you to be skilled in everything — just willing to learn, share, and enjoy the process.
🌄 What you get in return
A peaceful mountain setting surrounded by nature
Healthy food from the garden and forest
Simple off-grid lifestyle experience (no TV, but the best sunsets and starry nights!)
Warm family atmosphere, meaningful conversations, and space for yourself too
Plenty of inspiration if you’re curious about herbs, sustainability, or creative living
📍 Practical info
Location: Piemonte, near Ivrea and Castellamonte (1 hour north of Torino)
Accommodation: simple, cozy, depending on season (tent, caravan, or cabin)
Food: we cook and share meals together — local, seasonal, often from our land
Best time to visit: any season has its magic!
💌 Come join us
If you’d love to experience off-grid life, help create a sustainable place, and share time with a young family in the Italian Alps — we’d be happy to hear from you! Send us a message, you’re very welcome.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Language practice
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Interests
Self development
Sustainability
Vegetarian or vegan
Pets
Farming
Carpentry
Gardening
Cooking & food
Art & design
DIY & crafts
Plant care
Photography
Writing
Performing arts
Hitchhiking
Drawing & painting
Fitness
Yoga / Wellness
Nature
Camping
Dancing
Mountain
Outdoor activities
Hiking
Cycling
Adventure sports
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Since we live in nature, this a thing you'll be learning from. Sabine knows some about herbs and their capacities (and is learning). She knows how to make it into a tincture or a balm. And Wouter just likes to be outside and share this time with you. We're in for good company. And we know the secret places to visit. Obviously we're in for a good conversation. And we love to play... Maybe do some acro yoga? Love nature? Dive into one of the many beautiful natural swimming spots in the river.
Almost every visitor or WorkAwayer leaves as a member of our Off Grid Family with new inspiration, ideas, energy, to continue their journeys.
Help
Before we jump in the tasks and kind of help. Let's start with this;
1. Only do the things that inspire you.
In short we're looking for help in the garden and in/around the house. We work a lot wit natural materials, f.e. beams from the forest.
Some high on the list tasks for example in a list;
- Digging - We need to set our house free from the mountain (💧) And we want to create flat spaces in the garden to sit or camp.
- Expanding our vegetable garden, making new beds.
- Setting borders and doing landscaping with nature stone
- Gardening in vegetable garden and fruitgarden
- Preparing firewood
- Creating woodstack
- Creative projects in the garden like making a shelter, compost toilet, etc..
- Helping with little upgrades on our house like assembling a wardrobe, or something like that.
- Plenty things to do. Always something you like.
- Other things depending on the season.
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Dutch: Fluent
Italian: Beginner
Accommodation
Depending on the season we can offer you a stay in a campspot, or our little cosy caravan.
In general we share all our meals. Meaning there will be 3 meals for you during the day;
Breakfast,Lunch and Dinner.
We like to either cook, or taste your cooking skills.
We eat vegetarian. But love our cheese, butter and eggs.
Off course we try to eat as much as possible from the garden.
(Sabine also knows some about edible flowers and plants) We compliment this with foods from the market.
We daily clean the dishes. When there's more people around we try to do this more frequent, in order to keep it clean.
What else ...
Even though we live remote, it's pretty easy to find. If you follow our instructions. (provided in time) With public transport you can get to Ivrea. Or, if you have more time even up to our valley by bus. A car obviously gives you most freedom.
We're at a 35 min drive from Ivrea, which has a train station.
Time off?
- walks up the mountain, plenty of tracks
- river visits
- Damanhur
- Taste the best ice creams Italy has to offer
- etc.
Want to know more? Just ask!
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
Plan the time with your computer, as we live with the sun for energy. And we have 1 accespoint (with plenty energy) to charge your device.
Space for parking camper vans
You are very welcome, only thing is... We can only be reached by a 4x4. If you do not have a 4x4 there's a place nearby where you can park.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
My animals / pets
Puria (4 years)
Puria is our shy but lovely black cat. Wachting over the house and the garden. She loves her peace. And only shows herself when she feels safe. In summer she spends her days as a wild cat hunting down anything. In wintertime she likes to snuggle up in a warm and dry place. We love her
Mango (1 year)
Mango is very very frienldy and loving. And he loves to play.
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There are many projects to work on, and the work changed… read more
We so much enjoyed Paul and Ben. We loved their laughs, and their sunny mood, when we on our mountain were facing a week… read more
It was my first experience of WORKAWAY, I was little nervous but they welcomed me sooooooo warmly.
In this society, sometimes we humen feel like we can't trust anyone. But, they are far away from like that society. They are really sincere, kind, generous. I felt really relaxed. We… read more
I don't really have much more to say. We just enjoyed every minute with you. And we're very gratefull for your visit.
Enjoy your travels and know that we'd welcome you… read more
In short, good people, good vibes, good mentality, good work.
Thanks for your stay!
I truly admire their philosophy of living in harmony with the land, following the natural flow of… read more
We took in a big job of digging, an digging, and even more digging.
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