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Hello everyone!
We are Claudio and Elisa, a 39-year-old couple with many dreams.
Tired of the hectic routine of the modern society, in 2018 we quit our jobs, we bought an old camper (which still is our house) and we left our village looking for a different way of living, in harmony with Nature, animals and people, but first at all with ourselves.
The experiences we lived, made growing in ourself the wish to have our own piece of land, where we can put into practice the principles of self-sufficiency as much as possible. It is a very ambitious project, which also includes the construction of a ecological house, using wood, straw and clay.
A long journey brought us here, in our corner of paradise, in Abruzzo, in the center of Italy, near Vasto.
The land, of almost 3 hectares, is surrounded by olive trees and has a beautiful view of the sea and the mountains.
After 2 years as volunteers, now we are really happy to be hosts! We love the idea of sharing our dreams with travelers from all around the world.
The roads to follow our dreams is really long and every little help will help us to achieve it.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Farmstay help
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We spent the last few years studying and practicing the principles of permaculture, regenerative organic agriculture, biosinergic garden and bioconstuction.
The volunteers can learn and share with us how to start a self-sufficiency project based on these principles.
We will be really glad to share with you every our knowledge, as well as yours.
We can make jams with the fruits of our land, homemade bread and pizzas, spirits, fresh pasta, soap and much more
Help
The tasks here are really varied and it depends of the weather and the period you are going to come.
In the garden there always is something to do: to seed, to plant, to weed, to collect, to transform,to add straw and compost, to collect bad insects, to spray natural teas, to water, ...
But the help is not only in the garden: there also is to clean the forest, chop the wood, clean the bottom of the olives trees, clean the bricks, collect fruits to dry them or to do marmalade, go to the neighbours with the wheelbarrow to collect the poo of their goats, cut the grass, clean the fence from the brambles and lot more.
We love to know other traditional meals, so we share with volunteers the tasks in the kitchen, as cooking and washing dishes.
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Spanish: Fluent
Italian: Fluent
Accommodation
We live in a camper, while volunteers stay in a caravan, that is old, but provided with electricity, heating and hot water.
The toilet is an outside compost toilet and the shower is outdoors (among the olive trees) during the summer, while during the winter you can use the little shower inside the caravan.
As we don't have any sewage system, we ask you to use only environmentally friendly detergents.
What else ...
In your free time you can enjoy the beautiful beaches near Vasto, which are 15 minutes away by car, or take wonderful walks on the Majella Mountain, just one hour away by car.
The village of Monteodorisio is only 3 minutes walking where you can find bars, restaurants and supermarkets.
We are looking for genuine people, who wants to share and looks to Nature as something wonderful to respect and protect.
We mostly follow a vegetarian diet, but occasionally we also eat meat.
We currently have only one cat, but in the future we would like to have goats and chickens.
We don't have any wi-fi
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Space for parking camper vans
This host can provide space for campervans.
Can possibly accept pets
Pets are welcome, but our cat Ninni is lovely with humans but not with other animals
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Hours expected
5 hours a day, 5 days a week
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But Ben is not only an independent hard worker, he also is a really kind person, polite and funny. We enjoyed the time together and he will always be welcome here. Ciao Ben, Ninni already miss you!
I stayed and worked here for a week in April 2024. Elisa and Claudio's project is very inspiring, incorporating strong organic, no waste and permaculture values. the work was physical which I liked, and mostly moving and stacking wood, creating storage and reorganising things on the land. it's a big piece of… read more
And Elisa brought me to… read more
From the first day, they didn't behave as simple volunteers, but as members of the project, part of the family... Was an amazing experience of co-living, full of interested… read more
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But Ben is not only an independent hard worker, he also is a really kind person, polite and funny. We enjoyed the time together and he will always be welcome here. Ciao Ben, Ninni already miss you!
I stayed and worked here for a week in April 2024. Elisa and Claudio's project is very inspiring, incorporating strong organic, no waste and permaculture values. the work was physical which I liked, and mostly moving and stacking wood, creating storage and reorganising things on the land. it's a big piece of… read more
And Elisa brought me to… read more
From the first day, they didn't behave as simple volunteers, but as members of the project, part of the family... Was an amazing experience of co-living, full of interested… read more
And we were not wrong.
We feel deeply attached to her after this 2 months together and we miss her a lot, in… read more
He is a funny guy, we had a lot of fun together, speaking about everything.
He also is a really hard worker, very independent and with a lot of initiative. It was enough to tell him the result we wanted to have and find the way to reach it. He knows how to use any tools and… read more
My experience In Monteodorisio was amazing better than I could ever imagine. Elisa and Claudio are some beautiful souls and I loved to work and share my time with them.
The property is a beautiful peace of land with a lot of work to do.
But Elisa and Claudio will show you what and how to do it.
What else, the food was amazing, the Apperretivo… read more
He is really nice, eager to learn Italian as better as possible.
He told us he would like to join us in spring and we hope he will really do it.
Thank you Jakob, see you soon 😉
He spent with us only 10 days but we enjoyed a lot his company.
He works hard, he helps in the kitchen and it's nice to have any kind of conversation with him.
We highly recommend him!
They are lovely and adaptable.
They helped us in a lot of works, but the main job was the fence for the vegetables garden; they followed the whole process: they cleaned the wood sticks, the burnt them, they oiled them, they did the… read more
Claudio, Elisa are amazing people and very open minded. They opened up their home for us and we felt very comfortable in this place where we stayed for a month. These guys are a loving happy couple that love to open up their… read more
She helped us a lot in the garden, weeding it, building some vegetables beds, planting and seeding.
She enjoys the moments and she has an optimistic way to live, always looking for the positive side of things.
Thank you for your help bella!!!… read more
They helped us weeding the vegetable garden, building a vegetable bed, cleaning the woodland, preparing the materials to do an hot compost and other little works.
They helped cooking and washing dishes.
It was a pleasure to have them with us, we spent a really good time.
Very precise and independent in any kind of jobs, giving us a lot of good ideas and sharing their knowledge... they teach us a lot!
They really put their mind into the project, looking for solutions using the… read more
