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Need people for harvesting olives during last week f October/ first of November near mount Etna and the sea, Italy
My name is Silvia, I live in a single house on foot of mount Etna, with a garden of 15000 square metres, in which I have planted 70 olive trees and try to grow my food .. Trying to find my path in an organic and natural way.
I am also a basket maker and I am used to bake my own bread.
I have two children, 19 and 15. Only the second one still live with me. We have 4 dogs.
I like to be here and very grateful, I grew up in Bologna, the northern Italy, and here I found my way!
I will be happy to have people here, even also because it is difficult to travel as I would like..
The place where we live is not well served by public transportation, I mean buses and trains exist but they are some far from my house. Then it is a little be difficult to move around indipendently without a car.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Gardening
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
You could learn about gardening , basketmaking and making bread. I could show you the nearby of Etna and Ionian Sea that is 15 minute far from me by car. You could also make Italian practice.
Help
I always need help in the garden with different kind of works and season maintenance.
I welcome help with garden maintenance, gardening, olive harvesting late October begin of November, pruning fruit trees, help around the house. Somehow organising wood. Also need help to cook when I cannot manage to do it.
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
French: Fluent
Spanish: BeginnerThis host offers a language exchange
This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
You can contact them directly for more information.
Accommodation
Bed for two people in a room with a private bathroom and toilet. We are vegetarian. Not my son, but I prefer vegetarian hosts and no smoking people.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
This host has indicated that they love having digital nomads stay.
Space for parking camper vans
I have enough space in the private parking of my house, but I have 4 dogs and cannot host others
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
My animals / pets
Four dogs
Four dogs
They are medium and little size, a little untrusting at the beginning but not aggressive and very sweet afterwards
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Thank you!
Silvia is very consious about the resources she uses. If the sun is shining she uses the solar energy for washing, baking, ....
She gave me clear tasks and times… read more
Sono Péter qui. I'm a bit late in writing here, as I worked for Silvia, Sofia and Leo at the end of October last year (2023). However, I would like to show how much I was impressed by my time with them.
In that week and a half I not only gained new knowledge in olive picking, something I hadn't had much to do with before the stay :), but I… read more
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Thank you!
Silvia is very consious about the resources she uses. If the sun is shining she uses the solar energy for washing, baking, ....
She gave me clear tasks and times… read more
Sono Péter qui. I'm a bit late in writing here, as I worked for Silvia, Sofia and Leo at the end of October last year (2023). However, I would like to show how much I was impressed by my time with them.
In that week and a half I not only gained new knowledge in olive picking, something I hadn't had much to do with before the stay :), but I… read more
Silvia we hope we didn't eat everything at your house 😂
We recommend this experience ! We hiked on the Etna, we swam in the sea and visited Catania.
Thanks for everything Silvia, see you soon
We had also deep cultural and personal exchange .
Very… read more
The work was varied, fun and adapted depending on the weather: bundling olive branches, cracking nuts, stacking wood, harvesting kumquats, making jam, helping with cooking and IT-support. I was able to participate in bread-making in the traditional… read more
