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I am Alessandro 44 years old sicilian man who loves nature and is passionated about trees and ecology. I have a background in science, particularly chemistry, my philosophy is environmentally-friendly and I enjoy living an ecological and dynamic lifestyle.
I am open-minded and full of ideas, so I can offer you various activities in the field of ecology and organic farming. I have started to think how to leave the place I live a better place and then it came the idea to start a reforestation and ecological project in an empty piece of land I have behind my house. If you want to help me to realize this project and have some experience in sunny Sicily - join me!
I will try to do an abstract of this project:
To help in a reforestation plan, consisting of planting trees, cleaning the land and do a botanical research of the mediterranean species we are going to use to create a forest in an empty land behind my house. I live in the countryside of Sciacca (7 km away from the city center) surrounded by olive trees in the south west coast of Sicily. For these Eco project in the farm I need any volunteers interested in agriculture and ecological lifestyles in the Sicilian peaceful countryside. The farmhouse is organized as an ECO-FARM with several permaculture projects going on.
As I accomodate volunteers in my house, I need a bit of help in house cleaning and manteinance as well as taking care of common spaces.
The type of help here is very diverse and depends mainly on the season.
If you decide to help me, consider you will live in the countryside, in a peaceful area and there is no public transportation from here to Sciacca, even if I go to town almost every day and I can give for sure a ride.
Please note this is a volunteering project and you will be involved in the ecological project of reforestation of a part of the land as well as in helping me in the housekeeping at home as we will share the same roof during your stay here.Types of help and learning opportunities
Art ProjectsLanguage practiceHelp with Eco ProjectsGardeningDIY and building projectsAnimal CareFarmstay helpHelp around the houseGeneral MaintenanceUN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
I love to host because is like to travel around the world, so for me the most important thing is the cultural exchange behind the project, so I like to share stories and tradictions of my place as well as learning more another language and help you if you like to improve or to learn italian.
Help
The help can be done directly in the farm-house and for the Eco project consists mainly in:
- gardening,
- picking fruits and vegetables,
- pruning,
- planting trees,
- general house maintenance,
- house cleaning.Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Italian: Fluent
Spanish: Intermediate
French: Intermediate
Portuguese: BeginnerThis host offers a language exchange
I love languages so I am happy to share my italian to improve expecially my spanish/french or portuguese.Accommodation
I offer accomodation in a double room shared with another volunteer if there are 2 volunteers at the same time. Bathroom and kitchen are in common. The accomodation is in my house.
Food is included, you can enjoy the meals with me or cook by yourself if you want to be more independent.What else ...
I believe in the world harmony and love to create a nice equilibrium in all I do. I am an active man, full of passions and different interests. I am careful to live my life as a part of the natural environment. In the farm house I produce energy from solar panels on the roof of the house. I have a module to purify wastewaters with the help of plants. I eat simple food and try to produce my own vegetables and fruits. I dont watch a lot TV.
Sciacca, the closest town, is a nice spot on the southwestern coast of Sicily with noteworthy views of the Mediterranean Sea and a big fishing port, as I mentioned before there is not public trasportation from my place to the center of the town, even if I go often to Sciacca and I can give a ride.A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
How many Workawayers can stay?
One
Hours expected
4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week
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This man is an absolute legend! I stayed for 2 weeks and experienced a really enjoyable and interesting mix of volunteering activities which included germinating seeds, picking herbs and fruits, weeding, propagating plants, watering plants, soap wrapping, cleaning and assisting with preparing for events at… read more
He takes good care of his Workawayers - from picking me up and dropping me off at the bus station, to helping me plan the next stage of my trip and cooking me delicious meals using herbs from his farm (ask him to make the mint and lime pasta!). The work was interesting and not too difficult. I built bamboo… read more
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This man is an absolute legend! I stayed for 2 weeks and experienced a really enjoyable and interesting mix of volunteering activities which included germinating seeds, picking herbs and fruits, weeding, propagating plants, watering plants, soap wrapping, cleaning and assisting with preparing for events at… read more
He takes good care of his Workawayers - from picking me up and dropping me off at the bus station, to helping me plan the next stage of my trip and cooking me delicious meals using herbs from his farm (ask him to make the mint and lime pasta!). The work was interesting and not too difficult. I built bamboo… read more
He is a very friendly, kind, and generous person. It was really great to meet his friends and enjoy the local culture and traditions, especially during Easter. We spent lots of evenings in the city of Sciacca witch is really beautiful and active city.
His home is… read more
Alessandro además de ser un excelente anfitrión, es un hombre encantador y multifacético, de buen corazón y una linda energía, es… read more
I enjoyed his productive flexibility and mainly had the privilege… read more
I stayed at Alessandro's place for four weeks in October last year, during the olive harvest.
It was my first workaway experience and I'm so glad it was! Alessandro has hosted quite a lot of Workawayers over the years and I could definitely tell! He was such a sunny, warm person that was great to be around :D It was… read more
I did… read more
I spent 3 weeks there and was involved in many projects. Alessandro is very flexible and easy going and lets his volunteers use their talents to have the best experience for everyone!
I learned how to graft (for which I am… read more
Our students really loved her! She is a professional English teacher, very creative, full of ideas, patient and hardworking. Her classes were interesting and fun. She is excellent with kids!
Linda helped us preparing… read more
I did a lot of experience such as seeing the process of making soaps and wrapping them, helping plantation, cleaning the house, and so on. I loved cooking with Alessandro because we made new interesting dishes like an experiment. He is positive, funny and nature lover. So I spent relaxing days… read more
My time with Alessandro was a spent doing a range of things. I arrived just as the olive harvest was finishing and Alessandro was organizing a BBQ for everyone involved. This showed how important it is for him to celebrate a job well done, and to bring people together! During my time there, I did… read more
Mostly I was working at Aga's home and her language school. She is very nice and active person doing many events in Sciacca. At her home and her language school I was repairing many things (kitchen, electric and other technical stuff) and also cleaning and shopping. At school I was… read more
Thank you so much for all you atentions, also Aga was really nice the… read more
Super friendly, easy going, open minded, hard working and talented, professional English teacher.
We had amazing time together, I hope to see you soon!… read more
She is also very mature and open-minded, an interesting person to talk to. We spent also a really nice free time together.
Thank you Kaia for your help!… read more
We did so many cool things… read more
Aga, grazie per la vostra pazienza, la gentilezza e l'ospitalità. Allessandro, grazie per la conversazione interessante!
Jane is a super friendly person, always positive, smiling, very sociable and ready to help. It was a pleasure to host her and have her around. We spent really wonderful time together!
Jane helped us with our language centre project, teaching kids and adults. She… read more
I spent 3 weeks in Sciacca during July, at the magical home of Aga, and this place. During this time, Sciacca and Aga's world slowly unfolded to share so many riches generously with me and the other volunteers.
Knowing Aga, Alessandro and their friends was a big part of my… read more
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At the school she helped during the summer school for kids and in the organization of… read more
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Timing made it possible for me to participate in both projects during my two-week stay in Sciacca (not the norm, but it worked out that way), and I loved both!
Where do I even begin...
Both Alessandro and Aga are people with dreams, visions, and the drive to… read more
To be honest I wasn’t sure exactly what to expect.. Alessandro & I… read more
- I didn't help with the soap activity as we talked on skype before the summer even if I knew it would probably be the beginning the olive harvest and I could help with it. I didn't think it would be only that. I was so interested in soap making that I… read more
I was teaching English at the school with Aga and had an absolutely wonderful time! Aga has created something truly unique and her passion is undeniably… read more
I am so glad that I chose your farm and you let me come and stay. THANK… read more
Absolutely highly recommended! Thanks for everything! Grazie… read more
I was working with Ale and was lucky enough to contribute my scientific knowledge to our lab experiments and the distillation of wild herbs, that we collected at the… read more
I loved teaching English at the language school. The students… read more
Alexandra is independent, easy going, fast learner and hard working girl. We enjoyed a lot the time spent together, talking about different topics, even in german :)
And… read more
I was a bit excited because it was my first workaway experience, but I started to feel very comfortable the moment when Alessandro picked me up at the bus station! He and Aga are soo nice and funny and I really enjoyed my… read more
Tom worked mostly in our Language Centre but he also helped us in the farm during the olive harvest.
He is a great teacher, very patient and… read more
Aga and Alessandro are wonderful people - down to earth with a great sense of humor, and always respectful of others. We enjoyed sunny days at… read more
It was my first workaway, and it was awesome. I spent with Alessandro and Aga two weeks, and the made me feel as another family member. I spent really good days with them, learning a lot, about gardening, about bambu, about italian... and about life in general! A lot of fun, and… read more
i stayed almost one month at alessandros' house. it was my task to help with the olive harvest, arrange some stuff around the house and taking care about the crazy puppy pan.
i really enjoyed my time in sciacca!!! alessandro, aga, fabio and the other workawayers are amazing people. i really miss them already. living… read more
It was so nice having her… read more
Agata is reliable and hard worker, that cared about several projects in the farmhouse. She helped in picking some olives and prepared big olive jars, cleaned and manteined in perfect conditions the house, helped in the lab and at the museum and made incredible pieces of… read more
I loved… read more
Our students loved Lisa so much! Her English lessons were always fun! Lisa brought to our Language Center a lot of energy, smile and some new ideas. We loved her sense of humor! She is a briliant person, very sociable, creative, talkative, open-minded, a great motivator, very enthusiastic, empatic and always willing to help with English or… read more
Sophie helped us a lot in the farm, in the house, in the museum and in our language center. She was always willing to help, very polite and clean, totally… read more
Aga and Alessandro are positive,… read more
Erin… read more
So we started our workaway experience with olive picking, but this place is so inspiring, every creative person… read more
They helped us a lot with picking olives during the harvest,… read more
We spent an awesome time there having fun, learning, discovering…. If you really want to live a real Italian experience, this is the… read more
The way she ran the lessons and communicated… read more
Her gardening work was excelent, even if it was a new experience for her, she was a very quick learner and became a real specialist in planting!
She helped us a lot with cleaning and general house maintenance during… read more
A men with a lot of talents, he helped us with a lot of projects: gardening, weeding, starting to create an irrigation system and drawing the new project of the garden,
doing some grafic works, helping with the computer, helping… read more
They are very polite and calm, indipendent, clean, well organized in doing… read more
Ciara is a fast learner and a hard worker. She helped us in the garden, in the lab,… read more
I loved, loved, loved my stay with Aga and Ale. These guys were born to host for Workaway! They are so friendly, so open and so welcoming to everyone and I'm so lucky they were able to host me for 2 weeks in November! I have not laughed so much in years - they truly bring out the best in everyone - and they encourage everyone to relax and be… read more
She… read more
I learned so much about Italy, their own soap production, picking olives, planting plants We don't Even have in Germany just in the Front of the house and and I got my Master in painting ;))
I felt really integrated, they took Me Out together with their Friends and we went sailing and Salsa… read more
She helped us a lot, first of all to restore our garden removing all weeds and planting the new plants giving our garden a new life! Then she painted our new fence, cleaned the… read more
It's not simply hosting, they really make you feel like part of their family! The food was amazing (got couple of kilos in just 2 weeks!!!), evening chats and parties unforgettable... the gardening job was not just work but a moment to be all together, enjoying… read more