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Travel information
We are currently
Travelling
Our next destination:
Canada - from Apr 2025 until Apr 2026 View all
Description
Hi! We are Grazia (26) and Oliver (27). We got married last year and now want to travel around Canada for about a year.
We already travelled through Alberta, the Yukon and are currently in BC.
After travelling around during the summer and helping with gardening on several farms,
WE ARE CURRENTLY LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO STAY OVER THE WINTER, POSSIBLY FOR A COUPLE MONTHS.
***Oliver would love to help with and learn more about CARPENTRY, BUILDING and MECHANICS, Grazia would love to learn how to milk cows :D***
Some more information about the two of us: We both have a bachelors degree in social work and have worked for a christian organisation for 2,5 years before starting our travels. We are both practicing christians.
I (Grazia) have grown up on my parents organic farm in Italy for all of my childhood until I was 18 years old. For college I moved back to Germany, where my parents originally come from. I speak fluent german, italian, english and basic french.
I owned two horses for 10 years.
I have always enjoyed working with my hands. I love painting, knitting, sewing and crafting in general. In the past years I became very interested in healthy nutrition, so Oliver and I started an organic garden on a little piece of land we could use and we became very passionate about it.
I also love processing food from our garden or food we find growing wild (canning, dehydrating etc.)
After a couple years of living a "normal" german life I get more and more interested in getting back to a more simple life style like the one I grew up in.
I (Oliver) love nature and I am looking forward to great outdoor adventures in Canada :)
I don´t have much experience in intercultural exchange so far, but I am an open person and I am pretty much happy wherever I am :)
At home I spent most of my working time in the office, but I can´t wait to get away from the computer and do more practical work. I would especially like to increase my skills in carpentry (I have basic experience with different machines like chain saw ect.), beekeeping, butchering, building things, energy generation etc...
I am not at all a pro, but I successfully tried my hand at mechanics by repairing our starter engine and exhaust, learning through YouTube videos. I would love to learn more about this kind of stuff from somebody or would be willing to teach myself to fix something, if that would be useful for the person hosting us.
I am also studying electrical engineering online at the moment and want to complete all classes during the next months while work&travelling. I would like to gain practical experience in this area, if I get the chance to because so far it is just a lot of theory.
After our first experience with gardening I developed an enthusiasm about farm life.
Interests
Vegetarian or vegan
Outdoor activities
Cycling
Fitness
Languages
Self development
Technology
Cooking & food
Charity work
DIY & crafts
Carpentry
Drawing & painting
Mountain
Animals
Hiking
Sustainability
Nature
Pets
Plant care
Gardening
Camping
Farming
Languages
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
Italian: Fluent
French: BeginnerMore details about my language interests
Oliver wants to improve his english ;) Grazia is always open to learn a new language if needed :D
Skills and knowledge we'd like to share or learn
We're interested in:
Gardening
DIY and building projects
General Maintenance
Some knowledge of:
Life at a Farmstay
Helping around the house
Able to teach about:
Babysitting and creative play
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Animal Care
More details about your skills
Grazia: skills in differents kinds of handcrafting (painting, sewing, knitting), knowledge of herbal medicine, processing food from the garden, organic gardening, music (piano + basic guitar), languages (italian, german, english, basic french), outdoor activities (hiking and camping in the wilderness).
Oliver: creative writing, outdoor experience (hiking, camping), endurance runner, very open for new things :D, organic gardening, cutting videos...
Both: we both have a Bachelors degree in social Work and have been working for 2,5 years as social workers
Age
27 & 28
What else ...
We are looking forward to new experiences!
Some more information
Smoker
Driver's licence
Allergies
Special dietary requirements
Healthy food is appreciated :)
Feedback
We would like to have them back someday
The workload was fair, we worked about 5 hours daily and had 2 days completely off every week, which was really nice. Daily task was feeding all the animals (mainly goats) and then whatever projects were going on. We… read more
We could work our hours as we wanted to, as long as we could fit the gardens needs.
Dianne trusted us to keep track of our hours and would make sure we could take our time off.
It was good to have a car to explore the area (which is very beautiful...lots of alpine… read more
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Feedback
We would like to have them back someday
The workload was fair, we worked about 5 hours daily and had 2 days completely off every week, which was really nice. Daily task was feeding all the animals (mainly goats) and then whatever projects were going on. We… read more
We could work our hours as we wanted to, as long as we could fit the gardens needs.
Dianne trusted us to keep track of our hours and would make sure we could take our time off.
It was good to have a car to explore the area (which is very beautiful...lots of alpine… read more
We enjoyed our interesting conversations around the dinner table and the good farm food :) (little note: not for vegans ;D)
The working hours were fair.
Loren was always willing to take us across the river to go see the area.
Even if it was a short stay we had a good experience and would… read more
