Darina & Raphael

Travel information

We are currently

Activities we are interested in:

Exploring, natural building, gardening, DIY, hiking, cooking, reading, philosophical talks, playing drums, dancing, yoga.

Description

Hello :)

Raphi and I are passionate volunteers. For the last two years we were gaining knowledge and skills in all kinds of natural construction work and in permaculture principles. We experienced different gardening techniques and studied them further in our free time. Currently we are learning practically and theoretically how to build eco houses.

Since our journey began, we met amazing, open-hearted, out-of-the-box thinking people that inspired us in many ways. We worked in a polyculture garden that felt like a paradise on Earth, studied the principles of permaculture, landscaping and mixed culture gardening.
We joined families in a community, inspired from the books of Vladimir Megre.

One of the most interesting projects was renovating an old Portuguese stone ruin, where we used stones and clay mix to raise the walls. We made a cob oven too! In India we joined a team at an awesome tree house construction. We did adobe and wattle and daub at a mud house. At some villages we even learned how to weave brooms and baskets. Raphi had the opportunity to cocreate a straw bale house, a hobbit house, a woodshed, a pergola, a sled trailer and various other projects.

We are grateful for all the awesome memories and can´t wait to experience new volunteer places and lifestyles!

Interests

Languages

Languages spoken
Bulgarian: Fluent
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
Spanish: Beginner

More details about my language interests
We would like to practice the basics of Spanish

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Skills and knowledge we'd like to share or learn

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Languages

Art Projects

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Some knowledge of:  

Eco Projects

Gardening

DIY and building projects

Creating/ Cooking family meals

Life at a Farmstay

More details about your skills

Both worked on several permaculture gardens:
- mixed culture gardening
- composting
- mulching
- seeding, pricking, planting
- mowing with a scythe
- landscaping

Both worked in construction:
- clay wall plastering
- cow dung plastering
- earthen floor
- clay oven
- stone wall building with clay
- schist stones floor
- extracting clay
- experimented with adobe bricks
- wattle and daub
- bamboo construction

Dari´s further experience:
- laminate floor installation
- wall painting
- cooking for groups
- swing (lindy hop) dancing and teaching

Raphi´s further experience:
- fruit tree pruning
- welding
- driving excavator and bobcat
- work with wood, strawbales, clay, concrete, styrofoam, metal
- playing drums and DJ-ing

We are excited to learn new things and gain more skills, to expand our knowledge and to share it. Our focus is on technical and practical areas, such as carpentry, building and crafting with natural materials, working with electronics and electronical devices, plumbing.

Age

24 & 25

What else ...

Our inspiration in life is to feel free, happy, loved and to create with our hands and minds. Both of us want to do and create things more confidently, and ecologically. Philosophical and socio-economical talks interest us. We are driven to learn, while imagining our future in an abundant community based on acceptance, sharing, self-growth and caring for the nature. One day we will build our own dream house from clay and wood in the middle of a diverse food forest.

These are some of our favorite books to read:
- The continuum concept, Jean Liedloff
- The way of karma, Charles Breaux
- Ringing cedars of Russia (Anastasia), Vladimir Megre
- Love without conditions, Paul Ferrini

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  Special dietary requirements
  Vegetarian/Vegan