David Andrew

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Description

I'm from a small island in Atlantic Canada and have come to Europe on a one-year, Italian 'working holiday' visa. I love being outdoors, though I prefer weather which is colder than summer 2023 in Italy! After abandoning an almost-completed engineering degree I spent the past five years building an organic (uncertified) market garden; primarily, intensively grown specialty cut flowers. I appreciate a mindful approach to agriculture rich in traditional wisdom but not afraid to adapt. I prefer work with variety and social interaction (animals count!). I love cooking and get excited by fresh-picked, seasonal ingredients.

Interests

Languages

Languages spoken
English: Fluent
French: Intermediate
Italian: Beginner

More details about my language interests
I have started learning Italian (in the North)

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Skills and knowledge I'd like to share or learn

I'm interested in:  

Languages

Hospitality/Tourism

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Some knowledge of:  

Eco Projects

DIY and building projects

Animal Care

Creating/ Cooking family meals

General Maintenance

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Able to teach about:  

Gardening

More details about your skills

| A little bit of everything |
We ran our little farm with a high (sometimes foolish) degree of self-sufficiency and gained hands-on experience in sowing/propagating, growing, harvesting, selling, and storing vegetables and cutflowers; keeping hens, ducks, and bees; raising, dispatching, butchering, and curing pigs; building, maintaining, growing in, and (emergency) heating a greenhouse/polytunnels; operating, and (sometimes) maintaining a tractor and farm implements; preparing, cooking, fermenting, and baking with whole (often vegetarian) foods; and renovating a (wood-framed) barn, turned cottage, turned house.
Past work (which feels like past lives) includes bussing tables, kids camps, program coordination, mfg plant design and maintenance, and 3D drafting.

Age

33

What else ...

for paid work in Italy: I have work visa, codice fiscale, and have applied for permesso di soggiorno

Some more information

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  Smoker

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  Driver's licence

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  Allergies
  minor: dust, dandelions

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  Special dietary requirements
  lactose intolerance (mostly ignored)