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Looking for HELP from mid MARCH 2024.
(ONLY women, couples or families... sorry NO alone men).
If you want to learn basics of saffron growing, natural and biological agricolture, and some wild foraging, I can tell you all I know in exchange for some help with saffron harvesting (mid October - mid November, 4/5 hours per day), sowing and harvesting plants (Spring/Summer, 3/4 hours per day), or different tasks into the house/garden/woods (all the year long).
We are a peculiar family and small community: me, my daughter, her father, grandparents, italian and foreign neighbours, friends from a local community network... sometimes spread around, sometimes all together!
I started my countryside adventure on summer 2011, when I bought a piece of forest land on central Italy hills: a lot of trees, path walks and old stones.
I fell in love with Valmarecchia valley the first day I saw it, and I thought the land name was a kind of sign: in the local dialect, Boratoja means "with a good will"... in other words "for the ones who wants to trek" as the hill is quite steep!
The land has been abandoned since 60 years, so it is now a wild woods with the ruins of an old stone farmhouse.
I am running a small agricultural activity since 2015, growing biological aromatic herbs (till now mainly saffron, from Spring 2022 more culinary/medicinal plants).
In the future I would love to have more rooms for hosting travellers (at the moment I can offer just one room or a big tent in the garden) and hopefully transform the solo job into a group activity. In the meanwhile I am working on different community projects with a very alive local association.
Some interests of mine: photography, yoga and bioenergetic therapy, culinary/medicinale wild herbs, auto-production, outdoor education, training dogs, backpacker travelling (before having two dogs and a baby!), hispanic languages and cultures...
I live 3km away from any food shop, so if you are not coming for a work exchange (i.e. Bewelcome or Trustroots guests) I will kindly ask you a contribution for food costs.
PS: I have one dog, Mina and one cat, Pirata: they are funny, cuddly and adventurous.... while the forest around is inhabited by wolfs, deers, boars, badgers, hares, porcupines... and snakes! (so better bring closed shoes!)
Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje
Ayuda en proyectos ecológicos
Jardinería
Cuidado de animales
Ayuda en una granja
Cuidado de niños y juegos creativos
Cocinar para toda la familia
Ayuda doméstica
Mantenimiento general
Objetivos de sostenibilidad de las NU que intenta conseguir este anfitrión
Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje
When I have time I like to go trekking together or visit nearby historic villages.
Proyectos con niños
En este proyecto podría haber niños. Para obtener más información, consulta nuestras directrices y consejos aquí.
Ayuda
Seasonal tasks (1 or 2 weeks):
WINTER (jan/feb/mar) storage ordering, machinery/materials reparing, house manteinance (interiors).
SPRING (apr/may/jun) sowing new plants, collecting aromatic herbs (wild or cultivated), field and garden general manteinance (weeding, pruning, etc), house manteinance (exteriors).
SUMMER (jul/ago/sep) Saffron sowing (every three years), collecting aromatic herbs and wild fruits, field and garden general manteinance (weeding, watering, etc), preparing marmelades or juices from wild fruits and flowers.
AUTUMN (oct/nov/dic) Saffron harvesting and drying, packaging, garden general manteinance (fallen leaves, composting, ect), ordering cutted wood.
All the year tasks:
-dog and cats necessities (food, water, walking)
-cooking for everybody, cleaning dishes
-cleaning common spaces (kitchen, bathroom, stairs...)
-sometimes baby caring (play, play, play...)
Idiomas
Idiomas hablados
Inglés: Fluido
Español: Fluido
Italiano: Fluido
Portugués: PrincipianteEste anfitrión ofrece intercambio de idiomas
I can offer spanish conversation, while I would like to learn some Portuguese basics.
Alojamiento
Hosts will have their private room (2 beds), common bathroom.
I live in a countryhouse, 3km away from any food shop.
Algo más...
You can reach me by train to Cesena + bus (direction Bagno di Romagna, bus stop Montepetra) or train to Rimini + bus (direction Novafeltria, last bus stop), then we will pick you up.
Nearby you can have wonderful TREKKINGS on the hills/mountains (400/1.400mt) or HORSE ridings, you can visit medieval little towns (Sant'Agata Feltria, San Leo, Pennabilli... all reachable by local transports) or NATURAL PARKS...
if you are obsessed from CLIMBING, you will love the rocks around Perticara (3.5 km far)!
Un poco más de información
Acceso a Internet
Acceso a Internet limitado
Tenemos animales
Somos fumadores
Puede alojar familias
¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?
Más de dos
Horas esperadas
4 hours a day 5 days a week
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Although it was the last week of this year´s saffron harvest, an extraordinary amount of… read more
The two weeks we spent with Sara and Sonia were truly inspiring.
She lives in a relatively remote and beautiful place and takes care of her daughter and her saffron bulbs in a very dedicated way, and we immediately felt at ease with… read more
Finally has been as having a new part of family at home, with all the fun and sensitive chatting that often we have only with old friends...
It`s a perfect place if you just… read more
And my little daughter really appreciated her presence...
In my free time she encourage me to do some hikes around her house and to explore the beutiful nature there. She also showed me some smaller, old italien villages and gave me tips where to go for… read more
We helped with the fencing, did some digging in the field and finally planted some saffron bulbs. Although the work was sometimes a little bit hard (especially because of the heat:)), we were glad we got to do it all… read more
Moreover my little baby girl loved both of them at first sight! After few days we were like a big family...
I really appreciated her company and calm personality. And my 18 month daughter daughter was very fond of her after few days!
I helped her with work in the garden, building fences and I also did some weeding work at the saffron field, all these three tasks with a beautiful view on the mountains and valleys and great weather:-)
Sara is a very nice and helpful woman and she tried to… read more
Thank you Sara and Ilian, it was an amazing and peaceful 2 weeks.
