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Hello! We're Jenny & Luca, a young couple who for the last years have been taking care of a piece of land in Sicily and looking for a simple way of life.
--To begin, a few words about the place that we live and will happily share with you:
The garden has about 15,000sq meters, mainly populated by blood-orange and olives trees, together with other fruit trees and a few vegetable gardens.
At first glance, we felt in love about the place due to its panorama. We're at the foot of the volcano Etna and near to the Simeto valley (the biggest river in Sicily!). For the last 3 years, we've been experimeting on live simpler, working to transition according to natural farming, permaculture and agroecology principles, and designing sustainable ways to provide your home with water, energy and heating.
Other than that, we built a local small community of neighbors that share the vision of natural agriculture and live really close by. We developed some activities together as an opportunity to gather and share experiences and resourses, at the same time that we keep each other motivated. You'll have the chance to meet and share some work days together. The marjority production of the land are for us, family, friends and neighbors.
--About us:
Our story together begins in Sao Paulo, the largest city in South America, where Jenny (31), from Brazil, meets Luca (33), from Palermo, Italia.
Jenny completed her studies in Nutrition and Luca in Architecture. In those years, however, we struggled to find connections between our studies and the practical life. So, we both have decided to pursue a PhD in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Jenny in the Sociology area, where she studies peasant social movements. While Luca debates indigenous Amazonian thought in the Philosophy faculty. When we have reached the last years of their studies, we decide to put their theories into practice.
After almost an year being hosted in a local permaculture project, we have decided to fix our roots in the Simeto valley. In 2021, we find a place to call home. There, we having been letting ourselves be transformed by the land and its fruits.
Now, we're about to complete your first year hosting guests. After this period, we're happy to say that we had just amazing experiences and hope to expand on this experience with your presence here. Slowly, we're creating a big community with people who love the outdoor and simple life from all over the world. Sicilians and Italians, of course! European travelers and gardeners coming from France, Spain, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, UK, Denmark, Finland and Polland. People from overseas, with background from Costa Rica, US and Japan.
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General information:
The nearest town is 5km away. Unfortunately, there is no public transportation from the land to the city. At your arrival and departure, we'll arrange to get you at the nearest bus station. Please consider if you're traveling by plane, bus or train: There is no public transportation on Sundays.
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There is no wi-fi. However, it is possible to pursue digital activities and work with personal phone bills. For instance, we are still developing online activities with our universities in Brazil.
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When you write to us, please take your time to introduce yourself. Tell us why you would like to come, tell us about your skills and knowledge and if you have any personal projects.
Please specify when you want to come and for how long you would like to stay. We truly encourage you to stay for a minimum of 2-weeks - in this way, you have time to get to know the place, get used to the routines and specially enjoy yourself.
Feel free to write in English, Italian or Portuguese.
We ask some patient on the time that we take to reply on. Most of the day, we work outdoors, and we take some days at the week to work on the computer.
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Worth to say: We hope that you'll be able to feel at home at our place, we'll not tolerate any types of prejudices (gender, race, sexuality, so on).
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Excited to exchange experiences,
Hope to see you soon.Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje
Proyectos artísticosAyuda en proyectos ecológicosJardineríaConstrucción y bricolajeAyuda en una granjaCocinar para toda la familiaAyuda domésticaMantenimiento generalObjetivos de sostenibilidad de las NU que intenta conseguir este anfitrión
Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje
Simeto valley is a special place that is home for the biggest river in Sicily, affluent of the waters of Etna and Nebrodi mountains, that holds a wide range of native animals and plants. For us, sharing this place with others is a part of our dream to also increase human biodiversity in our project. We do believe that share this experience with us will be an unique opportunity to see Sicily countryside life through different lenses. We have different backgrounds and interests, other than that you'll be able to live, volunteer and experience a share routine of a community of neighbors.
Proyectos con niños
En este proyecto podría haber niños. Para obtener más información, consulta nuestras directrices y consejos aquí.
Ayuda
You will be able to live and experience an daily routine in natural small farming.
There is no special need for previous experience. We will be along the way with you. However, people with previous experience (at the specific tasks, and also living in communities) are specially welcome to co-design and dicuss ideas together.
Activities and expectations:
Our activities are seasonal and vary according to our available resources, personal energy and skills.
For the next period, some particular activities that we intend to do are:
- Design and experiments of self-building - If it's possible with natural, renewable and/or recycled materials. At the moment, we're working on compost toilets and small greenhouse.
- Agroforestry - Planting and maintenance of new native and exotic trees, annual pruning of fruit trees, regeneration design according to microclimate zones
- Spring and winter vegetable garden
- Helping the brunchs from the annual prunning and preparing wood for the winter
- Food picking, processing and cooking experiments: jams, liquors (limoncello, for example!), fermented food, bread, pizza, etc, etc.
- Bio-lake, water's channels and irrigation system's management - working in progress!
There is also the general maintenance of the place, which is important to mention because it takes a fair amount of time. Other than that, we expect that everyone is able to feel at home, and for this reason keeps the place tidy and as or even better as they found it. We love to cook and share good meals, so the idea is that we'll take turns at the kitchen to make specially vegetarian meals with the ingredients from the garden.
We expected to work together 5 days a week, with 2 days off (once we're together we can define the details). Daily, we will have some activities in the morning and afternoon, composing around 5 hours.
The minimum stay is 2-weeks - we encourage you at least to dedicate this period, for you to have time to get to know the place, get used to the routines and specially enjoy yourself.
It is worth saying that you might be developing activities on your own, in a couple or in a small group.Idiomas hablados
Inglés: Fluido
Italiano: Fluido
Portugués: FluidoAlojamiento
We have a caravan with two double beds available to host workawayers. It is possible that you share the caravan with another guest depending on the moment and requests. Other than that, we have a simple, but spacious shared kitchen; an outhouse; and outdoor shower.
If you have your own camper, we'll be happy to host you as well.Algo más...
People who have previous experience in farming and outdoor life are especially welcomed. Other than that, we really appreciate workawayers who feel good when with plants, animals, and in a natural environment, being sociable and happy to share, cooking and eating together, building with wood or other materials. Latin americans and people who enjoy the region have a big space in our hearts.
Un poco más de información
Acceso a Internet
Acceso a Internet limitado
Tenemos animales
Somos fumadores
Puede alojar familias
Puede acoger a nómadas digitales
Este anfitrión ha indicado que le encanta acoger a nómadas digitales.
Espacio para aparcar autocaravanas
We will be happy to host you and your camper.
Podría aceptar mascotas
Currently, we share the land with 4 cats - Panda, Cacau, Pandino & Mamma. We've hosted guests who have others cats and worked really okay. Write to us and we can discuss it.
¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?
Más de dos
Horas esperadas
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week
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I learned a lot about self-sufficient living, Italian food and Sicilian life. As a food nerd I really enjoyed cooking with the home grown vegetables and learning about typical Italian food and ingredients.
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I learned a lot about self-sufficient living, Italian food and Sicilian life. As a food nerd I really enjoyed cooking with the home grown vegetables and learning about typical Italian food and ingredients.
The work was interesting and… read more