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Hi all,
I'm Luca, 25 year old from Italy.
In 2018 I started to travel for one year with workaway trough Europe and it's because of this wonderful experience that I changed my lifestyle completely.
I have been working in countless places around Scandinavia and Germany where I could dip my feet in gardening and living in a healthier and more sustainable way.
But my passion grew much deeper and stronger only until I spent a whole year in Ireland working on a CSA (community supported agriculture) farm through a european scheme (E.S.C. or European Solidarity Corps).
There I could learn what it means to run a farm that provides vegetables for more than 100 households. I learned what it means to care about the soil and the fascinating microbiology involved in it. I understood that the only way to resolve any crisis, environmental, social, monetary etc is to be self sufficient, live in smaller spaces, eat what you grow and be grateful of that, save your own seed and have strong and healthy plants that resist your local environment.
We live in very troubled times and I think that the most important thing for us to do is to learn how to live together with nature and not against it, we should provide for ourselves and be independent from big supermarkets and big business, we should create our own goods and not live in constant material excess in a society that is never satisfied by wanting more and more, totally disconnected from nature and not grateful for the things we have, that is: unlimited supply of food, always warm shelter, technology, hot running water, electricity, transport, schools etc.
That's the philosophy part, now to the more practical.
I am NOT interested in spirituality, religion or conspiracy theories! I am very passionate about science and love every aspect of it. If you fall in this category then I'm afraid I will not be interested. I say this due to various experiences I had to live with, where I was put in an environment where I wasn't fitting at all.
I worked in countless farms where I could learn basic skills like transplanting, preparing beds, sowing, saving seeds, watering, weeding, compost making, mulching, stem propagating, harvesting and processing vegetables and all the daily jobs of a vegetable farm.
I also worked with animals including horses (little bit of riding and feet maintenance), goats (milking and cheese making), sheep, cows, chickens, ducks, pigs.
I love the science behind vegetable farming and I'm constantly learning new knowledge about the soil, composting, the microbiome, seed saving, permaculture etc and I wish to expand my knowledge.
I would love to learn what it means to be completely or mostly self sufficient and I'm very enthusiastic about it.
I love gardening but I also really like building, working with animals, learning food preservation methods like fermenting, pickling, drying etc, growing medicinal herbs and creating ointments, syrups and creams and in general I love learning new things that I never had the possibility to learn before, living in a city, where the only thought is how to survive in a society where your job is more important than anything else, even your own health, be it mental or physical.
Cheers!
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Alemán: Fluido
Inglés: Fluido
Italiano: FluidoMás información sobre tus intereses idiomáticos
Trying to learn portoghese
Habilidades y conocimientos que quiero compartir o aprender
Me interesa:
Cuidado de niños y juegos creativos
Compañía para ancianos
Hostelería/turismo
Trabajo de caridad
Proyectos artísticos
Enseñanza
Ciertos conocimientos de:
Jardinería
Proyectos de construcción y bricolaje
Vida en una granja
Proyectos ecológicos
Cuidado de animales
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Mantenimiento general
Cocinar para toda la familia
Ayuda doméstica
Ayuda con ordenadores/Internet
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Cooking, farming, guitar playing, deep conversations about our lifestyle
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I appreciated the flexibility of Johnny's place. He works a lot (from 7 a.m. to 6.30 p.m. most of the days) so you… read more
I had the great pleasure to find this incredibly kind family that let me stay there for one week, 5 days of which I was totally alone, because they went to holiday.
The jobs where pretty relaxed,… read more
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I appreciated the flexibility of Johnny's place. He works a lot (from 7 a.m. to 6.30 p.m. most of the days) so you… read more
I had the great pleasure to find this incredibly kind family that let me stay there for one week, 5 days of which I was totally alone, because they went to holiday.
The jobs where pretty relaxed,… read more
Luca is a very friendly, helpful, motivated, skilled and open-minded, funny guy: thank you so much Luca , that we could have met you !
He helped us with all tasks ( like gardening, greenhouse/field work, FoodSharing, delievery, harvesting, weeding, trying tea.....) and… read more
Everyday was very different, we had to go either to the greenhouse or to the fields and the work consisted in planting, sawing, preparing beds for the vegetables, transplanting, harvesting, a lot of weeding and a lot… read more
I had a wonderful stay in Karen's and Ralph's farm!
I was the first volunteer and I couldn't have asked for more friendly host!
The place is just stunning! I was staying in a huge and modern apartment with the view of the fiord! Wonderful!!
I stayed only two weeks but I felt like part of… read more
I stayed there two weeks and I felt very welcomed from the start.
They are a very calm and sweet couple and it was really interesting hearing about the amazing stories they had travelling with their motorbikes.
They were so kind to let me and another workawayer join a wedding of a… read more
The house is lovely and we worked one day on the plastering outside, where I had to mix a lot of lime with the other ingredients to create the plaster.
All the other days we had to cut a lot of wood and trees and then chop them with the… read more
I was their first volunteer but from the beginning they treat me very well and they tried to let me feel as good as possible!
The place is a newly bought farm with a big forest that has been cut down and will eventually be a pasture for the horses, pigs and sheep.
Therefore… read more
Very nice experience to have Luca as workaway here at our farm and we wish him a good further Journey.
Jan and Kathleen are one of the kindest and most peacefull persons I've ever met and they make you feel comfortable as soon as you arrive!
When I arrived the main job was to help a craftman building a wooden porch for… read more
Maren is a beatiful and strong woman that let us feel comfortable and at home since the day we arrived.
Whe had many interesting conversation and most of all Maren taught us many things, like baking bread or making… read more