Help to create our permaculture gardens and live with nature in Evia, Greece

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  Description

  Hi I'm Amber an Australian living in Greece for the last 10 years and my husband is Rafail who is Greek. We are a married couple in our 40's and have a toddler boy 'Iosif' who is 2 & 1/2 !! . (super cheeky & loves to play hide & seek..)
  We consider ourselves 'semi off grid' people who have a house in Evia, not far from Chalkida.
  Our house is not completely finished and we continue to build it by ourselves.
  Incorporating natural building, self sustainability and a lot of time, effort and helping hands.
  Now as a new family we are continuing to establish the gardens with permaculture practices .
  Our house runs completely on battery & solar power is within olive fields and is very close to the beautiful sea and mountains of Evia. It is on a single large block of land with a few neighbours.
  
  Upcoming springs current needs include planting summer vegetables, maintaining the greenhouse, weeding & pruning from winter. Also we like to repaint before greek easter (!), oil the house & continue structuring our outdoor area.
  
  We also cultivate and collect wild herbs and flowers to make our full home pharmacy of teas, creams & oils plus try to make as many homemade sauces, jams and dried foods from our garden as possible.
  We have many ideas, enthusiasm and experience for living with the nature and as permaculture practices say
  'many hands make light work' so we always needs help!
  
  In my recent past life I managed a permaculture center in the Peloponnese for 6 years involving lots and lots of volunteers and love the benefits of exchanging energy, knowledge and learning from each other. There I built a natural little 'hobbit' house, established a poly culture fruit orchard & herbal medicinal gardens.
  Rafail is an electrician, handy man & built everything here himself over the last 15 years.
  We enjoy good food a lot! Healthy, organic & when possible form the garden or the local bio street market.
  
  As we are a family with no tv... (which we like) our nights are relatively quiet during the week ~ books, games, movies, watering gardens, dinner & we personally sleep earlyish as our days are full. We Can host up to 2 volunteers., Sometimes you would also need to enjoy your own company, chilling in the garden, a walk into town or in the warmer months we like to go to the beach for an early evening swim is always nice...we have a pushbike you can use or your always welcome to join us.

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  Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

  Aide avec des éco-projets

  Jardinage

  Bricolage et construction

  S’occuper des animaux

  Baby-sitting et jeux créatifs

  Cuisine/repas pour la famille

  Aide à la maison

  Entretien général

  Aide informatique/internet
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  Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

  First you will be with an outgoing Australian and Greek! English and Greek are spoken.
  
  Full of greek culture, wildlife, fresh water and the sea, nature and with our lifestyle we are always on an adventure - with the beautiful changing seasons in Greece.
  
  You will learn about how to make permaculture gardens, biodynamic gardening, how to use organic matter to make soil!, growing plants from seed, transplanting, cultivating & harvesting techniques.
  Mediterranean herbs, how to use and process them, some natural building, painting, woodwork and /or how to be energy self sustainable plus we might go foraging in the mountains. or by the sea.
  
  Volunteers also really enjoy taking our bicycle to explore the many beaches close to us in their free time.

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  Projets impliquant des enfants

  Ce projet peut impliquer des enfants. Pour en savoir plus, consultez nos directives et conseils ici.

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  Aide

  We are hoping to welcome people to help with our permaculture gardening, handy work, natural building, cooking, herbal collections, creams & oils, jams, foraging, small house duties sometimes and hanging out with our toddler at random moments. If you have experience with a particular area that you would like to offer please let us know.

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  Langues parlées

  Greek: Courant
  Anglais: Courant

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  Hébergement

  We offer our caravan which has a double bed & single bed.
  Heated, lights & power to charge your phone ( when the sun is shining ;) )
  Bathroom is within our house plus kitchen. Plenty of hang out areas outside in the balcony & gardens also.
  3 meals will be provided - sometimes prepared by you, sometimes by us.
  Food is very important to us - we eat organic as possible and as much from our garden as we can, plus love making different yummy cakes and enjoy other peoples cooking.

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  Autres infos...

  With your time off there depending when you are with us there is many nature activities to explore and we are close to other places / cities that can be reached for day trips by bus if you feel like going somewhere else. We both know greece very well.
  
  Our expectations of people living with us is that they are with us because they are interested in a natural lifestyle- to learn, help and have an exchange. To respect we are a new family, enjoying life, connected to nature with good food and company.

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  Informations complémentaires

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    Accès Internet

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    Accès Internet limité

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    Nous avons des animaux

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    Nous sommes fumeurs

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    Familles bienvenues

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  Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

  Deux

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  Nombre d'heures attendues

  Maximum 5 hours a day, 5 days a week

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