Help us settle in our new home with dogs and cats in Val Nure, Piacenza, Italy

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  Description

  **NO AVAILABILITY UNTIL THE END OF AUGUST**
  **Our baby is due soon so we are unable to answer messages at this time, please wait until mid August before sending requests**
  
  I am a psychologist born and raised in Milan, I lived in a few different places in Italy and a period in Germany. My partner Mario and I lived in a remote countryside house (formerly a farm) for a couple of years and now we are moving to a new house a bit less remote outside of the town, in a village of more or less 20 houses, while we wait for our soon to arrive baby (July).
  We have a big garden that needs some work to set up a new veg garden and trees.
  We adopted 4 maremma sheepdogs that were once guardians for sheep in the farm and were abandoned + 4 cats (that lived around here) and we share their custody with my parents when needed.
  I am vegan, so the food we offer here is mostly plant-powered :-) and we love cooking when we have time.

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  Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

  Aide avec des éco-projets

  Jardinage

  Bricolage et construction

  S’occuper des animaux

  Aide à la maison

  Entretien général
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  Objectifs de développement durable de l’ONU que cet hôte essaie d'atteindre

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  Qu'est-ce que c'est ?
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  Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

  The landscape we have is wonderful and you get the chance to see the cycles of nature.
  The dogs and cats are lovely so you get tons of love from them.
  I used to be a couchsurfing guest and host, and I travelled abroad a lot, so I would be happy to resume cultural exchange and tell you about Italy and hear about your country.
  I still don't know a lot about sustainable gardening but I can share what I learned til now and learn more with you.
  My partner has a good knowledge of the countryside and of the woods, he is also a great cook (you need to speak a bit of Italian to learn from him).
  When my parents are here you have my dad (IT geek) who speaks English and my mom who is a wonderful physiotherapist and great cook. She doesn't speak English but every foreigner she meets gets to learn something from her.

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  Aide

  ***OPTION 1*** CATS AND DOGS
  We request a minimum availability of 2 weeks. It helps us with logistics, with work plans and with the dogs' balance to have someone staying a longer period.
  We look for someone who has a consistent experience with dogs (personally took care of their own dogs and/or worked in a dog shelter for a long period), with some knowledge about how to "read" dogs' signals (e.g., stress, excitement). Our dogs are super sweet but they are big (between 38 and 50kg) and two of them get really excited with bicycles, motorbikes, some cars and wildlife (especially deers and rabbits), thus walking them and managing them requires a bit more care than smaller ones sometimes.
  
  ***OPTION 2*** OUTSIDE
  Help with outside works: picking up/cutting wood, planting trees/plants, cutting the grass in some areas, preparing the soil for the veg garden, DIY works for outside
  In the summertime we look for people who have a good knowledge of the veg garden (e.g., how to tie tomatoes, has an eye for parasites of plants or plant diseases etc.).
  We will love to teach you what we know and share time with you, but we don't have time at the moment to train from 0 someone who stays a short period of time, so you need to be already a bit skilled.
  
  ***OPTION 3*** DIY and General maintainance
  Help with setting up the house (painting, fixing, moving furniture, building stuff etc)
  
  We need help with:
  - taking care of the dogs and cats
  - general maintainance of the house and surroundings, the vegetable garden, some fruit trees, auto-production (depending on the season I do jams, syrups, pick up fruits and herbs etc), and other small works.
  ANIMALS: walk the dogs in the morning and/or evenings (in summer), around lunch time or afternoon too (in the other seasons). Prepare their food.
  GARDEN: watering the plants, keeping the veg garden, picking up fruits and vegetables, stacking wood, small works to keep the garden tidy
  HOUSE: cleaning, tidying up, doing some small works inside the house.
  At times we might need help with some small DIY projects.

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  Langues parlées

  Anglais: Courant
  Italien: Courant
  Allemand: Intermédiaire
  Espagnol: Débutant

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  Hébergement

  You will have a room inside the house with us with closet, bed and a desk OR a room in an apt nearby (5 mins walk).
  We offer the food we have and expect to share basic house cleanup and preparation of meals.

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  Autres infos...

  There is no public transport to reach the house, you will need to walk a bit or to have someone (also one of us when we can) drive you to the nearest bus stop. When you arrive we can pick you up in Piacenza station or in town. The town is 20 mins walk from home. There is a café/restaurant nearby.
  We are near the woods, the hills and the river Nure.
  We are usually more free in the weekend and if we can we like to go in the woods or to the river for a walk, or going around to pick up stuff depending on the period (e.g., chestnuts, fruits). Let us know in advance if you want to come around with us so that we can plan accordingly.
  In your time off you can take great walks in the hills or in the forest and go down to the river (better in summer).
  We live a somewhat quiet life, and like to spend some time here and with the animals. We might have friends over visiting or coming over to eat and drink.
  We expect that you respect people and common spaces, clean up after yourself, help with maintaining the house clean and tidy. Everything else can be agreed flexibly, feel free to ask :-)

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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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  Possibilité d’accueillir les digital nomads

  At the moment we can't guarantee a quiet place to work but Internet is available

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  Espace pour garer des vans

  Manouvers to enter might be tricky and one entrance is very steep.

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  Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

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