Help a family with DIY tasks and gardening as part of an eco community project in Agios Vlasios, Greece

  • Activité récente : 10 févr. 2025

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  2025 

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  • Description

    Description

    Hi Workawayers! We are a Greek-German couple with two children living in the stunningly beautiful Pelion peninsula that we chose as our home eight years ago. We are currently setting up a community and retreat space in an olive grove, with a small farm house that is completely off-grid, with photovoltaics and water processing installations. Heating is done using fire wood from the regular pruning of the olive trees. The space has fantastic sea views and is close to a mountain stream, ideal for cooling off in the summer.

    Marina is a yoga teacher and holistic nutritionist, and Wolfgang is former climate scientist turned farmer, project developer and activist writer. We are currently developing the olive grove into a community space complete with camp site, activities deck, access to the local stream, small pond and a vegetable and herb garden. We also have an additional 3/4 ha plot 500 m from the beach where we have planted various fruit trees. This will be the space where we will grow the vegetables to supply the retreats.

    The vision is to build a self-sustaining community space that can also run various seminars centered around the themes of nature awareness, meditation, yoga, self-sufficiency and practical life skills. Please note that we are not a business activity, as we have no intention to earn money with the operations.

  • Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

    Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

    Aide avec des éco-projets
    Jardinage
    Bricolage et construction
    Aide informatique/internet
  • Centres d’intérêt

    Centres d’intérêt

    Politique/justice sociale
    Dev. durable
    Dev. personnel
    Ferme
    Musique
    Livres
    Bricolage / artisanat
    Dessin et peinture
    Écriture
    Photographie
    Langues
    Jardinage
    Cuisine et alimentation
    Blogs
    Yoga / bien-être
    Nature
    Camping
    Plage
    Montagne
    Activités en plein air
    Randonnée
    Cyclisme
  • Objectifs de développement durable de l’ONU que cet hôte essaie d'atteindre

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

    Objectifs de l’ONU
    Pas de pauvreté
    Faim «zéro»
    Bonne santé et bien-être
    Éducation de qualité
    Égalité entre les sexes
    Eau propre et assainissement
    Énergie propre et d'un coût abordable
    Travail décent et croissance économique
    Industrie, innovation et infrastructure
    Inégalités réduites
    Villes et communautés durables
    Consommation et production responsables
    Mesures relatives à la lutte contre les changements climatiques
    Vie aquatique
    Vie terrestre
    Paix, justice et institutions efficaces
    Partenariats pour la réalisation des objectifs
  • Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

    Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

    Developing an autonomous, off-grid living space is a complex task that requires both careful planning and a lot of learning by doing. Our plan is develop the olive grove into a full retreat space for people to stay within a community of like-minded people and connect with nature. We want to share with you this process so that you can gain inspiration and learn new insights for what you are looking for in your life. There are also many nature immersion opportunities here, as there are the sea, the olive and fruit tree growing zones, and the dense forests higher up the mountains, interspersed with picturesque villages.

    So if you are interested in any way to help out, take part and still shape the project, you'll be very welcome. There is lots of landscape design work to do, working with wooden structures, growing vegetables and tending fruit trees.

    We will not only work together, but also practice social and community building skills, sharing our experiences and setting goals for ourselves and the project alike. If you wish, the there will be the opportunity to start the day with a free yoga class.

  • Aide

    Aide

    We are mainly looking for volunteers who would enjoy staying in place of natural beauty where you can relax and detach and retreat from a busy life, and at the same time help us build out the space so that we can host more people in the future.

    First of all, there are various routine tasks, like collecting and preparing fire wood, taking care of the olive trees or the newly planted fruit trees, maintaining paths on the site, checking the irrigation and water system etc.

    Then, there are various projects planned: setting up solar hot-water boilers, building washing facilities for the camp site, setting up spaces for several large tents (where you can stand inside) and building some furniture to make it comfortable, erecting a deck space for seminars close the stream and a sauna/sweat lodge, planting some more fruit trees for an orchard/small park near the house with sea view, planting a herb garden, preparing a smaller meditation space, and building a clay-bottom pond.

  • Langues parlées

    Allemand: Courant
    Greek: Courant
    Anglais: Courant

  • Hébergement

    Hébergement

    You will stay in the small and newly renovated stone farm house with a living/sleeping area upstairs and a kitchen and bathroom downstairs. In front of the house there is a large veranda where you can enjoy the view onto the sea and the mountains beyond.

    We will supply food for you to prepare by yourself, except for the days we work together, when you will be provided one prepared meal per day that we share.

  • Autres infos...

    Autres infos...

    Walking distance to the sea or to the nearest bus stop is half an hour. The centre of Volos is then about 25 minutes by city bus. Volos is a decent size city with everything you need basically.

    You can also start hiking trips directly from the farm to all over Mt Pelion. Pelion is a kind of Greece in microcosm, with dense deciduous forests in the part where we are (just higher up), pine forest in the south, rocky landscapes, lots of beaches.

    The specialty of Volos is called "Tsipouro with mezé": you order a Tsipouro, which is distilled wine either with or without Anis seed, with a "mezé", which is some small accompanying food, usually seafood, but you don't know which will come (surprise effect).

  • Informations complémentaires

    Informations complémentaires

    • Accès Internet

    • Accès Internet limité

      Accès Internet limité

    • Nous avons des animaux

    • Nous sommes fumeurs

    • Familles bienvenues

  • Possibilité d’accueillir les digital nomads

    Possibilité d’accueillir les digital nomads

    If you need to work on the internet, you will have to organise your own connection. There is a phone mast on top of the neighbouring hill, so there is good 4G connectivity on-site.

  • Espace pour garer des vans

    Espace pour garer des vans

    We have another plot of land with mountain view that is only 500m from the beach which is 7200 square meters in size with running water and electricity.

  • Possibilité d'accueillir les animaux

    Possibilité d'accueillir les animaux

    We allow dogs on the land, but you need to be aware that there are wild boars in the area roaming after night fall.

  • Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

    Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

    Deux

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