Join our home in the mountains and help to create our dream garden in Rossano, Italy

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  Description

  Forest Oasis in Calabria - Vintage clothing - Rare Fruits - Puppies
  
  
  We’re Paula and Ramon, living on 10 hectares of forest just above the ancient city of Rossano—between the Ionian Sea and the Sila mountains. Our home sits in a pocket of biodiversity with natural springs, old trees, ruins waiting for revival, a greenhouse full of rare tropical fruit species, and gardens slowly turning into a year-round edible landscape. Paula runs a vintage clothing shop (60s–90s Italian pieces), and Ramon studies and collects plants. Around the place you’ll meet our dogs, our chickens, and the general atmosphere of a small but growing homestead where things are repaired, made, and created rather than bought.
  
  We enjoy hosting people who are curious, practical, and up for learning or building something real—especially younger travelers who come for adventure rather than comfort. There’s a simple stone house for volunteers a few minutes’ walk away, surrounded by forest and mountain silence. What we seek isn’t just help, but connection: days spent gardening, crafting, hiking, solving problems together, and sharing meals. If you want to spend time in nature, grow skills, and be part of something evolving rather than finished, you’ll probably feel at home here.

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  Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

  Projets artistiques

  Jardinage

  Aide dans une ferme

  Cuisine/repas pour la famille

  Aide à la maison
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  Centres d’intérêt

  

  Vie en van

  

  Vidéographie

  

  Mode et beauté

  

  Ferme

  

  Soin des plantes

  

  Musique

  

  Histoire

  

  Bricolage / artisanat

  

  Livres

  

  Art et design

  

  Photographie

  

  Langues

  

  Jardinage

  

  Cuisine et alimentation

  

  Écriture

  

  Arts du spectacle

  

  Auto-stop

  

  Dessin et peinture

  

  Menuiserie

  

  Animaux

  

  Sports d’hiver

  

  Montagne

  

  Danse

  

  Sports nautiques

  

  Activités en plein air

  

  Randonnée

  

  Sports d'aventure

  

  Cyclisme

  

  Nature

  

  Camping
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  Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

  Paula is psychologist by study (Dutch university), but expert in vintage clothing by profession. Ramon has studied Biochemistry and Organic Chemistry (Dutch university - same one ;) ) but works with plants and artificial intelligence. We have, between us, valuable experience in:
  
  Plant cultivation, vintage clothing, Woodworking, some metalworking (apprentice welder), Biodiversity and Evolution, mushroom foraging and how to keep animals. Also present, through close friends and family here: Southern Italian culture and language, cheesemaking, wineproduction and biological farming, amongst many other things.

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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

  People with green thumbs and those with a trade, all trades welcome. We love to learn and help learn.

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  Langues

  Langues parlées
  Allemand: Courant
  Anglais: Courant
  Italien: Courant
  Hollandais: Courant
  Français: Débutant

  Cet hôte propose un échange linguistique
  If you speak Japanese or Sanskrit we would be very interested in that. :)
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  Hébergement

  ~50 m2 seperate house in very good state, kitchen, shower, bed, etc.
  
  Food I will not say anything else than this is Italy. Southern Italy.

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  Autres infos...

  We live in a mountainous area without any public transport nearby. Pickup from train station can be done, but please do tell us beforehand :)

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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

  Good 4G connection we transmute into wifi. Occasionally slows during local peak hours right after southern Italian dinnertime, but stable overall.

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  Espace pour garer des vans

  We have quite a lot of forest and some very good places for campers to park, especially if the camper can do a bit of offroading you can stand next to one of our springs, the river, etc.

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  Possibilité d'accueillir les animaux

  Pigs, goats, sheep, donkeys and dogs welcome. But herbivores must be on a leash and carnivores must not hunt chickens.

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  Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

  Plus de 2

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  Mes animaux

  

  Kanjo (3 ans)

  Male is German x Maremmano
  + two females Pastore Silano (local breed)

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