Help with DIY and animal care in Tuscany, Italy

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  * Looking for volunteers to start from 20th January 2025* Come and help us creating a vibrant vegetable garden, pruning trees, collecting wood, making chestnut flour, looking after donkeys, cooks also welcome, all with a view to make this place more and more self-sufficient for the transient community who pass through here year after year. If you would like to be part of our adventure just sign up - we need help most of the year and there are always a minimum of three or four volunteers sharing our space in the yurt or in individual tents. This is particularly suited to volunteers aged thirty or over as we confer a lot of responsibility on volunteers and ... and we are not getting any younger ourselves ...
  
  We work for three hours each morning in a stress-free environment, the rest of the time is yours to enjoy the mountains, scenery, walking & nearby villages. If you want to take the full weekend off to travel and see other parts of Tuscany you can. Artists, carpenters, engineers, and visionaries particularly welcome to develop this wild woodland into a cool living space. MUSICIANS of course always popular we sing many evenings around the fire. Colm is learning Russian, and anxious to practise in the form of a language exchange if you want to learn English or Italian.
  
  In exchange for your help you will have a space in our 6-metre diameter yurt sharing with a maximum of five other people, or in our bedroom which sleeps up to two. If the yurt is booked especially in summer time there are a two-man and three-man Bell tents tents available for volunteers. Our own chestnut flour pancake breakfast and super healthy dinners are included, with local produce often from our own veg garden, our own hens' eggs, cheese and once or twice a week meat locally sourced. If you have any dietary requirements please let us know in advance. You will always have access to our outdoor kitchen, bathrooms with hot showers, sheltered recreational areas and solar heated outdoor showers. For lunch you are responsible for your own shopping bill and can avail of our local mobile supermarket which turns up once a week, or walk to Castiglione, Pieve or Chiozza for provisions.
  
  There is a house-sitting option too available for anyone interested in spending a while in our area, the house is available to live in in exchange for a few hour's help per week, would suit couple or anyone self sufficient / anyone looking to buy land or a house in the area.
  
  The camp is located at 750 metres above sea level in the mountains, in a chestnut and hazel grove, 300 metres from the nearest point reachable by car, with abundant wildlife, sunshine and shade, and more recently ten hens, three roosters, two donkeys and our pastore maremmano Rocco. Recently we have opened a small campsite for the summer months, all proceeds of which go towards maintaining the volunteer community programme here.
  
  Hope to see you soon,
  
  
  Colm

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  Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado

  Prática de idiomas

  Ajuda em projetos ambientais

  Jardinagem

  Construção/faça você mesmo

  Cuidar de animais

  Ajuda em fazenda

  Cuidar de crianças/atividades criativas

  Criar/cozinhar refeições caseiras

  Ajuda a cuidar da casa

  Manutenção geral

  Ajuda com computadores/internet
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  Oportunidades de intercâmbio cultural e aprendizado

  You will most likely meet people from all over the world. English is the normal language of day to day usage, but this is also a good place to practice your Italian as we are very much integrated into the local community, and very few people in the area speak English.

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  Projetos que envolvem crianças

  Este projeto pode envolver crianças. Para mais informações, veja aqui nossas diretrizes e dicas.

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  Ajuda

  Over the past twelve years I have restored three stone buildings and created a campsite in the forest with the help of our own volunteers, so have experience in a range of construction skills, forestry, permaculture, growing vegetables, cooking for many people and creating an open, communal and friendly environment for our community. You can have a look at our project on workaway at the link below . I am also a musician and try to get sessions going whenever there are other musical souls about.

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  Idiomas

  Idiomas
  Inglês: Fluente
  Espanhol: Fluente
  Irish: Fluente
  Italiano: Fluente
  Francês: Intermediário
  Russo: Iniciante

  Este anfitrião oferece intercâmbio de idiomas
  I am trying to learn Russian, and can do an exchange or teach English, Italian or Spanish if anyone is interested.
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  Acomodação

  Depending on the time of year accommodation is either in a spacious yurt sharing with max four others, with plenty of communal living areas both sheltered and outdoors, or in your own provided tent.

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    Acesso à internet

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    Acesso à internet limitado

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    Temos mascotes

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    Somos fumantes

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    Pode hospedar famílias

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  Espaço para estacionar campervans

  Este anfitrião pode fornecer espaço para vans.

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  Quantos Workawayers pode acomodar?

  Mais de 2

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