Trullo hermita

To immerse yourself in the greenery, join our family and social circle, collaborate, meet other people, exchange experiences and ideas. To become aware of the preciousness of the essential natural resources: water, earth, air and our natural environment. To broaden your skills, to live a respectful and harmonious experience with those around you, to appreciate the fruit of your own effort, obtaining satisfaction from the simple experiences of life.

I am very excited to welcome and receive newcomers; personally I like to work in company on the different projects I undertake; my guests are always treated amicably, as part of the family, with respect and cordiality; we are happy about the existence of this symbiotic way of relating to people from all over the world. Normally we work in the countryside or in the house depending on what needs to be done during the different seasons, gathering fruits, olives to make extra virgin olive oil, planting trees, pruning and trimming the remnants of the pruning to store them as firewood. Cutting the grass, tidying the house and the garden. In the hottest hours we go to the sea and when there are festivals we celebrate. At this point I find it important to signal some points to know for those who decide to apply for volunteering here. I ask my guests to make a conscious use of water, perhaps adapting to ways of life different from those of the city, reducing as much as possible the frequency of showers, since the water available comes exclusively from rainwater collected during the winter period, in underground cisterns dug into the rock, to be able to face the 3 or 4 summer months (drought) with these limited reserves. Moreover, the water coming from the shower and kitchen drainage is used for irrigation of trees, so it is very important not to use industrial soaps, surfactants or other chemical components that would be discharged into the shower drain, the toilet or the kitchen. To wash hair, if they cannot do without using these products I ask my guests that; besides doing it as infrequently as possible, when it is necessary to use a suitable container to then discharge the water resulting into a place that is suitable, without causing damage to the plants. I offer volunteers breakfast, lunch and a snack by 8:00 PM, after which the kitchen must stay clean and no longer available for cooking; if volunteers need to eat even in the evening they can obtain extra food in the village to cook and eat before the kitchen closing time.