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🐑🌿 Rural Life in Serbia: Animals, Gardens & Hands-On Help

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The experience

Experience authentic countryside life helping a local shepherd with animal care, gardening, simple building & repairs, and kitchen support. Live close to nature, work with sheep and farm animals, and enjoy a calm, traditional rural routine in Serbia 🌾🔥
My location: 43.744524,21.960899
Shifts march-september:
1. 7-9 aproximately
2. 11-12 aprox.
3. 14-16 aprox.
It's negotiable.
Mostly, I work together with you. We write down start/stop time.


What you offer

24 hours of help per week

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

Farming: Plant crops, sow seeds and help in outside tasks.

Building & Repairing: Help with a wide range of repairs or building.


What you get

1 day off per week

Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.

Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Basic Internet Access: Basic speed internet for you to work remotely


Requirements

Between 30 and 70 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers


What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa


Program Details

You measure your working time, I don't check you.
24 hours a week, 1 day off. Or 5 hours a day, 2 days off. Or however you want.
I give a list of tasks, and you choose.
You decide when your shifts are. Depending on my rhytm, we can work together or not.


Activities & Shift

Chopping firewood, cutting branches, maitaining fences, prunning fruit trees, gardenning, cooking, making videos about the farm, grazing sheep. A calm, authentic experience close to nature, animals and traditional rural life — good for hands-on volunteers who enjoy the outdoors 🌾🌄
You decide about your shifts,


Rules

I give no invitation letter for Visa.
No alcohol.
No smoking.
You cook for yourself.
The list of food usually available in my place:
Patatoes, onions, garlic, kidney beans, lentils, millet, buckwheat, chickpea, rice, pasta, nuddles, wheat, flour, cow milk&cheese from a neighbour, eggs (usually from a market), oat flakes.
Sunflower oil, butter or margarine, marmelade.
Spices: sea salt, red peper, black peper, ginger, cinnamon,
Herbs: yarrow, melissa,
Seasonally: tomatoes, pepers, cucumbers, greens; apples.
If you need anything else, you can bring it, or buy it for your money in a local market, if available.

Video call demanded before confirmation.
Everybody: host&volonteers take care about higiene of each room- bathroom, kitchen, rooms.
A volonteer is not allowed to work in my neghbourhood or any other place during our arrangement.