🐑🌱 Live the Shepherd Life in Rural Serbia
The experience
Join a simple countryside life helping a local shepherd by chopping firewood, cutting branches, maitaining fences, prunning fruit trees, gardenning, cooking, making videos about the farm, grazing sheep & donkeys. A calm, authentic experience close to nature, animals and traditional rural life — good for hands-on volunteers who enjoy the outdoors 🌾🌄
Shifts march-september (in winter it's different):
1. 7-9AM aprox.
2. 11-12AM aprox.
3. 14-16AM
What you offer
24 hours of help per week
Farming:
Plant crops, sow seeds and help in outside tasks.
Building & Repairing:
Help with a wide range of repairs or building.
Gardening:
Help grow plants and cultivate gardens
Painting & Decorating:
Help with painting or decorating the property facilities.
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.