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My name is Alessandra and I live in front of Calaforno Park, on the Hyblean Mountains.
I have been reclaiming a plot of land for six years, after decades of blessed neglect, in a rustic house 🏡 but full of charm, between splendid dawns 🌳 and the wind.
I only speak Italian, so I’m looking for volunteers with at least a basic knowledge of the language.
If you love the essentials and sleeping under the stars 💫, immersed in a beautiful local mutual-aid network, this place is just for you!
25 hours of help per week
Farming: Plant crops, sow seeds and help in outside tasks.
Painting & Decorating: Help with painting or decorating the property facilities.
Building & Repairing: Help with a wide range of repairs or building.
Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens
2 days off per week
Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.
Tent: You will sleep in a tent at a camping site.
Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.
Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.
Holistic Therapies: You can take part in any of our therapeutic activities for free.
Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.
Beginner Italian
Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers
Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa
The project unites the regeneration of the land with ecological self-construction.
The house I live in isn't finished yet, but I live in it with great pleasure; the dawns are beautiful and the wind can confuse you.
Plants and wild animals keep me company, as do the friends with whom we have created a Mutual Aid Network.
In my free time I love taking long regenerating walks, both in the countryside and in nearby towns, and I will be happy to go on some journeys together. I don't have a driver's license, but the town of Giarratana is only a pleasant 2.5 km walk away! 🌳🚶♀️
I offer an indoor bed in a non-heated room, or the use of a tent (complete with everything you need) or a space for those traveling by camper or van. 🚐 A bathroom and kitchen are available.
Activities:
We will organize collaboration moments from time to time, which we can carry out together or separately, as occasionally I have a natural need to recharge in solitude. 🧘♀️
I value punctuality and respect for the things we decide together.
We will dedicate ourselves together to the care of the plants 🌱 (pruning, weeding, fertilizing...) and to cleaning the ground with the brush cutter to create firebreaks.
We will continue to shape the house using wood 🪵, bamboo and clay-and-lime plasters, also improving the hydraulic and electrical systems and restoring the dry stone walls.
There will be moments devoted to gathering medicinal plants and to the preparation of excellent organic preserves.
Rules:
We are happy to share dinner, while for breakfast and lunch we will organize day by day.
I am vegan 🥗, you can make exceptions if you really have a desire to eat some animal-origin product but please not every day! Obviously I am talking about meals shared in the kitchen; in your tent or camper you are completely free.
I do not have pets but yours 🐾 are welcome; please just check that they are not destructive to the plants 🌱 and to the wild animals that live here with me and before me.
We will organize collaboration moments from time to time, which we can carry out together or separately, as occasionally I have a natural need to recharge in solitude. 🧘♀️
I value punctuality and respect for the things we decide together.
We will dedicate ourselves together to the care of the plants 🌱 (pruning, weeding, fertilizing...) and to cleaning the ground with the brush cutter to create firebreaks.
We will continue to shape the house using wood 🪵, bamboo and clay-and-lime plasters, also improving the hydraulic and electrical systems and restoring the dry stone walls.
There will be moments devoted to gathering medicinal plants and to the preparation of excellent organic preserves.
We are happy to share dinner, while for breakfast and lunch we will organize day by day.
I am vegan 🥗, you can make exceptions if you really have a desire to eat some animal-origin product but please not every day! Obviously I am talking about meals shared in the kitchen; in your tent or camper you are completely free.
I do not have pets but yours 🐾 are welcome; please just check that they are not destructive to the plants 🌱 and to the wild animals that live here with me and before me.
