Chasing Peaks from the Tent: Camping & Wine Farming in the Alps
The experience
You would like to find out more about Vineyard work, gardening , farm live in general and enjoy a camper van/outdoor lifestyle with many dogs and cats? Than this may be the right experience. We offer you a unique stay on our alternative Vinyard Farm in one off the most beautiful places in the World, South Tyrol in the middle of the italian Dolomites.
What you offer
20 hours of help per week
Cleaning:
Help clean the kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms and common areas.
Animal Care:
Help look after and take care of animals.
Building & Repairing:
Help with a wide range of repairs or building.
Farming:
Plant crops, sow seeds and help in outside tasks.
What you get
2 days off per week
Tent:
You will sleep in a tent at a camping site.
Free Laundry:
You can use our laundry room freely.
Language lessons:
Take free language classes at our place.
Use our equipped kitchen:
Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.
Fast Internet Access:
High-speed internet for you to work remotely
Requirements
Between 18 and 30 years old
Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers
What's not included
Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa
Program Details
What is offered:
A stay in a Bed in one of our two Campervans, a spacious one with place for up to 4 people and a smaller one for 2 persons , additionally, we can offer you one tent with a mattress and sleeping bags or you can come with your own camping equipment/tent. So there is a place for up to 10 people.
Next to the Campervans, there is an outdoor kitchen-hangout space, an outdoor shower cabin, a outdoor compost toilet, and a laundry machine for shared use. In addition, there is a large terrace with a panoramic view of the rose garden over the garage where you can make Yoga, enjoy sunset or sunrise, play music ect.
We also have an above-ground pool to keep cool in the summer.
There is free WiFi throughout the house. From time to time, we make movie nights. We are also gamers if you ever feel like joying in a warhammer campaign or a helldive ;)
Once a week, I normally drive to the grocery store, where you can join to make your personal grocery shopping.
If you have your own car, there is enough parking space available. Our farm is reachable very well by public transport from the Bolzano bus station (next to the central train station) between 7 AM and 8:30 PM (Bus No. 165 direction Collalbo, Bus stop Bivio Signato). The bus stop is 6 minutes walk away from the farm. On saturday nights there is also a nightliner from Bolzano to the farm. One of us can pick you up at the Bus Stop Bivio Signato/Abzweigung Signat.
The nearest international airports are Verona, Bergamo, Innsbruck, Milan, or Munich (between 2 and 4 hours by train to Bolzano +1-2 hours by Flixbus).
Activities & Shift
Mostly you work with me, Hanna, Jasmine and Sean.
We are looking for people (groups/friends welcome) who enjoy working outside and with their hands to help with one or more of the following tasks for maximum 4 hours a day/ 5 days a week (we work monday til friday):
Farm/ Garden work (seeding, planting crops, re-establishing vineyard areas, digging earth, set up concrete columns for the Vineyard, weeding, helping with the garden and growing berries,...)
Horticulture (build a pavilion, strengthen terraces, prepare compost toilets, solar showers for construction, build outdoor kitchen, create a path...)
Assist with Renovation work with the house (making walls, build a kitchen, painting, clearing out, rearranging, sorting ,building furniture, paint blinds, …)
Help with Woodwork (Collecting firerwood, Cutting wood for firewood,..).
Help around the house with Baking and cooking sometimes.
Help with Keep the farm tidy (making laundry, collect dogshit with shovel and rake, mop staircase, broom floors, remove spiderwebs/dust,bring the trash and recycling stuff to the recycling/trash place.
If everyone cleans his own mess after himself than we normally just clean once a week max.
We are also happy to get involved with creative suggestions and tips. We want to be able to teach and learn from one another in many aspects; language, food, vineyard, gardening, farming, dog education, spirituality, etc.
Rules
SMOKING is allowed everywhere in and outside the house! Be aware of that if you are a non smoker!
CLEAN YOUR OWN MESS!
Tell us if you break something (otherwise we dont know, that we need to repair it )
Honesty is normaly the straightest way
We must recycle, otherwise our living costs explode!
Be yourself but dont bother others.
If you love the dogs they love you back ;)
Be kind :)