Experience off-grid life in the midst of Transylvanian nature, Romania

Detalles

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  Descripción

  Hello!
  We are Eli and Ali, a Swiss couple with five kids between 12 and 1.
  
  After 3 years of travelling Europe, we are growing our roots in the rolling hills of Transylvania.
  We are situated 2km of dirt-track away from the next village and are completely off-grid.
  Step by step we are building our dream of a self-sufficient permaculture homestead.
  The life we chose isn't always easy and we still have a long way to go and a lot more to learn, but we are very motivated to do so because we are convinced that there are so many ways of improving the harmony and living more sustainable and in peace with earth and eachother.
  
  We have great plans and ideas for our property and we hope to find some awesome, likeminded helpers who enjoy the peace and quiet and the beauty of our wild surroundings!
  
  We love to learn by doing and experimenting.
  We have a garden, grow all our crops from seeds and are constantly working on expanding our growing space and creating more bio-diversity.
  We've planted over 50 fruit trees which are the basis of our food-forest - a constant work in progress.
  We are passionate about sustainable, holistic, healthy and natural living, preserving food, different hand-crafts, natural building, living with animals and learning in general.
  
  We are vegetarians and currently share our land with many furry and feathery creatures who provide us with eggs, milk and manure but who are also our companions and teachers.
  
  We have a small solar system to charge our phones and use other small devices, for bigger machines, we use a generator.
  We live VERY basic, close to nature and without most of modern conveniencies: We use a composting toilet (bucket system), usually shower outside with cold water - there is a solar camping shower for those who want warm water and have the patience to wait for it - our water comes from a source above our property, though it dries out at times (but there are other sources in the area, where we can get drinking water from), we have no fridge or freezer, our washingmashine runs on cold water and we use our phones for internet access.
  
  We hope to build a small (loose) community/village with likeminded people and families in this area in the future, so far it is only us.
  
  We are building our homestead completely from scratch. Some days we work a lot, others we are not so productive. We have a bit of a daily rythm because of our animals but otherwise we mostly decide spontaneously on what we want to do, even though our to-do lists are set to last years. ;-D
  
  We are excited to meet wonderful people and families here, learn and work together and enjoy the beauty of this place together!

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  Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje

  Práctica de idiomas

  Ayuda en proyectos ecológicos

  Jardinería

  Construcción y bricolaje

  Cuidado de animales

  Ayuda en una granja

  Cuidado de niños y juegos creativos

  Cocinar para toda la familia

  Ayuda doméstica

  Mantenimiento general
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  Intereses

  

  Cultura

  

  Vegetariano o vegano

  

  Sostenibilidad

  

  Autodesarrollo

  

  Mascotas

  

  Agricultura

  

  Escritura

  

  Cuidado de plantas

  

  Fotografía

  

  Música

  

  Historia

  

  Jardinería

  

  Arte y diseño

  

  Dibujo y pintura

  

  Cocina y alimentación

  

  Bricolaje y manualidades

  

  Arquitectura

  

  Carpintería

  

  Libros

  

  Animales

  

  Actividades al aire libre

  

  Naturaleza

  

  Montaña

  

  Senderismo

  

  Acampada
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  Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje

  We are constantly learning new things and invite you to learn with us!
  
  From our first six years of being here, we have gathered knowledge about various homesteading skills. Some examples are: (No-dig & inground) gardening, living off-grid, animal husbandry, preserving food in different ways without refrigeration.
  
  There are so many things we want to learn about. Some, we are just getting started with, some, we can already share knowledge about - our interests are very wide spread, but we are big on exploring true human potential and self-reliance but we also love to share philosophical/spiritual thoughts about pretty much everything existing in this world and universe.
  
  We speak Swiss-German, German, English, a tiny bit of French (though it's rather bad at the moment) and are (slowly) learning Romanian.

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  Proyectos con niños

  En este proyecto podría haber niños. Para obtener más información, consulta nuestras directrices y consejos aquí.

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  Ayuda

  This year, we will build our house out of natural materials we find on our land.
  
  We plan to build a timberframe roundhouse with cordwoodwalls - this is the main thing we currently need help with.
  
  But since we live on a homestead, there is plenty of diverse tasks at all time such as tending to the animals, weeding, mulching and working the garden, gathering wood for cooking, planting and harvesting and preserving food and much more...
  
  Two things we'd dearly apprechiate help with are gathering the horsemanure from all our pastures so the pastures grow well and so we have manure/compost for the garden. The second task is to dig and plant the potatopatch for this year - not a complicated task, but one we're falling behind on due to the other gardenbeds we're in the process of making.

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  Idiomas

  Idiomas hablados
  Alemán: Fluido
  Inglés: Fluido
  Francés: Principiante
  Romanian: Principiante

  Este anfitrión ofrece intercambio de idiomas
  We'd love to improve our Romanian but are interested in all languages and can teach you Swiss German or German and probably some English too, though we're not perfect at it ourselfs.
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  Alojamiento

  We can offer a cozy caravan with a gas stovetop for you to cook on (when we're not cooking together) and a small wooden porch in front.
  
  In case of families or long-term helpers wanting to stay with us, we are open to expand the accomondation with your help!

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  Algo más...

  Our property is only reachable with a 4x4 car (and only when the weather is dry), otherwise one can always walk up and down.
  
  The next bigger towns are Deva (30km) and Hunedoara (25km) and Oraștie (20km), there are two tiny shops in the village that cover basic needs and are also small pubs. There's a smaller town where you can find everything you need, about 15km from us.
  
  There are ancient Dacian ruins to be discovered, lots of wildlife to enjoy in the area and vast and beautiful landscapes to be explored.
  
  For 2025, we have decided to only host people who want to stay at least two week because our past expiriences here have shown us that the first 3 to 5 days are usually more about getting to know eachother than about getting work done and while we're enjoying the exchange of thoughts and expiriences, we dearly wish to get things going too.
  
  We are a very openminded family and like to look at life through a different lense by sharing stories and thoughts and the only thing we ask for in our helpers (and we have been super lucky with so far) is that you are openminded as well - oh and that you don't mind getting your hands (feet, arms, legs) dirty and doing physical work ;-) . We are not perfect and neither is our homestead - we are continually learning and growing afterall, but we love our life and are passionate about nature and exploring ways of life that lead into a more harmonious and holisticly sustainable (regenerative) future.
  
  ... And last but not least (before we can applaud you for reading all of this through) we want to add that we are happy to host solo travellers and couples/friends alike but since we have kids ourselfs, we want to especially invite families who want to expirience this completely different way of living with us!

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  Un poco más de información

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    Acceso a Internet

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    Acceso a Internet limitado

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    Tenemos animales

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    Somos fumadores

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    Puede alojar familias

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  Podría aceptar mascotas

  We have lots of pets ourself so if you bring your own, we will have to slowly and carefully introduce them to eachother and we would really apprechiate it, that none of our animals get eaten by yours (we have chickens, peacocks, rabbits and guineapigs running around freely at times) but other than that, nothing stands in the way of you bringing your furry or feathery friends.

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  ¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?

  Dos

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  Mis animales / mascotas

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