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Viata la Tara – Gospodaria Happy Faces

Contact person:

Estera Borcan

Languages spoken on the farm:

English, Romanian and a little bit of Spanish, Italian and French.

Description of the area:

We are located in a hilly area very near to Trascau Mountains. Alba Iulia, a very beautiful city is just 10 km away so we are not at all isolated.

What do you grow on the farm:

We have a garden mainly with vegetables and different fruit trees. We have as well maaaany maaany flowers.

Farm size:

1000 mp-garden for vegetables, 3000mp garden with fruits trees, grass and flowers.

Months when they accept voulteers:

Mostly between March and October.

Volunteer activities:

Working in the garden, sowing, planting, weeding weeds, watering garden plants, fruit picking, preparing jam, baking and...organization of work-shops where children can participate in a fun and educational way to all these activities.

Accommodation:

Hostel type, rooms with 4-5 beds, hot-cold water non-stop, wireless Internet.

Diet:

Vegetarians are welcomed.

A few words about the family:

5 people, two brothers, a sister and the parents who live all the time at the location. We have a family business in tourism and we are working especially with groups of children who come to discover the area and to spend a few days in nature. For them we want to cook as healthy and as tasty we can, therefore as much as it's possible we try to prepare everything in the house.

Pets:

Yes, 4 dogs and we are thinking to get some hens and maybe two goats.

Other comments:

Our family business has as a main activity tourism and during the summer we organize camps for children from all over Romania. Most of the staff is International as we get a lot of volunteers from almost everywhere. Because we want to offer to the children food which is as natural and healthy, last year we bought a garden of 1,000 square meters where we intend to plant: tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, beans, onions,carrots, etc ... basically all that is necessary to be able to feed three times per day the participants at the camp and the volunteers. The volunteers who come to us will be asked if they are interested... to do as well a little bit of education with the children about nature, about a healthy lifestyle, about food, etc. We are offering our maximum support for those interested to engage in such a project, which besides working in the garden involves as well a bit of education with the youth.