Mountain village homestead

Cluj

1 review • Updated 2 months ago

SADLY WE CANNOT HELP WITH VISAS. Please only contact us if you can travel to Romania. We cannot accomodate special diets, except vegetarian. We welcome people who are interested in seeing and experiencing a different lifestyle, with more nature, more healthy food, less stress and more simplicity. Travelers who would like to see how we grow our food, how we use the herbs in the surroundings, chicken keeping, and how we try to integrate sustainability in both our renovation methods as well as our community. Our place offers a glimpse into a more simple, slow, natural lifestyle with beautiful sunrises and quiet evenings. It is ideal if you want to get away from the rush of city life. Our projects vary from season to season but they generally include homesteading type of work. At the moment we are looking for helpers for our natural building project, therefore we prefer someone with previous knowledge in some type of woodwork, cobwork, etc. There is also gardening work as well as some help with animals. Help is mostly outdoors, rain or shine, but all faces of nature are beautiful. If you do not have any experience but you are eager to learn, write to us and we will find a project for you. We are especially interested in the following skills: carpentry, woodworking, experience with living fences, natural building, gardening. However, all applications are welcome. We work hard but also know how to have fun, and we like people with a similar mindset. We don’t want people who just come to work, we prefer to form a bond with our volunteers and have a great time together. We have hosted several hundred volunteers so far and most of our experiences were great. We are always happy to share our knowledge about living in nature, growing your own food, herbalism, wild foods, woodcutting and woodwork, haywork, gardening, ecological construction, cobwork, cheese masking, soap making, herbal medicine, jarring and preserving food and some other basics of traditional skills and real life skills. We normally work around 5-6 hours a day, which we split in two sections. We are flexible though, and we can discuss other options. Accommodations are rustic: outhouse, hot outdoor shower, bedroom inside the main house, and in some cases tents, but only if the indoor places are full. We also welcome people with their own RVs. When you stay at the Ranch you will have a place to sleep and three meals a day. We have mainly a vegetarian diet, and grow a lot of our own food. Breakfast is usually oatmeal and seasonal fruits from the farm or jam. Lunch is usually pasta or rice with vegetables, and dinner a soup with something delicious from around the farm. We use homemade cheese and other milk products as well as eggs in our diet, therefore we cannot accommodate a vegan diet, a gluten free diet, or other special diets. If you need other food besides the three meals per day that we offer (e.g. snacks, alcohol etc.) you need to take care of that yourself. We don't offer internet access, but there is mobile phone access (Vodafone, Orange, Digi). Laundry is also very limited. We do not usually host families with kids or volunteers with pets. Please ask us if you have any questions, we are flexible:) Here you can also enjoy nature in your free time, we live right next to the Apuseni National Park with beautiful hiking opportunities, caves, waterfalls, old forests and lakes. We both love music, we play the guitar, ukulele and accordion, and are always glad to host musicians.

Learning opportunities

Vegetable farming

Fruit or nut farming

Poultry farming

Wild foraging

Aromatic or medicinal plants, teas

Seed saving or production

Vegetable or fruit preservation

Bakery

Green Building

Food justice / sovereignty

Methods or systems

No-till farming

Host type

Self-sufficiency property

Former WWOOFer

4 Hectares | 9.9 Acres

Accommodation

4+ WWOOFers

Bedroom

Campsite

Children not accepted

Pets not accepted

Meals

Omnivore

Length of stay

1-2 weeks

3-4 weeks

Zsuzsa

Member since 2023

Languages spoken: English, German, Hungarian, Romanian, Spanish Response rate: 100% Response time: typically within 2 days

November 2025

Open

Planned visit

Closed

Cluj

Nearest village: Rachitele

Reviews

Rose

Australia • August 2025

My time spent living and working on Zsuzsa and Roger’s farm was such an incredible experience! They were so welcoming, kind and warm and I could not recommend this place more!! It felt like a dream waking up every morning to the beautiful Romanian countryside working in the garden, helping mud brick a wall. If you’re looking to work hard and play hard then this is your place :)