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We are a german-french family with 3 grown-up children and Onno, our family dog. After having lived in Berlin for 25 years, we live now in beautiful Mecklenburg in the lake district. In Zahren we have restored a manor house (listed as a monument) with its former horse-stable (a beautiful brick building from the end of 19th century) and its former Milkhouse within a listed park with old trees and orchards with old apple varieties.
We regularly host start-ups, media companies and corporate teams for offsites, retreats and strategy meetings. The team sizes are often between 15 and up to 45 people. Our guests are international and open-minded, so we are looking for people who are the same. We also host families and groups of friends or just people who are willing to stay some time in the countryside.
We are looking especially for help with the following activities/tasks:
- Housekeeping
- Help in the kitchen: prep & service
- Gardening
- Building & DIY
We are paying at least the minimum wage which is currently 12,41 EUR per hour in Germany.
We would like to host a team of three workawayers at the same time who are willing to stay at least 8 weeks with us and ideally more than two months.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We will be delighted to share our mix team-culture with you: German-French-Spanisch.
You can learn German with us or learn how we live in the countryside, our understanding for great hospitality, good cooking, our passion for hosting.
In addition, the teams that are our guests are usually international, young and often multicultural.
You will surely also learn from other workawayers who work and live with you. Everyone having a personal experience and ambitions. We try to match all for a good combination of personalities and skills.
That seems interesting to you? You can fulfill the needs and are willing to learn more about how to reach high standards in hospitality with the very personal Gut Zahren touch: professionalism, authenticity and the passion for hosting? Have a look at our calendar and let's talk about all that on a video call ...Host offers payment in line with the minimum wage
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Help
Mainly you will help us in these fields all depending on your skills and ambitions. We try to match workawayers in order to get the best combinations of personalities and skills during the whole year:
- housekeeping: you will help our housekeeping team with cleaning the apartments and public areas and preparing the spaces for our guests. We expect all spaces clean and beautiful when the guests arrive.
- maintaining the buildings: painting, woodwork...
- gardening: we have a large park which needs to be maintained: mowing the grass, preparing the different areas for the next season, weeding, watering plants, gardening in the vegetables garden...
- kitchen: help us in the kitchen cooking the meals for our guests and in service. Once you got more experience, you could take care of the whole kitchen?
- prep: manufacturing products depending on the season: preserves, jams, liqueurs
There is a variety of tasks you can help us with! We can talk about that on the phone before you visit us. We prefer Workawayer who could help us at least with two of these fields. Please mention that in your message :-D that would be great to get to know you better.
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
Spanish: Fluent
French: Fluent
Accommodation
We can accommodate you with other coworkers in a house behind the manor house with a beautiful garden. We are currently renovating the house but a part of it is already finished. You'll have a room for yourself and will share the kitchen and the bathroom with other workawayers.
The furnishing of the house is quite basic but you get all that a basic housing has with a plus: fire stove in the kitchen, fiber optic internet connection, a garden where you can grow your veggies, with apple, walnuts and prunes trees.
What else ...
In your free time, there are some different outdoor activities here (we have a great disc golf parcours in the parc :-D. Some other activities are right in the village or in the surroundings: horse riding, bathing in the lake, cycling, hiking... the countryside is beautiful here but also lonely. It is important to know that our place is located in the least populated area in Germany. So, if you are looking for bars and clubs around in your free time, we might not be the ideal place for you ;-)
If you stay longer, you could visit Berlin or Hamburg, Schwerin or Güstrow or go to the Baltic See.
If you come with your car you would be more flexible but if not, you can borrow some bikes from us or we will drive you to the next supermarket ;-)
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
We have created in Zahren a digital TeamSpace for Company Offsite and Workation in the beautiful Mecklenburg with a fiber connection up to 1GB/s. We are very happy to welcome digital nomads!
Space for parking camper vans
You could park in the garden of the workaday-house, behind the manor house.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week - tbc with you
