Area: New York State

Greetings from our organic farming community, located forty five minutes north of Albany in the fertile Battenkill Valley. Our family warmly invites you to experience our unique life of friends and togetherness. We are situated on over one hundred acres of gently rolling hills and lush river bottom land. Growing a wide assortment of vegetables and herbs for a CSA and our own community use, heritage breed chickens, milking a small herd of dairy goats, raising sheep, maintaining the beautiful grounds of the estate, operating a cottage industry, and running a small deli in town keep us busy and open for new friends year round. In addition to the normal farm crew and volunteers, we also have a great time doing the "community night" in the field, with everyone coming out for one evening a week to join in the work and reward of getting our hands in the soil. Guests are frequent all year round and we would love to have you join us. Whether you come for a day or come to stay, our hearts and our farm will always have room for more. Update: Spring 2013 The ground is warming up, the seeds are being planted, the animals are birthing!-the pace is quickening for the season! Many volunteers have already made their plans-come be a part of the team!

Area: Liguria

The structure is an old rural farmhouse recently renovated by our hand (Alessandra and Massimo). Situated in Sassello (SV), in the GeoPark area of Monte Beigua, isolated between fields and woods. It is connected to the main paved road with a 800 meters of dirt road. Through our Cultural Association, we organize events and workshops on the farm about the relationship between art, nature and the identity of places. Overnight accommodation and breakfast available. We love nature, walk, cook and eat around the fire! We have our vegetable garden with a lot of different vegetables and fruit trees. We don't use any type of pesticides. We have our solar panels, our photovoltaic system and our firewood. We live with two dogs (Sciulli and Settembre) and one cat (Campagna).

Area: Midi Pyrenees

We are a family of 3, 2 ​​adults parents and a little girl of 11 years. We live in a small village 100 km from Toulouse near the Spanish border, in a large house surrounded by nature. We are all 2 (entrepreneurs) and our daughter is in 6th. We want a girl to practice English language within the family and that helps our daughter in all aspects of English nous sommes une famille de 3 personnes ; 2 adultes père et mère et une petite fille de 11 ans .Nous vivons dans un petit village à 100 km de Toulouse proche de la frontière Espagnole , dans une grande maison en pleine nature .Nous travaillons tous les 2 ( chefs d' entreprises) et notre fille est en 6 ième. Nous souhaitons avoir une jeune fille anglaise pour pratiquer la langue au sein de la famille et que celle-ci suive notre fille dans ces devoirs d' anglais .

Area: Swedish Lapland

PLEASE, READ OUR TEXT CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU APPLY We, Paul and Maya, we moved from the Netherlands to the last wilderness in the forest mountains of Swedish Lappland. Here we live together with our 28 Siberian Huskies and 1 Japanese Spitz. In Mörtberg it is winter from October till the end of April, sometimes we still have snow in May. From mid May till mid August we have about 24 hours daylight. In winter, during the shortest day we have about 4 hours daylight. Before you even think of coming to our place, you should be aware of the fact that there is no internet access, no television, no warm showers, and no means of public transport here where we live. And ............. in summer we have a lot of mosquit's, and that really is a challenge. When helpers arrive by train or bus, we pick them up from the station in Murjek. We live far away from the civilised world in the beautiful wilderness of Lappland, however no luxury can be expected here. We live in the middle of nature and we intend to live as good as possible from the nature. Our house is heated with wood, we pick a lot of berries and mushrooms in summer and autumn, we use herbs and many things that can be found in nature. We have good fishing possibilities around us in summer and in winter. And of course we see to it that we do not spoil nature. We have a lot of wild animals around us such as bears, lynxes, foxes, sometimes a wolf, beavers, moose, reindeer, otters and a great variety of birds etc. Although we have no television, we have Animal Planet Live here on Mörtberg. When you want to come to our place, we expect that you respect all living creatures. We do not allow that you come to our place and kill animals. During wintertime we can have a lot of snow and it also can be as cold as minus 40 degrees. This means that living here can be very isolated. And this also means that during winter we have no jobs that can be done by helpers. However many jobs can be done in summer. Summer 2012 we intent to finish rebuilding the dogyard. We need some help with building work, cutting trees, cleaning the forest, painting and repairing our buildings, garden work, growing vegetables and fruits and so on. Cleaning the kennels of the dogs also might be a job that could be done. In change for the work that helpers do for us, we offer a bed in a blockhouse and three meals per day to the person who wants to come and help us. If you are prepared to work hard, you can have a real good time here. We expect you to work 4 days per week from 8 hours each. 3 Free days per week. You also need to have an international health insurance, from which we ask you to give us a copy as soon as you arrive here, as well as a copy from your passport. You need to have a good sleeping bag, because this is Polar Circle land. We are looking for trustworthy people who love nature and animals. In case you are a smoker it is better for you to apply somewhere else. Please do not think that it is possible to make sleddog tours in summer, because then you surely will be disappointed. In summer our Siberian Huskies take a long rest, to be ready for work the next winter. Where to go to on your days off? 1. For the Workawayers who love to hike, there is a nice walk about 5 to 6 km away from Mörtberg. The place is called Fioltjärn. A small lake with a cabin where one can stay overnight (free), make his own fire, catch som fish etc. 2. Another beautiful hiking route is to Stuorajaur which is about 8 km away from Mörtberg. A beautiful lake with a lovely cabin. You can fish here and stay (free) overnight as well. 3. For the extreme hikers we can offer a hike that is around 100 km and takes 3 days. The first overnight stop is on the Magical Polar Circle, where are two bigger cabins where hikers can stay overnight for free. The second day they can sleep in Ekorrbo in Pålkem, a very small village. Ekorrbo is an ancient "arbetsstuga" where children without a mother could stay during the days that their fathers had to work in the forests. 4. Jokkmokk. Once a week we drive to Jokkmokk to by fresh food. Jokkmokk is about 77 km away from Mörtberg and here you can find the Saamen museum, and a lot of other interesting things. On our shopping days, our Workawayers are free to join us. 5. In the community of Jokkmokk the World Heritage Lapponia can be found, that consists of several huge national parks. Workawayers who are interested to go hiking in Lapponia, can save their days off and go hiking in Lapponia for several days. 6. Once a month we go shopping in Luleå and our Workawayers can join us. We pass Gammelstad, which also is a World Heritage. So while we are buying food and other stuff, our Workawayers can walk around in Gammelstad.