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My name is Olga Maria. I am 37 years old mother of two sons Kazik (10 years old) and Zdzis (7 years old).
I am a co-creator of little eco-oasis habitat to live close to nature and restore our relation with Mother Earth. We've build strawbale house and tiny wood and clay house for living here. I am a bodywork practitioner shiatsu and playfight and dance improvisation teacher. I organise workshops in our place for guests. I run little business with handcrafted natural soy wax candles and blends of essential oils.
We have 2 cats that live outdoor, Bonifacy and Filemonka, and one dog Bąbel.
At our place live also our friend Zofia with her dog Iskra.
We are surrounded in our closest neighbourhood with nice, ecologically and artistically oriented folks.
Those 2 houses and quite a piece of land is a big project to maintain itself. I welcome co-creation and help with taking care and developing this place. I try to use permaculture design approach and follow my intuition with it.Types of help and learning opportunities
Art ProjectsLanguage practiceHelp with Eco ProjectsTeachingGardeningDIY and building projectsAnimal CareFarmstay helpBabysitting and creative playCreating/ Cooking family mealsHelp around the houseGeneral MaintenanceHelp with Computers/ InternetUN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
The volunteers can experience a quite and simple life in the wild, clean and natural surrounding. They can take advantage of social and cultural life of our local community (such as concerts, music and dance jams, artcraft, theatre, dance workshops etc.).
Our village is surrounded by two big forrests and small hills with the horses grazing outdoor. You can hear cows, goats, hens, ducs, gooses here and experience a kind of surrogate of the old days small scale farming.
You may chat with friendly villagers and very possibly meet citizens of all over the world who come to rest in the agrotourstic farms in Nowina.
You can benefit from all the goods of wild nature – hills with old beech forres, wild animals, small streams, places where grows wild herbs and wild eatable plants.Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
In April we plan to establish a rainwater collecting system and garden irrigation system. We allready have water conteiners. They need to be connected to a gutter with the pipes and than to the pipe distribution system. My dream is to build a little pond to collect water surplus and create living oasis around it.
In May and June we plan to plaster with the clay tiny house inner walls and strawbale house outer walls. The aim is to give it esthethic look and insolation values. I can teach and guide volunteers in this project.Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
French: Beginner
Hebrew: Beginner
Russian: BeginnerThis host offers a language exchange
I'd like to learn Portuguese and French. I'd like to improve my English. My children needs to learn English and any other language they like :-) They are big funs of Japanese! We will all be happy also to learn Spanish.Accommodation
We can host voluteers in their own campervan or motor house. There is a place up the hill with more private space around.
During the summer volunteers could stay in a tent as well. I have quite big tent with high up bed.
Another option is renting a room or little house at the neighbour in agrotourism farm. The deal we can disscuss individually.What else ...
After helping you have a chance to go horseriding. You can take part in movement and dance classes, music jams, graphic, pottery or other art workshops, concerts, spectacles that are organized in Nowina village.
You can explore bicycle and pedestrian trails of Strzelinskie Hills. You can visit an old Cistercian monastery in Henrykow and learn about famous Book of Henrykow. Closest small town where we do shopping is Henrykow and Ziebice. It's worth to visit there a unique Museum of Household Equipment.
Nowina is 6 km from the train station. Wroclaw - the closest big city is 45 min by train. You can also arrange car-share rides with inhabitants or tourists that travel from Nowina to the cities.A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
The internet is radio LTE 4G but it happens there are breaks in the connection during very rainy or windy weather. It doesn't happen often. We have a possibility of using stable connection at the neighbour if needed.
Space for parking camper vans
I have space for parking one campervan or motorhome.
Can possibly accept pets
only ones that are easy-going and accept the rules like notentering the house etc.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
3-4 hours a day 5 days a week
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He made very nice and fine clay plaster at our chimney in the house. He helped in tough work of taking apart old tiled floor and polishing wood and… read more
Olga and everyone else was super friendly and welcoming 😃
The only small problems were that Olga is generally a bit chaotic, so things like using the kitchen and to schedule what things had to be done in which… read more
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He made very nice and fine clay plaster at our chimney in the house. He helped in tough work of taking apart old tiled floor and polishing wood and… read more
Olga and everyone else was super friendly and welcoming 😃
The only small problems were that Olga is generally a bit chaotic, so things like using the kitchen and to schedule what things had to be done in which… read more
The majority… read more
It makes me really happy… read more