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A tough year has ended for me and everyone involved in my life and I am so grateful to start the new year and step into another season of wonderful people who come to live with us. For the months of April and October I am in need of some house/pet and garden sitters. The rest of the months are family time with us that we spend in the garden, our beautiful home or in nature around us :) Let the adventure begin anew:
We are a family of 5 with 3 active boys, a small dog and two cats that keep us busy 😊 We live in the stunning country side of Switzerland close to the cities of Solothurn and Bern... in the Emmental...yes! Where the famous cheese comes from 🧀!!! We are always striving to live a more natural, offline, consumption free, earth loving live with less stress, less waste and less stuff.
As a family we finally realized our dream and in April 2019 we moved into a Farm house on an active Organic Biodiversity farm. The owner is a great guy who lives by the rules of creating a more variety rich environment and we are so happy to settle here now. The house is a wonderfully old iconic Swiss "Riegelhaus" next to an all wood main farm building. This picturesque scene is surrounded by lush and vast woodland, acres of wild flower meadows, free roaming chickens, a lot of birds and bats and insects, two wonderful farm gardens (ours is a no dig Permaculture one) and grazing Schottish Galloway cows.
I would love to get a personal message from you as a mother of 3 children as it is a privilege to open our house but I want to be safe and for people who want to stay with us to show a little extra effort. So if you really do read our Profile, please mention in your message what your favourite vegetarian/vegan dish is, and I will welcome you on your first day of workawaying with that dish!
I am super super happy to start a new project as our wonderful farmer Simon has just given me a large plot of land that I can now use to my hearts content. My dream of a self sufficiant Homestead life is becoming a step more real now and that is why I could really do with some help. I am also planning to maybe extend the garden again this year 🍀
Of course: There is also always normal life going on as well, especially with a big house like ours. Cooking, cleaning, laundry, regular garden work, preserving, baking bread, farm harvest season or whatever needs doing will also be part of our living experience together :)
Public transport is excellent in Switzerland (although a bit pricey) and I am more than happy to take you with us on outings if we go places. As I do not need you to work a lot or very strict hours, I am always happy for you to go and explore whenever you have free time. We will stay in continuous communication on what our needs are and work it out on the go 😊
Workawayers will have their own room and a private en suite Workawayers bathroom (old but private 😂 ) borrowed bikes (if we don't use them) and free shared meals with us (95% Vegan) 😊 If you prefer not to join the family meals, I kindly ask you to organize your own food. I can take you with me to the grocery store or the local farmers market where you can buy whatever you wish. We are mostly vegan but do not mind other lifestyle choices ❤️
(and of course we also provide WIFI, however: I would honestly appreciate if media consumption in our house is not your main priority! Especially around the children…)
We can usually only have two workawayers at the time, but in summer we have more options to host more people simultaneously and I also have more opportunities to work, share and exchange... so do contact me and ask, I really truly love and live the Workaway experience 😊
Lots of love 💗
Jenni
Types of help and learning opportunities
Language practice
Help with Eco Projects
Teaching
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Babysitting and creative play
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We can give you a very loving and open environment and you can learn about natural child raising, homeschooling or freeschooling, vegan cooking, music (my husband is in a band and I used to jodel in a folcloric choir and sing opera), sewing, crafting, preserving, baking, Permaculture/no dig gardening, Biodiversity.
I love to spend time on our land and around our home or walking /hiking, geocaching, biking and taking trips around Switzerland and enjoy the breathtaking nature here 😊 Since we started a family I am also actively downsizing/minimizing waste and doing things ourselves (clothes, food, household products etc.) for 10 years now, have less - live more!
Projects involving children
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Help
-Spend time with the kids and speak english or spanish or french to them (if you can 😜)
-Teaching and playing in a very free kind of way (freeschooling) and marking schoolwork
-Babysitting (occasionally when I need to work or you are very good with the children, however this is very dependable on the connection we make/the children make with you)
-Permaculture/no dig garden and acre and surrounding projects (like wood chopping, pond work, woodwork, weeding, planting, lawn mowing, watering or occasional heavy tasks can also arise)
-Housework (washing, cleaning, maybe cooking although that is usually my domain 😉 , preserving, handcrafts, food production)
-Walk and/or groom and cuddle our doggy and kitties 🐶 🐱
Languages
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
Spanish: Fluent
French: IntermediateThis host offers a language exchange
We are a trilingual (quadrolingual) family and especially the kids always benefit from english, spanish or french speaking Workawayers :)
Accommodation
Private room and bathroom for all workawayers
What else ...
I am more than happy to assist you with any trips you would like to do, drive you to the closest station if I have time. I am really flexible and helpful if you need my help with something we can always talk about it! There is so much to do in the immediate natural surrounding as well as in Switzerland as a country. So I am sure you will not get bored :D
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Space for parking camper vans
A small to medium sized Camper could park in front of the house for about 2 weeks at a time. However we live on an active farm, with tractors, cows and pigs and everything so it is not a very quiet spot!
Can possibly accept pets
I already had workawayers with a dog. As long as it is not half a Zoo I can be flexibel so do ask!
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week, weekends off
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We were supposed to house sit for four weeks, and we arrived two weeks earlier than that to get to know the place, the rhythm and the family. Everything went well, Victor and Jenny were really welcoming from the first… read more
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We were supposed to house sit for four weeks, and we arrived two weeks earlier than that to get to know the place, the rhythm and the family. Everything went well, Victor and Jenny were really welcoming from the first… read more
My experience may have been different from… read more
She brings an open,… read more
I was fortunate to be there… read more
Coexistence has been great both with Jenni, who is a wonderful person and with whom you will feel at home at all times. like with the boys, the thousands of games… read more
We had the most amazing Workaway experience at this place !
It was our first time traveling with Workaway and honestly there is barely a chance we could have found better !
Jenni and the kids are such POSITIVE, caring and kind people, that we decided to move to Alchenstorf with our Van as soon as our time here was… read more
I spent a lovely time with Jenni, Victor and their whole family, I learned to get closer to nature, learned to slow down and take the time to observe what was around me.
Jenni and Victor were very attentive to our needs and we had a lot of good times with the whole family and with the other… read more
Our stay will be always in our hearts. From the very beginning, we felt like at home. Jenni, Victor and the kids are such a nice and easy-going family. Jenny is a lovely, open-minded, and relaxed woman with such a healthy lifestyle. She radiates peace by her words, and we have learnt a lot from her. Our conversations… read more
The family was very welcoming and kind, and we had a wonderful time with all of them. Jenny was so lovely and generous, she always let us adapt our schedule and she wasn't pushing us to do the work.
The kids were also very nice with us, just like the other Workawayers to we've met there. We also enjoyed talking to… read more
Jenni is such a loving, relaxed, creative and open-minded person who has great respect for each member of the family and workawayer. Our tasks were manageable and not hard at all. Especially… read more
The work I did was… read more
Love is this family. And it is reflected in the children. Precious children whose hearts are bigger than their bodies.
Strong and warm hug to Jenny and Victor.
Thank you so much for being honest and present.
I won't miss you because I carry you inside… read more
I have learned so many wonderful and important things from all of you. You have shown me that with a lot of love and vegetables a perfect and sustainable life can be so simple and wonderful.… read more
Jenny and Victor are great hosts and parents. I had a funny and an unforgettable time in Bern. It was my first workaway in switzerland and i would do it again. The boys are so lovely and… read more
Merci pour tout...🙏😇😘
Avec Coeur et Lumière
Camille PM
They integrated into the family really well, although some late night cooking ventures led to some funny moments hahaha the kids loved to play with them and missed them when they… read more
We stayed all our family two weeks ,nd was wonderfull.
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She is very open minded and just generally a friendly person to be around. Our kids loved her and were sad to see her go. And the… read more
They are super positive, deligent, honest and warm-hearted family. Kids are so adorable and it was the first time to see such a well-listening children. I appreciate to their love and generousity which embraced me a lot. I could have learned a different level of attitude towards the life from the days with these lovely,… read more
We had an amazing adventure with Jenni and the boys driving all the way to Romania and back. She showed us some breathtaking places in Switzerland.
I learned so much from her, how she teach her boys and her healthy life style. The boys are so smart and… read more
And she taught me (Jenni) how to make real Chai ☕️ thank… read more
Hope see you in Portugal, in October. You are more than welcome in Oasis! I… read more
