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Hi, my name is Melanie, I am 46 years old and live with my parents and two cats in an old house, it was a restaurant 27 years ago. It is too big for us alone (7.450 qm garden and 600 qm house), so I give most of it for nature and culture experience, we founded a community, plan gardening with permaculture and animals, a vegan café, coworking, we have two lakota sweat lodges, different kinds of camps and workshops.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
I live with spiritual ceremonies from the Lakota, like sweat lodge, sun dance, vision quest, ... you can sweat, sing and pray with me and you can learn more about the other Lakota ceremonies.
I practice quantum meditation nearly daily and study online programs in different themes. You can join me and make an online course for free with my account, for example from Dr. Joe Dispenza (also in english) on YOUNITY or Vishen Lakhiani on Mindvalley (in german). There is a lot from spiritual leaders around the world (in german). I also study hypnose therapy from Gabriel Palacios (in german).
I can tell you more about the history of the house and the settlement history of the artist village.
Help
We need a lot of help to rebuild the house:
- The former bowling alley is used as a storage, currently. We want to build holiday rooms into it and therefore it needs to get cleaned up.
- We have a saloon with a bar and a stage. There is a lot of old furniture there, which we want to replace with better parts, in the future. The furniture shall be disposed.
- Next to the Saloon is a provisionally kitchen where some things shall be renewed.
- There are storage boxes in the garden that shall get cleaned up.
- There is a lot of stuff, we want to sort out and dispose.
- We have 2 apple trees, in our garden and the apples shall get harvested every autumn.
- We need to cut a few small trees.
The have camps every season and sweatlodges nearly around every newmoon and fullmoon.
We've planned 4 working hours/d between 9 am and 6 pm (mo-fr), common meals and time for exchange and relaxation. Of course, you can spend your free time however you like.
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: Intermediate
Accommodation
You can sleep in the Saloon:
- 2 sofa bed (each for 2 persons)
- space for 3 sleeping pads
Outside is a mobile home with wood-stove but it is not finished with facility, if you help with this or it is ok for you, you can also sleep there if you want.
Inside the house is an Airbnb-flat with 4 rooms. As long rooms are not booked, you can also sleep there. In my flat is also a simple guestbed but I like some privacy, we can see if it is good for you to sleep here, how long you stay, how we understand, etc...
We also have space for
- 4 caravan/camper vans (or 2 tents each)
- 3 tents
+ 6 tents on the sheep meadow (please consider that the sheep roam free and it might be muddy, too)
- 6 cars (You can also sleep in you car if it is designed for that)
There are two toilet rooms next to the saloon and a provisionally shower outside the house is planned. And there is a bathroom in the Airbnb-flat.
We have a food sharing system at our place and we take care of the ingredients that are needed for your meals, additionally.
If we have a group of helpers that is big enough, we would like to organize single persons or small groups, to prepare the meals in the kitchen next to the saloon.
This will be during the working hours, of course.
What else ...
You can relax in the garden and swim in the river, make campfire, go fishing, go canoeing, you can take my bicycle to ride to the next city "Reinfeld" (3 km). There is a train station to Hamburg (40 min) and Lübeck (15 min), in Reinfeld. We have free WiFi in the house.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
We have free WLAN/WiFi, Glasfaser with 300 Mbit/s up- und download in my office for CoWorking.
Space for parking camper vans
Your absolutely welcome to bring your mobile home. It's actually the easiest way for us to host you ;)
Can possibly accept pets
We love animals and that's why we have many of them at our place. We have cats, dogs and sheep. Because of that and for several other reasons, we are very careful with hosting foreign pets. We had some unpleasant experiences with dogs and it's important for us to avoid that in the future. We therefor point out that you can bring dogs, if you keep them in your car/van/caravan or at a short leash, on our ground. Around our village, you have a lot of possibilities to walk your dog, for hours.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
4 hours a day, 5 days a week
