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Description
We are a couple, living in a eco-fiendly house, using solar energy for most of our needs. We like nature, vegetable gardening, horses, farming. In buisness life we run an engineering office.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Travellers can learn about solar cooking, horse keeping, horse cart driving, eco gardening.
Depending on when you stay with us, you might get a chance in saving amphibes during the dangerouse parts of their spring migration, building nest boxes for owls or learn how to prune fruit trees.
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
Any helping hand is welcome for gardening, keeping our animals (horses, cats, chicken, ducks), general house-work or maintence to house and garden.
Languages
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
Spanish: Fluent
Persian (Farsi): Intermediate
French: Intermediate
Hindi: BeginnerThis host offers a language exchange
Want to learn more Hindi / Urdu
Accommodation
We have a nice little guest room with two single beds. Additionally there is an space with matracess above in the attic.
What else ...
About us: we are a couple living in an old house that is fully renovated to be an energy plus house. We have a small farm and an engineering office for innovative solar energy solutions. There are 6 cats, 5 horses, ducks and chicken. We work on grassland to enhance biodiversity and harvest hay. There are about 60 fruit trees and a vegetable garden.
Depending on the season and the needs, we are happy if you can help:
- in the vegetable garden, harvesting apples or walnut.
- harvesting hay (only between June and August)
- Make apple juice (only in Sept./Oct).
- Make walnut oil.
- You can help with the animals (few chicken, few ducks, cats, ponys and horses) if you like animals.
- make solar processed conserves from the garden produce
- help with some maintenance of the buildings
What we offer:
You can eat all meals with us, we are super happy if you help with washing the dishes or food preparation sometimes. The food is 100% vegetarian, vegan is possible.
You can stay with us in our private house. We have a guest room with two separate beds available, additionally there is a space under the roof with mattresses. You might have the guestroom for yourself or need to share it with an intern. Sometimes we have international interns in our company, who stay with us at home. We are used to have guests most of the time :-)
We share with you our solar experience (solar cooking, solar processing, building solar devices). Basically you are welcome to be part of our life for your stay with us, meet our friends and join into whatever activity we are doing.
In your free time:
In case you like horses, you are welcome to join into our regular horse cart rides and get your own experiences with cart driving. In case you are a good rider, you can join for horse ridigin trips in nature (not alone).
We have a few bicycles which you can borrow for trips in the beautiful natural surroundings of our village (hills with forest, Danube valley, 80 small lakes for swimming, etc.) There are a lot of cycle- and walking tracks in the area.
Our village is close to the cities of Ulm (30min by train) and Augsburg (40min by train), where you can enjoy the important historic city etc. The next railway station is at 8km from our village and easily accessible by bicycle or bus.
Munich and Stuttgart are also accessible by train (~2h).
You can borrow bicycles from us to explore the nearby lakes and forests, there are a lot of nice tracks in nature. You can go by bicycle to the next railway station and reach the historic cities of Ulm and Augsburg.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Space for parking camper vans
This host can provide space for campervans.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week
Feedback (3)
Thank you Lilo for all your help! I hope you come back to enjoy the strawberries you planted.
You did such a great job with the puzzle of plastering the pathway to the house togther with Thibaut!
It is definitly a challenge! But we do not want to miss this week and will stay in touch.
Thank you Dinesh… read more
one of the best rural experiance we had with the best people. not just with the host but we're also taken to dinner to their friends and we made good friends n have good time.
i and my girlfriend was there for a weeklong and all things were amazing but as a digital nomad it was very challenging for us with hectic… read more
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Thank you Lilo for all your help! I hope you come back to enjoy the strawberries you planted.
You did such a great job with the puzzle of plastering the pathway to the house togther with Thibaut!
It is definitly a challenge! But we do not want to miss this week and will stay in touch.
Thank you Dinesh… read more
one of the best rural experiance we had with the best people. not just with the host but we're also taken to dinner to their friends and we made good friends n have good time.
i and my girlfriend was there for a weeklong and all things were amazing but as a digital nomad it was very challenging for us with hectic… read more
