Welcome to our family home and help us on our self-sufficiency journey in Grong, Norway

Infos

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  Description

  Hi! We are a artistic family of 4 living in rural Norway.
  
  We love to eat local foods, and source organic and wild meats, keep a vegetable garden, and gather a lot of wild foods from the abundant nature all around us.
  
  We invite you to come take part in our daily life, and perhaps learn some new skills?
  We are striving to be as self-sufficient as possible when it comes to food. We are growing organic vegetables in our small permaculture garden, and we are hunting, trapping, fishing and more.
  
  Our two kids are aged 6 years, and 8 months. We pracitce attachment parenting, and love "The continuum consept", respectful and peaceful parenting. Our home is inspired by waldorf/steiner and montessori education, with natural materials and wooden toys, and our 6 year old is mostly home with us, and we plan to homeschool. We strive to keep our home toxin and perfume free. We are a homebased family and mum is staying home, and dad is working online and is a teacher by trade, working from home now while the kids are small.
  
  Our big dream and goal in life is to live in a ecovillage or community of likeminded people, growing food in beautiful permaculture gardens, making art, living sustainably and raising children together in love and collaboration. This is what we are allways working towards and have in the back of our mind with everything we do.
  
  We try to live sustainably and try to live by the zero waste principles as much as possible in our home.
  
  A bit more about us:
  
  Hi! I'm Marie (mum) and I am 31 years old. I am an artist, and I love herbalism, history, art, singing, reading books, crafts, nutrition, womans health, self sufficiency skills, cooking, fermentation, gardening, permaculture, womans circles, sprituality, yoga and much more. I am doing some online education to become an herbalist, and I'm also reading the curriculum of the doula-school, contemplating starting doula and postpartum services in a couple of years. I am planning to take permaculture-design education this coming spring. I am educated in art history, theatre and religious studies, and worked with children and handmade herbal products for many years, before choosing to stay home with the kids.
  
  I'm Jon Edward (dad), I'm 36 years old, educated PE teacher, multimusician, love cross country skiing and reading by the fireplace. I love spending time outside in the forest, working in the woods and doing manual labor. Love The Beatles and James Taylor.
  
  Our 6 year old daughter is an active, happy and creative little girl, who loves hiking, drawing, singing, dancing, reading books and more.
  
  Do you share any of our dreams and interests? Please let us know, we would love to host likeminded people who can blend in well with our family.

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  Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

  Projets artistiques

  Pratique d’une langue

  Aide avec des éco-projets

  Enseignement

  Jardinage

  Bricolage et construction

  S’occuper des animaux

  Baby-sitting et jeux créatifs

  Cuisine/repas pour la famille

  Aide à la maison

  Entretien général
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  Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

  During the course of a year we usually do some of the following:
  
  Make herbal medicine from local wild plants, make sauerkraut and other fermented foods, prosess whole moose and sheep meat, make bonebroth, homemade meatproducts, cure and smoke meats, harvest vegetables, prepare, can, dry and store foods, gather mushrooms, berries, wild herbs, tap birch sap, fish, icefish, make homemade skinproducts, composting and fertalizing the garden, sow and plant vegetables, sewing, knit and make clothes, make paintings, do needlefelting, make homemade waldorf dolls, making cheese products and other dairy products, and much more. We also spend time playing music, singing, and do warious creative and crafty projects with our daugther.
  
  We bake our own sourdoughbread, and you will be able to learn how to bake a lot of different baked goods with organic spelt sourdough.
  
  Marie grew up on a old sheep farm, and has a lot of knowledge about traditional norwegian culture and history and would love to share. We have a lot of knowledge about the local plants and edible wild herbs and medicinals, and are happy to teach you about this.
  
  The surrounding area is good for nature loving people, with lots of hiking options in the mountains. There are some beautiful places to bathe in the river next to our house, and lots of beautiful nature, with lots of berries, mushrooms etc. There is a alpine slope 5 min. from our house, where you can enjoy downhill skiing.
  
  If you like peace and quiet; you will love this place. We love the outdoors, and like to go on hikes and make bonfires, making food over the fire. We would love to show you the local attractions, such as the sami-museeum, ancient burial mounds, stone circles, stone carvings and more.
  
  During the summer we usually travel a lot, visiting friends, going to different gatherings, and building community.

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  Projets impliquant des enfants

  Ce projet peut impliquer des enfants. Pour en savoir plus, consultez nos directives et conseils ici.

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  Aide

  We need help with daily tasks in our home, making food, cleaning, doing dishes etc.
  
  We are also in the process of going through our things and downsizing, so we need help with watching and engaging our kids while we organise. We would love to host somebody who likes doing creative projects with our little one.
  
  We need help painting our house, and other buildings, flooring and home-upgrading in general. Woodworking and beautifying our home is also welcome.
  
  We will also grow some vegetables this spring, so we will need help with that too. We are not planning a huge garden this year, but we are growing some staples.
  
  We chop our own wood, and would love help with that.
  
  We are also planning to buy a camping vagon that we need to renovate and decorate.
  
  We need help building a chicken coup.
  
  There will be many different projects to help out with during your stay with us, depending on what time of year you are visiting. Please let us know what you are interested in!
  
  You will not participate in any business-related activities.

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  Langues

  Langues parlées
  Anglais: Courant
  Norwegian: Courant

  Cet hôte propose un échange linguistique
  We would love to teach you some Norwegian while you stay with us. We would also love for our 6 year old daughter to learn english, spanish, german or other languages, mainly through interacting with you. It is important that you can speak english fluently.
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  Hébergement

  You can choose between staying in our cozy cabin on our property, which we also have as a guest rental, or you can stay in a bedroom in the basement in our house. In the basement you have your own bathroom, with a shower, and your own washing machine. You also have access to a small WC in our hall, which is even closer to the cabin, if you choose to sleep there. If somebody requests to rent the place, you will have to move into the basement bedroom for their stay.
  
  We keep in stock lots of healthy and varied food. We eat mostly organic, highly nutritious food, inspired by Weston A. price/nourishing traditions and we make a lot of food from scratch. It is important that you are able to eat eggs and bone broth, because we mix it into a lot of our cooking. We process a lot of meat ourselves, and eat a lot of wild moose, hunted by our extended family.
  
  You will be sharing meals with the rest of the family, and we expect you to help out as you would in a normal household in addition to the alloted 5 hours.
  
  We don't drink and our house is smoke free.
  
  We have two cats.
  
  For winter: Winters in our area can be cold, ranging from -30 to +5 celcius. You must bring warm clothes if you are staying with us in the winter. A warm hat, mittens, thick wool socks and warm underwear. Preferably boots that can handle wet and cold. This is important when it is very cold. Let us know beforehand if there is something you miss, we might have some things on hand or arrange for something.
  
  
  To let us know if you have read the whole profile before sending us a message, please write the word "Mandrake".

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  Autres infos...

  You will have access to our bikes (one electric) to get to the store. Train station is 8 km away, buss stop to the house for and we can pick you up when you arrive, and drive you there when you leave.

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  Informations complémentaires

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    Accès Internet

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    Accès Internet limité

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    Nous avons des animaux

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    Nous sommes fumeurs

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    Familles bienvenues

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  Possibilité d’accueillir les digital nomads

  We have wifi. 3mbps.

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  Espace pour garer des vans

  We have much space for parking.

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  Possibilité d'accueillir les animaux

  Just let us know what animal you have.

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  Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

  Deux

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  Nombre d'heures attendues

  5 hours a day, 5 days a week.

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