Help with our small farm and make our dreams come true in Paseka, Czech Republic

Infos

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  Description

  Projects for 2024:
  
  - prepare and take care about fruit garden and veggie beds
  - construction work in barn (make a new space for animals and for food storage)
  - continue with house reconstruction
  - animal care (feeding, milking, cleaning...)
  - finish fence and paint old one
  - hay making
  - preserving food for winter (marmelades, syrups, juices, ketchup, kimchi, fruit tea, pickles, spirit,..)
  - yoghurt and cheeses making
  - and more...
  
  Please be aware you do not have to be qualified for all of these works. We can teach you how to do it. Only willing to do these projects and be iniciative is essential. :)
  
  Hi everyone! :)
  We are a young family of four - Libor (35), Anna (32), Ferdinand (3) and Hugo (1). Other members are 2 siberian cats Bonnie and Hercule living indoor. Outdoor we have 10 goats (5 for milk), several hens and a seasonal pig. It is not true that goat milk (and dairy products from it) smells so if you are unsure to come because we have goat milk and not cow one do not be afraid. No one complained so far. :) Our hobbies and passions are cooking/baking from scratch, traveling, everything about animals, wood working, gardening, crafts, reading books, pc games, board games and of course - making new friends. We used to be members of a living history group (approx. year 1315). In past we spent some time abroad as workawayers too. After return to our homeland, we began building our own nest. We have bought an older house in a small village with a garden and a barn. One of our goals is to be self-sufficient as much as possible - so far we have our own eggs, goat milk, several kinds of fruits (plums, apples, apricots, strawberries, gooseberries, black currants, red currants, blueberries, raspberries ), vegetables (tomatoes, pumpkins, chilli peppers,...) and pork. For a while you can be like a member of our family. Lovers of good tea and coffee are welcomed a lot!
  
  AN IMPORTANT NOTICE:
  
  Due to several unpleasant experience with workawayers we decided to mention following things:
  
  - Consider if your level in English language is enough to clearly understand what to do and what not to do. We speak easy english and if you don't understand just ask twice.
  - During milking season (March - October) we prefer workawayers with interest in milking goats and traditional processing of milk (cheese/youghurt/curd making).
  - Independent and responsible approach to work is also very important.
  
  Thank you for understanding. :)

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  Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

  Pratique d’une langue

  Aide avec des éco-projets

  Enseignement

  Jardinage

  Bricolage et construction

  S’occuper des animaux

  Aide dans une ferme

  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

  We can teach you whatever we know - just ask.
  
  The Czechs are usually known as kind hearted and versatile people. There is no one in the World who do not hear about Czech beer!
  
  As a travel and food lovers we established travel cook book and gather recipes from our foreign friends - it would be an honor to have more and more of them and maybe publish it once there are enough recipes.

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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

  Projects we need to help with:
  
  - animals (feeding, hoof trimming, ...)
  - milking goats (April-October)
  - yoghurt/cheeses making
  - cooking family meals
  - gardening (planting, weeding, lawn moving, strimming, watering plants, fruit and vegetable picking)
  - painting the fence and walls
  - house maintenance (help with cleaning a house, do the dishes, cleaning dinning table...)
  - construction and repairing works
  - hay processing (during summer time)
  - fire wood processing (chopping, organising wood piles)
  - occasional baby sitting (optional)
  - food preservation - pickels, jams, juice making
  
  And more...

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  Langues

  Langues parlées
  Czech: Courant
  Anglais: Courant

  Cet hôte propose un échange linguistique
  We are interested in learning everything new, so of course also few words from your language!
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  Hébergement

  We have one guest room with two single beds directly at home. Other rooms are shared with us.
  
  Three meals per day (at least one "warm") included. We eat together as it is time to see each other and discuss. Traditional Czech meals are no problem for us to prepare and we can teach you how to make them. If you can cook your typical and favourite meal we would be happy. :)
  
  If you have any dietary restrictions please first discuss it with us or even consider your coming here as our cuisine might be problematic - lots of dairy products (mostly homemade), not many vegan meals etc. It might seems to be a clear thing if you visit country with potentionaly different eating habits than your one but we do not want to have another experience with workawayers suprised we are eating different food...As always the communication is the key!
  
  AN IMPORTANT NOTICE:
  We would really appreciate if you participate in house cleaning and preparing meals ... Sometimes it happens to us that workawayers closed themselves in their room and just wait once someone call them to have a meal.

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  Autres infos...

  We live in the border of regions Haná - very fertile flatland and Jeseníky mountains. Great nature is here everywhere and nearby - there is also arboretum, swimming pool and waterfall in the village - so feel free to explore it. Directly in the village is a bus stop. Anyway we sometimes go for a trip and we can take you with us! :)
  Czech Republic is known for many castles and chateaus - there are several of them nearby (Sovinec, Bouzov, Šternberk) and you can visit them, see different exhibitions and pieces of Czech history.

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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 are ok to host digital nomads.

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  Espace pour garer des vans

  Cet hôte a de la place pour les vans.

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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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