Join our family and learn new skills at our new homestead in Lohja, Finland

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  Update: July is fully booked. Looking for immediate help, one person needed for the next 2 weeks! Help scrape and paint our house and various gardening tasks. Message us for more details! 🙏❤️
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  Come and join our crazy family of 5 and help us take care of our animals, kids, garden and renovation projects.
  
  Our family of 5 consist of me, Salla, stay-at-home mama, my crazy-ass American husband Eric who also runs an international medicinal mushroom company here in our village and our 3 kids aged 10,9 and 4. All our kids speak and understand English and are super outgoing personalities (at least for being Finns, haha).
  
  The name of our tiny farm means a sunny place in Finnish, and it truly is sunny - when it’s clear the sun is shining here from morning till night. It is situated almost in the middle of a tiny countryside village of Karjalohja so you can walk or bike to the nearest grocery store, library, pharmacy, beach etc. Even though we are in the village, you’ll be surprised how peaceful it is as our property opens to the beautiful grass fields (we have 2 hectares). We bought our traditional Finnish 50’s farm house 1,5 years ago and have been slowly renovating it and starting with keeping animals and garden. At the moment we only have ducks, 2 cats and a new rescue dog Buddy. We are not having sheep and chicken this year, as we will be renewing our field and also will be busy with other stuff.
  
  There's many other workaway hosts around here and most of them are our friends, so there's a good chance meeting up with other workawayers. Our village is known for the beautiful clean lakes surrounding it so there’s always a lake in walking distance. We also have a row boat near by, which you can borrow any day for a peaceful lake trip or go fishing.

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  Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado

  Prática de idiomas

  Jardinagem

  Construção/faça você mesmo

  Cuidar de animais

  Ajuda em fazenda

  Cuidar de crianças/atividades criativas

  Criar/cozinhar refeições caseiras

  Ajuda a cuidar da casa

  Manutenção geral
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  Interesses

  

  Eventos e social

  

  Fazenda

  

  Mascotes

  

  Autodesenvolvimento

  

  Carpintaria

  

  Culinária e comida

  

  Faça você mesmo

  

  Idiomas

  

  Cuidar de plantas

  

  Música

  

  Jardinagem

  

  Animais

  

  Yoga/bem-estar

  

  Esportes de inverno

  

  Velejar/navegar

  

  Atividades ao ar livre

  

  Naturaleza

  

  Caminhada

  

  Camping

  

  Praia
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  Oportunidades de intercâmbio cultural e aprendizado

  We have pretty international friend circles, but quite Finnish ways of living here. With us you have possibility to meet with a lot of nice people, learn from us and our friends while enjoying the Finnish countryside vibes. Eric knows a lot about business, start-ups, medicinal mushrooms as well as building (in his past he traveled around the Europe as natural builder).
  
  We are hoping to learn from you and your culture as well! Don't hesitate to reach out and tell us about yourself :)
  
  If you’re interested in medicinal mushrooms, Eric knows it all and happily takes you to visit the mushroom factory.

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  Ajuda Au Pair

  Para mais informações, consultar aqui.

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  Projetos que envolvem crianças

  Este projeto pode envolver crianças. Para mais informações, veja aqui nossas diretrizes e dicas.

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  Ajuda

  We have need for ongoing help around our place, like feeding the animals, looking after the kids, cooking, stacking firewood for the winter, renovating etc. Also possibly this July we have a couple of short trips coming, so house sitting during those times would be then the main task (taking care of the animals, watering and weeding the garden if needed). If you’re handy, there’s always plenty of diy projects around to help us with. Last summer we built a terrace, this year it will be painted and we will also start to paint the house, and finishing smaller projects inside the house if the weather is bad for outside work. Also we will be working on our still tiny garden, that we basically started from scratch last year and fenced to protect from the deers.. So making raised beds, planting some fruit and nut trees, perennials etc will be happening in the garden the next couple of summers at least. That in mind I'd be really happy to work with someone with gardening/permaculture experience as well!
  
  Our kids are pretty easy going and doesn’t need too much looking after, but love if someone offers to play with them, take them to the beach or the playground or for ice cream. As they go to a local Steiner/waldorf school, so we also participate a lot in the school work parties where you will be invited too if you want.
  
  Would be amazing if we could also share the cooking duties, or do it together. We eat quite a lot of meat as Eric also hunts in the fall time (mostly the white tail deer). We try to buy as much as possible organic and local food and there's also no problem if you're a vegan/vegetarian, especially if you like cooking and cook your own vegan meals :)
  
  We would probably some days also go help our good friends at their cozy old farm in the forest that they have been renovating. So a lot of diverse tasks depending of the day and the weather as well as your interests and skills!

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  Idiomas

  Idiomas
  Inglês: Fluente
  Finnish: Fluente
  Swedish: Intermediário

  Este anfitrião oferece intercâmbio de idiomas
  Teaching our kids your language and/or speaking only english to them would be highly appreciated :)
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  Acomodação

  So for the accommodationt this year we have a couple of options. We have a room upstairs that’s not yet renovated but is clean and ok for sleeping. Anyways, sometime during the summer we will be starting the upstairs renovation so the room can’t be used after that.. we will let you know your options when you message us!
  
  In the old barn, there's a simple loft with beds in. That option is basically like living outside, as the barn is not at all insulated and very basic (imagine a simple wooden barn from the 50's), but mosquito nets would be provided to keep those tiny vampires away. The first workawayers could also have the task to make that loft space cozier, paint, fix and decorate it for themselves and the next workawayers.
  
  There's also a lot of space outside if you want to be camping in a tent (we have a big one, and a couple of sleeping bags if needed), or come with your own camper van!
  
  Water toilet (we have just one) is in the main house, as well as the kitchen. We also have a traditional finnish sauna in the barn that we like to heat up every week.

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  Algo mais...

  We can pick you up from the nearest train station if arriving by train from the airport for example. Our village is situated in between the capital area (Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa) and the historical bigger seaside city Turku. Driving to those cities takes around 1,5 hours. Nearest bus stop is very close to us, but we have a very good shared rides whatsapp group for the village people as well, so getting to visit places shouldn't be a problem. If cities are not your thing, there's plenty of forest and nature around, and some small nice villages. We are happy to help you get around and see the area!
  
  We don't want people to smoke at our property, so take that into consideration if you're a smoker.

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    Acesso à internet

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    Acesso à internet limitado

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    Temos mascotes

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    Somos fumantes

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    Pode hospedar famílias

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  Pode hospedar nômades digitais

  As long as you're helping us the hours needed during the daytime, we don't care what you do on your free time :) We have wifi and it works well.

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  Espaço para estacionar campervans

  There's not a lot of space in the shade for campers..

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