Come and enjoy gardening, solar cooking, house and pet sitting in Fricktal, Switzerland

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  Description

  We live in a village, between Basel and Brugg, with us in the house are 2 cats 🐾🐾 and 4 guniea pigs.
  
  We have a garden for vegetables, 🌿🌿 ( gardening till October/Nov.)
  We travel every year for some weeks and some weekends - for this we as well look for you to take care for our animals and the house. We do shorter and longer cycle-tours and go for swimming several times a week.
  We like cooking, with fresh vegetables, from the garden, or farms in the region.
  you could experiment with our solar cookers. Most of our bread, we do by our own.
  We produce own yoghurt, with milk from a nearby farm.
  
  at about 7:00 or 7:30 am we have breakfast together, we do most of the work in the mornings,
  in the afternoons, you do your own tasks, some days we do activities together, like cycling, swimming ...

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Language practice

  Help with Eco Projects

  Gardening

  DIY and building projects

  Animal Care

  Creating/ Cooking family meals

  Help around the house

  General Maintenance

  Help with Computers/ Internet
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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  we like to meet new people, form other countries, other cultures, to talk together.
  you can stay 2-4 weeks at our home in Switzerland, we can show you more in the region, we can do some rides on bicycles together, to the farms to buy vegetables, to go for swimming ( March till November )

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  Help

  Do you like animals ? cats and guniea pigs ? and you like nature gardening, ....,
  🐾🐾🐾
  we could need you for different tasks, in the house and outside.
  
  you like cooking - we share cooking.
  You are welcome to cook a meal, what you like the most, or is important from your origine country.
  >> Please you are prepared to cook your favorite meal, just your favorite one, or the favorite of the region of your origine - we are interessted to get to known that, thanks.
  
  As well you could care for our pets : 2 cats, 4 guinea pigs, to feed them, to play with them, to look for them, to bring the guinea pigs out to the garden in the morning, to collect them in the evening.
  and there are some ponds to check the water flow from the nearby creek.
  There would be some chores in the house as well, some cleaning, cooking, .... , in the garden
  We as well keep bees, in June / July we harvest some honey
  
  ( if we are away in this time period, you would look for the house and animals, and do your own cooking.
  and in winter time you need to do the heating with wood, about each 2nd day. )
  
  we do not use palmoil. we do not buy products, containing palm oil. whole Sumatra and Borneo and other rainforests have been destroid and replanted with not climate friendly oil palm plantations.
  
  min. stay : usualy 2 weeks, we expect to help for a about 3-5 hours in the weekdays
  
  We live in a cow country, so we use cheese, milk, butter, youghurt, meat ( not every day) ... for cooking, baking.
  No problem, if you are vegetarian, there is other food to eat, then meat.

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  German: Fluent
  English: Fluent
  Italian: Fluent
  French: Intermediate
  Arabic: Beginner
  Spanish: Beginner

  This host offers a language exchange
  This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
  You can contact them directly for more information.
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  Accommodation

  you will have your own sleeping room.

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  What else ...

  since there is already someone for this time, we look for a second person, so each of you can go away, for visiting ... or make a journey 1-2 days, you have to arrange together.

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  A little more information

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    Internet access

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    Limited internet access

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    We have pets

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    We are smokers

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    Can host families

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  One

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  Hours expected

  5 hours/day, 5 days/week maximum

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