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Acutal News: spring has begun and there is a lot to do outside. We are looking for workawayers from 12th of mai for arround 10 days. If you are nearby and looking for a great place to stay with a nice family and varied tasks arround the house and garden, don´t hesitate to contact us. We are looking forward meeting you!
We are Xaver & Carola and Klara (13 years), Johannes (11 years) & Martin (7 years) living and working on an organic crop farm in Upper Austria.
We overtook the farm in 2013 from the parents of Xaver and cultivate an agricultural area of 100 hectare. It is foremost a professional organization. Being a ecological crop farm we are a diversified farm producing healthy food for people and connect to our neighbourhood. We aim to be good stewards to the land, willing to give back to nature, so we try to establish increasing space for biodiversity like hedges, wildflower strips and fruit trees.
Do you want to experience how it is to live on a farm and share some interesting days with us?
We invite you to be part of our family and assist us in the hosehold and self-supply garden. Being on a professional farm, you will get an insight how real farm life works. However, you will not being asked for doing agricultural work on the crop fields. If you want, and if you come during the agricultural season, you can get in touch with the work of a farmer sitting with Xaver on the tractor or harvester and learn something about organic agriculture.
Your main focus will be in and arround the house and garden with Carola and the kids.
We aim to live a sustainable lifestyle, to leave a low footprint on earth, being a good example for our children. However, we live in simple abundance with preserves from our own land and seasonal, regional (mainly vegetarian) food on the table. We eat 100% biological food. Our chicken provide us with fresh eggs.
P.s. if you are wondering, why we have less feedback the last two years: we had ukrainian refugees living with us for almost two years. So, the rooms were occupied and we had less helpers on the farm. Now, our guest rooms are available again and we will be happy to host you!
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Farmstay help
Babysitting and creative play
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Interests
Sustainability
Farming
Culture
DIY & crafts
History
Music
Plant care
Gardening
Cooking & food
Books
Mountain
Adventure sports
Cycling
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Depending on the season of your stay you will experience farmlife and learn about gardening and plants. We are open to answer all your questions about ecological farming and the growing of crops on the fields. You will be part of our family and see how it is like to live with kids.
Xaver and Carola used to travel a lot before taking over the farm. So, we are accustomed to be in contact with different cultures and happy to invite the world to our house.
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
We invite you to be part of our family and assist us in the hosehold and self-supply garden. You will not being asked for doing agricultural work on the crop fields.
Our helpers have tasks mostly in assisting in the herb- and vegetable gardens and various supportive tasks around the workshop, yard and house, household- and odd-jobs.
Normally, we try not to work on saturdays and sundays, but in harvesting time there is no weekend for us. Of course that does not include you. We are flexible about the schedule of your day and we can find compromises to satisfy your wishes.
Unfortunatley, we had to add the following note to our profile due to some unpleasant experiences with workawayers: We cook every day fresh meals and provide food to you and are happy to share all meals with you. However, we will ask you to help in the kitchen with preparing and cleaning, additional to the working hours.
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
Spanish: Fluent
French: Beginner
Accommodation
The house is large enough for our visitors to have their own rooms and bathroom. There is also a small kitchen if needed, even though we use to cook and eat together.
What else ...
Ried im Innkreis is the next train station. It is 5 minutes away by car and a 20 Min walk to our farm. Ried is a 12 thousands habitants town, with an old small center; you can find there everything you need.
Our farm is not located in a touristy region. However, surroundings are hilly and nice for a walk and we have a big garden area where you are welcome to use for relaxing, making fire, camp outside, hang arround, read a book, etc. The small city Ried is a 15-minutes-bikeride away, we have bikes you can borrow. You reach a really amazing mountain-region within 1,5 hours trainride (1h by car), and Vienna and Munich are less than 3 hours by train away. You reach Salzburg and Linz within 1 hour by car.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
We have internet on our farm. However, WLAN works not perfectly in the workawayer´s rooms, because our walls are too thick to let through a good signal. So far, our guests were always able to check their emails, use their smartphones and surf in the internet whenever they wanted. You can use our laptop in the living room or WLAN connection in the office.
Space for parking camper vans
The area arround our farm is big enough to place your tent, campervan or motorhome. In addition you are always welcome to come into our house for sleeping, cooking or basic needs (bathroom, toilet). We have enough space!
Can possibly accept pets
For those who want to come with a dog: we really like animals, but we had an experience with a very nice but totally uneducated dog, so here are our conditions if you want to bring your animal: Children don´t like a dog jumping on them even if it wants to play. You can bring your animal into the house, unless it does not come into our kitchen and living rooms. You can take it to your rooms, but it is not allowed to jump on your bed and sofa. You have to clean away the hairs in the house (if nessesary). Also your dog has basic needs, thats ok, unless you clean away the dog poo. You can let your dog run free, but it should not chase other animals: we have free running chicken, rabbits and also deer on our farm area. Thank you for your understanding!
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
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We got along very well, they were nice company and also cooked… read more
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We got along very well, they were nice company and also cooked… read more
All in all we had a good time and it was nice to… read more
So if you as an interested… read more
First of all the whole family is so amiable and kind - I felt very comfortable and loved spending time with the five. On the weekends and when the daily work was done we did lots of trips, for… read more
She supported us with whatever was needed, like cleaning the chicken stable and pulling weeds in the garden and greenhouse. We cleared… read more
It was our first workaway and it went very well, Carola is a very nice and kind woman. Xaver was very kind too, he gave us some jobs and spend time with us even if he was exhausted of his entire day of job, we… read more
During her stay it was the peak season for harvesting and work… read more
I had my private room and bathroom, I was happy to share all the meals… read more
They are a very friendly and interested young couple and you can have good conversations with them. Their english is very much sufficiant for every day topics, and we also had no problems to talk about more sophisticated subjects.
Both helped us a lot with all… read more
Accommodation was perfect: big quiet room, private bathroom and kitchen.
Food was also perfect because Carola usually cook 2-3x in a day.
Work was fair and not… read more
They were organised and fair with the tasks they needed help with and generous with free time!
We were allowed to borrow their bikes so getting around was easy :blush:
Carola even helped us organise a hiking trip for our days off!
Learning about organic farming… read more
Carola had the kindness to come and pick us at 17 km from their house as we were hitchhiking and blocked in a little village in the evening... The room where we stayed was really huge and comfortable. The work is not difficult and we could manage our time. We appreciated to… read more
We can recommend both helpers: They are lovely people, eager to help with any task we asked them to do, committed workers and happy to put in a bit of extra work to get a job finished.
Jeanne and Fredl stayed two weeks with us and helped to… read more
