Help us with gardening, foraging and building while living with us in a countryside of Lithuania, Kunigiškiai

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  Description

  update 04.28:
  sowing season is opened, looking forward for help in the garden with sowing and planting, weeding flower beds and making shiitake mushroom logs!
  also, if anyone is interested in building experience we will start a new project on june.:)
  
  Hey!
  We are a couple of free-spirited folks: Rūta Rožė, Gytis (my boyfriend), and our dog Pūkis, living in the countryside surrounded by forests and a beautiful river nearby.
  
  We have been living here for four years already! We would love to get some help in the garden, renovating the house or furniture, building something new, cooking, and general maintenance.
  
  Our house is almost 100 years old, and we live a really simple and humble life here. We have NO RUNNING WATER (!) inside the house, but we manage just fine. :) We shower outside, use our canister-tap-bucket system for cleaning dishes, and have a compostable toilet. We also own a flat around 5km away from us, where you can take a normal shower and do laundry. We can provide bikes/car, or it's a really nice hike, haha :D
  
  We love arts, music, traveling, hitchhiking, camping and so much more.
  
  About us in more detail:
  
  RŪTA ROŽĖ
  I'm a hippie, free-spirited, and easygoing person. I'm interested in jewelry, sewing, dyeing with plants, gardening, permaculture, herbalism and rock climbing. I graduated from a few craft schools and have some knowledge in jewelry and sewing. I'm more passionate about sewing. I really love spending time with people and organizing/volunteering at events. I have organized quite a few things in my life, including festivals, camps, music events, etc. Fun fact: I have written a lot of poetry in my teen years!
  
  GYTIS
  Gytis is a chatty and wonderful guy! He is interested in books, health and fitness, building, and really interested in music, definitely a melomaniac and has a big collection of CDs, tapes, and vinyls. He plays bass, accordion, guitar... Gytis's work is to make music instruments (steel tongue drums, soundnest), and we together go to fairs a lot to sell them. He also graduated in electronics engineering and tried his hands at making some electronic instruments and would love to do this more! Oh, and film photography, during his study years, he participated in a film photography club, developing and printing his photos.

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  Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

  Projets artistiques

  Aide avec des éco-projets

  Jardinage

  Bricolage et construction

  Aide dans une ferme

  Cuisine/repas pour la famille

  Aide à la maison

  Entretien général
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  Centres d’intérêt

  

  Événements/vie sociale

  

  Culture

  

  Mode et beauté

  

  Dev. durable

  

  Animaux de compagnie

  

  Dev. personnel

  

  Architecture

  

  Jardinage

  

  Art et design

  

  Livres

  

  Bricolage / artisanat

  

  Musique

  

  Soin des plantes

  

  Photographie

  

  Arts du spectacle

  

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  Dessin et peinture

  

  Menuiserie

  

  Cuisine et alimentation

  

  Animaux

  

  Danse

  

  Fitness

  

  Camping

  

  Yoga / bien-être

  

  Nature

  

  Montagne

  

  Randonnée

  

  Activités en plein air

  

  Voile / bateau

  

  Cyclisme
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  Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

  We live in a splendid place surrounded by a forest and a river with amazing cliffs. You can hike around a lot, go on bicycle trips, or go swimming and canoeing (several routes available). And we have a lot of amazing friends which we meet up quite often and have a splendid time jamming, dancing, singing or hiking! We quite often travel to festivals or any other events, so we could take you with us!

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  Aide

  Time is flexible - you can choose which time of the day you would like to help us and manage your hours as you wish. We can discuss the day schedule once you get here. Help in the garden includes weeding, harvesting, and preserving the harvest, watering, mowing the grass, etc. Foraging plants for teas or dyeing (I'm interested in dyeing with plants). Help in the house involves cleaning, doing the dishes, bringing water, and cooking. You can also assist with building an outside shower or other building projects, renovating old furniture, sanding, painting, etc. If you have any skills in building, this would be a big help as I'm clueless (Gytis has more knowledge).
  We are also open for creative projects and collabs!!

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  Langues

  Langues parlées
  Anglais: Courant
  Lithuanian: Courant
  Allemand: Débutant
  Japonais: Débutant
  Russe: Débutant

  Cet hôte propose un échange linguistique
  We both speak English and Lithuanian well. I do speak russian a bit, learned at school, i guess my level is: it's hard to talk, but i could get out of most situations. I also do duolingo, japanese, so i only have very very basic knowledge of it. Gytis learned german at school, and even the knowledge rusty he has a bit of basics.
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  Hébergement

  It's a big shared room, approximately half of our house; we will live in another half. We have lots of mattresses to share and can provide linen and towels. It's also possible to live outside in tents if you would like more personal space; we have two big ones. At most for now we only had a few people share the room. Shared kitchen, compostable toilet, and a river a 10-minute walk away. We usually use some little or big baths outside to wash ourselves properly, or we go to a flat in the nearest village. There's no running water in our house. Come and live the experience with us!
  
  Meals are included - we are flexitarians, we rarely eat meat. We've noticed we don't want to eat that much in the warmer season, so we usually eat twice a day (around 10-11 AM and 4-6 PM). This way, we can also do intermittent fasting. If this doesn't suit you, we always try to make more so there are leftovers available at any time, or we can make when someone wants sth. Everyone eats according to their needs.

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  Autres infos...

  Transport: The nearest village Upninkai with a shop is 4-5 km away, Jonava town is 30 km, and both Vilnius and Kaunas are about an hour away from us with a car. We can give bicycles, and if needed we can give you a ride. I myself usually hitchhike if needed, but if you don't prefer it, there is busses and trains from Jonava.
  Local sights: Dubiai mound, Sukiniai mound, historical Vepriai village, several springs, forests, river cliffs...

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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, and it works pretty ok. :) The speed : Download ~ 20.66 Mbps, Upload ~ 1.18 Mbps. I believe it could vary depending on the time of the day or the itself :)

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  Espace pour garer des vans

  Big garden, lots of space to choose. There is a plot there we have electricity plug in available outside as well. :)

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  Possibilité d'accueillir les animaux

  We have a very friendly 10 years old dog :) He gets along well with female dogs, with boys not that much, it depends. He is still very active when going for walks. No cats allowed here.. And you'll need some protection from ticks for your dog, because we live next to forest.

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  Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

  Plus de 2

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