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Learn new skills and join us with some creative eco-engineering in Borensberg, Sweden

  • Última actividad : 17 jul 2025

DISPONIBILIDAD

  2025 

 Estancia mínima:  Una semana o menos

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  • Descripción

    Descripción

    We are open for a few workawayers in parts of summer 2025. Keep watching! We prefer stays of 3-4 days. Vans are welcome. It helps us a lot if those visiting here are open to all kinds of food, as we prefer to not cater to special meal or food preferences. We enjoy healthy food, including meat, fish, vegetables, milk/cream, coffee and tea, and even sweets. If the month is marked green, send us a message! If the month is yellow or red, it is possible that we may not answer right away as we are very busy in our 'day jobs'.

    This late summer in August and September, we may need outdoor and indoor painting. If you are a trained electrician, we could use some advice and minor help, but will not ask for any electric work done that cannot be certified and insured. If you are provably clever with energy saving systems and heating, we very much want to hear from you. A carpenter would be wonderful!

    American Swedish academic and Swedish translator---living in a small village very near larger civilization. We love Music (making it and listening to it), nature, travel, history, politics (ethical and kind), languages, and plenty of conversation.

  • Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje

    Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje

    Práctica de idiomas
    Ayuda en proyectos ecológicos
    Jardinería
    Construcción y bricolaje
    Mantenimiento general
  • Intereses

    Intereses

    Tecnología
    Política / justicia social
    Cultura
    Dibujo y pintura
    Música
    Historia
    Libros
    Arte y diseño
    Idiomas
    Arquitectura
    Escritura
    Artes escénicas
    Naturaleza
    Fitness
    Acampada
    Deportes de invierno
    Actividades al aire libre
    Senderismo
    Ciclismo
  • Objetivos de sostenibilidad de las NU que intenta conseguir este anfitrión

    Objetivos de sostenibilidad de las NU que intenta conseguir este anfitrión

    Objetivos de las NU
    Fin de la pobreza
    Hambre cero
    Salud y bienestar
    Educación de calidad
    Igualdad de género
    Agua limpia y saneamiento
    Energía asequible y no contaminante
    Trabajo decente y crecimiento económico
    Industria, innovación e infraestructura
    Reducción de las desigualdades
    Ciudades y comunidades sostenibles
    Producción y consumo responsables
    Acción por el clima
    Vida submarina
    Vida de ecosistemas terrestres
    Paz, justicia e instituciones sólidas
    Alianzas para lograr los objetivos
  • Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje

    Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje

    Learn a little Swedish language and culture. Learn English too if you like. Meet well-travelled, broadly educated individuals who like to share their experiences and learn from others too. We are pretty busy with our various tasks and projects. Workawayers should assume the usual 20 hours per week, so 3 hours per day on average or 6 hours every other day if you are with us for 4 days and want to get out to explore the area. We prefer, just now, to not spend more than meal times with chatting, but that still might be about 3-4 hours per day when you are at the house.

  • Ayuda

    Ayuda

    Need some help with maintenance of a historic house built in 1900. Consider joining us in Summer 2025!

    In August, we would like to put epoxy floor in the celler (if you have done it, you are welcome to do it here). We need to paint a few doors outside, and inside. We'd very much like to have some creative engineering students with energy and eco ideas to join us as well as woodworkers, painters, and eco-gardeners or even vintners. We also need individuals with plumbing and electrical skills NOT for work needing certification, but for advice, ideas, and some dismantling of old lights and such. Want to start a small vineyard? Lavender beds? Musicians and artists welcome. No smoking or pets however, but a few friendly cats and hedgehogs do wander the property from time to time.

  • Idiomas

    Idiomas hablados
    Inglés: Fluido
    Swedish: Fluido
    Alemán: Principiante
    Español: Principiante
    Francés: Principiante

    Este anfitrión ofrece intercambio de idiomas
    We are writers and talkers and love languages. We are fluent in English and Swedish and between the two of us know a bit of French, Spanish, German, Russian, and Arabic.

  • Alojamiento

    Alojamiento

    We prefer individuals who are open-minded and scientifically inclined.

    Hosting anyone who is sick is not ideal, and we will always let our workawayers know if we become sick too, even with just a cough. COVID reminded us of the importance of respecting the health of others and ourselves. We are fans of vaccinations and modern medicine, even if we have great respect for alternative medicine.

    If you come to Östergötland (East Sweden), there are great medieval sites to visit in the area as well as good fishing, hiking, kayaking, and more. Our home is within just 100 meters of river, canal, and large lake with sailing, wind surfing and beaches for swimming too (water temp is around 22C by July). We are happy to teach a little Swedish too, and for those with Swedish roots, this is an opportunity to look up ancestors and/or relatives.

    We are reluctant to offer more than 4-7 days initially just in case things are not what any of us anticipated, BUT we can be flexible too. If things are great, and you are flexible, a few more days to a week is possible. For us, workawayers are indeed helping us to accomplish things that we otherwise could not afford but that we really need to get done. Most of the time we need painting and gardening help, but if you are handy with construction, we can always use your help too. We would love to meet those with a bit of electrical expertise for general advice, especially if they are certified in the EU. Anyone who understands solar or wind power?! We'd love to jump off the grid with the right help (or at least find alternative ways to boost electricity).

  • Algo más...

    Algo más...

    Europeans can fly to Skavsta, Arlanda, or even Copenhagen and take a bus or train to Linköping which is not far from our home. KLM also flies directly from Amsterdam to Linköping. AND we are very responsive to your messages. If we are not hosting workawayers during some months, however, you will receive an automated reply. These do not always count towards the average time to respond data!

  • Un poco más de información

    Un poco más de información

    • Acceso a Internet

    • Acceso a Internet limitado

      Acceso a Internet limitado

    • Tenemos animales

    • Somos fumadores

    • Puede alojar familias

  • Espacio para aparcar autocaravanas

    Espacio para aparcar autocaravanas

    Vans work well in the front street. Smaller vans can park on the property. Small campers might work. Electricity is costly to us to share, but happy to fill the water tanks. So, write to us. It all depends on the situation and your talents.

  • Podría aceptar mascotas

    Podría aceptar mascotas

    Pets are wonderful, but again, it depends! In Sweden, all pets must be registered and chipped and on leash or indoors. There would likely be very few situations when we would say 'yes', but we are happy to hear your story.

  • ¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?

    ¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?

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  • Mis animales / mascotas

    Mis animales / mascotas

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