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Hi! Steffi here.
Now I'm managing Workaway for my dad Rüdiger/Rüdi. Before there was work at our place too but now it will be rented out and all the projects at our place are paused : )
My dad prefers people with knowledge of German or Swedish because it makes it easier to communicate, as he hardly knows any English. On the other hand, he is very good at explaining things with his hands and feet : )
You need to be a handy person. It's more fun for both of you.
My dad lives in the Swedish countryside surrounded by forest and with a lake near by and a river flowing alongside his property. It's a really beautiful spot and it feels a bit like vacation every day : ) There are hiking trails nearby. Canoeing, fishing and bathing in the lake are other activities you could do in your free time. Cycling too. Or ice-skating, skiing and ice-bathing in wintertime. Ängsbacka is nearby if you are interested in personal and spiritual growth.
In 2019 my father moved to Sweden. His house is build 1860 and is still under reconstruction right now. That is where the most work is and mainly why we are here on workaway.
Our property is 3km from my dads and you can get there by bike or walking. There are a mainhouse and an annex on our property. The mainhouse is rented out to an other family since the beginning of September because me and my children moved to a town further away. My ex-partner and best friend Sven stays at our property and moved out to the annex, a little tiny-house-style-flat and still a building place. Me and my children will be home in the weekends sometimes and living in the annex during our stay. We still have access to the basement in the mainhouse and can use the laundry room, the shower, the sauna, the toilet and the internet. And you can do that too.
You will meet sheep at my fathers place and at our place are a cat, a dog and chickens around.
My dad is a retired and busy with building, animal care and gardening. I worked as a teacher in afternoon school at Backa freeschool (a holistic school for a sustainable life, backafriskola.se) that I started together with a group of other women in 2015. But I quite because we moved. Back in Germany I worked as an architect. Sven works still as an architect and started his own business in Sweden. He also offers carpentry services through his company.
My dad like outdoor-life / outdoor-survival and hiking. He likes to built things, create things, calculate things. He started with some gardening at his place. He knows a lot about nature, birds, trees, plants in general, mushrooms.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We love to share all our experience with you. Just show/say what you are interested in. Making fire with a bow. Learning about nature. Ice-bathing. Building. Living in Sweden. Being at Ängsbacka and part of the extended community. Crafting. Taking care of children. And animals. Baking bread. Making soap and ointment. Felting. You could develop your canoeing skills and discover the Swedish landscape.
Help
I just put a check mark on all the things he would appreciate help with. It doesn't mean that you have to do all that and it doesn't mean that there is always help needed with all the tasks.
The main task is building. Helping at my fathers place with finishing the last things inside and around the house. Complete the facade. Paint with eco-color. Setting up a staircase. Finishing the small roofs at the entrances. There are endless tasks with building : ) Sometimes help with gardening and taking care of the animals becomes more important though.
It's 25 working hours per week. 5 hours a day, 9am to 3pm with one hour lunch break. It is possible to change days if this suits his/your plans better. It's possible to work more some days and get an extra day off or to reduce the amount of hours and work more days a week. We want to take your needs into consideration and make your stay as pleasant as possible.
Bring work clothes or clothes that can get dirty. Work gloves are available here.
Usually one day a week is your cooking day, where you prepare dinner. If you love cooking a lot, my dad and my partner are more than happy if you want to cook more than once : )
A neighborly cooperation and community around the evening meal has been established in summertime when the neighbor visits Sweden. Sometimes my father cooks for everyone, sometimes my partner and sometimes the neighbor : )
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
Swedish: Intermediate
English: Beginner
Accommodation
My father lives in a tiny house and nearly of grid. There is a compost toilette, a shower in the kitchen (not working yet), no internet and a thin mobile phone connection. So to have access to the world you would need to take the bike to our place. Same when you need a shower. At his place Its very simple living but surely a great experience : )
Your room is upstairs under the roof of the house. It's not insulated but furnished with a warm and cosy double bed. You get there with a ladder. Maybe he will put up the tepee in summer if you are interested in experiencing this option : )
Please ask about the accommodation if you have questions or are feeling insecure.
By agreement you have the opportunity to use the sauna at our property, canoe, printer, a bike, create in the workshop space and much more.
We are non-smokers and wish to smoke away from the plot if you need to smoke. Its not allowed indoors.
What else ...
It's a shop in Molkom, nearby in Tidafors is a great second hand shop and there is one in Molkom too, in Karlstad you can find a lot of possibilities for activities, events, shopping, museum, galleries, restaurants. 6 km from my fathers spot is a bus station where the bus to Molkom/Karlstad in one direction and to Filipstad in the other direction is passing. In Molkom you have the possibility to catch two more busses. And from Karlstad you can get everywhere by bus, train, flight.
We will be happy to pick you up from Molkom. The bus stop is called Molkom Graninge. From Karlstad, bus 400 (final destination Filipstad), bus 401 (final destination Molkom) and bus 300 (final destination Hagfors) go to Molkom. The bus station in Karlstad is diagonally opposite the railway station. At the railway station there is also a bus stop where at least one of these busses pass. You can plan your buss travel on varmlandstrafik.se (sorry, just swedish).
Your travel by train you can plan on sj.se/en (english version).
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
Please ask about it. So that we together can check if our possibilities fits for your kind of work.
Space for parking camper vans
Please ask about it. So that we together can check if our possibilities fits for you.
Can possibly accept pets
Depends on the pet. Just ask.
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Hours expected
Maximum 5 hours a day, 5 days a week
Feedback (21)
After some initial challenges with sleeping in the attic, they moved into the Trollstuga respectively the main house.
At Rüdi's:
Maike and Christoph mostly worked at Villa Minimal, including two weeks as independent holiday stand-ins. After his… read more
First of all, Rudi's home is beautiful! We slept in a double bed in the loft, we found it to be super cosy sleeping under the old wooden beams and enjoyed waking up to a beautiful view of the forest :)
The work is very hands on, we have mostly been working on the land - learning lots! Rudi would often stop… read more
Stephani is a little talky and Sven aren’t. Perfect mix for me. The work was relaxed: chopping wood and take care of the sheep’s. There are great hiking tracks in the area!
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After some initial challenges with sleeping in the attic, they moved into the Trollstuga respectively the main house.
At Rüdi's:
Maike and Christoph mostly worked at Villa Minimal, including two weeks as independent holiday stand-ins. After his… read more
First of all, Rudi's home is beautiful! We slept in a double bed in the loft, we found it to be super cosy sleeping under the old wooden beams and enjoyed waking up to a beautiful view of the forest :)
The work is very hands on, we have mostly been working on the land - learning lots! Rudi would often stop… read more
Stephani is a little talky and Sven aren’t. Perfect mix for me. The work was relaxed: chopping wood and take care of the sheep’s. There are great hiking tracks in the area!
They are some of the kindest and welcoming people I've known.
Sweden in summer is truly the most beautiful place on Earth.
I spent most days working at Rudi's place, on his home renovation project, which I really enjoyed. Outdoors physical work is… read more
There is a beautiful lake right in front of the house and a wonderful forest in the back with lots of things and places to explore and discover.
I enjoyed helping with the different… read more
The house was direkly in front of a lake in the middle of the beautiful nature. The work was usually at about 5 hours and it was always fun.
After work, I got Swimming our out with the boat.
I also miss the Dog Siri, both of the Cats and of cause the… read more
Christina came at the beginning of February and stayed. : ) The planned 3 weeks became 2.5 months in the end. In the middle of March she moved on - step by step : ) First another week in my father's house, where she lived all alone, and then further into the world. At the end of May she was back again and… read more
The place is really nice, the house is just in front of a big lake and I really enjoyed to take bath and go kayaking.
The host are amazing person: I used to work with the father of Stephanie, a really smart, kind and funny person. We were building his house together, I… read more
Anton is a nice, open, curious and hard-working person. In his free time he hiked a lot and often spent time in front of the fireplace doing his own things. We rarely met each other, due to different rhythms and activity… read more
She is hard-working, helpful and prudent and learns fast. She is a friendly and open-minded person and its very pleasant to be around her.
In everyday life she sees what needs to be done and does it. That kind of support is very appreciated. With Julia and the other… read more
Tara is a very warm, calm, funny and caring person. I felt very comfortable in her company. We laughed a lot together.
With the other Workawayer, Tara spoke in French. I am very grateful for the new beautiful sounding language in our house. We really had… read more
Unfortunately, we didn't see each other much and didn't learn much about each other, as we had Covid here at home and were… read more
Her English is very good and made communication easy. She also communicated with us and my dad in a funny hand and foot using way, when our English wasn't good enough : )
Isabelle is a grounded human being and always… read more
He is a little too eager in getting started and a bit impatient in listening when you explain something. And then it doesn't turn out the way you wanted it to. He can still practice patience in listening.
He is a man of many words. If you like evening-conversations… read more
In her free time she liked to chill, but she also went jogging with our dog Ziri. She gave us yoga lessons, played music with… read more
In her free time she was hiking a lot in… read more
He is an easygoing and calm person. Easy to teach, creative and helpful. He is relaxed and works that way too. No stress, what was calming our little community in a good way. He is more the night type… read more
I enjoyed my work and free time.
25 hours a week created a good balance and I really liked how flexible the working hours were.
What I enjoyed most was working on Rüdiger's future house. It was very interesting to see what you can do with the materials that the… read more
the animals … Working there never really felt like work because the things that had to be done were varied and interesting, mainly because of Rüdiger’s joy in experiments with natural building materials.
And it was always fun with… read more
Her training as a carpenter and her practical skills were a great advantage on the building sites. Ruth works effectively, learns quickly, and realises what‘s important. I think she worked more than she should have. And… read more
I spent a lot of time… read more
Max is an interested person who attentively absorbs everything new. He learns quickly without much explanation.
When I was working in the garden or in the kitchen, he always… read more
I spent about four weeks with the family and quickly felt at home there. The house is right next to a lake,… read more
what should i begin with? One of the most beautiful place i have ever seen, intelligent, hard-working people with a very profound sense of humor. The daily tasks have been detailed described in my feedback. Stephanie, Sven and their kids made it very easy to feel comfortable. They never lost their patience when I… read more
Stefan is an intelligent… read more
The working hours are always fair and the tasks are distributed in a way… read more
Thanks also for film and music recommendations and… read more
Hugo is an entertaining and humorous guy. We had interesting conversations, dealt with deep questions and his dedication to parkour was always something to talk about. Hugo connected well with… read more
