Lend a hand and help with our home and garden makeover in Gniezno, Poland

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  Description

  Welcome!
  
  Please note that I can’t have volunteers with no feedback. I’m sorry, there is a better place than mine to be your first great workaway experience :)
  
  1. Gardening
  I need someone to bring my lush and very wild garden back to me... The weed is growing crazy, so most of the time is weeding, watering, giving natural fertilizers. Also a big and awful work is to collect snails, which have taken over and just have a feast in my garden. I need someone to get there every evening and collect them. I would say this is probable the most important task... If you know how, we could also build the compost spot in the garden. For now it's just a pile, it needs some boundaries.
  
  2. House renovation
  I need skilled people, who can do the walls, carpentery, some gardening work, finishing the interior. Maybe we`re even gonna renovate the wooden floor by ourselves? :) In need for really handy people, who know what tool and how to use it, someone with woodworking experience etc.
  
  Here`s my story.
  I`m Joanna and 3 years ago I moved out of Switzerland and started traveling. Now the time had come to work on my own project back home and you are more than welcome to join, honestly - I need your help :)
  I used to work as a landscape architect, now I work fot the city, taking care of the parks/squares etc.
  
  Gniezno is a small town, but offering a few nice restaurants, 2 lakes in the city, a museum, a nice coffee shops, a cinema, a theatre and so on. I do have a bike for you to use. We can go to the forests, you can take a city break to Poznan, Wroclaw, we can go for yoga classes together. I`m in a small society so you`re welcome to participate in our events. Also 15 min biking away from the house ther`s gonna be a nice outdoor culture centre offering awesome concerts, workshop etc. starting from June, finishing in . I will be going there regularly, you`re welcome to join :)
  
  The place for you to sleep will be a separate room, either a living room or a winter garden, as you choose. Both are far away from my bedroom. I work 7:30-15:30 so you're mostly on your own, working freely in calm :)
  The house renovation is still in process, I take baby steps. The bathroom is done, the kitchen is temporary so I'm still cooking on a gas stove.
  
  Hope to see you here
  Cheers! Joanna

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Help with Eco Projects

  Gardening

  DIY and building projects

  Creating/ Cooking family meals

  Help around the house

  General Maintenance
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  Interests

  

  Events & social

  

  Sustainability

  

  Culture

  

  LGBTQ

  

  Vegetarian or vegan

  

  Van life

  

  Hitchhiking

  

  Photography

  

  Music

  

  Plant care

  

  Languages

  

  Gardening

  

  DIY & crafts

  

  Art & design

  

  Architecture

  

  Nature

  

  Camping

  

  Mountain

  

  Beach

  

  Hiking
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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  I love fermenting veggies so we could do some sauerkraut or fermented beetroot or radishes or kimchi or your own creation! you get to know my experience and stories cause I travel a lot (I`m doing workaway too!), I have many books also in English and German, you can use my sewing machine, I also have some creative tools like paints, cameras, papers etc. You can go for walks, take a train to Poznan and have a city trip, we can go for concerts etc.

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  Help

  for example:
  
  - carpentry
  - small repairs
  - changing lamps
  - house maintaining works like painting, helping around the house
  - you can also cook sometimes if you like cooking
  - organising some spaces like laundry room, finishing a wall and making shelves
  - cutting the grass, all the gardening work

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  English: Fluent
  Polish: Fluent
  German: Intermediate

  This host offers a language exchange
  Let me teach you some Polish!
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  Accommodation

  The place is a mess right now but we`ll find a place for you to sleep, it`s just that we`re gonna have to make it nice.
  I cook only vegetarian but I eat meat sometimes, if you don`t like sth, you can always cook for yourself. or for us :)

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  What else ...

  There is a bicycle for some rounds around the city or to the lakes. coffee shops, Cathedral, Museum, swimming pool, shops, I can drive you to the train station so you can take a trip to Poznań (40 min by train) with a super nice old town and a rich night life.
  
  I would like you to respect myhome like it is your own and have a positive attitude. We will be always talking about what you would like to do to fit the tasks for your skills so no worries.
  
  I speak Polish, English and German.

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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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  Space for parking camper vans

  Yes, sure!

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  Two

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  My animals / pets

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