Permaculture family in Gullabo, Sweden

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  Description

  Hello !
  We are looking for volunteers to help us on our small farm (permaculture) located in Gullabo (Torsås municipality - Kalmar län).
  
  Who are we? 🇧🇪🇫🇷
  We are a Franco-Belgian family : Pauline and Pierre and two children aged 7 and 3 years old. We moved to Sweden in March 2023 and bought our house in November 2023. We have a 8000m2 land with several outbuildings.
  We aim for food autonomy through permaculture and tend to have a lifestyle that is as natural, healthy and respectful of nature as possible.
  I work part-time in Karlskrona and Pierre takes care of the farm full-time. Pierre has skills in permaculture (after years of practice and research), fishing and cooking.
  We are producing for our own consumption and hope to be soon self sufficient 🤗
  We speak French, English and Swedish.
  
  We are located in the municipality of Torsås, 25 minutes from the sea (east coast), 45 minutes from Kalmar and 45 minutes from Karlskrona.
  We live in the country side so it is easy to go for a walk in the forest or to bike/hike.

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Help with Eco Projects

  Gardening

  DIY and building projects
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  Interests

  

  Sustainability

  

  Farming

  

  Music

  

  Languages

  

  Gardening

  

  Cooking & food

  

  Animals

  

  Nature

  

  Camping

  

  Hiking

  

  Cycling
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  UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

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  What's this?
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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  What do we offer? 🌱🌞🍞🥗
  A discovery of a different way of life, learning about permaculture, working in the garden, food preservation, cooking, baking... We really want to share our knowledge and skills with others.
  
  We are a French-belgian family living in Sweden so we love to discover new culture and to exchange with people from all around the world.
  We would love to learn from our volunteers also, about gardening, cooking, building or any other thing !

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  Projects involving children

  This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.

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  Help

  What are the tasks? 🌱🪵🍄🫐🫙
  Working time is 4-5 hours per day, 5 days per week. Tasks and schedule may vary depending on time of year and weather.
  
  - Work in the garden: seeding, transplanting, watering, harvesting, weeding and also picking in the forest (blueberries, mushrooms). Also helping with preservation of food.
  - Collecting/chopping firewood
  - Sorting/emptying our outbuildings

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  English: Fluent
  French: Fluent
  Swedish: Intermediate

  This host offers a language exchange
  We speak French at home but can also talk English and Swedish. Pauline speaks a little bit German. We like to talk several languages and share ours with others ! Our kids speak French and Swedish.
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  Accommodation

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  In exchange for your precious help you will get a room and food is included.
  Meals are taken together, it is welcome to have some help for cooking time.
  You have free access to the kitchen and the bathroom of the house.
  You can also come with your van/truck.
  We have a cat in the house. 🐈
  
  Practical detail: we have our own wastewater collector, so we ask people to only bring natural shampoos/soaps.
  
  Welcome 🤗

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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

  If you come with your own van/truck you will have a lot of space to park. You will have the same access to bathroom and kitchen.

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  More than two

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