Live the country life at my strawbale homestead in South Ryegate, Vermont, USA

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  Beschreibung

  Hello! This is my forth year on the homestead in rural Vermont. When I moved onto the land, there was already a nice variety of perennial food plants. Black walnuts, hazelnuts, apples, pears, plums, blackberries, elderberries, currants, fiddle heads, ramps and the list goes on. In the last few years, I have added a few more perennials into the mix. There are lots of babies, many of which have yet to fruit: seaberries, paw paws, nanking cherries, jostaberries, blueberries, goose berries, honey berries, hardy kiwis, goumis and more. In most cases I've planted only a few of each kind - more like a garden, not a farm. I'm also trying to do more with the neglected vegetable gardens. And I travel the area a bit to forage plants and mushrooms.
  
  Aside from the plants, I also build stuff here. Furniture, tools, house renovations, etc. This spring one of my priorities is to build an outdoor sleeping shelter. The hardy kiwis are also due for a trellis of some kind.
  
  On the property there’s a strawbale house, a pole barn and a cottage that I have started to renovate. This isn’t a business and the main reason I want to host is to share this pretty place with others and enjoy learning and working together.
  
  Some of the guideposts for how I am working the land here: Learn to use hand tools, like scythes and chisels (power tools, too). Prioritize wildlife habitat. Make it a place that people want to be a part of. Share good food. Spend a lot of time outdoors. Make inside spaces beautiful and handmade feeling. Treat the land as the teacher. Try lots of things and see what works and what’s a good way to pass the time. 

We have some resident porcupines that make their presence known in Summer and in the Fall they are basically attached to the apple trees. There are a couple tiny ponds that come alive with frogs and salamanders in the Spring.

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  Arten von Hilfe und Lernmöglichkeiten

  Kunstprojekte

  Gartenarbeiten

  Heimwerker- und Bauarbeiten

  Mithilfe auf einem Bauernhof

  Zubereiten / Kochen von Mahlzeiten für die Familie

  Handwerkliche Arbeiten
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  UNO-Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung, die dieser Gastgeber verfolgt

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  Kultureller Austausch und Lernmöglichkeiten

  I think what I can best offer is a taste of the lifestyle in case you are thinking this might be a way you would like to live and hopefully good camaraderie as we complete projects and play on the land. I want to accomodate the projects to your own interests so you are learning the things that you want to! I lived in South America for some years and speak Spanish and a little Portuguese and would be happy to share some of that. We can cook meals together. Most of my groceries come from local farms and the co-op.

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  Arbeit

  This spring we will be planting fruit and nut trees around the property and in the process better defining the shape of the orchards or “forest gardens”. We will also build some air prune boxes to grow trees and shrubs from seed to then transplant in the Fall. We’ll take cuttings from trees and shrubs already on the property (elderberries, currants, willows, etc) and propagate them. We’ll forage fiddleheads, ramps and a whole lot more.
  
  There’s also some work to do on the landscape. Moving soil, mulch, rocks and clearing old fences from the property.
  
  There is an annual garden which we can toss some seed into. Personally I’m more interested in the perennials and trees but that means we can be whimsical with the annuals and not overthink it.
  
  We will also come up with new places to site the compost piles and firewood. The rainwater harvesting system, which is very basic, will also call for a little upgrade.
  
  So you can see there’s a lot of different things to touch on!

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  Sprachen

  Gesprochene Sprachen
  Englisch: Fließend
  Spanisch: Fließend
  Portugiesisch: Gute Kenntnisse
  Ukrainian: Grundkenntnisse

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  Unterkunft

  The upstairs of the strawbale house is unfinished but cozy nonetheless. That is where past workawayers, friends, and family have stayed. Otherwise you could camp on the land.

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  Was noch ...

  Within a half hour by car you can get to New Hampshire's White Mountains, Groton State Forest and its lovely lakes, and St. Johnsbury for a nice cafe, bakery and farmer's market. Montpelier is about an hour away. I usually head into one town or another a few times a week. The night sky here is dark! The pond is cold! Expect campfires, swimming, good food and drink.

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  Etwas mehr Information

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    Wir besitzen Tiere

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    Wir sind Raucher

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    Familien möglich

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