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Teaching and enjoying life on a family farm project south of Graz, Austria

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If you are not an EU Citizen and planning to visit Austria to work, volunteer or study, YOU WILL NEED THE CORRECT VISA. To find out more information please contact the embassy in your home country BEFORE travelling.

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  • Beschreibung

    Beschreibung

    If you can´t travel the world, invite the world to your home!

    We - that is my husband Niko and me, Isabella - worked in the field of democratic citizenship education in Vienna when we decided to make a dream come true and move to a farm in the South of Austria.

    Food sovereignity, agriculture for biodiversity and the philosophy of the good life are the bigger ideas that fuel and inspire our daily work.
    Since 2012 we are navigating through the ups and downs of selfsustainment - we have a garden, forest, sheep and chickens, all of it exclusevily for our own subsistence - whilst earning our living with Nikos job off the farm, a freelancing coach in schools covering different topics.
    Our daughters were born 2014 and 2019, in 2024 our dog joined the family. Cats and ducks complete the little farm animal stock we keep.

    After a couple of years of learning and finding our mission we are now planning to establish an agrotourism project, where we pass on the know-how we have gathered to those interested in topics like cheesemaking, processing garden vegetables and fruits, processing meat, cooking courses and also more philosophical seminars like Eating Meat, Religious Atheism and Lifestyle, Mass Production of Food etc.

    Hosting workawayers makes it possible for us to focus on bringing forward our agritourism project and still run, with their help, the selfsustainment-farm including household and family.

    We also try to take the time to enjoy the pleasures of a self-determined countryside-life and to discuss life, love, food/cuisine, and politics with helpers over from all over the world.

    We have been hosting since 2013 and gathered quite some experience about what is the best solution for us as family and farmers. We realized that we prefer long-term-stays of 3 weeks and more. It gives us, including our daughters, and workawayers the chance to get to know to each other and to establish a common routine. That allows us and guests to plan ahead according to everybodys needs and thus realize bigger projects and have free days also off the farm. However, sometimes we might need more helping hands for a shorter period, so in any case, don´t hesitate to contact us!

    Watch the photos to get an impression of the beautyful scenery!

  • Arten von Hilfe und Lernmöglichkeiten

    Arten von Hilfe und Lernmöglichkeiten

    Leichte Gartenarbeit
    Kreative Heimwerkerprojekte
    Betreuung von Tieren
    Mithilfe auf einem Bauernhof
    Babysitten und Kinderbetreuung
    Zubereiten / Kochen von Mahlzeiten für die Familie
    Hausarbeiten
    Leichte Instandhaltungsarbeiten
    Hilfe mit Computer /Internet
  • Interessengebiete

    Interessengebiete

    Technik
    Nachhaltigkeit
    Politik & Soziales
    Farmarbeit
    Schreiben
    Sprachen
    Geschichte
    Gartenarbeiten
    Kochen & Backen
    Bücher
    Astronomie
    Natur
  • UNO-Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung, die dieser Gastgeber verfolgt

    UNO-Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung, die dieser Gastgeber verfolgt

    UNO-Ziele
    Keine Armut
    Kein Hunger
    Gesundheit und Wohlergehen
    Hochwertige Bildung
    Geschlechtergleichstellung
    Sauberes Wasser und Sanitärversorgung
    Bezahlbare und saubere Energie
    Menschenwürdige Arbeit und Wirtschaftswachstum
    Industrie, Innovation und Infrastruktur
    Weniger Ungleichheiten
    Nachhaltige Städte und Gemeinden
    Nachhaltige Konsum- und Produktionsmuster sicherstellen
    Maßnahmen zum Klimaschutz
    Leben unter Wasser
    Leben an Land
    Frieden, Gerechtigkeit und starke Institutionen
    Partnerschaften zur Erreichung der Ziele
  • Kultureller Austausch und Lernmöglichkeiten

    Kultureller Austausch und Lernmöglichkeiten

    We offer helpers accomodation in our house, so you would live with us and share our every-day-life, which is subsistence farm-work, child raising, cooking and household (Isabella is an excellent cook, especially but not only on austrian dishes, including vegetarian and vegan cuisine and dishes with meat).

    We gladly show our workawayers everything we have learned about subsistence farming, from choosing independent seed suppliers to planning a garden, keeping chickens and sheep, processing fruits, vegetables, milk and meat to harvesting hay and wood. All of this strongly varies with the season, the weather, our family and job-schedules - so please feel free to ask in advance where the focus will be during a stay you plan on our farm.

    We also provide bikes and a scooter if you want to explore the surroundings. If you stay long enough and there is time, we love to show people around the area, e.g. taking them to the nearby organic chocolate factory, panoramic view points, lakes etc.

  • Projekte mit Kindern

    Projekte mit Kindern

    Dieses Projekt schließt möglicherweise den Umgang mit Kindern ein. Mehr Informationen findest du in unseren Verhaltensregeln und Tipps hier.

  • Arbeit

    Arbeit

    The area we need help with is all the subsistence farming mentioned above. The exact tasks change with the season and maintennace projects we deal with at a given moment, but generally we may expect from you:

    - feeding/watering the sheep and chickens
    - fencing for the sheep
    - gardening and help on the fields (including sowing, weeding, harvesting and processing crops, hay harvest)
    - woodwork (we heat with wood and get it out of our own forest)
    - building and constructing, (e.g. new plant beds, repairing fences, building a tree house for the kids, painting the stables)
    - mucking out stables
    - haywork (only in summer)
    - babysitting, sometimes household-tasks like cleaning, laundry, cooking, shopping...
    - depending on our schedule (appointments off the farm) there will be days where Workawayers would be responsible for the daily farm work all alone
    - other tasks depending on your skills and interests

    As parents and farmers who do all the back-office-work themselves our days are often rather full. That means you should be prepared to often, yet not all the time, work independently. If you are travelling alone that might mean that on some days you spend the working hours all on your own, unless we host another workawayer at the same time. That depends on requests and if we think that workawayers would be a good match. We have great experiences with any kind of arrangement: some people enjoy being the only workawayer at a time, others prefer more company. If you want to know before you come here what to expect, please feel free to ask!

  • Sprachen

    Gesprochene Sprachen
    Deutsch: Fließend
    Englisch: Fließend
    Spanisch: Fließend
    Französisch: Fließend
    Russisch: Grundkenntnisse

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    Dieser Gastgeber gibt an, dass er dir gern seine Muttersprache beibringt oder selbst eine Sprache lernen möchte.
    Bitte wende dich direkt an ihn, um weitere Auskünfte zu erhalten.

  • Unterkunft

    Unterkunft

    We have a spacious guest room which is very suitable for couples/friends but also for sharing with other workawayers. For solo travellers: depending on the season and how much help we need, we might host 2 workawayers at the same time, so be prepared to share a room with a person you don't know before. Please feel free to ask in advance what to expect!

    We and our guests share a bathroom.

    We provide 3 meals a day: breakfast, lunch and supper. For at least one of those meals we all come together and share the food and time.

    Regarding meat in meals, we usually try to eat only our own meat (lamb and chicken), other meat we just buy once in a while. So in general you will be served more vegetarian dishes than ones with meat, but don´t worry, also the vegetarian ones are made to nourish you to be able to do physical work :o)

    In the village you find a supermarket, farmacy, restaurants, gas station and a doctor.

  • Was noch ...

    Was noch ...

    We are a bit far off the village (3 km - so still within walking distance), and as mentioned, we have bikes and a scooter, and it should never be a problem to take you to the village by car. There is a public bus to Graz (capital of Steiermark) several times a day - Graz is not only a city worth visiting, but also has a railwaystation and airport with trains/planes taking you to other places in Austria as well as to international destinations.

  • Etwas mehr Information

    Etwas mehr Information

    • Internet Zugang

    • Eingeschränkter Internet Zugang

      Eingeschränkter Internet Zugang

    • Wir besitzen Tiere

    • Wir sind Raucher

    • Familien möglich

  • Kann Digital Nomads unterbringen

    Kann Digital Nomads unterbringen

    Dieser Gastgeber nimmt gern Digital Nomads bei sich auf.

  • Platz zum Abstellen von Camper Vans

    Platz zum Abstellen von Camper Vans

    Dieser Gastgeber bietet Platz für Wohnmobile.

  • Kapazität - wie viele Workawayer maximal

    Kapazität - wie viele Workawayer maximal

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  • Meine Tiere/Haustiere

    Meine Tiere/Haustiere

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