Beautiful mountains, organic food and permaculture gardening in Dafins, Austria

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  Beschreibung

  If you write me a message here, I normally reply in a couple of hours, max 2 days. This profile is quite long and clear and a lot of what I wrote here is because of the experiences I had with past workawayers.
  
  Last update: 14.04.2024
  
  Availability:
  - 1 room available for may and june
  - upper floor fitness room available now (except july and september)
  
  Currently I am searching for workawayers who
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  - can help me finish building the wooden hedge
  - have a passion and talent for cooking, cleaning, washing, household chores, and maintenance tasks around the house
  - can make garden beds
  - start preparing the beds and planting stuff in the garden
  - help with hot rot composting
  - putting in water pipes in the garden for a hedgehog and a bird fountain
  - putting cables in place for a camera system to watch animals during the night
  - can build a chicken house and a fence to keep the chickens in, and a fence around the garden, to keep them out of the garden
  - can help with extending the current "electrical fence" against slugs
  - can do garden maintance, chipping wood branches, compost making, planting seeds
  - weeding
  
  
  Why this workaway might not be for you
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  Because of all the things you might learn here, I have had workawayers come here with high expectations. In order to learn everything you can from this place you would need to stay about half a year. Please understand my description as only an excerpt of what you could learn, since most of you will not stay for 6 months.
  
  A significant portion of the stay is weeding, cleaning, cooking, household chores as if you would have your own house. If the weather is bad outside (for example if the soil is frozen in the winter or if there is continuous heavy rain in the summer), we do more indoor stuff. The work involved always depends on the season, the weather and the "subprojects" currently ongoing.
  
  There might be times where I can spend more time with you and also other times where I will be not available because of my job and I will only be outside with you to teach and explain and demonstrate the tasks. No need to worry that you don't understand a task or that you run out of tasks, I explain everything in much detail and there is plenty to do here.
  
  I try to be available for doing yoga with you in the morning and for meal times. I'm also sometimes around during the day, sometimes more often, sometimes less. I prefer workawayers who are able to look for tasks themselves, it's more a question of attitude. If you come with a will to contribute and make this a better place, if you act as if this place is partly yours then that is exactly what I am looking for!
  
  Sometimes there might not be much time&space to build a deeper connection. If you are staying here for 2 months there will always be time and space for that. However if you stay here for 2-3 weeks (for example if somebody leaves earlier or if I make an exception to my minimum stay), then you might leave without having had the oppurtunity to build a deep connection because of my limited possibilities to give you my time and attention. I'll be honest with you this has frustrated some workawayers in the past and has caused some to leave earlier, which I completely understand, no hard feelings. Just writing this here so you know what to expect when you come here. On the other side I have had wonderful via ferrata hikes and very memorable visits to lakes and mountains in the summer with some workawayers while my job was less demanding.
  
  If you tend to leave paper/plastic/leftovers/bags/etc on the kitchen counter or kitchen table, or dirty dishes in the sink please don't apply.
  
  If you can't handle me asking you to clean up after yourself (which I don't like doing) or if you can't keep the bathroom clean, please don't apply.
  
  Cooking for yourself, cleaning your own room and your bathroom does not count as working hours. If you cook or bake for the whole group - this counts as working hours.
  
  Unfortunately I have to mention this, because of past experiences with workawayers: If you have not lived alone by yourself (what I mean is that if you are not able to clean up after yourself), if you are not able to cook for yourself, if you can't wash your own clothes, if you can't be by yourself without company, if you don't want to help with the household chores), guys: if after 15 minutes of digging a hole to plant a tree you need to rest for 30 minutes then please don't apply for this workaway either.
  
  Please know that the work here can be quite demanding at times, so I am looking for active people who for example love being outside, or who love sports or who are independent and can think for themselves and who are reliable and are doers.
  
  I prefer workawayers which stay for a couple of months. Minimum stay is 4 weeks (if you want to stay shorter try to convince that it is worth it for me ;-)
  
  Now on to the fun part and why this workaway might change your life in a way you might have never imagined :)
  
  
  The project
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  I live in a small paradise in a tiny mountain village (couple of hundred people) in Dafins, Austria. But still only about 10 min from the valley. I live completely organic, and also everything in and around the house (pond, small forest, huge garden, river, spring ...) is held in a enviromentally friendly, sustainable and organic way (permaculture). I do terra preta composting with vegetable coal, do as much recycling economy as possible, I have a vermicompost of worms. There are around 30 fruit trees, 30 berry bushes, 3 walnut trees, 2 haselnut, 2 chestnut trees on the property. I have lizards, birds, butterflies and many many small bugs (ladybug) and friendly insects (earwig - it eats the louses on the trees) here. Every tree has it's own earwig housing :) I'm about to also build housings for green lacewings (they eat the aphids of my trees). There is special butterfly area where always dozens of butterflies are active (I specially planted plants for butterflies there). I make and store my own wood for the heating system in the house and I also have power with solar panels on the roof. I buy organic food in a local organic store. My philosophy is not to become self-sufficient, but to buy what I can from a small family-owned local organic food store to support the farmers who also then support the animals and soil in their area. Also I can never be as efficient as a farmer specialized on a special type of vegetable. It makes more sense to me to buy carrots from a farmer who has perfected this (carrots need very loose soil - almst like sand, which I don't have here). I plant in my garden mainly things I cannot buy like ripe fruits (with some exceptions). In my garden I have green figs, peaches (because I cannot buy ripe peaches), amarillos, berries of all sorts, peas, mini-kiwis, physalis, apricots, apples, tomatoes, salads, spinach, arugula, herbs and much more. I have advanced toolery, a small tractor, and the best high quality garden equipment so that working makes fun and is efficient :) Last year I installed water pipes to most area of the garden with a pump. This year I'm installing water pipes for bird bath and hedgehog fountain. I currently have no animals or pets, although there are a few cats who frequently visits the property, they seem to have claimed this area as there property ;-) .... but I have a lot of root voles, moles, deer, badgers and foxes coming by (filmed with my camera) and eating my broccoli and berries from my garden ;-) I want to build a henhouse soon - workawayers eat a lot of eggs :-D ( ... we have a lot of foxes so the house needs to be safe) and get a dog, cat and goats sometime in the future. Sometimes I get hedgehogs from a local hedgehog sanctuary to release them into the wild here. You would then have to feed the hedgehogs.
  
  What am I trying to accomplish here? First of all this is a huge property and huge house, which are way too big for me to live alone and handle all by myself. I was thinking for quite some time what to do with it. I had various options available. But then I heard about workaway, so I immediately thought that this is it. I can do some good here by making my dream come true to build a paradise in nature for nature with the help of other similar minded people and at the same time spread the word about sustainability, how to treat plants, insects, animals and our earth with respect. To reveal the secrets of how plants interact with our soil and how the recycling economy actually works handson. Because 500 years ago nobody was fertilizing our lands with mineral fertilizers or poisoning our soil with chemical pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, insecticides, heavy metals and other poisons. Why do we think it is necessary today? Actually I know it is not, and I want to show you and teach you so that this knowledge spreads to as many people as possible.
  
  With the plants, it is like with humans. The industry makes us addicted to substances so that we keep buying them. The same principle is with plants, the more our plants get "addicted" to water soluble mineral fertilizers (mostly as salts), the less need there is for them to interact and grow microbacteria, Mycorrhiza, bacteria which feeds the roots of the plants with nutrients. If the plant then doesn't need them, it won't supply them with what those organisms need most: glucose (carbon/carbohydrates), the symbiosis betweent the plant and the living organisms in the soil degrades. So the soil quality degrades, less carbon goes into the soil, the "life" in the soil starts to "die", meaning you need more and more mineral fertilizer. Since the organisms in the soil also protect the plants against deceases, and since they get less and less, you need more chemicals to kill of deceases (funghi, pests, etc). If you want a healthy plant you need healthy soil without fertilizer. Only this promotes growth of living organisms in the soil who which can then supply the plant with the necessary nutrients. This also does not wash out nutrients like with the mineral fertilizers and does not not pollute our ground water! In fact if you make a drip test yourself, water coming out of "living" soil comes out clear, where as water out of "dead" soil comes out all brown.
  
  Also how to live and really do the Zero-Waste Philosophy, because there was no real waste (microplastics, hard to break down chemicals, PFAS, etc) either 200 years ago. Hopefully if you come to this paradise here and learn how to treat various plant deseases naturally, make super healthy microbacteria enriched terra preta compost and so much more you will share your knowledge with others and spread the word :-)
  
  
  Workawayers 2024 (to keep everybody in the loop)
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  04.01 - 31.01 Hannes Germany
  06.01 - 21.01 Ashley Germany
  20.01 - 11.02 Katrine Denmark
  03.02 18.35 - 18.02 Aimee UK
  04.02 - 18.02 Abu (Germany)
  19.02 - 09.03 Edgars (Latvia)
  03.03 - 31.07 Hugo France (guest room)
  04.03 - 14.03 Briellen - USA
  14.03 - 28.03 Anton Germany (Fitnessroom - upper floor )
  09.03 - 16.03 Tyron (my brother)
  14.03 - 24.03 Emma UK (piano room)
  27.03 - 17.04 Jacob (Denmark)
  17.03 - 19.04 Josy Austria (yellow room)
  03.05 - 31.05 maybe Matt UK (he will let me know by 7.4.)
  22.04. - 31.12. Atussa (july in fitness room upper floor) (no cov yet)
  01.07 - 02.08 Méryl & Grégory France (piano room) (cov ok)
  01.08 - 28.09 Veronica Italy (cove ok)
  01.08 - 01.09 Georgi Australia
  01.09 - 30.09 Ella UK (cove planning)
  
  
  Waiting List in case somebody cancels
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  01.07.2024 - 31.07.2024 Jacob (Netherlands)
  
  
  People from outside the Schengen Zone need a valid visa to come to Austria. Please only apply to this workaway if you have a valid VISA.
  
  Even though safety is of the upmost importance to me, an accident can happen at any time and it's important that - no matter how unlikely - you have health coverage in case you need to go to a hospital because of a sickness or injury. For this reason I only accept workawayers who have health insurance coverage in Austria. If you don't have one, check out the workaway offers (world nomads / genki).
  
  
  Generally I need help with
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  - household and cleaning the house - this will probably be the biggest part (especiall in the winter time)
  - weeding and gardening
  - making marmelade, collecting berries, peaches, figs, baking cakes, cooking :)
  - building the wooden dead hedge and a trail path around the property
  - digging holes, watering, mulching, taking care of the fruit trees, spraying the trees and raspberries
  - making and handling of the hotrot compost (about 18m line) & worm compost (feeding the worms)
  - some DIY projects (like automatic watering system, electrical wiring, building bee and lacewing housings out of wood, etc)
  
  Please only apply if you feel comfortable helping me out 5-6 hours a day, 5 days a week. And if you can treat, clean and take care of the house/property as it were yours, meaning that if you take/use something you return it in clean state, or when you see something which needs attention/care you don't look the other way but feel ok with attending to it without me reminding you :-) Obviously all workawayers will do their part and cleaning will not only fall to one person.
  
  In return I would provide a very nice and very clean accomadation, 100% organic food, lots of knowlege about the topics described below, my personal attention and support whereever I can, practical handson experience and some time for some of your specific topics if you wish to share something where you want some feedback in your personal life. I hope to develop a nice friendship.
  
  You can work at your own pace and on your own schedule. However there might be some days where I ask you to work a bit longer, for example if the weather forecast says that it is about to rain and the the wood or hay which is out in the open sun gets under the roof in time before the rains begins :)
  
  If one day you would like to leave earlier for a hike for example or switch days to stay overnight in a mountain hut - I am normally flexible and we can make that happen.

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  Arten von Hilfe und Lernmöglichkeiten

  Hilfe bei Ökoprojekten

  Gartenarbeiten

  Heimwerker- und Bauarbeiten

  Zubereiten / Kochen von Mahlzeiten für die Familie

  Hausarbeiten

  Handwerkliche Arbeiten
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  Kultureller Austausch und Lernmöglichkeiten

  Some of the things you potentially could learn here: Handling with wood, building a dead wood hedge (google "dead hedge" ;-). Wood and garden machinery. Wood splitting machine. Organic & permaculture gardening. Organic hot rot composting. Recycling economy. Worm compsting, Vermicompost, Terra preta compost, Organic farming, Fertilizing of the garden and fruit trees without chemicals - compost, sand, organic fertilizer, mulch, plantbased slurry for spraying on trees and plants. How to create plantbased slurry (stinging nettle, field horsetail, comfrey, and garlic) to strengthen the plants (then they can fend off diseases and parasites more easily). I have very sophisticated tools for repairing stuff. If you are into DIY I can show you how to do handcrafting things from electrical engineering to networking, building things out of wood and drilling holes into walls with a huge drilling machine :-D
  
  For the gardening part, I can show you how to do permaculture gardening. You can observe how plants get well again for example if they have a sickness or lice, fungus etc.
  
  Learn how to grow shitake mushrooms on logs or to cut grass with a scythe.
  
  There is a huge bookshelve with hundres of books, a lot of them have to do with composting, worm composting, hot rot composting, sprouting, growing fruits & vegetables that taste better, herbs, cooking, etc. Quite a few are in German, but there are also English ones.
  
  Sorry, but no smoking or alkohol in the house or on the property! Also no smoking outside on the street, I smell this immediately when you come back and it is not pleasant.
  
  We try to produce as less waste as possible (zero waste goal). We make our own
  - laundry detergent for washing the clothes in the washing machine
  - liquid soap (dishwashing liquid) for the kitchen
  - dishwasher agent for the dishwasher
  
  We use soapflakes, sodium bicarbonate (natron), sodium carbonate (soda), and citric acid to make some of the cleaning agents. Some other ones I still buy (for when the self-made ones are not so effective).
  
  I speak fluent english and german and a bit spanish, I am certified CMAS rescue diver, was part of a life-guard organization for 5 years but I don't actively practice it anymore since I moved from the lake to the mountains :)
  
  I really love to go salsa dancing, rockhill climbing and fixed rope routes (via ferratta) in the summer when there is no snow on the mountain tops. where you could also tag along if you like. Also I do acroyoga, tango argentino and CrossFit sometimes. There is a large and thick 4x4m acroyoga training mat in the yoga room.
  
  About 4-5 times a week I do Yoga in the mornings at around 7:30 where you are welcome to join. I setup the laptop on the floor and follow a instructer lead program. I say this because Yoga helps a lot of people and it brings attention back into their own body. I wish more people would focus more on their own senses, on the present moment, feeling their feelings, and focussing on their body, than spending so much time in distracting things, which brings our attentions away from us. Very important: Sometimes when you go into a yoga pose, you might want to go deeper, but sometimes you might also want to back off a bit. Yoga is not a competition, it's about learning about your body. You should not feel pain in yoga, so please back off a bit when you feel that the pain comes. Learn about your body's limits and learn to respect them!! Every person is individual and in a different shape. Don't compete and compare yourself with others in Yoga.
  
  Once a month I host a paid singing bowls meditation evening with ayurveda dinner where you can join for free if you like. It's basically a person who plays various singing bowls for an hour while we lie on the ground and then have a very delicious supper with a great group of like minded people….. currently in pause because the cook is not available
  
  If you like I can show you how to grow various sprouts like fenugreek, alfalfa, sunflower etc to put in salads or on a piece of bread. You can observe how sprouts come out of the seeds and how quicky they grow! Learn about possible mistakes and how to take good care of them.
  
  Learn how to use a pressure cooker to make the -imho- superdelicious beans, rice and millet fast and easy. Learn how to eat healthy and how to live a healthy life by taking good care of your mind, body and soul.
  
  Learn to make sour-dough bread for yourself and other workawayers, from ginding the grains, to keeping the starter alive to the finished bread.
  
  I am a very open and spiritual person and I welcome questions of all sorts. I practice Yoga, I meditate, I sit infront of fires, talk long walks in nature, go swimming in waterfalls, go through via ferrata trails and encourge you to join in for your personal growth: Being in an environment of nature and spiritual practice can teach you a lot about how to deal with your emotions, thoughts, and challenges that come from living and working together with others.
  
  Kindness, loving care, respect, awareness, and meditation in action are important to me in this project.
  
  There is a lot of great stuff to do around this area. Some examples I have listed below. Depending on my work stituation, if I am able to make some time, I can show you some nearby very beautiful waterfalls or awesome mountain hikes on fixed rope routes.
  
  You will be part of the workaway "Dafins workaway onsite" whatsapp group, so you can communicate and share pictures with the other guests, after you leave -if you wish- you will be part of the "Dafins workaway longterm progess" whatsapp group, so that you can stay in touch with everybody who has ever been here and see the progress of what you started and in order to still feel connected if you like (all workawayers have left a mark here in one or the other way - like the bee housings with custom made drawings).
  
  
  Other random listed possible tasks I can think of:
  labeling trees and plants, making firewood, making fires, cleaning floors from dust, carrying couches and furniture back to their original place, creative cooking, ethernet cabling, mounting outdoor animal surveillance cameras, electrical wiring, garden electrical sockets, building wooden houses for the hawks (so i can attract hawks to hunt mice :), building housings for weasels, making wooden frames for berry plants, covering the pond with a net so leaves don't fall into it, covering the garden soil with leaves for mulch
  
  The longer you stay the more you will learn and the more I can show you. If you are staying for a shorter period there is only so much I can show you. I would estimate that 2-3 months is a good time to get a good overview of most things going on here and 4-6 months to deepen the knowledge so that it becomes second nature to you. Not everybody will be able to do everything, depending on weather, season and harvest.
  
  Things we can do together in our free time: hikes by lakes, indoor rockhill climbing, waterfalls hikes, lunch with my parents, walk by lake constanz or something on the list below
  
  Things to do in the area
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  I will send you links to everything via whatsapp in my pdf file, apparently workaway does not display them, just google (maps) the terms in the meantime :)
  
  Swimming & chilling in a beautiful nearby lake (I go there frequently and you can join) "Baggerlöcher"
  
  Visit various beautiful waterfalls around the area, for example "Frutz wasserfall", "Rotes Tor Wasserfall",
  Marvelous Waterfall very nearby "Gabor Wasserfall"
  
  Visit the Rappenloch Gorge "Rappenlochschlucht Dornbirn" / Go Hiking up Karren Peak "Karren cable car"
  
  Various hikes (public transportation) and hiking App: download the outdooractive app and then search for the region of Vorarlberg
  
  Nature show experience museum (go there by train) - "Inatura"
  
  Cablecar "Pfaenderbahn" to the top of a mountain with a beautiful view of lake constace (go there by train)
  
  Summer activies in Bregenzerwald (rockhill climbing, ..) (you need a car)
  
  Rockhill climbing indoors (there are lots of outdoor rockhill climbing places as well) (go there by train) "K1 Dornbirn"
  
  Lagoon round trip at the entrance to the Rhine river (highly recommended) (you need a car)
  "Lagunenrundweg an der Rheinmündung"
  
  Visit old town of Feldkirch (james bond scenes)
  
  Old castle museum in Feldkirch
  
  Walk around the magical Seealpsee 2:15 (you need a car)
  
  OR EVEN Better, if you don't mind a hike 3:15 - you hike up the mountain and will see a house built into the mountain - very cool!! and go down the mountain with a cable car or hike up and down 6:30 (pictures of the house built into the mountain here)
  
  Walk around the Lünersee (one of the largest natural mountain lakes in the Eastern Alps) - you need a car
  "Lünersee"
  
  Really cool climbing Route (check out the pics :) - but check if it's open before going - you need a car
  "Klettersteig Pinut"

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  Arbeit

  Examples of qualities I am looking for in workawayers:
  - When you use things from my kitchen, you put then back in a clean state
  - If you see something dirty in the kitchen and it wasn't caused by you, then you feel ok to clean it up anyway
  - If you see dirt in the entrace area, you would get the vacuum cleaner and clean it up by yourself
  - When you take a tool from somewhere you put it back in it's place in a clean state, even if it was dirty when you got it
  - When the bathrooms & toilets need some love, you feel ok in attending to it
  - When the plastic garbage gets full, you empty it into the big container outside without me asking you
  - When you fill the bathtube with water you don't go out of the bathroom to do something else in the meantime
  - You know how to cook for yourself and are happy to do so together with others
  - When you see injustice somewhere or feel uncomfortable about something you are ok with communicating this to me
  - Before leaving you tidy up your room and the bathroom like when you found it
  
  More information about the help I am requesting:
  The house is quite huge and there in the large natural scenery around the house so there a ton of things to take care of. Also there are quite some projects I would like to implement, for example currently deer are nabbing on the barks and leafs of my fruit trees so I have decided to build a fence around my property. Since I want everything to be as ecological as possible I want to build a dead wood hedge for insects, hedgehogs, lizards, etc. This can be light work in simple piling up the wood in the hedge or also more challenging work with sawing the wood and carrying logs around together with me. I will attach pictures in the bottom describing this in more detail.
  
  Also help in building wild bee, eagle, lacewing and weasel housings (let your creativity flow when drawing the holes to a pattern) would be greatly appreciated :)
  
  There is a lot to be done in the garden from preparing the soil and planting in the spring to lots of weeding in the summer and watering and mulching. Some trees need a "garden bed", wooden surroundings.
  
  Regarding the house, there are lot of tasks as well, like putting groceries away, cooking, cleaning and laundry, emptying the organic waste, paper, plastics, taking out the trash etc. Just normal things which come to having a big house.
  
  I don't mind if somebody just wants to work on rougher more strenuous work like sawing wood, carrying, moving compost, sand or soil, digging holes for trees, building a stone wall etc or finer things like piling up small sticks on the hedge or planting seeds and plants in the garden or weeding, or other things as long as there is a good climate and good understanding and respect with each other. So basically I have things for people who like physically demanding work, and also things that requires fine handwork like with plants in the garden.
  
  I can also need help in building a nature trail around the property and also building some stone walls.
  
  I have come to appreciate if workawayers who have a passion for making a home look nice do this here :) I'm always open to change so that the house feels more comfortable and welcoming. My goal is that all visitors get connected with the place, with each other, with yourself and that everybody has a great experience :) It should also be a place where you can arrive, be in the present, come into a flow, spend time with yourself (with a hike or some time infront of a waterfall) and reflect about your life and find out what you want in life and what is really is important to you.
  
  We try to communicate to each other openly what went well, what didn't go as planned, what we liked and disliked, and if we identify an area where we could improve, we try to adjust so that the experiece is as good as possible for both of us. Only if we communicate our thoughts, feelings and needs openly we can understand each other better through empathy. A good book I stronly recommend in this regard is NVC - "Nonviolent communication" from Marshall Rosenberg or in German GFK - "Gewaltfreie Kommunikation". NVC is a communication tool with the goal of first creating empathy in the conversation. The idea is that once there is empathy between the parties in the conversation, it will be much easier to talk about a solution which satisfies all parties' fundamental needs. It is about gathering facts through observing without evaluating, genuinely and concretely expressing feelings and needs, and formulating effective and empathetic requests
  
  I have to work a lot from my home office and unfortunately I cannot go as much outside as I would want, that's why I am grateful for help in and around the house. I will share my knowledge and experience regarding nature, sustainability, cooking, gardening, sprouting, composting, yoga+acroyoga, salsa dancing, meditation, spirituality, life experience, humbleness, food preservation, meal prepping, electrical engineering, craftmans skills, etc. When you leave this place I hope you will pass on this knowledge to others in the world :)
  
  Regarding the schedule in the mornings we do a short information exchange either the night before or after breakfast or during the day. I'll let you know what needs to be done and we also do a short feedback round from time to time.
  
  I don't mind on which days or which hours you work as long as I see progress and you work 5h a day 5 days a week. It should feel fair for us both. Public holidays are not free time.
  
  I normally go to sleep at around 22:00 and wake up at around 7:30.
  
  When it is raining heavily outside we try to do some work inside the house, like cleaning, vacuuming, meal prepping, baking, making a fire 🔥 in the big wood stove in the basement for the central heating system- in order to have warm water for a shower ;-)
  
  I'm also looking for somebody with organizational, communicative and people's skills who would want to stay for half a year. I would like to teach you everything about gardening, take care of the trees, the property, the building and the clay walls etc. You would then also coordinate the workawayers and take over when there is a gap, also coordinate the sleeping areas and make sure everything is prepared for new arrivals, also that everybody follows the house rules of living together in harmony. The idea is that I can give away some of the responsiblity and have less weight on my shoulders. In addition to myself, you would also be passing on your knowledge to the workawayers :)
  Would also be great if you could make some videos of my guidelines document (mainly operational stuff) so that workawayers always have a reference.

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  Gesprochene Sprachen

  Deutsch: Fließend
  Englisch: Fließend

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  Unterkunft

  The house is very big, there are 3 empty guest rooms from which you can choose, each has a double bed - 1,80m wide. All have windows. One has a really nice and beautiful view to the valley and with a piano in the room :) All three guest rooms have been renovated and now have clay walls with copper heat pipes. They are all warm and cosy. All sheets are new. Towels are here as well. You can use the kitchen and the washing machine, which is shared with me. There is also a small cinema room which you can use from time to time when I am out of the house. Highspeed Internet WLAN access with 250/100. There is an additional fourth "room" in the upper floor of the fitness room where somebody could sleep there, however you „climb“ up the wooden ladder to get up. However sometimes somebody would use the fitness room. But they wouldn‘t be able to see the upper floor. We would ask before we use the fitness room.
  
  There is a nice guest bathroom with a bath tub and a shower, which workaway guests share. If you are the only guest, then you have the whole guest bathroom to yourself.
  
  I provide uncooked staple organic-only food like rice, millet, potatoes, beans, oats, fruits & vegetables, eggs, sourdough bread, butter, jam. >> You cook for yourself or together with other workawayers << - This is important - you need to be able to cook for yourself! - I currently am on a special diet (because of my stomach issues), so I cook for myself everyday the same thing: rice/millet+beans+vegetable soup+eggs+meat. Most of the times we eat at the same time together. If I have already eaten (because of my eating schedule, I always try to be there while you eat to talk about the day etc and for the company). I will ask you to cook a vegetable soup for me and rice/millet from time to time in a larger quantity so that I can warm it up for me to eat.
  
  If anything runs out, you write it on a list and I will get it from the organic food store. I don't pay for sweets, meat, chips, chocolate, but I can get it for you if you want, or you can join me when going to the organic food store and buy it yourself. If you however would like to make a typical austrian (recipies are available) or other desert or cake for the whole group, I am happy to pay for the ingredients.
  
  Learn how to eat healthy. Learn how to cook millet, buckwheat, barley, rice, potatoes in a super delicious way super easy in a rice cooker.
  
  Learn about edible flowers, plants and leafs from the garden and integrate them into your meals. Watch birds and woodpeckers from the kitchen table while you eat breakfast/lunch during the winter time.
  Taste selfmade jam from berries from the garden. Eat self grown potatoes and fresh self-made sprouts in the winter and fresh garden vegetables in the summer.
  
  The kitchen is quite large and there is lots of kitchen macherinery available (vitamix mixer, grinder, machine to make grain flakes, sprouting systems, drying machine to make dried fruits, gas stove, electric stove, wood stove, ceramic oven, deep fryer), energized water filter. You can make bread or pizza in the fire wood stove for example if you like, tastes super delicious :)
  
  All rooms have at least 1 clay wall with heat pipes built into the wall (built by workawayers in 2023). This makes a very cosy and warm atmosphere (because of the wall heating and the natural white clay). They have been completely newly renovated and painted in 2023. They are very clean and it is important to me that they stay very clean. There is an open fire place in the living room. This is super cosy in the winter. Feeling the warmth of the fire on your skin, watching the flames do their thing and hearing the crackling sound of the fire is kind of meditative :)
  
  In the summer you can use the very comfortable deck chairs to lie in the beautiful foregarden and seeing hearing observing/smelling all the butterflies/insects/birds/etc. Or use the super comfortable hammock in the pergola.
  
  There is a concept2 rowing machine in the fitness room if you are into rowing. The fitness room has a pullup bar, rings, a long climbing rope, kettlebells, a rogue bar+rogue bumper plates.
  
  There are a couple of board and card games in the Yoga Room to play with.
  
  I grew up with animals so dogs & cats are welcome. If you want to come alone - great! If you come as a couple - perfect! If you want to come as a couple with a cat or dog awesome! :-)

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  Was noch ...

  Only when I list your name and your dates in this profile further above, then your stay is confirmed by me. If I give you a verbal confirmation and your name does not appear in the list in1-2 days above then your stay is not confirmed. Please come back for me for, probably I just need a quick reminder.
  
  There is a bus going to the valley regurarly, or it is about a 15-20 min walk to the busstop in the valley. If you miss the bus or underestimated the time it takes to come back home and it's getting dark and you are afraid, of course I will come and pick you up.
  
  When you are coming here for the first time, I will pick you up from the local train station in Rankweil, Austria - not before 9:00 in the mornings and not later than 21:00 in the evening please. I will wait for you at train platform number 1 in a white car.
  
  When you write me a message through this workaway platform and it seems like a possible fit, I will reply with my whatsapp number, so we can do a whatsapp videocall to talk to each other. Or Signal if you don’t use whatsapp. This way we can get to know each other a bit and check out the vibes :) If we are fine with each other I would send you a copy of my "Workaway Dafins Information, Guidelines and House Rules.pdf" document (mostly common-sense stuff I have learned from experiences hosting workawayers ;) for you to go through and to see if this is ok for you or not. If I don't send you this document because of time constraints, please remind me.
  
  If we have an agreement, here are some recommendations to prepare for your wonderful experience here:
  
  • Make sure you have a valid Visa and health insurance coverage in Austria, if you don’t please don’t come
  • Please make sure you bring shoes and clothes where you don’t regret when they get really dirty and muddy
  • Warm clothes: it can get quite cold during the nights (5-10 degrees in autumn / -5 to +5 in the winter)
  • Swimwear: if you want to go swimming in the nearby lake or waterfalls, perhaps shoes that are ok to get wet
  • Good hiking shoes, mountain clothes, and a backpack if you want to go hiking in the mountains
  perhaps a light sleeping bag and earplugs if you want to stay overnight in a mountain hut (people snore)
  • Install the outdoor active app beforehand and explore at possible routes in Dafins and Vorarlberg Austria
  • Yoga mat if you like to join me in yoga sessions
  • Helmet and via ferrata set (fixed rope route set) if you are into this kinds of hikes
  • The hiking and things to do list is on the end of this document, check it out, there are some real gems there :)
  • Please read the "Workaway Dafins Information, Guidelines and House Rules.pdf" document i sent you 1-2 days before arrival to refresh your memory - I will ask you to sign that you read the document once you arrive, if you did not get a chance there is a copy here for you to read
  • Choose a fixed (manual selection) Austrian mobile phone provider like "T-Mobile Austria" (best reception) or "A1" when you get here in order to not get charged high roaming costs because your phone changes to a swiss network provider (Dafins is quite close to the swiss border) by chance
  • Send me a reminder of your arrival time in the Rankweil train station 1-2 days before and ALSO on the day of the arrival that your train is on time and has no delays, make sure I confirm your arrival time, I will pick you up at platform 1
  
  
  When you leave please clean and tidy your room and bathroom perfectly like you found it when you arrived - so it is ready for the next guest.

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  Etwas mehr Information

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    Internet Zugang

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    Eingeschränkter Internet Zugang

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    Wir besitzen Tiere

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    Wir sind Raucher

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    Familien möglich

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  Kann Digital Nomads unterbringen

  I have a very good internet connection and wifi in the whole house.

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  Platz zum Abstellen von Camper Vans

  There is space for a small van.

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  Hier sind Haustiere in der Regel willkommen

  Dieser Gastgeber ist bereit, Reisende mit Haustieren bei sich aufzunehmen.

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  Kapazität - wie viele Workawayer maximal

  mehr als zwei

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  Arbeitszeiten

  5 hours a day, 5 days a week

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