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Simple living and contact with nature in Telemark, Norway

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  2025 

 Geforderte Mindest-Aufenthaltsdauer:  mindestens 3 Wochen

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  • Beschreibung

    Beschreibung

    We are a family of 3 working towards living in an eco-community. Now we landed in Hørte, a small town in the county of Telemark. At the moment we live in an old house we recently bought. We want our home to be renovated to be as self sufficient and off the grid as possible. We hope to inspire others to take these types of choices as well.

    We make decisions following sociocratic processes. So that everyone in the group will share some power and decide.

    We also have a cat by the way!

    We do own and electric car. Our house is 4km from the train stasjon of Bø i Telemark. There is a road to Bø mostly on bike lines if you want to borrow our bikes to travel.

    We are used to and super interested in cultural exchange, especially we love to learn from cultures who still have a deeper connection to nature.

    We speak Norwegian, English and Italian.

  • Arten von Hilfe und Lernmöglichkeiten

    Arten von Hilfe und Lernmöglichkeiten

    Kunstprojekte
    Gartenarbeiten
    Heimwerker- und Bauarbeiten
    Betreuung von Tieren
    Babysitten und Kinderbetreuung
    Zubereiten / Kochen von Mahlzeiten für die Familie
    Hausarbeiten
    Handwerkliche Arbeiten
  • Interessengebiete

    Interessengebiete

    Wandern
    Fitness
    Camping
    Radfahren
    Yoga / Wellness
    Musik
    Heimwerken & DIY
    Kultur
    Events & Sozialleben
    Farmarbeit
    Selbstentwicklung
    Politik & Soziales
    Technik
    Vegetarier / Veganer
    Nachhaltigkeit
    Haustiere
    LGBTQ
    Karitative Arbeiten
    Sprachen
    Gartenarbeiten
    Kochen & Backen
    Bücher
    Tiere
    Tanzen
    Natur
  • Kultureller Austausch und Lernmöglichkeiten

    Kultureller Austausch und Lernmöglichkeiten

    Hørte has a public space which is an art gallery
    Not too far away there's a food garden which up to last year was also a communal place. Maybe it could return to that?
    We are involved in making an old school becoming a wood carving communal space.
    Bø i Telemark has an university campus
    There are plenty of possible tours in nearby nature. And we could drive you where it's harder to get by public transportation
    There is a swimming pool
    Multiple gyms
    Library
    The train station will bring you in 2,5 hours to Oslo. This line goes all the way to Stavanger via Christiansand
    There are a couple of thrift shops

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    We are used to and super interested in cultural exchange, especially we love to learn from cultures who still have a deeper connection to nature.

    We speak Norwegian, English and Italian.

    We would love to learn a Sami language one day.

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    We are training to become sociocratic facilitator and trainers. This is a useful skill you would pick up by having meetings with us.

    We do organize work to do around on a Kanban.

  • 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

    In this first year there would be quite some work for planning the next year, making systems that work for us living under the same roof.

    Examples of projects to be done:
    - sun ventilation on walls
    - design og permaculture gården
    - fixing 5 old bikes on the property
    - painting walls with lin oil paint
    - making the chicken house in stand for our 7 chickens (they live at a family member's place at the moment).
    - eventually feeding and cleaning the chicken coop
    - making food especially from organic food
    - finding and training in conflict resolution processes
    - make a lathe pole to carving bowls
    - carving bowls
    - wood carving
    - write bylaws for a cooperative
    - getting to know our new neighbors
    - chopping wood

    We make decisions following sociocratic processes. So that everyone in the group will share power and decide together.

    I would like to mostly be doing tasks together, or in proximity, if everyone is comfortable with that.

    We also have a 17 months old at home with us, so there would be more or less constant interaction with our toddler. We don't look after someone else than us parent to take care of the kids, but of course having a small one around requires for everyone in the household to pay extra attention (e.g. don't live warm tea or sharp knives around!) :)

  • Sprachen

    Gesprochene Sprachen
    Englisch: Fließend
    Italienisch: Fließend
    Norwegian bokmål: Fließend
    Spanisch: Grundkenntnisse
    Portugiesisch: Grundkenntnisse
    Sami: Grundkenntnisse

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    We are a bilingual family. My partner knows very basic Italian. Our child is growing to be bilingual. We do speak English very fluently. And my level of Norwegian is also high. I do have a lot of resources for Norwegian learning. We would love to have more Sami language around us. We have dreamed about teaching us and move.

  • Unterkunft

    Unterkunft

    You would have your own room with a door.
    We would fix in the room the fornitures you need.
    The other space are common. We have a living room on both floors.

    At the time of writing we still have to start work to build a bathroom inside. Maybe done by September this year (2025). So there is only cold water available inside at the moment.

    The toilet is in the garage at the moment. We shower in an house that we used to rent. For august and september I got a pre paid card to go shower in nearby Camping.

    The house is not yet well isolated (we hope to change the roof during winter) and isolating one of the walls. We do have 3 wood oven we can use (also in the coldest day of summer), to warm up the house.

    We would like to change one of these ovens to have a wood stove in the kitchen - and learning to cook on that instead! But we also still have kitchen machines: mixer, deythraror, moka, istanti pot, induction plates, bread machine.

    There is also a workshop in the garage and other rooms upstairs from the garage who can be used. They aren't very well isolated though, so I'm not sure how they are during winter.

    We do eat primarily plant based. We can provide Glutenfree alternatives (we have a couple of friends with celiac disease and we can make our kitchen glutenfree if needed). If you want some diaries and meats, I would want to buy them from directly from local markets. I like prepping food for multiple days in a row.

    We eat 3 main meals per day.

    - breakfast eaten before 9:30

    - lunch eaten before 13:30

    - dinner eaten before 19:30

    Sometimes we also have an extra meal by 22.

    We like to start our day early, but sometimes our child sleeps in. Then the breakfast happens later. We try to have bread newly baked every day to be eaten for the first two meals with different "pålegg" (ingredients to have on slices). The dinner is usually our main warm meal of the day.

    There is variation in what we eat, and we will find a routine that works for everyone.

  • Was noch ...

    Was noch ...

    We value self-care in this household. Take breaks, go and do a sit spot in nature, be active with you body, take care of your needs, give feedback.

  • 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

    We'll update as soon as we get fiber (during august 2025). At the moment there is a wifi from a som card. There is space for you to use in your room, away from our child (who is veru interstated in pressing on the keyboard).

  • Platz zum Abstellen von Camper Vans

    Platz zum Abstellen von Camper Vans

    We don't have limitations on size of the vehicles parked.

  • Kapazität - wie viele Workawayer maximal

    Kapazität - wie viele Workawayer maximal

    eine(n)

  • Meine Tiere/Haustiere

    Meine Tiere/Haustiere

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    Kin (9 Jahren)

    Forest cat. Kin (for kinship) likes to be on his own. He also loves to get good bites. He gives clear warnings if he doesn't like something you do. Just follow his cues and you won't get any scratches.

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Ein grünes Haus mit weißer Umrandung steht in der Nähe eines Waldes, unter einem blauen Himmel mit flauschigen Wolken. Ein rosafarbener Rand umrahmt die heitere ländliche Szene.
Eine malerische ländliche Landschaft mit ein paar Häusern entlang einer Straße, kleinen Bäumen, trockenem Gras, Bergen im Hintergrund und einem strahlend blauen Himmel.
Eine fröhliche Familie feiert zusammen in einer gemütlichen Küche und lächelt über einen selbstgebackenen Kuchen, der mit der roten Zahl "500" verziert ist und einen besonderen Meilenstein oder eine besondere Leistung hervorhebt.
Das Bild zeigt vier nummerierte Waschmaschinen in einer Reihe, jede mit einem Frontlader-Design, in einem sauberen Waschsalon, eingerahmt von einem leuchtend gelben Rahmen.
Das Bild zeigt drei moderne, barrierefreie Bäder mit begehbaren Duschen, Toiletten und Sicherheitseinrichtungen. Alle sind mit grauen Fliesen, Glastrennwänden und einer leuchtend grünen Bordüre ausgestattet.
Dieser sonnendurchflutete Raum hat rosafarbene Holzwände, viele große Fenster mit Blick nach draußen, eine weiße Decke, einen grünen Boden, Glasflaschen, einen geflochtenen Stuhl, eine Hängepflanze und einen Teppich.
Dieses Bild zeigt ein grünes Holzhaus und ein Nebengebäude unter einem strahlend blauen Himmel mit vereinzelten Wolken, umgeben von Bäumen und Gras, eingerahmt von einem lila Rand.

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