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First of All:
Nice you found the Way to our Profile. We shortly describe us and most of the Stuff that could be interesting to you.
About Us:
We are a young Family: Farina, Adam, Baldur and our Cat Mirabella. We are living in an old traditional house in Appenzell, which is a small area in Switzerland.
We are a family who tries to live their dreams and make the Heartvision come true. Making this world a lovely place for life , while not loosing our self in doing the best we can.
We have many different projects and ideas. For example we sometimes build clay ovens or we go to festivals and markets to bake "organic spelt" pizzas full of Love in our own mobile clay oven.
Adam is organzing Naturecamps for Kids and is working in the summerseason for a Natureschool in Graubünden. This is not only his work. It is much more his passion. Reconnecting with Nature and Wilderness. So you will have the possibility to learn some survival and native skills in our place if you want. For example fire making, shelter building or scouting. Besides this, he is maintaining much stuff around the hous and is always happy about a helping hand.
Farina is working at a small demeter cow farm in Appenzell and at a herbfarm. Beside this she loves to make her own dresses and trousers her other hobby is our organic garden. We have a big garden which is a place of experimenting. The idea would be to eat mostly what grows in our garden. (Did bot work jet).
She loves baking and experimenting in the kitchen. Baking bread once a week. What can be better than good food?
We both love sports and small hikes.
Maybe you like to share your yogapractice with Farina? Always interessted in new ways.
Both of us love herbs, for eating and healing. As well we like a natural way of living. Constructing with Clay, Wood and other natural Materials. We are very openminded to meet new people with different backgrounds. Respect and Honesty from both sides are very important to us. In our home we are free, we love to sing and to dance, to be loud and to stay in silence. It is our paradise of just being who we are. It's important for us that you respect this area and at the same time to make yourself as comfortable as possible and maybe even feel at home.
You in our Place:
If you visit us we can mostly offer you your own room. Only if we would have many guests like friends and or family + Workawayers it's possible that you will need to share a room. While you stay with us you can use our instruments, stay in the Garden, take long walks in the beautyfull nature. If the day was easy in the evening we sometimes like to play funny games like wizzard or ligretto ...
We are open for longterm guest. But if you want to stay longer then a month, we want to sit and talk after two weeks, to find out how it goes.Types of help and learning opportunities
Charity WorkHelp with Eco ProjectsGardeningDIY and building projectsBabysitting and creative playCreating/ Cooking family mealsHelp around the houseGeneral MaintenanceCultural exchange and learning opportunities
You can learn German Swiss German, especaly from Baldur
You can learn something about gardening
You learn how to work with clay mostly in autum.
Get experience in backing Pizza in our own wood fired clayoven
Learn about survival, bushcraft and natural learning
Join Farina in practicing Yoga
You can learn a little bit about herbal medicine
Most the time we invite you to join our trips or spend time with our lovely friends.
You will have time for your self if you want but you will never be bored. Aaaaaalways something to do.Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
We are always happy to have a helping hand in the Garden. But besides this we are very thankfull for cooking, cleaning, playing with our lovely son Baldur, taking walks with our dog.
Sometimes we as well have small projects. For example we want to build a herbdrying place and stuff like this.
Current help:
renovating the old house
Reorganizing the workshop
Help in the garden
Preparing fire wood
Cleaning the cowshed
Plant some trees
Cleaning the kitchen and the community rooms
If you like Baldur our Kid would be happy if you sometimes spend some time with him
Building a new construction for drying herbs. Our Dream catcher.
Gardening: planting seeds and baby plantsdigging a pont. Generally didding in the garden. Reparing the garden fence.Languages
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
French: BeginnerThis host offers a language exchange
This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
You can contact them directly for more information.Accommodation
Own room.
We sometimes eat meat but you never have to
We try always to eat organic food
We as well can cook gluten freeA little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Space for parking camper vans
This host can provide space for campervans.
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Hours expected
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week
Feedback (11)
Thank you for receiving me at your house, in the period of time that I have shared with the family, it was fantastic, I did activities in the greenhouse, in the garden, I helped with house cleaning issues, and I was able to help Farina with… read more
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Thank you for receiving me at your house, in the period of time that I have shared with the family, it was fantastic, I did activities in the greenhouse, in the garden, I helped with house cleaning issues, and I was able to help Farina with… read more
It was great fun to here and than spend an evening… read more
After having her for about two weeks we can definetly recomend vivian to any host. She will enrich your place.
They accepted me into their home as a last minute request and I am so grateful that they did.
During my stay I helped repair the green house with two other WorkAwayers, cooking and light cleaning, helped to make pizzas at their market stall and helped Adam where I could in building his new pizza trailer (just… read more
They are such nice people. The work was fulfilling and we had enough free time. They were so welcoming and we felt right at home from the beginning. If you are looking for an authentic regional swiss experience these people are the we to go. We can't thank you enough we love you both. Live long and… read more
It was nice to spent time with them and they defenetly worked more then we expected. I think it was as well a nice experience to them, so they gave them selfes fully into the experience with us. I can't even really descripe how thankful we are. Tara made… read more
He was very helpful and it was fun to spent time with him. He was always ready and spreaded his good mood all over the place. We can recomend him to any host.
We felt so blessed with you being around us. Thank you for all this good and beautyfull energie you where bringing in our life.
Hannah you are a young woman with unbelivebel talents. And i know you will use all of them.
I hope we will see each other again with not to much time in between.
with out you we would have never finished our clay oven!!! Not that fast.
Silvia is a really hardworking woman. Full of ideas and power to do what we wants to do. i hope she had a nice expirience in our home because we where really happy to be with her!
I hope you come back one time! She was a quiet and lovely person. When she was telling something it made me wonder. Having her around, made life so much more comfortable. If i would have more power we would have made a beauty full Dream catcher for herbs. I still didn't made him, maybe we will do it together once.
She was really… read more
Lots of awesome people visiting for dinner and lunch each day.
The two weeks that I was staying flew past way too quickly ill need to return one day ;-)
Got to make delicious pizzas at a street event on my last day too !
Hopefully see everyone again one… read more
We were lucky that he was arround. His calm lovely way of being who he his, gave us the base to be more relaxed in daily chaos. Also he is a hard working man doing a lot more than we expected from him.
Always open for a nice conversation.
He is always inveted to be part of our home also as just a friend.