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EDIT: currently ONLY looking for someone whose main tasks would be to help with my baby (9 months old! ❤️) and occasional cooking. You will still get plenty of chances to work with horses and/or ride daily - the animals are part of our family!
Hello lovelies! I'm Sara and I own a small farm in a very rural setting in eastern Slovenia. It's partially my home, partially my organisation/work, and most importantly - a community that we co-create together with a bunch of coworkers, volunteers and friends. We've hosted our first volunteers last year and loved the experience. This year a baby has joined our family which means that now a lot of our life revolves around the little one!
We have a herd of 9 horses and an old farm that we've been renovating with the vision of turning it into a rural community/youth center. There's an old barn that we're turning into a tiny indoor riding arena & a common space where young people can hang out in their free time, a few guest rooms in the house & a lot of overgrown land that wants to become a garden.
Our family also consists of cats and two dogs, our NGO's employees and local volunteers, and there are always super-friendly locals coming for a visit and a cup of coffee - so it's a quiet space, but full of animals and a sense of community.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Animal Care
Babysitting and creative play
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
Interests
Outdoor activities
Nature
Animals
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
In exchange, you get your own room, food, access to a bike and a car, the possibility to learn horsemanship skills - or just spend time with our wonderful herd - and the chance to be a part of a very rural, welcoming community surrounded by nature (and animals - our animals love to smother volunteers with love 😍). We'd love to eat some meals per week together.
Horsey experience is not necessary as our herd is quite low-maintenance, but we've learned from experience that we don't always have a lot of time to teach you the basics of riding and working with horses if that's your goal, so some self-initiative is needed. If you're comfortable around horses, you're welcome to go on rides in the forest on your own or with the local volunteers and to play/train with the horses on a daily basis. For pony nerds, I'm fascinated by approaches such as Centered Riding, Academic Art of Riding, building a paddock paradise, and our horses go barefoot and bitless.
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Help
Edit: your main tasks would be helping with the baby and the household - babysitting for an hour or so every day, helping prepare meals for us and other volunteers, walking the dogs, helping with keeping the house tidy.
Your other tasks could include taking care of the horses (poop-picking, weekly training if you have experience with horses) and helping out with various tasks around the farm depending on your skills and wishes (preparing the garden, helping with fencing and chopping wood, etc).
We've seven horses and two foals who live freely on about a hectare of land and the poop-picking is max. 1h/day, and the rest of the time is spent on various projects around the farm. It's physical work, but not overly hard.
We also appreciate you co-creating the living space together with us and sharing cooking and housekeeping duties. Since the baby's arrival, this has become more and more important; we want the living space to be tidy and clean. While not a must, babysitting occasionally (but not much - our baby is only seven months old and requires a lot of mama!) would be appreciated.
If you have skills that would be interesting to the local young people and community, we'd be happy to organise events and workshops together as well! :) We once organised an 'English tea party' with our UK volunteers for the local community and it was a blast.
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Slovenian: Fluent
French: Beginner
Dutch: BeginnerThis host offers a language exchange
The local kids & teens are always happy to practice their English with our volunteers and they'd be happy to teach you Slovenian in exchange!
Accommodation
We have three guest rooms and you'd have your own room. We've just renovated them with natural materials (wood, straw, clay) and they're lovely, and we share the common space together (kitchen, living room).
What else ...
We have a car just for volunteers and you're welcome to use it for trips in your free time - we're close to Hungary, Austria and Croatia, and we live in a beautiful wine region full of little charming places to see. Budapest is a cheap train ride away, Vienna, Zagreb and Ljubljana are easily accessible by car and there is a mountain range full of hiking opportunities an hour's drive away + lots of lakes to go swimming in the summer.
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Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
There's optic internet on the farm and volunteers have their own room, which offers enough privacy to work. The working hours are totally flexible and can be adjusted to your other responsibilities.
Space for parking camper vans
This host can provide space for campervans.
How many Workawayers can stay?
One
My animals / pets
Malakai
Atina
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