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My name is Olga Maria. I am 40 years old mother of two sons Kazik (12 years old) and Zygmunt (8 years old).
We live in a small village with a free and organic community of artists, builders, gardeners and farmers. You have a chance for music and dance jam sessions, drawing and graphic class, to watch blacksmiths in action, to get a massage, go for a horse ride to the forrest... and many more. Many visitors say that there is a special feeling in Nowina, a slow life tempo and people enjoy every conversation and simple moments shared with the neighbours.
I am a creatores of little organic nest for living and thriving in a healthy, free and healing atmosphere. We live close to nature and try to restore our relation with Mother Earth. Try to understand that we are not separated from nature. We are part of it. My family lives in a strawbale house where we have a room and attic for hosting a volunteer or a couple of volunteers. Next by stands tiny wood and clay house for rent.
I am a bodyworker and shiatsu therapy practitioner. Recently I came back to work with performance art and develope movement, somatic and dance research in the themes related to natural elements of the water and clay. I can fascilitate playfight circles, teach contact improvisation dance. I run a little manufacture with handmade soy wax candles and essential oils. Hobbistically I play on mandoline in an Orchestra.
We have 2 cats that live outdoor, Bonifacy and Filemonka.
My sons can help in different house maintance tasks. They can show you how to use some basic tools, how to climb the trees, build a shelter and give some survival tips. You can watch them working with metal, wood and leather, making customknives in a blacksmith workshop, sharpening the blades, sewing leather holster and oter things.
I welcome co-creation and help with taking care and developing this place. I try to use permaculture design approach and follow my intuition with it.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Language practice
Help with Eco Projects
Teaching
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Babysitting and creative play
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
The volunteers can experience a quite and simple life in the wild, clean and natural surrounding. They can take advantage of social and cultural life of our local community (such as concerts, music and dance jams, artcraft, theatre, dance workshops etc.).
Our village is surrounded by two big forrests and small hills with the horses grazing outdoor. You can hear cows, goats, hens, ducs, gooses here and experience a kind of surrogate of the old days small scale farming.
You may chat with friendly villagers and very possibly meet citizens of all over the world who come to rest in the agrotourstic farms in Nowina.
You can benefit from all the goods of wild nature – hills with old beech forres, wild animals, small streams, places where grows wild herbs and wild eatable plants.
Projects involving children
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Help
Join us in our eco-art village in Nowina, Poland, where daily life follows the rhythm of the seasons. This autumn, our main projects focus on simple, practical work that keeps our family and community flowing:
Cooking and sharing family meals
Helping with maintenance and small repairs around the house
Clay plastering and natural building experience
Gardening and caring for the land
Making jams from seasonal fruits—plums, apples, peaches and more
Handcrafting candles for cozy evenings
We welcome Workawayers who enjoy hands-on living and being part of family and community life. Alongside these activities, there is open space for creative projects and ideas proposed by volunteers—whether artistic, practical, or experimental.
Come for the harvest season, share your skills, and take part in the daily rhythms of our eco-community..
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
French: Beginner
Hebrew: Beginner
Russian: BeginnerThis host offers a language exchange
I'd like to learn Portuguese and French. I'd like to improve my English. My children needs to learn English and any other language they like :-) They are big funs of Japanese! We will all be happy also to learn Spanish.
Accommodation
We have a private room inside our house for hosting guests and an attic that can give some privacy. In the summer months we can provide our tent with the field bed. We can also host voluteers in their own campervan or motor house. There is a place up the hill with more private space around.
What else ...
After helping you have a chance to go horseriding. You can take part in movement and dance classes, music jams, graphic, pottery or other art workshops, concerts, spectacles that are organized in Nowina village.
You can explore bicycle and pedestrian trails of Strzelinskie Hills. You can visit an old Cistercian monastery in Henrykow and learn about famous Book of Henrykow. Closest small town where we do shopping is Henrykow and Ziebice. It's worth to visit there a unique Museum of Household Equipment.
Nowina is 6 km from the train station. Wroclaw - the closest big city is 45 min by train. You can also arrange car-share rides with inhabitants or tourists that travel from Nowina to the cities.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
We have optical fiber - fast internet.
Space for parking camper vans
I have space for parking one campervan or motorhome.
Can possibly accept pets
only ones that are easy-going and accept the rules like notentering the house etc.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
My animals / pets
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Nowina is a… read more
Dawid helped me with clay plastering and worked with great care and precision. Kamil supported me with gardening and also showed initiative and leadership skills.
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Nowina is a… read more
Dawid helped me with clay plastering and worked with great care and precision. Kamil supported me with gardening and also showed initiative and leadership skills.
Beyond the work,… read more
Nao was motivated to help in any task and learned quickly. She helped me to plaster with clay the walls of the tiny house and with time she became a master of… read more
He made very nice and fine clay plaster at our chimney in the house. He helped in tough work of taking apart old tiled floor and polishing wood and… read more
Olga and everyone else was super friendly and welcoming 😃
The only small problems were that Olga is generally a bit chaotic, so things like using the kitchen and to schedule what things had to be done in which… read more
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