Experience mountain life with our family in Vågå, Norway

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  Description

  Hi, we are a family living nestled between Norways national parks right outside the village of Vågåmo.
  It's me Miriam, my partner Forest and our daughter Ronja. We also have two cats :)
  
  We moved to this land early 2024 and we love the fresh mountain are air here. We are in the beginning of cultivating a vegetable garden and also fruit trees and berries bushes, our property is not big and very steep so we have to use all the space that we can. We have a river and waterfall flowing right outside our house.
  
  The forest are bordering our land and the mountantops are closeby.
  
  Our family are sosial and we often have friends coming over. We are used to community living and have also used worksway wile we traveled ourself !
  
  Apart from the vegetable garden we always have building projects either in the house or outside. At some point we are planning to build a traditional cabin for our guests. We trying to be self sufficient on firewood and that's also an ever ongoing work.

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Help with Eco Projects

  Gardening

  DIY and building projects

  Animal Care

  Farmstay help

  Babysitting and creative play

  Creating/ Cooking family meals

  Help around the house

  General Maintenance

  House sitting
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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  We are living in north of Gudbrandsdalen, this region is full of mountaiess amazing nature
  , we are surrounded by breathtaking national parks and.
  
  I am Norwegian, my husband is Israeli, we night not be the average Norwegian country people. But we are open-minded and active socially creatures.
  
  My name is Miri and I am a nature loving human, we bought this property here on the countryside to have access to all this amazing nature around us, I love to gather berries, herbs and medicinal plants from the land around us. I'm a woodworker and work a few days a week in a furniture-workshop.

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  Help

  We are looking for help in
  - organic farming(we are in cold climate):
  That would include weeding, watering, planting or in the autumn harvest, storing pickling and canning
  - expanding our vegetable garden:
  building terraces and gardenbeds.
  
  -join our ongoing building projects:
  Renovating already existing rooms, build firewood sheds or other structures
  
  firewood:
  Coming with us to cut down smaller trees, lift,drag them onto a trailer and cut them and chop them to right size and also stacking them for drying.
  
  cooking:
  If u like to cook it would be nice if we took turns!
  We are eating mainly clean unprocessed and organic foods. We follow a diet of meats, eggs,vegetables, some grains and milk products,we like to focus on fats and protein over carbs and are a big fan of Western Price nutritional guidlines.
  
  Food:
  Pick berries or other foods from nature.
  About once or twice a year we buy a whole animal from a hunter or farmer,we will then need help with slaughter (this will be working together).
  
  Looking after a toddler:
  Our girl Ronja is a sosial little creature and we expect our guests to show interest in her. Some people are more confident around children than other, I get that, it's no expectations for u to be watching her but u might be asked if we se a genuine connection between you.
  
  All the tasks we can do together if you feel like you need guidens :) we are also happy to teach what skills we have along the way.

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  English: Fluent
  Hebrew: Fluent
  Norwegian: Fluent

  This 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.
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  Accommodation

  From may-sept you will have your own belltent with a wood stove, a double bed with warm blankets, you will have a beautiful view over the valley and sleeping to the sound of the waterfall.
  It's possible to cook simple meals on the wood stove or warm up water.
  
  We have an outdoor toilet.
  
  Our house is close by and we really want our guest to feel like our house is theirs, so it wil mostly be open for u to use.
  
  We are all eating breakfast in different times here so breakfast you do yourself and lunsj, dinner will be shared.

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  What else ...

  We are living more or less screen-free and we are asking our guests to be mindful about that around our daughter. The same goes for sugary foods and drinks, please enjoy that out of our daughters sight :)

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  A little more information

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    Internet access

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    Limited internet access

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    We have pets

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    We are smokers

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    Can host families

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  Can host digital nomads

  Hi, we will find a fitting spot for u to work, but you would need your own network.. we only have network on our phones and we can open hotspot while we are home.

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  Space for parking camper vans

  We live on a steep hill, so camper Vans have to be parked in the parking, we live on the end of a road so the only traffic there will be is our car and our friends that visits.

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  Can possibly accept pets

  In general yes! Tell us about your animal:)

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  Two

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