Profile information
Host rating
80 %
Last replied
15 Apr 2024
Feedback
3
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Host offers payment
Details
Description
We are farmers, looking for some help on our farm, we have 2 dogs, 400 sheep and we grow potatoes. We also have 5 horses that we ride for fun and help us with the sheep. We live in the north side of Iceland, about 30 minutes drive from Akureyri. We have two adults daughters and one teenager.
Host offers payment and we follow the agreement between SA Confederation of Icelandic Enterprise and Federation of General and Specail Workers in Iceland. which is 1980 ISK each hour.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Gardening
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Guests will experience unique natural beauty that the North part of Iceland have and farm life in Iceland.
Guests will stay in the same house and we, so it it easy to have communication, we have worked as a farmer for a couple of decade so we have a good knowledge and experience of farm work.Host offers payment in line with the minimum wage
This host offers accommodation and payment.
Host has indicated that they will pay at least the minimum hourly wage of their country for each hour worked and that accommodation will also be provided. They are asking for help with a business or business activity. Contact the host directly via the site messenger for more information and details about the wage provided. Any arrangements should be agreed in advance with your host.
Help
Looking for help during the lamb season, the potatoes season an also help on the farm in the summer time. Such as painting the houses, fences repaired, gardening and maintaining some things and also doing some housework.
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Icelandic: Fluent
Accommodation
We have a room in our house which have bed for 3. It would be ideal to have 2 workawayers together but we look at all applications. Driving license is necessary.
What else ...
It should be something interesting for everybody in the neighbourhood. Myvatn is about an hour driving from our farm, it's a really famous tourists place with amazing nature. Swimming pool in Akureyri an a small. The ice cream from a small store in Akureyri called Brynja is something that every tourists have to try. Family dinner or horseback ride outside on a beautiful summer evening and fishing in the lake below the farm.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Hours expected
25-35
Feedback (3)
You made so much possible - participating in icelandic sheep-traditions (göngur and réttir), having a boat trip on… read more
Loved the stay at Áshóll so much :D
The family is so cute, so I really felt like home there :)
The landscape around Áshóll was simply amazing. Fjord, beach, mountains... everything you could ask for. So I spend a lot of my free time exploring the surrounding with the horses and the dogs.
My tasks (potatoe work & cleaning… read more
Feedback
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(3.7)
Cultural exchange:
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Communication:
(4.7)
You made so much possible - participating in icelandic sheep-traditions (göngur and réttir), having a boat trip on… read more
Loved the stay at Áshóll so much :D
The family is so cute, so I really felt like home there :)
The landscape around Áshóll was simply amazing. Fjord, beach, mountains... everything you could ask for. So I spend a lot of my free time exploring the surrounding with the horses and the dogs.
My tasks (potatoe work & cleaning… read more
