Share good moments and learn about permaculture in Meltosjärvi, Finland

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  Description

  We are a couple who bought an old abandoned farm last year. We’re renovating the houses and are in the process of turning the fields into a sustainble vegetable garden. Our goal is to create a simple, sustainable, and welcoming place. We’d love to host volunteers who enjoy nature, practical work, and learning together as we bring this old farm back to life. Season here is short but intense and beautiful with 24hours of daylight.
  
  If you enjoy nature, simple living, and don’t mind getting your hands dirty, you are very welcome to join us on this journey of rebuilding and growing our little farm.

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Art Projects

  Help with Eco Projects

  Light gardening

  Creative DIY projects

  Animal Care

  Farmstay help

  Help around the house

  Light maintenance
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  Interests

  

  Yoga / Wellness

  

  Outdoor activities

  

  Nature

  

  Hiking

  

  Dancing

  

  Cycling

  

  Adventure sports
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  UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

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  What's this?
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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  Learn how to become self-sustainable (food safety), re-use things, solve challenges creatively and how to live life different.
  Enjoy the beauty and silence in absolute nature. Of corse there is a woodfire sauna with a nice view to the nature.
  There are great apportunities for bird watching hiking and swimming. Experience 24h of daylight with the midnightsun. We do Yoga, eat glutenfree and love to listen to music. Before this project we cycled for more than 2,5years the world.

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  Help

  Self initiative and creativity to help on our permaculture farmstead.
  We need your help for setting up the 3rd greenhouse, cutting gras, collecting moss and birch peal, shoveling 50cubic of soil to the garden, paint the A-frame greenhouse, paint a mural onto the guesthouse, help on daily gardening tasks and feeding the chicks, building a compost toilet, building a structure out of some old windows or just cleaning the house and cooking for us when we work on the field...

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  German: Fluent
  English: Fluent
  Spanish: Intermediate
  French: Intermediate
  Finnish: Beginner

  This host offers a language exchange
  if you speak finnish we are very happy to practice with you.. nd if corse any other languge too :)
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  Accommodation

  we offer a basic cabin with privacy.
  shared bathroom in the main house, warm water when there is sun.
  there is always the option to pitch a tent (we can provide all the needed gear)
  
  We eat shared meals together. All food is vegan (except eggs), gluten-free and cooked on a wood fired stove.
  Since there is 24h daylight in summer, eating times can vary.

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  What else ...

  There are bicycles to use to go to the lake, the birdwatching towers, the village or wherever you want to go to.
  During weekdays there is a public bus available once per day.

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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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  Space for parking camper vans

  space to park

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  Can possibly accept pets

  your pet should be okay with our chicken and dog and should not hunt the free range rendeers.

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  More than two

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  My animals / pets

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