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Welcome to join our family community and the development of our collectively owned land. We have started bringing this old farm back to life again after decades of abandonment. It’s a very exciting process with endless possibilities and freedom to try out, make experiments and learn. At the moment the circumstances here are very basic and it is also our conscious choice to live very simply and close to the land. This place is for you if you enjoy a do-it-yourself attitude, have an adventurous spirit and don’t require big comforts as found in the city. We are at a biking distance (3km) from a village with all basic services.
We are five adults and 5-7 children – all of them under nine years old. We have three nationalities (Finnish, Swedish and Dutch) and our common language is English. We've got self-built tiny houses, a small cottage with several small outdoor buildings, a 50m2 common house with wood heating and wood stove, an outdoor kitchen, a big vegetable garden, a self dug small pond and a creek running through the land, a lake nearby and forest around us.
Some special interests found in our group are democratic schooling/ free schools, social tools and emotional work such as co-counseling and Way of the Circle, ecovillages and intentional communities, environmental activism, painting with natural pigments, music, visual arts, improvisation, horticulture, permaculture, forest gardens, food fermentations, youth work, sustainability education, massage, wilderness & primitive skills/ rewilding, , Werbeck singing... We have also started a Transition Initiative in our nearby town, aiming to strengthen the local community and local economy, particularly the production and local market of organic foods.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Babysitting and creative play
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Our common language is english, so it will be easy for you to integrate into our social life. You’ll get to experience life in community and enjoy the company of children. You’ll get in close contact with finnish nature at it’s prime growing season. You’ll meet lots of alternative minded people and get experience from a low-impact, simple life close to nature.
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Projects involving children
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Help
With us you have a lot of freedom to choose projects according to your skills and interests, for example: building and renovation work, clay plastering, gardening, landscaping, opening up areas from bushes and tree saplings, planting new trees and perennials, environmental planning, designing our future eco-houses and other eco-solutions, firewood work, cooking, being with children, own innovative projects improving the life quality here (we have tools for working with metal, wood, textiles etc)
Languages
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
Spanish: Fluent
Finnish: Fluent
Dutch: Fluent
Sami: Fluent
Swedish: FluentThis host offers a language exchange
This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
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Accommodation
A wood heated house or a summer room. You'd be staying in a space of your own, a little apart from other dwellings. It might be a good idea to come with a friend instead of coming alone, so you don't get lonely in the evenings :) You may also bring your own tent, if you like.
What else ...
Karjalohja is a countryside town about 1h car drive from Helsinki to the west. We live at 4 km from the village with all basic services, a shop, a bar with music gigs, bus connections and a village house with lots of activities. It’s possible to make day/weekend trips to cities like Turku and Helsinki, as well as other smaller cities around. The touristic village Fiskars is at 15km from us and might be worth a visit. There are lots of possibilities for doing nature trips around here, including sleeping out at public lean-to’s, rowing boat on the lake or renting a canoe. This area has a high concentration of ”alternative minded” people, so you’ll have lots of chances to meet nice people and visit places similar to ours where you’ll see for example green building and permaculture in action.
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Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
This host has indicated that they love having digital nomads stay.
Space for parking camper vans
This host can provide space for campervans.
Can possibly accept pets
This host has said they are willing to accept those travelling with a pet.
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
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I've spent almost two weeks at Pauliina and Diederik's amazing place and I want to say that it was exactly what I expected for my first workaway experience.
I felt like I was part of the family, living not only the real finnish life but also an ecological way of life. I was so happy to build clay and straw walls for one of… read more
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I've spent almost two weeks at Pauliina and Diederik's amazing place and I want to say that it was exactly what I expected for my first workaway experience.
I felt like I was part of the family, living not only the real finnish life but also an ecological way of life. I was so happy to build clay and straw walls for one of… read more
They speak english like native and also finnish, german, spannish and even some french too so it was easy to communicate! We got to ask a lot of question and had some real nice conversation together so be it for cultural exchange we had what we were looking for.
We worked… read more
We helped Diedirik in acrobatic wood constructions, harvesting potatoes, collecting mushrooms and moss. We spent our free time, playing music, exploring the forest and… read more
