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We are updating information for the summerseason of 2024!
Hi!
We are Ida (40) and Christina (36) and soon Helena(31) who live here in this beautiful place together with Idas daughter, Ester(5), and Helenas daughter, Ester(5). Yes they have the same name and age and lives parttime with us.
Ida is a herbalist and works with teaching about plant medicine and runs my own course in plantmedicine at a school nerby. She will focus on creating the herbalgarden this season, but she also is involved in the vegetable garden and loves to grow flowers, pick wild food/medicine and to create events and gatherings at the farm.
She lived at the farm now for 5 years
Ida is having her mainfocus on developing the herbalgarden.
Christina is right now studying sustainable gardening and permaculture and will be head chef of planning and organizing the vegetable garden, a big garden around 200-300 squaremeters wich has provided us with food for the past years. Christina is interested in cooking and baking, and preserving the harvested vegetables, herbs and wild food.
Christina came to the farm the first time as a volonteer 2021 and kept coming back, until she decided to move in for real. Its now been around 1,5 years we lived here together permanently.
Christina is boss over the vegetablegarden this year.
Helena is a hardworker who loves outdoor activities, animals, sustainability and right now she is studying the method of forest gardening. She has the previous years also grown vegetables for household needs and took care of sheep, hens and cows. Before moving here, she lived at another farm close by with a similar lifestyle.
This year we will have sheep, and Helena is the sheep-queen.
We have many plans and dreams about what we can create (and are creating) here at the farm with endless possibilities.
We like to look at it as a creative and fun project where a lot of our common and personal dreams can come alive.
UPDATES ABOUT SUMMER 2024 is TO COME SOON!
Focusareas:
Herbal garden:
Projects for 2024
- The herbal garden (an educational garden with 80 spiecies of usable herbs), designing, planting, cultivating, preparing, harvesting- this is one of the major projects of may/sept 2024 . The tasks is digging, building beds, designing, planting, cultivating, taking care of and other stuff for finishing the garden in the spring/early summer.
- Vegetablegarden and kitchen-herb garden- Growing for sustainability with compost and mineur from the farm.
We practice "täckodling" (cover the soil with organic material.
2021 I produced 200 kilos of carrots, because they became huge :) and many hundreds of kilos of other yummy vegetables. I also like to plant alot of flowers in the early season - Because I love them!
- Cleaning out and decoration the big barn for using it for concerts, yoga and teaching.
- General maintanance. Cutting grass, taking care of gardens, out-indoor spaces.
- Easy reparation of buildings.
- Preparing firewood for next season
- Maybe renovating rooms in the guesthouse..not sure yet.
There is also a lot of other smaller projects alongside those above and also some general maintanance like cutting grass, cleaning, painting, cooking, picking berries/mushroom, sorting and tidying stuff from the recent owners etc.
Extra: Ida would love to continue creating the web-based/online herbalgarden education/content.
If someone have skills in layout, making videos- blogs and other stuff I am definately goint to consider that help- since it ´s not amongst any of our talents...
I consider myself beeing a social person and before getting into this settling down/kid/house project I have been travelling alot, living in different places and trying different lifestyles.
So to have workaways also is a way to bring the world to me and to satisfy my free spirit.
I like to eat together at least one meal a day and cooking could be part of the day sometimes (for those who is comfortable with that).
The community in our village is a very vivid and creative collection of induviduals. There is a lot going on and we have a rich social life that the volonteers easily can take part in.
There are many concerts, a cinema, handcraftevenings, fleamarkets, cafés, farmersmarkets and other things organized by people in the village.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
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
Besides being a very beautifully located village along the river, Näsåker is a hub of an alternative community. Many people have moved here by ideological reasons. Many grow there own vegetables, are downshiftning, trying to live a simpler life without excessive consuming. This started already in the 70th so young and old in the alternative comunity share the same visions.
Näsåker is also a cultural place and the provider of a big famous worldmusic festival in august.
Due to our rich communitylife many concerts are beeing organised even in beetwen the festival.
Näsåker is also a famous historical site, wich in the summer attracts many tourists.
Nämforsen in Ångermanälven has one of Northern Europe's biggest and most distinctive rock carvings of the approximately 2,300 rock images that were carved in stone right next to the rushing rapids.
The oldest have been made for over 6000 years ago
The nature is stunning and some part of the river offers magical places where you can go swim in the waterfalls, we will bring you there ( Ida loves it and use to go there often)
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
Some experience or knowledge of gardening or buildning is of course very welcomed, but not at all a must. The help that is needed is so various that it can suit many different people with different skills or experiences (or not so much experience).
For example, hanging out with my little kiddo one day when we are working, is as much help as digging in the garden or bulding on the outdoor kitchen.
I think that will and curiosity is very good skill for persons staing at our place.
Since we ourselves are learing by doing when it comes to renovation/constructing, a person with knowledge of constructing will have extra much to offer 😊
Languages spoken
Danish: Fluent
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
Swedish: Fluent
Spanish: Beginner
Accommodation
There are several options for accommodation for the volonteers and were you stay depends on your preferences or if there are more volonters/guests at the same time. The houses are close to eachother.
Those are the options:
- One house with 3 bedrooms and one kitchen (outdoor toilet and shower/sauna in a separate showerhouse.) This is a guesthouse and not used by us and from the bedroom upstairs the wiev is amazing (and from the kitchen to).
* Note* In the summer of 2021 the downfloor will be used by a friendfamily that are going to live with us for the summer. The upper floor is still an option.
- A small loghouse with a loft. Its equiped so you can do some easy cooking with a refridgerator, a small owen and a microwave. (outdoor toilet and shower/sauna in a separate showerhouse.) You can use a full kitchen in the bigger house. Wonderful view!
- Idas herbalcottage- this will be used if there aren´t enough room in the two options above. It´s a cosy little cottage with alot of herbalbooks and other stuff. There is a workingdesk and a table in one room, and a bed in one room. Kitchen will be used in one of the bigger houses. (outdoor toilet and shower/sauna in a separate showerhouse.)
Our plan is to organize the cooking toghether with the volonteers so we can suit all needs. Ideal wood be that we circulate with cooking but plan it toghether so we can make sure all ingredients are availible. If someone doesn´t like to cook its not a must.
By the summer 2020 we will have fiber and good internetacces at the farm.
What else ...
I am easy going and social people and my lifestyle is quite dynamic.
If you live with me you can expect friends and family coming to visit us every now and then, that plans sometimes changes and that sponatanius activitys happens quite often.
I appriciate taking coffiebreaks and chill out and at the same time I like to really engage in a project.
You will most likely be invited to join for things in the freetime but I respect if you just feel like chilling out or going off on your own.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Space for parking camper vans
This host can provide space for campervans.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
Maximum 5 hours a day, 5 days a week
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Gården var uppe på en höjd med en helt otrolig utsikt, och som tagen ur en dröm med sitt stora grönsaksland och en otroligt vacker örträdgård. Det var tydligt att Ida… read more
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Gården var uppe på en höjd med en helt otrolig utsikt, och som tagen ur en dröm med sitt stora grönsaksland och en otroligt vacker örträdgård. Det var tydligt att Ida… read more
I visited for 2 weeks in the summer of 2023 and to be apart of the small team of volunteers and friends was such a precious moment for me.
Ida has managed to build up quite a… read more
The place is magical - beautiful garden and farm houses overlooking the river and closeby waterfalls.
It has been grounding, nourishing, challenging and joyful:
the days were filled with various tasks and chances to help and expand my horizon. I've learned about plant… read more
Daniel and Ida are very sociable, having there friends and family staying for several days or weeks during the summer, with other people always passing by.… read more
Andrea thank you so much for you help this spring. Andrea took with soft hands care of all the plants. It really felt wonderful to be able to leave my plantbabies in safe hands, knowing that you took care of them carefully.
A lot of the work during your time here was to sew, replant, dig and work with different preparations… read more
Oh my god, such a great experience to have you guys here. You are both very sweet and lovably in you your own unique way.
We will remember a lot of laughs and good time, it was truly sad when you left.
It was fun and easy to work together with you guys, always up for everything. The onions you planted, the strawberries you took… read more
It was our first Workaway experience and we were so well welcomed in this beautiful farm and family. I really think it's a chance to live one month in this place, like paradise, in the middle of Swedish nature. Working isn't hard when you have this conditions.
We share the life of Ida, Daniel and Ester for one… read more
Paul is a very sweet and cool person that we really enjoyed having at our farm. We had a lot of fun together, Ester completely loved him(and the other kids at place to), he is very fun, kind, helpful, relaxed and very mature I would say, being quite young :)
Paul helped us out with many different things, he worked well both on his own or… read more
They adapted their conditions and even their main house to make us (me and two other volunteers) feel as… read more
We are so glad to have meet you. It feels wonderful to have shared such an enriching time together, an exchange that went much further than workinghours and accodomodation :)
This lovely family is very, very friendly and easy to have around. They have a clear and open communication, always with warmth and compassion and we really… read more
We are truly greatful to all the great footprints/progresses you made at our farm. They are both very handy, solution focused and we felt very safe to leave them with some of the more independent tasks, when we… read more
Seb and Alex is very warm and friendly and it was great to have them here. We were many kids (and adults) here at the same time but it all worked out well thanks to that everyone was so helpful and independent. We altered cooking/baking and cleaning and made the days… read more
We really loved to have Sophia and Lorenz here at our farm. It instantly felt very comfortable to have them here as a part of our farm and family. They are very entusiastic people (they even loved the more "boring" tasks as digging) and working with them in a team was just so fun! It was obvious that they liked to work hard,… read more
She helped us out with many different tasks at the farm and she was really hardworking and independent, she easily picked up new tasks and was also very positive about everything.
She baked amazing bread and was also very helpful in general with household things, she… read more
They are really lovely people and helped us out with various tasks at the farm (weeding, planting, building, digging, cutting grass, gardenwork, herbalgarden, etc).
They are both very communicative, helpful, interested and creative, for example… read more
He is a really kind, easygoing, relaxed person to have around, always friendly.
He worked with many taks here at our farm, some of them for the first time like sawing, weeding, making jam etc. He cooked delicious empanadas and stuffed zuccini for us many times and helped out… read more
