Join our small Polish-Slovak family and help with gardening and daily life in Latky, Slovak Republic

Availability

  2024 

 Min stay requested: 1 week or less

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  • Description

    Description

    Hey!
    We are Martyna, Richard and our doughter Rodana.
    We making craft works, actually mostly we do handmade sewn notebooks, but we have experience with making natural jawelery, paintings and differend type of manual art works.
    We love music, singing and playing, jaming around the fire.
    We are caring of two beautiful wood houses in the nature. Is the place around 960 meter above sea level. From spring to autumn pretty big sheep herd walking aroud the fields. Here is mounthains area and many nice walking ways.
    This area is peaceful, we almost don't have neighbors, just some people have holiday cottages around.
    You can hear the birds singing loudly and at night many of the stars (also milky way).

  • Types of help and learning opportunities

    Types of help and learning opportunities

    Art Projects
    Gardening
    DIY and building projects
    Farmstay help
    Babysitting and creative play
    Creating/ Cooking family meals
    Help around the house
    General Maintenance
  • Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    You can enjoy the nature here, we can also can go to hiking or recommend nice spots around. Here is beautiful area, many springs with clear water and air.
    We can exchange skills with Slavic languages.
    We can also learn you how to sew your own notebooks :)

  • Help

    Help

    We are flexible about help and open for your propose, you can write us in which type of activities you feel good and we can find the solution.

    We would like to find a person for helping with a child , for playing, going for walk with her etc. She is very active babe, we also don't have a tv and prefer spend aktivities in the nature :)
    we can collaborate with the basic house tasks, gardening..

    LOOKING FOR PEOPLE WHO CAN BUILD AND WORK WITH WOOD
    In this seson we start with building our gypsy wagon like a tiny house, so all of experience with this topic or natural materials is very welcome, for example working with wood, isolation. With this topic we will need more help, also If you don’t have experiences with building stuff.

    Also you can help us with our craft, we sew notebooks. We use for that leather or kork, recycled paper, sometimes with burned out ornaments on the cover. It's prette long process, sometimes few days, but not all the time, we also use the glue for that which need to be dry. You don't need to have any special skills for that just willingness to creative work.

  • Languages spoken

    Czech: Fluent
    Polish: Fluent
    Slovak: Fluent
    English: Intermediate

  • Accommodation

    Accommodation

    We offering traditional wood house where is one room and small kichen. There are two beds and also two mattresses.
    Here where we live are two houses close to each other, in one of them we living, second we have for guests. Bathroom and wc to use is in our home or one compostable wc is outside.
    We have our water from our spring, we taking water from the well. Water to use in the bathroom we have from filtered rain water.
    We also can accomodate you in a tent.
    Here is internet connection, we have a wifi.
    We eat a simple vegan or vegetarian food. Sometimes we use eggs or chees from the local farm.
    We like to use herbs and sezon foods.

  • What else ...

    What else ...

    Slovakia is a beautiful small coutry, here is many mouthains, view for them you have almost everywhere here.

  • A little more information

    A little more information

    • Internet access

    • Limited internet access

      Limited internet access

    • We have pets

    • We are smokers

    • Can host families

  • Space for parking camper vans

    Space for parking camper vans

    Is possible to parking here with your van/caravan

  • Can possibly accept pets

    Can possibly accept pets

    We just have 3 cats, but if your pet like a cats, then is fine ;)

  • How many Workawayers can stay?

    How many Workawayers can stay?

    More than two

  • ...

    Hours expected

    Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week

Host ref number: 268569279668

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