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Help needed 17 - 31st of july and from 24th of august. Gardening, help with my dogs, maintenance, other outdoorprojects. Girls or a pair/ couple.
Hello! My name is Cordula, and I moved from Germany to Sweden in order to live a basic life close to nature. The first years I did not have any electricity and no running water. Today I have it a bit more comfortable, but it is still basic standard. Here in in the middle of nature I live together with my older dog Edda, my young dog Alva (born in may 2024) and my cat Fini.
I started to host volunteers in 2010 and I enjoy to welcome new people and share my life with them. I have been a volunteer by my own, so I know “the other side”, too. I want you to love helping and living on my place! Good communication is important!
As I already said is my standard of living low. Since a few years I have electricity and I am happy about it because it makes life much easier. I cook on my kitchenstove and warm the house with kamin. I have an outhouse and an outdoorshower, but in my house there is a dry toilet and a hot shower. Internet exists (wifi).
I need help with all kinds of tasks in and around my house: gardening, maintenance, cooking, cleaning, help with my dogs, help to put the firewood into the barn, finishing the greenhouse project, some reparation and renovation, painting, and this year even some help with rebuilding my campervan. There are some projects which has to be done, but I want you to choose tasks you are interested in doing, if it is possible. Volunteers help me 5 days a week and about 20 to 25 hours totally, but this can vary. If the weather is good we perhaps go to the lake and only work three hours, and another day we perhaps work a bit longer.
I am working in my homeoffice, but not fulltime. I will try to work together with you, but there is no garanty that this works every day. So I would like you to be ok with helping by your own. In summer I use to have two or sometimes even three workaways, so you probably are not alone and can spend your free time together.
I prefer to host girls or couples.
We will talk about how you want to structure your days. I for example need some time in the morning to be awake and do not begin to work before 10 o´clock. But if you want to do it, it is possible. Normally we have lunch together and a snack at the afternoon. In the evening we will have our warm meal, and I hope you like to do the cooking sometimes. When you are hungry you can go and eat, on my place the kitchen is always open! I prefer vegetarian food.
Unfortunately I get a lot of request from workaways who did not read my profile. I want you to show me that you read it! Please relate to my text when you write to me, and let me know which tasks you are most intrested in and which experiences you have.
In order to get an exchange as well as possible I would prefer if you talk german or swedish, but I am able to speak english, too.
I am looking forward to hear from you!
Cordula
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
I moved from Germany to Sweden and can share these experiences with you. I know about organic gardening, have had a little farm more north where I have had animals and a big vegetable garden, volunteers and workawayers. I have been a workaway by my own (Germany and Portugal). I am a single woman traveling alone with my campervan och can share my experiences with you.
Help
The following tasks are to do:
Gardening, harvesting and preserving vegetables
Help with my campervan which I want to rebuild.
I am on the way to minimalize and cleaning out and need help with that.
Taking away and cutting bushes in order to keep the property open.
We will finish the greenhouse- project.
Painting
Picking blueberries, raspberries and berries in the garden
Help with the home, cooking and cleaning
Help with my dogs
All other tasks which occur
Depending on your skills and interests there is a lot more you can help me with.
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
Swedish: Fluent
English: Intermediate
Accommodation
You will sleep in a room in the barn which has a bed 140x200 or in a little guesthouse. It can happen that you share your room with another workaway, but I will ask you before if this is ok for you.
You have a tent and want to sleep in it? There is space for camping.
Important: In this area there are no pubs or discos or something like this! This is a quiet area with a lot of nature! If you don´t have a car you can borrow an old bicycle (one wheel has to be repaired), but here there is only forest and lakes and nature!
What else ...
This is a politic- free- zone! We will not discuss politics at all! And I don´t want to hear you talking about politics!
Even if you come as a couple/ best friends it will happen that you will work by your own with different works. If you want to be together the whole time this is the wrong place for you!
I live between Laxå and Finnerödja near the nature reserve Vargavidderna with a beautiful lake and an unique landscape . The nature reserve Tiveden is around 40 km away, the next lake with bathing place 2 km (you have to go through forest the last 700 m), the beach on Skagern about 15 km, and the nearest supermarket 12 km away. I have an old bicycle that you can borrow, but one wheel has to be repaired before (I dont know how to do).
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Space for parking camper vans
You can park your van besides my van :)
Can possibly accept pets
Kastrated maledogs work. Female dogs will probably work, we have to check if the dogs like each other. We have to talk about it.
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Feedback (7)
We had a really good time and enjoyed it really much with Cordula and her two sweet dogs and her cat.
Our daily tasks were very varied.
We… read more
Cordula was a very pleasant and welcoming host. She is very organised and is open to communicating about what work needs to be done and… read more
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We had a really good time and enjoyed it really much with Cordula and her two sweet dogs and her cat.
Our daily tasks were very varied.
We… read more
Cordula was a very pleasant and welcoming host. She is very organised and is open to communicating about what work needs to be done and… read more
He also helped us building a big carport - without him an impossible thing - especially for that a big TXH!!!
He also showed us some new dishes from his homecountries and was very good with all… read more
