Come to biosphere reserve northern Berlin, Germany to help a family community on our cottage

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Availability

  2024 

 Min stay requested: at least a week

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  • Description

    Description

    The village is one hour Northern from Berlin, next to a beautiful lake and in the middle of biosphere reserve. If you enjoy alternative living, natural environment, gaining skills in carpentry, medicine and edible plants and much more you +
    you are reliable, conscientious, honest and flexible you are welcomed to stay with us :-) The best would be that you have already some experience in cooking, maybe even also in carpentry or other craftwork. The landscape and place is inviting you to canoeing, taking long walks with deep breaths, improve gardening skills/knowledge or in general botanical wisdom, spend time with beautiful sheeps (honestly, they are stunning with their twisted horns), chicken, dogs, cats, geese, birds,...
    The vision/goal for the community-living is: establishing now more space for friends/workawayer, built more tiny houses, an Art area to sell craftwork, improve summer kitchen and common spaces and in general making the whole area clear and well arranged. Here you can really experience a "off-grid" life.. collecting wood for heating house and the bathtub, some wildplants to eat or mushrooms in the autumn season,....

    We are:

    Gisbert (the father of Lewe, Jorin and Gustav) is wood designer and has always a lot of skills and wisdom to share. He is very open-minded and always loves to share a good talk. Over the last 20 years he has made a picturesque place full of natural beauty out of a pig barns with his wife, who unfortunately passed away 3 years ago. He used to train carpenters as Interns for some times and had bunch of wood projects in the past, which gained great reputation. Now he will building honeycomb-structured tiny houses & wants to dedicate more time to sailing.

    Jorin (15) just said he is interested in volleyball and video games:-) As I know him he is so kind-hearted to all of animals on the cottage and cooks very well, always up to try out new recipes and has an open ear at anytime.

    Gustav (16) spent a lot of time with screws at his motorcycle- definitely almost a full time hobby beside school ;) On weekend and after school the boys meet friends and help their father a lot- so they gained some skills like operating a crane, building furniture and lot more.


    PS: long-term would be great and if you are with a van we can host more person (eg. your friends)

  • Types of help and learning opportunities

    Types of help and learning opportunities

    Art Projects
    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

    Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    carpentry, german language/ english language, wild plants, boat building, animale care, woodworking, building,

  • Projects involving children

    Projects involving children

    This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.

  • Help

    Help

    I´m a helpless apple-user.

  • Languages

    Languages spoken
    German: Fluent
    Polish: Fluent
    English: Intermediate
    Russian: Intermediate

    This host offers a language exchange
    This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
    You can contact them directly for more information.

  • Accommodation

    Accommodation

    A wooden little cabin :) in the garden area of our house
    shared kitchen

  • What else ...

    What else ...

    We are always flexible and open for transparent communication to see what our currents wishes are :)
    There are different boats you can use, also bikes.

  • 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

  • Can host digital nomads

    Can host digital nomads

    We have german internet access, slow, but it workes.

  • Space for parking camper vans

    Space for parking camper vans

    We have space for vans and caravans

  • Can possibly accept pets

    Can possibly accept pets

    It depends.. write us

  • How many Workawayers can stay?

    How many Workawayers can stay?

    More than two

  • ...

    Hours expected

    Maximum 5 hours a day, 5 days a week

Host ref number: 369921499229

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