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We are a very young community, founded by two families with a lot of community experience each. In Autumn 2025 we moved to this beautiful Place in Vellach, just next to the river "Vellach", which is a very nice natural resort.
Our core values are nonviolent communication, sustainability, independency, and to give everything for the next generation. A lot of our daily business focused on our kids; four/five days a week, the kids are going to Kindergarden/School and there's usually also one or two adults with them. The other time, they are always around and also happy if you play with them.
Our goal is to live a somewhat self-sufficient life very soon, therefore we already started with our vegetable garden. We have 2ha of land, so there is enough space for a huuuuge garden.
There is a nice House, a few other buildings, and they are new to us as well. We just started with a few reconstructions that are possible during winter, and with preparing the property.
Join in for good regional/seasonal/vegan food, cool conversations, board games, cool nature, high mountains and fun kids!
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Four Adults: Usually there is one person working during weekdays, the others are around or on the road with the kids.
Four kids (3, 4, 6, 10): to protect the privacy of our kids, we don't put too many details about them on the web. Also, the pictures on the profile are edited for privacy reasons.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Language practice
Help with Eco Projects
Teaching
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
We're living in a beautiful area here. you definitely will enjoy it. You could go take a bath in the river every day. Some crazy people even do that during winter.
##But the main thing is: I think you got a great time and just easy going relaxing jobs with a young motivated team.##
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
HELP TIME and STRUCTURES:
we do not count hours. Nevertheless, you may, if you want. We have frequent meetings in the evening, where we discuss our daily plans, ongoing processes and also your chores. You are recommended to attend these meetings, so you get jobs that fit your skills and wishes.
Kitchen:
- The food is always organic.
- The food is almost always vegan (approximately once a week there is a meat dish, but there is always a vegan option)
- You are welcome to join cooking
- We do not use sugar in the kitchen
- We do not offer sweets/sweetened food, dairy products
- you will still enjoy our food!
Garden:
- we have a huge vegetable garden and a huge field
- you are welcome to help out in the field
Construction:
- We have a lot of small maintenance processes going on and we are preparing to start with the first reconstructions during summer.
Languages
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
French: Fluent
Dutch: Fluent
Spanish: Intermediate
Swedish: BeginnerThis host offers a language exchange
Spoken language varies between German and English, we are even very used to switch from one sentence to another. You will be able to practice German as well as (international) English. Almost all (adult) residents are able to speak French, but it's definitely no habit to any of us. One person knows Dutch, other community members also know some Swedish/Spanish.
Accommodation
During winter we can ONLY accept Campervan travellers or pretty crazy people that want to sleep in an unheated room
What else ...
ABOUT OUR REFERENCES... You might be wondering about our old references.
We used to run a small community farm in south Germany, but we stopped that community project in 2022, due to special circumstances and moved to Austria. It was just awesome having this workawayers energy around, so we were eager to start over again.
We hosted an incredible amount of workawayers already and we also wrote a lot of references (as you can read below). Writing a good reference takes time, and a lot of workawayers don't really need references (e.g. we usually don't check for references if the person seems to connect personally). For saving time, we decided to write references only when workawayers ask for it or if they leave a reference first. Please feel free to ask!! Nevertheless, it's nice to get a reference from time to time. ;-)
english tags:
sustainability, sustainable, selfsustainable, ecological, ecologic, permaculture, gardener, farmer, gardening, farming, field, making bread, bakery, baking, self-sufficiency, self-sufficient, vegetarian, couchsurfing, wwoof, wwoofing, upcycling, recycling, workshop, open source, linux, attachment parenting, bike, bicycle, building, construction, carpentry, carpenter, woodwork, architect, architecture, builder, timber, clay, lime, claywork, plaster
deutsche Stichworte:
nachhaltig, Nachhaltigkeit, biologisch, ökologisch, ökologischer Bauernhof, Gemeinschaft, Aussteiger, Bioland, Garten, Gärtnerei, Boden und Humus, Feld, Acker, Getreide, Brot backen, Selbstversorger, Selbstversorgung, Vegetarier, vegetarisch, vegan, Fahrrad, Werkstatt, bedürfnisorientierte Erziehung, Fahrrad, Veganer, Baustelle, Konstruktion, Zimmermann, Schreiner, Maurer, Architekt, Architektur, Fachwerk, Lehm, Kalk, Lehmputz, Tadelakt
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
Good Internet, bad cell network connection. One person is casually smoking, so we are able to deal with smokers.
Space for parking camper vans
Since we have a biological wastewater treatment only, you are NOT ALLOWED to use non-organic shampoo or toothpaste anywhere on our property (this also applies to makeup and other products that enter the sewer system). We provide acceptable alternatives upon request.
Can possibly accept pets
It depends on how you are planning to stay here. Dogs (and other animals) are usually not allowed inside the house - but you can have the dog in our own tent/van and in the garden... Dogs also need to be family-friendly, and trained strictly. And finally, you need to take care of their faeces (not just in our garden but also when doing walkies), since dog food tends to be not organic - and we are an organic farm.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
My animals / pets
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Claudia is helpful, interested, artistic, eager to learn a lot and very sociable. It was really… read more
First of all I send you all great hugs and kisses to all the durnau community, so happy to hear that Marcus is now joining you definitely!!!! Than to all the workawayer or person who wants to visit this mystical natural place I would just suggest DO IT!!! Everybody is extremely nice and respectful not… read more
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Claudia is helpful, interested, artistic, eager to learn a lot and very sociable. It was really… read more
First of all I send you all great hugs and kisses to all the durnau community, so happy to hear that Marcus is now joining you definitely!!!! Than to all the workawayer or person who wants to visit this mystical natural place I would just suggest DO IT!!! Everybody is extremely nice and respectful not… read more
The place is really great with a lot of thing to visit around (lakes accessible by bikes, somz cities etc). Katarina is less often at home but still welcoming when she is there. Their daughter, Leandra, loves to share with people and you can't be bored… read more
When he came here we´ve been quite a lot of people, but he… read more
I really enjoyed the community, learning quite a bit on construction, gardening and cooking and of course the… read more
He is a really motivated person and wants to finish what he started. Even if that means working until late in the evening! Conor did a LOT on the construction (like helping with all the… read more
Moritz and Katharina are some of the most relaxed Workaway hosts you can meet, very welcoming, they don't mind if you input just two hours a day or as much as eight hours, to them it's still helping with renovations and construction.
Edda, also relaxed but equally knows what to do and a lovely and… read more
Unfortunately he couldn´t deal with the food we had around that season and that we… read more
Moritz, Katharina and Edda are kind and wondrful hosts.
The food was so good(!), the work really intersting and the community was so welcoming, generous and fun.
I learned so much in my time there, met really good, smart and interesting people and really enjoyed my staying.
I hope I… read more
The stay was enjoyable, cool new people and a warm welcome when we arrived! The profile was an accurate description and you guys have good hearts! The food was tasty and the applejuice was heavenlicious haha!
About the work:
Did some bricklaying and woodwork. The working hours were perfect for me… read more
Anna did a great job in playing with our daughter while kindergarten was closed due to corona lockdown. My daughter loved it and she still sometimes says things like "when Anna was here, we… read more
Both families were really nice, friendly, an helpful. It has been for me the occasion to discover and experience a different way of living, more relaxing.
The place is always full of life thanks to the kids, and the others workawayers.
It was maybe because of summer, but there was at least between… read more
Our experience with them was intense and really rich in exchange. Moritz and Katarina are extremely generous people and will always make sure you feel like home and have everything you need.
Davina and Harry are very courageous and full of energy, always ready for exchanging and deep… read more
From the moment I arrived I felt very much at ease and was more than happy to put myself at their disposal, using my efforts to help support them and… read more
the first day she came I told her to arrange some hose (leading to our outdoor shower) and showed her where it was planned to go along. She continuously worked on it for some hours, arranged everything perfectly and asked me when she was not sure. That was a perfect start - being able to decide things on your own and… read more
With two families managing several parallel projects and responsibilities (including three young kids), the… read more
Anders was a great person, open minded, friendly, patient, polite .
I also liked the children ,they are playful, happy and nice .
I always felt welcomed since the very first moment, i felt part of family and… read more
The 3 kids, all ~3 years old, being such fun, energy, and aliveness into the home. We played, ran around outside, and all shared meals together as a family. They are incredibly cute and… read more
It was a great time. Awesome. Rob is such a frienldy and polite person! He loved to play with our kids(ooooh, they loved him!), he took over the kitchen from the first day and spontaneously cooked things he's never seen before - just by… read more
