Help out on our self sufficient Organic-Farm, Eberndorf, Austria

Description

Eva is managing our small organic farm since 23 years, but always there were and are other people joining the place. At the moment we are 4 women permanently living on the farm. It is a place to live, to learn and also to go on vacation (we have many paying guests in summer). The shortterm and longterm inhabitants of the farm try to be self-sufficient as much as possible, learn things from each other, enjoy live and sometimes they are also quite angry about the world. At the moment we have some really interestig projects going on: We are taking care of two goats and one cow, which give us milk in return, we gather knowledge about production of fabrics from natural materials which means we plant flax, clean sheep wool, weave and so on, further we construct small and big things in our carpentry workshop and last but not least we occupy ourselves with the production of our precious food: we work in the garden, preserve, bake bread, make milk products and so on. we would love to welcome you on our farm.

Type of help

Gardening
Building
General Maintenance
Cooking / shopping
Farmstay
Other
Help with Eco project
Help in the house
Animal care
Art project
Help with Computers / internet

Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

You can learn many many things on our farm, because the range of things we do is very wide!

Help

we can need all kind of help. from making fire wood to gardening, from preserving food to construction...to most important thing is that you can work independently, learn quick and show initiative.
at the moment most help is needed with milking the animals (by hand). it is a nice task to learn, but it needs some days to get the fingers strong enough to get all milk from the one cow at once:-)

Languages spoken

german, english, italian, sometimes french and spanish and slovenian

Accommodation

bed in our hostel. (in the summer maybe container or similar) shared bathroom. our diet is vegetarian, we sometimes do not cook twice a day, but our kitchen and everything in fridge/cellar/pantry is free to use.

What else ...

we try to be as responsible with nature as possible and we also ask you to do so, so we especially welcome helpers who like biking and come by official transport.

A little more information

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  Internet access

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  Limited internet access

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  We have pets

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  We are smokers

How many Workawayers can stay?

More than two

Hours expected

depends