The road to self-sufficiency in Beaver's Valley, Poland

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  Description

  Workaway Experience – 2026
  
  Overview:
  
  We invite volunteers to join us for a hands-on, nature-based Workaway experience throughout 2026. This is a place for people who want to learn traditional skills, work with natural materials, and live in rhythm with the seasons. Our project focuses on old house restoration, regenerative gardening, extended-season growing, herbal foraging, and making natural remedies.
  
  Volunteers are part of daily homestead life and learn mainly through practice, supported by guidance and shared knowledge.
  
  Availability: All year 2026
  
  Help required: 4–5 hours per day, 5 days a week
  
  Type of stay: Short- and long-term volunteers welcome
  
  Accommodation & food: Provided
  
  What You Will Be Helping With
  
  🪵 Traditional House Restoration
  
  🏚️Dismantling and reassembling old wooden houses
  
  🧱 Working with reclaimed wood, brick, and stone
  
  🚧 Basic carpentry and traditional construction methods
  
  🖌️Natural finishes (clay, lime, wood protection)
  
  
  -You will learn how old houses were built and how to restore them using low-impact, natural techniques.
  
  
  🌱 Regenerative Gardening
  
  🌿 Preparing vegetable and herb gardens
  
  🛏️ Building raised beds and garden structures
  
  🪱 Composting and soil regeneration
  
  🌱Planting and caring for fruit trees and shrubs
  
  Seasonal garden work: sowing, transplanting, harvesting
  
  
  We focus on biodiversity, soil health, and practical self-sufficiency.
  
  ☀️ Thermoculture & Season Extension
  
  Building cold frames, tunnels, and thermal beds
  
  Creating natural heat layers from organic materials
  
  Growing heat-loving plants
  
  Observing microclimates and garden temperatures
  
  
  This part of the project shows how to extend the growing season in a natural way.
  
  
  🌿 Herbal Foraging & Wild Plants
  
  Learning to identify local medicinal and edible plants
  
  Ethical and sustainable foraging
  
  Harvesting herbs throughout the seasons
  
  Drying, storing, and preparing herbs
  
  
  You will gain basic knowledge of local flora and traditional herbal use.
  
  
  🧴 Making Natural Remedies & Preparations
  
  Herbal tinctures, oil and vinegar macerates
  
  Ointments, balms, and simple creams
  
  Herbal teas, syrups, and blends
  
  Safe and hygienic preparation methods
  
  
  All preparations are made from plants we grow or forage locally.
  
  Seasonal Rhythm
  
  Spring: Garden setup, thermoculture beds, first herb harvests, construction work
  
  Summer: Gardening, harvesting, herb drying, house restoration
  
  Autumn: Processing herbs, making preparations, securing gardens and buildings
  
  Winter: Indoor renovation work, learning, planning, slower pace through practice, supported by guidance and shared knowledge.

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Charity Work

  Art Projects

  Language practice

  Help with Eco Projects

  Elderly Companionship

  Gardening

  DIY and building projects

  Farmstay help

  Creating/ Cooking family meals

  Help around the house

  General Maintenance

  Help with Computers/ Internet

  House & pet sitting
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  UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  You benefit - can learn about permaculture concepts, natural building houses, woodworking, growing food, food forest, learn about herbs, how to backing bread with old way, can learn how to renovation antic chaise and other farm equipment's and many more .....

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  Help

  Needed help with restore all house as woodworking with wall, roof, windows & doors assemble, Carpenters work with fabrication decoration wooden elements and ......
  Gardening - arrange permaculture for food and herbs growing - just help with Eco project
  General Maintenance - all farmers machinery renovation
  Help in the house - preparation meals and brad baking
  Renovation project with antic chaise

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  Languages spoken

  German: Fluent
  English: Fluent
  Italian: Fluent
  Polish: Fluent
  Russian: Fluent

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  Accommodation

  You have a possible to stay in static caravan or rooms in separate building, depends of work progress
  There is toilet and bathroom in the house we can share. Food is included.

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  What else ...

  In our country we have over 50 lakes, very large area wild forest and old German defense bunker line from second war. Kayaks, fishing - we have own pond and our farm is surrounded by wild fields and wild forest - very unique place

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  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

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    Can host families

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  More than two

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  My animals / pets

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