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My wife Dana and I Oliver live with 3 of our 4 kids, Lea(11), Ronja(6) and Alva(4), on an old farm, that we have bought in 2020, in a small village at the edge of the wester forest 25km outside Bonn. When we bought the farm it was in a rather poor condition and it took us about 2 years to renovate the house using alternative building materials as wood wool or clay as much as possible. The house we have more or less finished but the rest of the farm still needs same attention. The idea is to create a place where human can live in harmony with and from nature. This includes that we care for the land we work on and make sure we keep it healthy for next generations. Currently we have about 45 Galloway’s, 5 horses, 6 sheep, 1 dog, 2 cats, a docent chicken, 3 bee colonies and a small vegetable garden. We hope one day we will produce enough so that the farm feeds us and the people living with us but to get there it is still a long way.
When I was younger I travelled a lot. The biggest trip was a two years motorbike tour from Germany to New Zealand. But also spend some time in Africa as well as North- and South America. After I finished Uni my job as a project engineer for a foreign department involved a lot of traveling. And it is a totally different way of traveling as before. Nowadays I’m happy to spend my time off at home but I miss the contact to other travellers with new ideas and interesting discussions that helps you to see the world from a different angle. Therefore I would like to welcome you in our home and give back some of the hospitality I received all over the world.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Babysitting and creative play
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We will integrate you into our daily family farm life and into the social life in our village. You can learn about farming, to look after animals, how to preserve food and how to build with natural resources. And further we will drag you to all traditional events that happen in our region around the year.
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
You are welcome to join us in our daily life that includes to look after our animals with us and have meals together. We are having many different ideas in mind and there are a lot of things that can be done so that we will easy find something that will fit for you. We work a lot in nature and therefore every time of the year has there things that needs to be done. Making fire wood in winter, planting in spring, harvesting in summer and fencing in autumn, just to give some examples. Further there are always thigs that need repair and depending on the time of the year there will be some building activities as well.
Some tasks might be:
Gardening, looking after the animals, fencing, preparing common meals, looking after the kids, help in the house. most machinery is desperately waiting for maintenance.
Making apple juice from our apples
Building a shad from logs out of our forest,
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
Accommodation
We have a cosy Bauwagen (Trailer) for you to rest and where you have some privacy.
What else ...
There are some nice walking trails close by. Bonn and Cologne are close by and you can reach them on public transport.
We don’t except drugs.
Also we do not want pictures of us or our kits on social media and during common meals we do not want any mobile phones.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Space for parking camper vans
This host can provide space for campervans.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week
