Spend time with horses in the woods near Heidelberg, Mannheim, Ludwigshafen, Germany

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  Description

  We are a family with 4 horses, 4 children, 3 dogs, 2 parents, 2 cats, around 100.000 bees and 1 grandmother. We recently bought a house in the middle of the beautiful Palatinate Forest (wolves and lynxes in the neighbourhood) with a lot of ground and a lot of trees.
  
  Now we wishfully want to create a peaceful, meaningful, ecological place where everybody is invited to take a rest. And so we are looking for help. We start with permaculture, make our own firewood and also work on a biodynamic vineyard. We mainly eat vegan and vegetarian, sometimes venison, but we have no problems with if s.o. eats meat. We are non-smokers (except grandmother, but she does is secretly far away from the house) and we drink alcohol in moderation, manly wine, because the parents work both in the wine sector.

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Help with Eco Projects

  Gardening

  DIY and building projects

  Animal Care

  Farmstay help

  Help around the house

  General Maintenance
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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  Permaculture/ Bio/ Biodynamic/ deep and loving horse work/ making honey/ language practice/ on parle francais / hablamos español / we love to cook fresh and eat healthy together and do it every day/ we love to work hard on our place but also love to enjoy a calm evening with friends, barbecue and a glas of natural wine
  
  We live very (!) rural, but near to cultural interesting areas. Cinemas, theaters, concerts, museums of all kinds are reachable with a little effort by bus and train or by car and we can join it together. We would love to show you our region.
  
  Best known hiking region/ we have a public outside swimmingpool in a moat five minutes away / inside swimming pool 15 minutes

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  Projects involving children

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

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  Help

  Main and daily tasks would be to care about the horses (mucking out, feeding, check water). If you have enough practice, riding will be possible. They also love long walks. (We have only ponies so the weight level ist 60 kg.) We always go out so you can discover nature on a horse back. Also gardening and a little bit of household as it is needed in a big family. The other big helping part ist that we have a lot of building projects in planning where your help would be very welcome.

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  German: Fluent
  English: Fluent
  Spanish: Fluent
  French: Fluent

  This host offers a language exchange
  We love the idea of that our children can listen to many different languages.
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  Accommodation

  We can offer a beautiful room with a king-size bed. Couples are welcome! Please consider that our house is a construction side, so we have areas in the house, beside the bed- and bathrooms, which seem not very homelike. You have to share one of two bathrooms with the family. In winter we heat with wood. It is cosy but very special!

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  What else ...

  Bus station and train station are reachable. We also can give you rides.
  
  Please understand that we expect a MINIMUM STAY of A MONTH because of the complexity of caring about our horses. Also for our children ist it easyer to deal with persons they know a little bit longer/better. Relationship needs time to grow!

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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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  Can host digital nomads

  This host has indicated that they love having digital nomads stay.

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  Space for parking camper vans

  We have enough space for a camper. So we can host people in our guest room and at the same time in a mobile home.

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  Can possibly accept pets

  Horse and dogs

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  Two

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  Hours expected

  Maximum 4 hours a day, 5 days a week

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