Stay with our family and help out on our eco farm on the beautiful island of Bornhom, Denmark

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  Description

  We are a little family living on the beautiful danish island Bornhom. Palle is from the island, I (Tabea) am from Berlin but have been living on Bornholm since 2008, our two kids are about 11 and 8 years old.
  We bought this beautiful eco farm in 2019 and love to call it our home and life project. We have 4 islandic horses, 2 cows and their calves, about 15 chickens, 2 mini pigs, some stable cats. We spend a lot of our time with the animals and enjoy having them around us.
  Our place is an ecologic farm since the seventies. The most of the 6 hectar land is gras for having food for the animals. A little creek supports us with water, forest surrounds the pastures. It is all in all a beautiful spot we may call our home.
  A big kitchen garden keeps us busy and supports us with fresh organic vegetables and fruits. We are not selling any farmproducts but all is for selv-catering for our family and guests.
  Especially in sommertime do we have a lot of friends and guests staying at our place. So there will be heaps of possibilities for meeting other people, hanging around the fire place together, go together for a svim, enjoy the place and the rest of the beautiful island.
  The projekts you as a workaway could be included with are:
  different kinds of building, reconstruction, maintenance and repair projects,
  help with the animals, muck out the stables,
  fencing work, making hay,
  all kind of work connectet to the garden as mowing the lawn, preparing the vegetable patch, weed the weeds, harvest the vegetables and prepare for storing (all vegetables are for selv-catering on the farm, not for selling)
  making and stacking wood,
  preparing food
  and cleaning.
  Workawayers won't be helping in spaces for paying guests.
  As we are working full-time beside our farm activities, won´t we be able to supply you with three meals a day.
  Workawayers are responsible for their own food, but for that they only help a maximum of 15 hours per week. We decide together how the hours will be distributed, depending on needs and the workawayers' preferences.

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Language practice

  Help with Eco Projects

  Gardening

  DIY and building projects

  Animal Care

  Farmstay help

  Creating/ Cooking family meals

  Help around the house

  General Maintenance

  Help with Computers/ Internet
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  UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  Bornholm is a beautiful island in the Baltic sea, giving lots of possibilities for biking, hiking, svimming, fishing, rock climbing, surfing, kayaking, horse riding...
  Not only danish people choose the island to be their home, more and more other citizens settle down and enrich the culture of the island. We have visitors from all over the world, som of them staying on our farm.
  Palle is a "Bornholmer" and knows a lot about the islands history.

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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

  Most of all we need help with the gardening: prepare the soil for the season, sowing, weed the weeds, harvest, store and process the harvest.
  Tending the pastures, cleaning for horse droppings and fencing is a all year around work we will need support to. Cleaning chicken and cow stable, the latter, however, rather in the off-season.
  If you have experiences with horses you may be included in the training.

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  Danish: Fluent
  German: Fluent
  English: Fluent

  This host offers a language exchange
  This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
  You can contact them directly for more information.
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  Accommodation

  We can offer a nice stay in our train wagon, connectet to the facillities for the camping, such as kittchen and toilet (seperation toilet) and shower (outside with cold water). The wagon gives space for a little family, a couple or two-three singles. If the holiday house is not rentet out you can stay there (4 persons, warm water).
  It is important for us that you know and accept your own responsibility for cleaning the facilities you use.

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  What else ...

  Our farm is located directly at the bike path. The beautiful bike path brings you in one direktion to the lokal grocery (1,5 km) and furher to the sea (6 ,5 km) - in the other direction to the beautiful forrest Almindingen and further around the island.
  The lokal bus brings you all over the island, dependent where you want to go 0,7-1,5 km away.
  All kind of outdoor sports, all kind of culture to develop an enjoy on Bornholm. Bornholm has a school for and in general long tradition for glas and ceramic art works.
  Beautiful nature, imposing historal spots.

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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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  Space for parking camper vans

  You can camp with your caravan on our little camping spot, using the facillities of the camping, such as kitchen and outdoor toilet and shower (cold water).

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  More than two

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  Hours expected

  Maximum 15 hours af week