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Hey there, we're a family of four, living on a small homestead. It is a very big house, with two apartment parties - where there is always something to do.
We are planning to create our homestead after permacultural standards and will learn to self cater us and our family - so for this - we need some help.
We are Lisa (36) and Bernhard (36) and we have two awakned boys (6 and 3 years), 2 lovely outdoor cats, a flock of chicken who are responsible for our compost system and a aquarium in the kidsroom. We are planning to add more animals to our family and want to create a multifunctional passiv solar greenhouse during the next year.
We love to spend our rare free and family time in the nature/garden/wood around our homestead and in the beautiful Salzkammergut (-mountains) and on Lake Attersee on our small sailboat.
In Spring there are a lot of chores to do in the forrest, with the fire wood and in the vegetable garden and with our animals. In summer it is a little bit more quiet so we have time to spend the hot days at our sailing boat on Lake Attersee or went cycling or hiking with our kids. In autumn hopley there is a rich vegetable and fruit harvest, here we want to make the harvest durable for the winter season.
Winter is the time to plan for the next year and do a lot of things in and around the house and in the forrest and have fun in the snow with a lot of possibilities for wintersport.
We try to incorporate our children as often as possible and as often they are motivated in our daily work around the house and homestead. So to be patient, (child)friendly and understandig when something doesn't work as planned or need a longer time is very important for us!
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Language practice
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Babysitting and creative play
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
House sitting
Interests
Events & social
Van life
Sustainability
Pets
Farming
Charity work
Plant care
Gardening
DIY & crafts
Animals
Cooking & food
Carpentry
Winter sports
Water sports
Sailing / Boating
Outdoor activities
Nature
Mountain
Hiking
Cycling
Camping
Adventure sports
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Lisa is the chief of the garden and the kitchen. I like to cook - so i can learn you how to make "Kaiserschmarrn, Strudel or Knödel". In Summer and Autumm we make the harvest durable for the winter. I know a lot of things about our beautiful nature - especially wildherbs are my favourites.
Bernhard is the chief of the house and forest. He is a really good homeworker and we make a lot of DIY projects. We have a big and fully equiped workshop.
Projects involving children
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Help
We have a very big house, two young children, two cats, a flock of chicken, a big vegetable and fruit garden and a forrest for firewood , so there are a lot of tasks, which has to be done everyday to every year.
Tasks which had to be done maily, are caring for animals, garden plants, house and apartment and work in the forest and with trees (feeding, watering, weeding, harvesting, cutting, cleaning, heating, building, playing, cooking, ...).
Please give us a hand for that things, that everyone feels comfortable at our homestead.
We also want to make our homestead bigger and time by time add some new
things to our garden and homestead, so here help in the garden and around the house is required.
Projects which are planned in the future are a passiv solar greenhouse and a second chicken coop.
Every human is different, so lets talk about the projects you are interested in.
Normally we have a checklist for you, than you can work independent on the tasks of the checklist and also you can divide your day individually.
We have two young children. We have to start our day early and we need to get ready for school, kindergarten and office work - in the morning we are always busy. So breakfast isn't possible to eat together, but it would be very helpful, when you overtake our garden, chicken and cat routine in the morning. Lisa and the kids normally come home around 13 o'clock. Then we will have a quick lunch and a little break, before we start in the afternoon. Here you have the chance to play with the kids while i'm doing some tasks in the house or in the garden.
In the evening there is sometimes time to cook together and learn to cook and taste other meals, depends how tired the kids are, and which events we have on our kalender.
We chose 15 hours a week required help, so with this we are just responsible for accomodation!
But we also can make a 25 hour agreement, but you have to care and cook mainly for yourself. If you choose the 25 hours i'll go for grocery shopping with you at the beginning of your stay to fill up the storage and buy the grocerys you need. There are also a lot of greens and veggies in the garden and eggs from our chicken for your use.
Our main working days on our homestead for us are friday afternoon, saturday and sometimes sunday afternoon and often after work.
Your "free days" will be on days under the week.
Let's talk about this in a call or after your arrival - we always found a solution that fits everybody 😊.
Languages
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: IntermediateThis host offers a language exchange
We are interested in showing our children that English is a good language to communicate with people around the world.
Accommodation
We can provide you a shared apartment in our big house. We live at the first floor and you will stay at the ground floor with a fully equiped kitchen with a table for 6 persons, a small eating/living room with a bench and a big table for 8 persons+, an extra toilet and bathroom with a shower, a bath tube and separated washing maschine. As a solo traveller you will stay in our single bed room. In this ground apartment we also rent the double bedroom and the big living room via bnb. We renovated the kitchen and the double bedroom. The bathroom and the other rooms were equiped with older furniture, but we try to keep them clean and orderly. Mabye there can sleep and life up to eigth pepole at our ground apartment.
You have to share the apartment with our guests, so its really important that you are able to keep the kitchen, toilet and bathroom clean and orderly.
You are not responsible to clean the bnb-guests rooms, but you are responsible to clean up after you and help with keeping our house clean and orderly.
It's also important to save water, because of our own water well - you will find tips for saving water in the bathroom.
We have two young children. We have to start our day early and we need to get ready for school, kindergarten and work - in the morning we are always busy. So breakfast isn't possible to eat together. In the evening there is sometimes time to cook together and learn to cook and taste other meals. But you have to cook mainly for yourself. I go for grocery shopping with you at the beginning of your stay to fill up the storage and there are a lot of greens and veggies in the garden and eggs from our chicken for your use. Our main working days on our homestead for us are friday afternoon, saturday and sometimes sunday afternoon and often after work.
What else ...
Our homestead is located between the Attersee and Traunsee. At the "gate to the Salzkammergut". This region is known for the beautiful mountains and lakes. Also famous places like Hallstatt or Salzburg are close.
You can reach a bus station (Rutzenmoos Hinterbuch B145) maybe in 1,2km. Very hour there are buses to Gmunden or Vöcklabruck. Here you can change to train.
On the same way to the bus station there is a gas station, were you can buy around the clock grocerys.
Sometimes its possible to share our bikes with you - so you can reach the beautiful places in a shorter time.
We're sure that everybody will find a occupation in our beautiful region. From A(ttersee) to Z(oo) everything is possible. Just talk to us we can give you insider tipps. If you are interested in hiking - Lisa nearly climbed every mountain in the Salzkammergut :-).
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
We both are working 50:50 Home Office. We have a glass fibre connection. There are lots of possibilities to make a good working space for you. Bernhard is a computer technican - so i think we will find a solution.
Space for parking camper vans
We are also Hosts for an App called "Schau aufs Land". We provide three free places for mobile homes, campervans, caravans or tents. Sometimes we are also traveling with our campervan. So we like to welcome guests with campervans or mobile homes. The best place to park is the flat gravel parking spot located on the north side/ front side our house. In Summer it will be shady und cool. Our guests can use the frontdoor to find a toilet and a sink.
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
My animals / pets
Chicken
Fritzi and Tiger Mau
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About the work, they don't count hours and don't mind if I wanted to have a free day, if the work was done, everything was ok! I learned a lot of things… read more
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About the work, they don't count hours and don't mind if I wanted to have a free day, if the work was done, everything was ok! I learned a lot of things… read more
I only stayed for 8 days but really enjoyed my time, the accomodation was really nice very homely and was made to feel apart of the family, this workaway was… read more
Bernard and Lisa are not just 5* workaday hosts, but 5* people. They are kind, generous and helpful. We shared lots of laughs with them and the kids and created so many great memories in their little paradise.
The work was fun and varied. Got to learn how to be a real lumberjack as well as some new garden skills. They were really flexible… read more
Lilly also played and stayed a lot with our children and the two liked… read more
The work was varied and enjoyable for me. From learning a couple of new things like driving a tractor and working with a chainsaw but also being trusted to work quite a bit on my own. I think Bernhard and Lisa are flexible and good at giving… read more
They have an extremely big house, a… read more
