The image depicts a charming red house with white trim and a gray roof, featuring a covered porch and a serene garden setting on a sunny day.
The image depicts a garden bed featuring rows of leafy greens, including lettuce and onions, with a mix of light and dark green leaves, and a subtle watermark in the center.
The image depicts a wooden deck with baskets of mushrooms and containers of berries, showcasing a rustic outdoor setting with a focus on foraging and nature.
The image depicts a cozy room with a large window overlooking a serene landscape, featuring a bed, chair, and mirror, exuding a sense of calm and tranquility.
The image depicts a serene lake scene at sunset, featuring a calm body of water, trees, and rocks, with a subtle watermark in the center.
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Fun eco projects in beautiful countryside with lake in Finland

Availability

  2025 

 Min stay requested: at least 2 weeks

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  • Description

    Description

    CALL FOR HELPERS

    Next time helpers needed from June 10 throughout the summer 2025, Contact us in May, before that we cannot really make specific plans.

    Our place is located between Turku and Helsinki in the village of Karjalohja on a beautiful hill with a view over fields with crops and horses. Only with a 7 minutes walk you reach the shore of the clean protected Enäjärvi Lake, where we do fishing, rowing, sailing, swimming, picnic, or take tours to the islands. Big forests with berries and mushrooms also surround us. You reach the Turku-Helsinki express bus stop in 15 minutes with our biogas car. To reach the nearest small village with shop, library, spa, etc. takes 12 minutes by car and 35 minutes on bicycle.

    Now this place serves our circle of partners and friends and we hope that one day it can also serve a larger circle. Eventually, it can also become an artist residence and an experimental ground for artistic, ecologic and holistic lifestyle development.

    The project
    We are developing an old farm into an ecological self-sustainable unit. We are growing biodynamic food and exploring experiments in recycling and renewable energy sources.

    The crew is a group of individuals, partners and friends who all share interest in global consciousness, ecological, aesthetic, ethic sustainable living, thinking globally locally, power of art music, drama and narratives. We are working in the fields of arts, academics, environmental activism, locally and internationally.

    The house has been throughouly renovated including the kitchens, the sauna, the compostable toilets, the solar power heating systems - everything is already in good use. In one special spacious and light room we do yoga, meditate, celebrate, make music, dance and gather.

    Practicalities
    We can accommodate volunteers in cosy summer rooms in the other buildings in our beautiful yard. We will provide food, housing and offer a stay in our special and friendly environment. We hope you will contribute with around 5 hrs. help input per day. The weekends are free. Often we make picnics or excursions to interesting places, attend local cultural events or just relax on our beach or in the hammock.
    We can take from 3- 4 volunteers.

    Applicants please write and let us know what area of activity you are interested in, when you can come and other basic info. For many years on other volunteering platforms, but are new on Workaway.
    We prefer that volunteers come for a minimum of two weeks.

  • Types of help and learning opportunities

    Types of help and learning opportunities

    Help with Eco Projects
    Gardening
    DIY and building projects
    Farmstay help
    Creating/ Cooking family meals
    Help around the house
    General Maintenance
  • UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

    UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

    UN goals
    No poverty
    Zero hunger
    Good health and well-being
    Quality education
    Gender equality
    Clean water and sanitation
    Affordable and clean energy
    Decent work and economic growth
    Industries, innovation and infrastructure
    Reduce inequality
    Sustainable cities and communities
    Responsible consumption and production
    Climate action
    Life below water
    Life on land
    Peace, justice and strong institutions
    Partnerships for the goals
  • Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Following area of skills can easily be developed here:
    - organic gardening
    - all kind of wood work from chopping wood, house building, carving traditional decorations to boat building
    - easy mechanics like serving bicycles and garden tools
    - artistic skills like singing, dancing
    - welfare philosophy, yoga, communication and dialectics in our meetings, etc.
    - wild food knowledge, fishing and camping in wilderness.
    - the art of being internationally together, communicating own interests and needs, listening to others, contributing to the group

  • Help

    Help

    We need helping hands with developing our workshop, assisting in building decks and balconies, painting and fixing, taking care of the garden, helping out in the kitchen, collecting and storing harvest and keeping everything clean, nice and fresh.
    Tell us what you would like do do or learn and we will find the right tasks for you.
    We usually get tasks done all together as it is more fun that way.

  • Languages

    Languages spoken
    English: Fluent
    Finnish: Fluent
    Portuguese: Fluent
    Swedish: 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.

  • Accommodation

    Accommodation

    One cosy wagon house for one, one nice summer room divided in two, one person’s room in the house. We have a great well equipped summer kitchen for making food, meals and gathering and the beautiful yoga room for music making, chilling, yoga etc
    We often heat the great sauna and our beach and lake are fantastic hang-outs too.

  • What else ...

    What else ...

    We have many bicycles to discover the area, boats to move on the lake, instruments to play, forests to pick berries and mushrooms.
    Our experience is that any group that forms here becomes like a family. Many have become life-long friends and some come back another year

  • A little more information

    A little more information

    • Internet access

    • Limited internet access

      Limited internet access

    • We have pets

    • We are smokers

    • Can host families

  • Space for parking camper vans

    Space for parking camper vans

    Any size van can have good space in the spacious yard

  • Can possibly accept pets

    Can possibly accept pets

    Good mannered dogs are welcome.

  • How many Workawayers can stay?

    How many Workawayers can stay?

    More than two

Host ref number: 522232377941

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The image depicts a garden bed featuring rows of leafy greens, including lettuce and onions, with a mix of light and dark green leaves, and a subtle watermark in the center.
The image depicts a wooden deck with baskets of mushrooms and containers of berries, showcasing a rustic outdoor setting with a focus on foraging and nature.
The image depicts a cozy room with a large window overlooking a serene landscape, featuring a bed, chair, and mirror, exuding a sense of calm and tranquility.
The image depicts a serene lake scene at sunset, featuring a calm body of water, trees, and rocks, with a subtle watermark in the center.
The image depicts a charming red house with white trim and a gray roof, featuring a covered porch and a serene garden setting on a sunny day.

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