Help us create a sustainable paradise in a little village in the remote forests of Stugun, Sweden

Availability

  2025 

 Min stay requested: at least a week

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  • Description

    Description

    Located in a small, rural village in the beautiful forests, we are working to establish a self-sufficient, eco-friendly, nature-based home and business. This is based around our farm where I live and thrive with Nature as my foundation, and then share this with others to take out into the world. My farm is 5 Ha and consists of a couple of fields, small ski slope, a boat house on the lake, two barns, a vegetable garden, some chickens and plenty more potential that I need help realising.

    I am a former city guy with deep experience of sustainability, renewable energy and the corporate world, who has now changed life direction to be a Wim Hof Instructor and to establish a self-sufficient existence for the family. I have two sons, 9 and 11, who are growing up in the natural and wild world around Borgvattnet and are with me every other week.

    Cultural exchange:
    As if that isn’t enough, all my workawayers have the opportunity to participate in their very own Wim Hof Method experience, where we will teach you the breathwork and cold exposure techniques, and treat you to a spectacular wild bath experience if it interests you.

    I welcome individuals, couples and groups.

  • Types of help and learning opportunities

    Types of help and learning opportunities

    Art Projects
    Language practice
    Help with Eco Projects
    Elderly Companionship
    Teaching
    Gardening
    DIY and building projects
    Animal Care
    Farmstay help
    Babysitting and creative play
    Creating/ Cooking family meals
    Help around the house
    General Maintenance
    Help with Computers/ Internet
  • 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

    Staying with me and helping me realise our vision will leave a lasting legacy that will follow you back to wherever you come from. We are looking to give people experiences, skills, memories, friendships and connections that will help us all re-establish the global ecosystem of humans in Nature. It will help people realise how little they really need to live a purposeful, fulfilling and fun life and how technology should be an enabler and not the foundation. We come from urban backgrounds and only recently discovered living rurally, but instantly realised that it is the solution to many of the worlds problems... moving people out of synthetic and polluted cities back into natural and health boosting villages.

    Jamtland, the area of Northern Sweden we live in, is filled with history from Viking times, is fully a vast areas of Nature, is close enough to connections to get to the city or Stockholm if you want / need to and is filled with mostly nice people. Staying with me will also enable you to learn about what I know from our life experiences and I would love to learn from you. Please do not come to stay with me if you are not comfortable sharing your thoughts, opinions and views and are not willing to hear and explore others.

  • Help

    Help

    I am looking for people who are willing to help invest in a future that keeps on giving. Finding joy from traditional ways, skills and traditions are a must and, if you have these skills as well, a great bonus. I need help establishing and tending a no till permaculture garden, renovating and reinvigorating farm buildings, developing a concept that can perpetuate the sharing and learning of skills based at our 5ha farm, but with outreach across the village of Borgvattnet and beyond. We will also be building sustainable infrastructure to test a closed loop model of living which regenerates Nature and creates an abundance "Garden of Eden" environment where there is time to grow creatively, artistically, musically, consciously and beyond.

  • Languages

    Languages spoken
    German: Fluent
    English: Fluent
    Swedish: Intermediate
    Spanish: Beginner

    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

    All workawayers stay in the farm house with their own warm bed. I basically treat all workawayers as an extension of my family, so we eat meals together and generally work together. I have two sons with me ever other week. There will be opportunities to eat from the garden that you will help tend, source food from the local organic food network, local producers and of course if you so choose the "evil" supermarket, which we are trying to increasingly avoid.

    I provide you with sheets for the beds and towels.

  • What else ...

    What else ...

    The area has endless opportunities for fishing, swimming, hiking, camping, cycling, etc. Those who stay with me get taken along to the various activities and events that may come up during their time here. Depending on when you are here there are also local festivals in Ostersund and local area.

  • 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

  • Can host digital nomads

    Can host digital nomads

    There is 4G reception in the village that is suitable for video conferencing and most general uses. If a fibre connection is required for specific purposes, the village cafe has a connection.

  • Space for parking camper vans

    Space for parking camper vans

    There is a space suitable for anything up to a medium sized campervan.

  • How many Workawayers can stay?

    How many Workawayers can stay?

    More than two

Host ref number: 537769813361

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