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Hello hardworking people!
The next period we offer volunteer work starts in the middle of May (best dates to work here is 15.5.-10.6)
We need help to clean the forest; cut brances and carry them and small trunks of trees. On the yard there is raking leaves and reindeer feeding place, some garden works, maybe building too.
We assume that you are in good physical condition and able to work 5 hours a day briskly. 5 days/week.
We need some weeks helping hands also in autumn.
If you are interested in northern nature, reindeer and working outdoors this place may be good for you.
Mainly we need help in forest works in spring time: we have too many small pines to cut and prune the branches and carry all near the road. We don't expect you to work alone in the forest, we are working with you. You don't need earlier forest work experience. It is enough if you are used to work physically and you like it.
We have a lot of fences because our reindeer are on the own land. It is big work to keep them in condition and that is done mostly in autumn.
We have also many other tasks; wood chopping, painting , building, demolition of old constructions and cleaning, garden works...
There is also some daily work with reindeer if you like working with them.
We are a couple living in north Finland. Our home is 350 km to the north of Arctic Circle, 18 km from Inari village. There is 20 km long lake Muddus just to the north of our house. It is a peaceful, beautiful lake and also good fishing lake.
We have a farm which is mostly forest, swamps and small lakes. There is two hectares field to make hay for our tame reindeer. Our reindeer gives us self-sufficiency in meat and they are also pets for us.
We have also activities for the tourists. Travellers can visit our home if they are interested about authentic, everyday life and sami culture. But we haven't tourists everyday and we don't need help with the tourists.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Creating/ Cooking family meals
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Inari is appr. 700 prs. a famous sami village with remarkable sami museum Siida and sami cultural center. There is 2 shops, couple "pubs", several handicraft shops, library and a church. Around the year lot of tourist visits Inari. There isn't public transport from our farm to Inari village. We use to visit there couple of times a week by a car and you can come with us there. If you want to stay there a longer time then we can borrow you an electric bike! And near our farm many kind nature activities are possible: short hiking trip, fishing and nature photografering (often in night time in summer here is beatiful scenery over the lake).
Help
We also have a number of small projects ongoing: reindeerfence repairing, demolition, house repairing, garden works... and old furnitures need maintenance if someone has carpentry skills.
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Finnish: Fluent
Accommodation
You live in same house with us. Upstairs we have room for one or two workawayers and own toilet downstairs. Other rooms you share with us. Traditional sauna is free to use.
There is a small cottage in the yard of our house by the lake. It can accommodate one person.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
This host has indicated that they love having digital nomads stay.
Space for parking camper vans
This host can provide space for campervans.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Feedback (17)
We learned a lot new things: about reindeers,… read more
Don't hesitate to accept if you receive a request from Anna.
I was here for nearly three weeks,… read more
This was my first workaway experience and to say it has exceeded Al my expectations is an understatement. This was also a beautiful cultural exchange in which I learnt so much about Finnish and Saami culture. These… read more
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We learned a lot new things: about reindeers,… read more
Don't hesitate to accept if you receive a request from Anna.
I was here for nearly three weeks,… read more
This was my first workaway experience and to say it has exceeded Al my expectations is an understatement. This was also a beautiful cultural exchange in which I learnt so much about Finnish and Saami culture. These… read more
I learned a lot about reindeer, birds, fish, trees, forest, weather and finnish culture.
It was an incredible cultural experience.
The work was very pleasure to me. I cleanned the forest, take care of the reindeer,… read more
Our feedback comes rather late, I am sorry Ilan. All the best for you.
In work terms, frequently i fixed fences and i changed old posts and wires for new ones. Also i raked leaves around house and also i… read more
They are incredibly generous and truly nice people, and took their time to explain and share their lifestyle with me, beside I could try the traditional sauna, learn how to bake pulla and have a coffe by the firecamp...I could also… read more
We can recommend Anton for other hosts.
We had nice time with her and she is allways welcome to our home.
Tuula and Matti were very kind. Tuula was very good at cooking and I ate a lot of Finnish cuisine. I repaired reindeer fences and harvested potatoes. All the twelve reindeers were cute, calm and wise. Sometimes we went to a nearby island with a boat, picked a berry, made a fire and enjoyed a picnic. It was a really nice… read more
We have had very nice time with Miriam and we hope that she will come back one day.
We can really… read more
We are comletely satisfied the month that Marc stayd at our home. Many works become done and we had a… read more
Tuula and Matti are really very nice people, they share all the time her Sami… read more
During October we spent a lot of time on the frozen lake.
we were lucky to see beautiful northern light and several nights.
We enjoyed the great food from reindeer.
It was lot of work also.
But really magic time.
Thank you!
The main job of the volunteers was to help to clean the forest.
On the next morning after the first working day, I had pain in my arms and back, since we had been in the forest for 4 hours (usually it was 5 hours), lopping off the branches of… read more
