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Description
We are a young family living our dream. Both city-born, we built a small organic farm, located under the Jizera mountains in the northern tip of the country at the border with Germany and Poland. On our 6 hectare farm we keep 20 goats and sheep, have an orchard of 50 fruit trees and grow cut flowers and vegetables on 1200m2. We aspire to be self-sufficient in meat, fruits and veg. Together with our two children of 7 and 9 years we live in a small wooden sustainable house.
Our village is near Liberec city and easily reachable by bus and train from Prague, Berlin or Dresden.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Language practice
Help with Eco Projects
Teaching
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We are happy to share our skills in gardening, bread baking, goat and sheep husbandry. We can share many tips on how to enjoy small scale farming lifestyle to its full without getting burned out.
Projects involving children
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Help
Workawayers are welcome to help with:
- teaching our children English
- gardening (digging, planting, weeding, seeding, harvesting),
- helping with produce
- assisting at wooden constructions
- very little animal care- feeding animals, giving water, clearing the animal sheds and the chicken coop
If you have any special skills: carpentry, electricity, tiling, photography, video, let us know and we will find a project for you!
We start working latest at 8.30am. The afternoons are then more free for you to wander in the forest, go for a bike ride or just rest on our porch or garden.
I appreciate a rotation in cooking as we like to try different meals. Who is not cooking clears the table after meals and washes dishes (we have a small dishwasher for cups and plates). Help with basic cleaning is expected as sweeping the floor in spaces we share (about 25m2) or cleaning the shower after use. These household chores are part of the daily routine and everybody has to pitch in. If you love cooking and you are willing to cook everyday for 6 people from scratch, let me know :)
March/April: Cleaning the goats shed, moving manure around garden, helping with installing animal fences
May/June: Preparing firewood, lots of weeding and planting, canning.
July/August: Weeding, helping with produce, picking flowers, canning.
September/October: Clearing all garden beds, adding manure to them, planting bushes, seeding, transplanting, canning produce.
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
French: Fluent
German: Beginner
Spanish: BeginnerThis 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
ACCOMODATION:
Workawayers will be accomodated in a wooden cabin. The cabin is quite small (9m2) and is 20m from our house. It is furnished with two beds (you will probably share the cabin with another volunteer), a small kitchen and basic equipment (you will have electricity). Please bring your sleeping bag or at least a sleeping bag liner, and we can lend you one. Nights are always cold, even in the hottest summer!!!
SHOWER AND WATER USE:
Since we depend on our well and we have had very dry years, we are very concentrated on keeping the water use as low as possible. Next to the cabin is a dry composting toilet and showers are limited to 5 minutes a day per person. We take it as a part of our sustainable living.
FOOD:
Three meals a day are served and volunteers participate in food preparation. I usually cook lunch alone, but expect volunteers to prepare an easy dinner: salad, soup, quiche or anything you like to cook. Same is for breakfast.
We cook healthy organic vegetarian food with lots of fresh vegetable, once a week meat is served from our own livestock.
Our household is sugar-free, only exceptions are occasional home-baked cakes or homemade jams. If you have a sweet-tooth, we highly recommend you to bring your own sweets or junk food.
DAILY ROUTINE:
A certain rythm in our life is important to us and so our days look usually like this:
7 am Milking goats
7:45 Breakfast
8:30 Work
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Afternoon work 1hour and free time
18:30 Dinner
CLIMATE:
Mountains are close by, and nearly all year long there is strong and cold wind blowing. You definitely need a water and wind stopper, a hat and scarf is necessary until end of May and from September.
March-April: Day temperatures : 0-15°C, Night temperatures : -5-10 °C
May- June : Day temperatures : 10-25°C, Night temperatures : 2-10 °C
July- August: Day temperatures : 15-32°C, Night temperatures : 10-18 °C
September- October: Day temperatures : 0-20°C, Night temperatures : -5-10 °C
What else ...
We live in the countryside but you can easily travel by bus and train. Next to our house is a forest where you wander or go mushroom picking. There are forest cycling pathes called Singletrack nearby, we can lend you our bicycles. An excellent brewery is in Frydlant town and you can enjoy some beautiful hikes in the Jizera mountains or see a wonderful cathedral in Hejnice.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
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Space for parking camper vans
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How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
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Thank you for your welcome, for the skills you shared, for your kindness and for these moments we have shared together. It was really important for us. These two weeks will remain in our memories forever.
We really hope to come back one… read more
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Thank you for your welcome, for the skills you shared, for your kindness and for these moments we have shared together. It was really important for us. These two weeks will remain in our memories forever.
We really hope to come back one… read more
We stayed in Lamya and Petr's farm for 3 weeks. We had many different kinds of work to do. From feeding the goats, watering the flowers, housekeeping or even cooking some Taiwanese dishes.
Lamya and Petr are really nice people, and the culture exchange experience was awesome, we learned a lot about… read more
We enjoined our stay with the family, learned to milk the goats, made sausages and had other interesting tasks at the farm. During our free time we also had the chance to explore the beautiful surroundings.
It was my first Workaway experience and I couldn't wish any better place than this one :)
Both Lamya and Peter are so open minded and heart-warming people.
I enjoyed every type of work that was given to us, from the gardening (I hope the tomatoes will grow), over goat miking… read more
Michael spent the week helping build a stone wall and some steps up to the decking, and I got to spend the week looking after the gorgeous Bela and Albert which was… read more
I was pleased to give my little help and join to them for a one week.
Thanks Lamya and Peter for great experiences and lifestyle inspiration! I enjoyed my time very well.
I hope we will meet again.
I appreciate everything, thank you so much! Take care!
