Join our family creating a permaculture garden and updating the old school building and yard an oasis in Ahmovaara, Finland

Details

• 

  Description

  We Purchased 2019 an old school close to Koli national park which is the national scenary of Finland. We have renovated it mostly and now having accommodations, events and healt&wellbeing related activities. we are planning on creating a permaculture yard and greenhouse for growing food and other plants. Our youth will be occasionally here.
  goodlifeschool org is the website.
  
  We are also looking for a like minded person or couple who would be willing to run the place during the winter season, October-April while we are on our Cambodian home, 10000km away.

• 

  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Art Projects

  Help with Eco Projects

  Gardening

  DIY and building projects

  Farmstay help

  Creating/ Cooking family meals

  Help around the house

  General Maintenance

  Help with Computers/ Internet

  House sitting
• 

  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  You can take part in happenings, help making permaculture garden a reality with our skilled permaculture experts, help in painting the house and other renovations. Enjoy the beautiful nature close by Koli National park and lake Höytiäinen.

• 

  Projects involving children

  This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.

• 

  Help

  Now we are renovating details in the house, finalizing Garage, doing gardening, forest & timber work, helping in cooking, household, accommodations etc.

• 

  Languages

  Languages spoken
  German: Fluent
  English: Fluent
  Finnish: Fluent
  Swedish: Intermediate

  This host offers a language exchange
  We all speak those languages, Johanna has fluent German, Mikko has forgotten a lot of it from 1996 and could prep it :)
• 

  Accommodation

  Old school building - we can give you own room or shared room depending on the situation.

• 

  What else ...

  In the school there will be occasionally events and retreats too.
  We enjoy outdoors, nature, swimming, sauna... you can use bicycles freely and also we have a boat and canoe on a nearby lake.
  We encourage people to live free and happily and plug in to the nature :)

• 

  A little more information

  • 

    Internet access

  • 

    Limited internet access

  • 

    We have pets

  • 

    We are smokers

  • 

    Can host families

• 

  Can host digital nomads

  We have good internet here and considering to upgrade it to fiber optical connection in some year. We also work online a lot and have web dev projects.

• 

  Space for parking camper vans

  parking space available here.

• 

  Can possibly accept pets

  We have to talk about this first, but probably yes if they are human friendly and create no problems with the visitors.

• 

  How many Workawayers can stay?

  Two

• 

  My animals / pets

Website Safety

Chat with Workawayers who've visited this host

Feedback (2)