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Help with Alaskan huskies, animals and children at our farm in the middle of the forest near Lycksele, Sweden

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Availability

  2024 

 Min stay requested: 1 month or more

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  • Description

    Description

    We are a family wth four boys, 7-13 years old. We have several different kind of animals - sled dogs, cats and hens. In the summer and autumn we also have sheep, turkeys, goats, pigs and ducks.
    We live in the middle of the forest, 34 kilometers from a small town called Lycksele. We spend a lot of time outside; training the animals, fishing, walking in the forest, picking berries in the autumn, fix things at the farm, build things, saw wood, shovel snow almost every day during the winter, etc.
    We like to make our own bread in our kitchen, hunt moose to get meat and pick berries ourself instead of buying everything at the supermarket. We also make cinemon rolls, muffins, bread, cookies and pineapple pie and sell to people.

    We have a saw and likes to cut some of our trees down in the forest and make wood that we can build things with.

    All the month looks very different here, depends on what time of the year it is.

    We prefer if workawayers who arrives here will be able to stay at least 1 month.

    We drive our dogs 5-6 days/week with sleds in the forest during the autumn and winter.

    We live in the forest = no supermarket, no petrol station, no other houses close to us - only forest! :)

    Write to us for more info! :)

  • Types of help and learning opportunities

    Types of help and learning opportunities

    Language practice
    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
  • Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    They will see things about this way of living.
    They will see a different life style.
    They will spend a lot of time with animals.

  • Projects involving children

    Projects involving children

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

  • Help

    Help

    The one who wants to stay at our farm can help us with different things, different days.

    It will be possible to help us with for example:

    Feed the animals
    Build/fix things at the farm
    Play with the children
    Train the sled dogs
    Go for walks in the forest with the dogs
    Clean for the animals
    Give the animals water
    Shovel snow on the farm in the winter
    Renovate an old house
    Work with wood
    Cut grass in the summer
    Etc.

  • Languages spoken

    English: Fluent
    Finnish: Fluent
    Swedish: Fluent

  • Accommodation

    Accommodation

    We have a guest cabin with space for three people. The person who will stay here can have breakfast, lunch and dinner in the house with the family.

  • What else ...

    What else ...

    We live in the middle of the forest! =)
    There is no transport, except for our own car.
    Workaway who stays here can follow us to town, when necessary.

    The nearest supermarket and petrol station is in the town Lycksele, 34 kilometers from us.

    When you stand on our farm, you can only see our animals and forest, there is no neighbors who lives close to us.

    We only accept workawayers who are not smoking.

  • 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

    This host can provide space for campervans.

  • How many Workawayers can stay?

    How many Workawayers can stay?

    Two

  • ...

    Hours expected

    5 hours/day x 5 days

Host ref number: 618754678435

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