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Dear Visitor,
I have been hosting since 2017 on the ranch I have been running since 2014. I update the volunteer pages around once every new year.
Today we are a community of organic ranchers and craftspeople in the praeries of Central Europe and are quite apt at self-sustaining without outside help. We occasionally also go volunteering to other places apart from or as a part of our professional life in ranching and crafting business.
If you wish to become a part of our community for a longer or shorter period of time we are continuing to be open. I am looking for independent people seeking refuge and joy in the environment created by human labour thoughout more than ten years. They must be able to self-sustain themselves, comfortable left to their own resources and take pride in contributing to the greater project. I am personally not able to entertain visitors on a day-to-day basis, however there is space, bed, bath basin, candles for lighting and wood-fire stove for cooking and heating in the winter. There’s a pantry and little space in the freezer for storing your food, but no refrigerator. There’s also electricity available for charging your devices and tools to use for projects around the farm.
In the summer the sun rises around 4am, with siesta time at possibly even 35-40C degrees between 10am and 4pm, and the sun sets around 10pm. There is very little rain or humidity.
In the winter the sun rises around 7am and sets around 4pm. We are currently having super warm winters around zero celsius degrees. It still can fall back to around -7C, very occasionally -15C. There can generally be very deep mud especially since the property resides in an Ice Age marsh in an indigineous habitat.
Throughout the years we had experimented with many forms of gardening beside animal husbandry. We experimented with many vegetables, onions and planted many fruit trees. Many of the fruit trees failed to thrive - and in this case we learned that there are foreign species, that are not fit for this environment. Today we have most only indigenous herbs beside the fruit trees and the occasional small garden patch with whatever vegetable anyone is inspired to grow.
All animals graze on the Ice Age fields. Having experimented with most all indiginous races we currently thrive on 15-20 Hungarian Grey Cattle herding them off Kunfakó horseback. This is breed of horse had been recently recognized in November 2025 as experimental reconstruction of the Hungarian Plains horse being fit for extensive keeping, longriding, herding, general daily work and commute. The five horses on the ranch work in herding and longriding but are also being trained for towing. Three of them are Kunfakó, one of them is a Konik stallion, another an Akhal Teke gelding.
Other animals include donkey, mangalica pig, racka sheep, Hungarian poultry and two peacocks. The sheep may be temporarily removed because of fence renovation.
On the marsh property there are also a few small ponds, where we have reintroduced aboriginal fish and vegetation.
General basic reoccuring tasks on the farm:
- General housekeeping, cleaning, weeding
- Chopping and organising firewood
- Whitewashing wooden fences and fenceposts
- Limewashing the house wall with blue oxide
- Watering flowers and herbs
- Animal care only in the case of long term farm sitting
I am open to professionals wishing to contribute to the project as well to the enjoyment and respect to the environment.
It is possible to read more on the website, also refreshed sometime every winter season:/
Languages spoken include: Hungarian, English, French, German
For people considering staying long term learning Hungarian should be a base.
With kind regards,
Nóra
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
House & pet sitting
Interests
Pets
Movies & TV
Fashion or beauty
Farming
Culture
Photography
Plant care
Music
Languages
Hitchhiking
History
Gardening
Drawing & painting
DIY & crafts
Cooking & food
Carpentry
Books
Astronomy
Art & design
Architecture
Animals
Yoga / Wellness
Winter sports
Sailing / Boating
Outdoor activities
Nature
Hiking
Dancing
Camping
Beach
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Travellers will learn the dynamics of a homestead with a large grazing area and of a bigger animal populace. Learn how large herds of animals move, or get to know both smaller and larger animals' behaviour.
They will also experience the beginning of a new life of a farm building, that had been derelict for a couple decades but otherwise has the skelleton of around 250 years made out of organic material. They can understand the difficulties and benefits of what such a building has to offer in renovation and living.
I also strive to live as off-grid as possible, which is in process, and which process is exciting in itself as well.
Help
- finishing up mudwalls
- whitewashing
- painting (with bronze-age patterns and oxides)
- woodwork (gates, chickencoop)
- fence and pen building, fixing
- arranging firewood
- chopping wood
- electric fence building
- animal care
- herding
- horse training
- providing hey and/or water for animals
- taking care of animal injuries
- gardening
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Hungarian: Fluent
German: Intermediate
French: Intermediate
Spanish: Beginner
Polish: Beginner
Russian: Beginner
Ukrainian: 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
- Seperate farm building
- Guest room
- Guest bed
- Guest room combined with the potters' workshop
- Spare room in larger building
- Camping
- Parking space
What else ...
Sunrises, sunsets, the great big sky, the grassland, pastural marsh and it's natural inhabitants.
0,5km: 100 year old church
1,5 km: Neighbouring shepherd's sheepcheeses
3kms: Körös-Maros National Reserve
5kms: Birdwatching tower over the National Reserve
8kms: Csanádapáti Bronze age burial mounds, Kopáncs 1000 year old church
10kms: Blaskovich Crypt with derelict estate and scarcely inhabited settlement
16kms: Tótkomlós Rózsa Thermal Bath, Tótkomlós Jacquard weaving workshop, Tótkomlós Evangelical community weaving workshop
Óföldeák 1000 year old fortified church
20kms: Makó Spa & Thermal Bath, Makó's occasional dancehouses, Csomorkány windmill and 1000 year old church ruin in Körös-Maros national reserve
25kms: Royal Stables of Mezőhegyes
50kms: occasional dancehouses in Szeged
Horsebackriding, biking, walking, car by host on occasion. Minimal public transportation.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
There is Wi-Fi.
Space for parking camper vans
There is bigger parking space as well if needed.
Can possibly accept pets
Trained pets are welcome that are not harmful to their environment! I have purebred breeding dogs, therefore I am only able to host other dogs if they are neutured or are okay with being in a seperate, enclosed space.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
My animals / pets
Mangalica Pigs
15-20 Hungarian Grey Cattle
Poultry
Five horses
Two peacocks
Farm cats
Three dogs
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There were two other workawayers coming at the same time. I was traveling by car and picked one of them, Emily, in Budapest up and we soon became really good freinds. From that time we did almost everything together. After our farmstay, we also travelled few days… read more
Emily and Zoë coordinated their arrival together by car efficiently and independently, arriving while I myself was also volunteering in France. They were observant and careful of the new place of their arrival and near-to completely independently capable of efficiently upholding the place on their own with… read more
I am truly happy to have had the experience together to have been able to… read more
own different characters. They have enough freedom and are treated very well, which is important for me. I already miss them a lot, especially the baby Őrdöngös. There are… read more
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There were two other workawayers coming at the same time. I was traveling by car and picked one of them, Emily, in Budapest up and we soon became really good freinds. From that time we did almost everything together. After our farmstay, we also travelled few days… read more
Emily and Zoë coordinated their arrival together by car efficiently and independently, arriving while I myself was also volunteering in France. They were observant and careful of the new place of their arrival and near-to completely independently capable of efficiently upholding the place on their own with… read more
I am truly happy to have had the experience together to have been able to… read more
own different characters. They have enough freedom and are treated very well, which is important for me. I already miss them a lot, especially the baby Őrdöngös. There are… read more
Candlelight, well water, and firewood remind me of my childhood. I seem to have entered another world, where everything is so simple, peaceful, and timeless. I help with farm work, such as whitewashing the fence and… read more
Thank you Nóra for the two weeks we could spend on your farm.
Through Nóra we learned a lot about hungarian history, tradition and culture. We enjoyed the conversations about god and the world with her a lot. The way Nóra is… read more
Nóra is an amazing, energetic and admirable person, as well as very funny, I loved and deeply enjoyed our conversation (both deeps and dumb ones ahahah) and working togheter. I spent 2 amazing weeks in the farm where I had the chance to learn,… read more
This has been my best workaway experience so far !.......
I defiantly underestimated Hungary , hope to visit again soon and recommend to… read more
My experience began just like a Workawayer, however -- I helped out doing some installation of electric fences (in Hungarian, you… read more
