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With - currently - 2 families (and 1 dog) we have started a cohousing group in an old farmhouse in the southern part of the Netherlands. Our 800m2 garden is starting to get more and more edible, and we are setting up a vertical vegetable garden in our patio.
Every day we feel happy to live in the part of the Netherlands that is considered by a lot of people to be the best holiday area and we love to share that feeling with you! And we hope we can travel-while-at-home when meeting energetic volunteers from all over the world.
Do you want to help us with the paint tasks of our beautiful bio-based home & building our wood storage & working in the vegetable and edible garden?
#sustainable
#biobased-or-second-hand-materials
#eco-friendly
#vega(n)
#yoga-in-the-morning
#bird-friendly-garden
#edible-garden
Hope to hear from you.
Kind regards,
Judith, Jurgen & Juliette
March 22 - March 30: availability
April 5 - April 24: availability
May 6 - July 10: availability
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Interests
Technology
Farming
Animals
DIY & crafts
Culture
Events & social
Charity work
Pets
Plant care
Books
Drawing & painting
Nature
Yoga / Wellness
Team sports
Camping
Cycling
Hiking
Outdoor activities
Art & design
Architecture
Music
Gardening
Cooking & food
Vegetarian or vegan
Sustainability
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We are happy to share all our knowledge of Dutch culture and language, and discuss all we know about sustainable living (never enough, but a good start), gardening, architecture and project management.
We love cooking and have a well-stocked kitchen, so if you want to learn about weekly meal prep, try plant-based cooking and pick up some new recipes, joining us in cooking is definitely an option.
And ... you would be staying in a real Limburgse Hoeve.
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
A stay of (minimum) 1 to (maximum) 2 weeks is preferable for us. Please let us know which weeks you would like to join us.
Teams of 2 are preferred!
We really could use your help in the garden and keeping the household going, while we are working on building the cohousing buildings.
Main tasks:
- painting
- help with (sustainable) insulation
- help with clay-plaster panels
- help in the (edible) garden and with foraging for our dinner.
- help with the vertical vegetable garden
- overall maintenance in the house
- building a storage place for the wood
- preparing breaks, lunch and dinners
We are always around on the premises to help you with the task, work together or answer questions you may have.
Le's check together after a couple of days if expectations, tasks & living together work out the way we all hope/plan/want.
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Dutch: FluentThis host offers a language exchange
Improving our languages would be excellent, especially our German, French and Spanish could use some improvement, but training in any language will be fine and fun. We are happy to share our knowledge and train you in the Dutch and English language.
Accommodation
We have a bedroom in the house available for our 2 (sharing a double bed) volunteer guests.
Advice from a previous workaway guest: bring warm indoor shoes :)
Sorry, we cannot accomodate workaway guests with big campers
Sorry, we cannot accomodate workaway guests with pets
We work weekdays between 9:30 and 15:00 with plenty of break time. Wednesdays and weekends are off.
Meals are provided all days during the stay and we have regular coffee/tea breaks. By the way: we eat mostly plant based.
Please cook us your signature dish if you have one! We'll provide you with the ingredients
What else ...
The surroundings of where we live in the southern part of Limburg are wonderful (for hiking & biking). You can borrow our bike for a ride if you want, or borrow our dog for a walk :), he really likes that!
If you like swimming, bring your swimsuit because there is a great (in & outdoor) pool at a cycling distance.
The train station is 15 minutes on foot and the train takes you easily to Maastricht & Aken or Heerlen - where you can make a tour to visit the many outdoor murals. The nearest train station Klimmen-Ransdaal was voted - again - to be the best train station in the Netherlands.
No smoking in the house and buildings (preferably not at all), no drugs, moderate alcohol.
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 wifi (yes in a part of the garden too) and on most of the terrain good 4G/5G too, so digital work in the garden is definitely an option.
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
My animals / pets
Benni
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Despite my difficulty with the language, they were patient and kind at all times, which helped me feel more confident… read more
Misaki is a wonderful chef, Noé a hard working go-getter. Their lovely baby Ellen is just as cute as they come.
We loved having them over and would… read more
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Despite my difficulty with the language, they were patient and kind at all times, which helped me feel more confident… read more
Misaki is a wonderful chef, Noé a hard working go-getter. Their lovely baby Ellen is just as cute as they come.
We loved having them over and would… read more
Unfortunately Noémie decided not stay the agreed time with us due to personal circumstances.
@Siyan, thanks, and enjoy all future workaway experiences.
He helped hard in our project, helped a lot in all everyday tasks, is great company, has been a great help when he joined in cooking sessions for the senior citizens of our town - sharing his grandmothers recipes. We loved to do… read more
We had a lot of snow; working outdoors was a bit rough (and cold). Faye is experienced at working with wood and carpeting, handing over tasks was easy. Jurgen and Faye worked on building the wooden skeleton of the wall.
Jigsaws, long walks with Benni, delicious French onion soup as a… read more
Cooking, yoga, corvee, walks with Benni, helping on the column wall in de long barn, jigsaw, flash visit to Bruxelles, reading, and movies, no matter what we threw at him: he said 'okay!'
Fynn is a… read more
They are really kind people who always tried to help me, especially with learning Dutch, what I appreciate a lot. I could also learn many things about the Dutch culture, including Dutch politics.
I stayed in a nice room, with (to be honest) the best bed since I… read more
In his free time, he enjoyed the surrounding villages by bike and… read more
I was a great expirience to stay with juliette, Judith, Jürgen and Benni.
This is a place where you can meet people with humor and an open mindset.
If you want to, you can learn how to
-Build a House (or Parts of it)
-Demolish a Wall
-make herbs -mixes
-walk the dog (benni is a super friendly dog)
-cook… read more
She is very flexible as we had to change our work plans a number of times due to rain or too-warm-to-do-brick-layering weather. She worked very diligently and the wall we… read more
These two weeks have flown, and they recommended places to see charming Limburg and help me improve my English.
The JuJuJu family are people of the heart and… read more
Moniek and Aisling are enthusiastic, hard-working workawayers with a heart for animals, and Benni (our dog) loved having them around as… read more
The work was a lot of fun. We worked on clearing the walls of the tiny house from plaster and leveling the floor of the long barn. It was physically pretty challenging, but very satisfying to see results… read more
They were extremely patient with us as we were still beginners in Dutch but trying our best to speak. We loved learning so much about the Dutch culture and the language!
You guys inspired us… read more
We feel that that is an indication of their drive and motivation: work hard, learn hard and have fun! We enjoyed their… read more
I've been there only 9 days but I felt like home. Everyone treated me like I'm a part of their family.
For work, it was quite hard with demolishing old stuff but there were a… read more
I learned a new skill and a lot of tricks and tips for cooking, planning and creating.
JUJUJU you are beautiful loving and caring people and I will love to come and stay at your premises more often to help and share, we'll keep in touch hopefully, thank you for your kindness… read more
