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Greetings, we are Joonatan and Agnessa,an orthodox Christian couple from Finland.
We live challenging life in a middle of forest. I am a professional carpenter and have to spend whole day at work, but then I continue my work at home. My dear wife Agnessa is helping me. We try to do as much we can, so our day starts at 4 AM.
It's lot of work on our household, but we have a dream to build chasovnia or even a wooden church. I am able to do it on my own, but I don't have much time due my work. I really would need a HELPER(S)! I do these after my work day and the progress goes very slow. I can teach you building tricks, carpentry and how to work with wood!
We have a big garden land and some animals, with which we need a big help as well. Right now most of their diet goes with grains and hay we buy and it eats plenty of our not that big income, so our goal to grow enough of food for them and us for the upcoming winter. We are sharing with our volunteers all we grow, especially meat, milk and eggs are always fresh and you won't find anything like this in a supermarket store. My wife cooks meals and serving table approximately 3 times a day. In a hunting season there might be game on the table.
We are visiting church in Helsinki almost every Sunday, it takes 2 hours of driving and you can join our trip on your desire.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Charity Work
Art Projects
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Interests
Charity work
Farming
Gardening
Drawing & painting
DIY & crafts
Carpentry
Art & design
Animals
Nature
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
You are welcome to join us on anything we do.
You can learn lot of practical skills needed for living in countryside, we like to share our experience and a bit of knowledge, the only thing is your truthful interest to learn!
We are duo national couple we can share both Finnish and Russian dish, culture and aspects of life, especially from past times, you would find out it's very close to each other.
Joining our family would bring you experience of our orthodox Christian life values and traditions, we are not sinless, but we try our best.
When it's a bit of free time we go to pick mushrooms, berries or herbs. Going for fishing.
Help
We need help with most of aspects of our household life. So tasks might vary from helping on the kitchen to cleaning in the barn and others. We are welcoming initiative person who is not afraid to dirt their hands. And as we provide lot of our resources and hospitality we expect fair exchange of favor.
Always feel free to ask if you need help or explaining how things are done. Some tasks we are doing together and some done independently.
For cooking, housewarming and sauna we are using firewood, and making firewood is neverending task ! ;)
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Finnish: Fluent
Russian: Fluent
Accommodation
A separate clean room(approx 15m²) with a door in the same house we live. Big kitchen with wood oven and stove, dishwasher and kitchen machine, which can be used for cooking. You also can use shower any time, we warm sauna once a week.
What else ...
Generally there's not much to add, but I would like to mention that we want to have mutual respect and effort, keep in mind - "you treat others you want to be treated yourself".
For those we find with a common ground, faith, life values and goals we could let to stay longer, or offer a part of our forest land for building own place, living together and establishing a tiny commune.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
Phone internet
Space for parking camper vans
Spot for a van close by the house, or on remote wilderness place next to the lake.
How many Workawayers can stay?
One
My animals / pets
Farm animals
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We found a lot of things in common and her visit left a warm feeling in our hearts. The sad thing she visited us only… read more
I mainly dug soil for vegetables. It wasn’t hard, and I could work at my own pace.
Their lifestyle is natural and full of love. Things that are ordinary for them were new and interesting to me.
They welcomed me very warmly, and whenever I helped them, they always said thank you, even for small things.
I felt… read more
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We found a lot of things in common and her visit left a warm feeling in our hearts. The sad thing she visited us only… read more
I mainly dug soil for vegetables. It wasn’t hard, and I could work at my own pace.
Their lifestyle is natural and full of love. Things that are ordinary for them were new and interesting to me.
They welcomed me very warmly, and whenever I helped them, they always said thank you, even for small things.
I felt… read more
