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Dear travelers, we are a couple that have both travelled the world and now have settle to give passion to The Joy of growing. Growing in everyway.. Here in "little land" we found a tiny farm with lots of abundance and possibilities to be self-sustaining, Raffaella 32 from Sweden/Italy, that have her big love for growing veggies, medicinal plants and preserving things from nature. Been working as vegetarian cook True The years, and later on studied to become a garden master in biodynamic farming.
Simon 39 Englishman is growing into The life on the countryside, becoming a handyman in everything he takes on, have travelled lots and lots. Simon is also musician and loves jamming with others. We are both old work-awayers and see this as a beautiful way of exchanging knowledge, passion and Great project such as art, music, handcraft, food nature and much more.
Here we live in total nature with lots of forests, lakes, wild animals and what is called The glass kingdom. We have beautiful bigger towns in every direction and The sea with different Islands.
Most of all we try to build up this forgotten little farm, with eatable trees, kitchen gardens, house renovations, making good food and try to live in harmony with less.
As now we live with little Kiko, our street dog from Portugal, Our little puppie Orza that came to life here.. We have our two kittens and also our beautiful chickens..
This Autumn we will work on: Making a beautiful home for our New Baby boy who was just born on the 30th August. Right now we are getting used to life together and we could really do some help on closing up the garden for winter and planting out some crops for next year, and help with looking after our animals, we now have 3 female goats that are newish to the family and they need food, cleaning and for us to find them a suitable lover for the winter so they can make babies and we can make cheese in the spring. Ideally we are dreaming of a couple, 1 who is happy to work outdoors in the garden and with the animals, and the other who is happy to cook for us all and keep the kitchen tidy. It is a busy time of the year at our place but also it is a time when we are wanting to spend time cosying up as our new family, so ideally our next volunteers will be happy to spend time chilling on there own and we wont feel the pressure of having to entertain them. what gifts will the river bring this time..........
Please write an application directed to us after you have read the information. The bulk mail applications is nothing we are interested or have time for. We have Veggies to grow and animals to feed =)
Lots of light.
Art Projects
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
You will be able to learn about growing veggies, preserving food, taking care of animals. Cooking with love, taking care of what nature have to give. Sharing stories from our lives.
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
We like people with a good spirit to come and join us taking care of the kitchen, garden, feeding animals, making food, renovations projects and hopefully your own passion and what you can bring along. There will always be general maintenance on the farm , wood to carry , grass to cut, tools to fix and so on..
English: Fluent
Swedish: Fluent
Italian: Intermediate
Spanish: Beginner
The farm has a house, a cabin and a barn with workshop.. All of it is simple, in The wintertime we use woodburners for our heating. The toilet is an outside composting toilet. We have a poor excuse of a shower, its good because it uses little water, but a long soak is not possible. However we have a wonderful woodburning sauna and outdow shower summer time.
you Will either stay in The cabin, that is super simple but old and charmy, or in our guestroom in The house. Free spirits can stay in a hamock in The garden (not recommended in the winter months, unless you are true viking).....or in a tent.
We mostly eat vegetarian food, and simple! We will make sure you will have everything you need to stay healthy and good.
We live a bit off-grid but with possibilities to go to shops 20 min with car. You have bigger towns as Kalmar, Karlskrona and Vaxsjo ca 1 hour away, witch you can get to with a bus, we will help with arranging.
Mostly is activity's into nature here. We have canoe you can borrow , beautiful walks around. treks you can go . Camping places. You can use our fishing rods. also there different islands an hours drive away that are so beautiful to go and discover. we have a yoga center close by that also have a summer festival.
The barn has a workshops that is setup with beautiful tools and space to go into creative projects.
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
This host can provide space for campervans.
As long as they are friendly and wont eat our chickens.
Two
Maximum 5 hours a day, 5 days a week
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