Help us renovate our farm in Offerdal, Sweden

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  2024 

 Min stay requested: No minimum

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  • Description

    Description

    """2023: WE NOW LOOK FOR A CARPENTER/HANDYMAN FOR A LONGER PERIOD helping us out with a greenhouse, renovating guesthouse. Contact us for more information and your questions"""


    Welcome to our old farm in the middle of silent nature by the lake, mountains, forests, wildlife and in the northen land of indigenous people of Scandinavia, Southern Sapmi (Jamtland). We are yogateachers and moved to this far out countryside 2016 longing for nature, silence and fresh air and to find the place for our future Saran Yoga Retreat Center.

    We have a wild garden longing for plants and space, rooms needing new floor and windows and walls painting, repairing doors and steps, painting the little cottage, picking flowers and herbs for tea, preparing an out door fireplace, tuning the piano...
    Our beautiful farm has no cattle, but 4 cats, and small cultivating fields.

    We eat vegetarian ecological food prepared together with love and respect. We do excursions or show you where to explore the wild nature nearby and visit old cultural places in the area, i e carvings from 5-8000 years ago.
    There is possibility to join yogaclasses, gongsessions, mantrachanting, meditation and sauna.

    The farm is located 20 km from the nearest foodstore, 80 km to the big city where you will find all you need included an adventurous open air museum (Jamtli) and shops, railway station, busstation and airport.

  • Types of help and learning opportunities

    Types of help and learning opportunities

    Help with Eco Projects
    Gardening
    DIY and building projects
    Animal Care
    Creating/ Cooking family meals
    Help around the house
    General Maintenance
  • UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

    UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

    UN goals
    No poverty
    Zero hunger
    Good health and well-being
    Quality education
    Gender equality
    Clean water and sanitation
    Affordable and clean energy
    Decent work and economic growth
    Industries, innovation and infrastructure
    Reduce inequality
    Sustainable cities and communities
    Responsible consumption and production
    Climate action
    Life below water
    Life on land
    Peace, justice and strong institutions
    Partnerships for the goals
  • Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Knowing the cultural area in the northern part of Sweden. Connect to old buidlings. If interested - participate in the spiritual life with yoga and meditations. Living in respectful way with nature eating healthy ecological and vegetarian food. Totally drug free living. Experience the midnight sun.

  • Help

    Help

    Heavy work: Digging. Building fireplace with stones. Cutting trees and bushes.
    Renovation: Renovate the guesthouse (plumbing, building walls, renovate windows, ...).
    Carpeting: Building new staircase fence. Putting up new doors. Building new floors.
    Painting: Walls, facades of little cottage, doors and windows. Repairing, painting furniture.
    Special skills if you have: tuning a piano, repairing iron stove, painting artistic signs, digging, planting.

  • Languages spoken

    German: Fluent
    English: Fluent
    Swedish: Fluent
    Spanish: Beginner
    French: Beginner

  • Accommodation

    Accommodation

    Shared rooms and dormitories with equipped beds.
    Shared WC/privy and showers. If you stay for a while you can use the laundry for washing.
    You will be part of preparing the ecological vegetarian food with us.
    No using drugs or alcohol is allowed on the farm.

  • What else ...

    What else ...

    Very limited public transportation. 20 km to the bus where we can pick you up and which takes you to the city (1,5 hour travel). Huge areas where you can bike, hike, swim, kayaking, row, run, walk, camp in the surrounding nature taking responsability according to the Right of public access in Sweden.
    We do not allow any drug using or alcohol in our life on the farm.
    The weather in this area of Sweden shift very fast and even in summer you have to be prepared with warm clothes. Rainwear is mandatory. And you will need clothes to work in as well as proper shoes.
    There are mosquitos in this area in different amounts depending on weather, wind and season.
    We are a HBTQ household and expect visitors to embrace that.

  • 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?

    More than two

  • ...

    Hours expected

    5 hours a day, 5 days a week

Host ref number: 812617694438

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