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You can help me maintain my permaculture homestead. It is a small place, but with a lot going on. I like my plants and have food production, both some annuals and perennials in the forest garden. The house and garden need lots of attention and we'll have fun doing it.
I will be teaching away for some periods of time and therefore I need someone in the house to take care of cats, chickens and plants. Ideally you can stay here from beginning of June until end of September.
My place is on an island, so the beach is near and there are lovely walks along the coast.
Summertime offers outdoor activity, festivals and music. I'm next door to a museum that doubles as a venue for music events.
I'd love to tell you more about permaculture, wild edibles, clay plastering, rocket stoves, forest gardens, cultivation and about the island I'm on.
You can go on trips to Copenhagen. It's about 1½ hours drive away. And you should meet my cats, they love hanging out with humans.
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
Help with Computers/ Internet
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Danish culture and permaculture :-)
Help
You are: independent, looking for a quiet place, wanting to retreat for a bit, able to take care of the cats, chickens and plants on your own, clean and tidy, without addictions and generally in good health.
I teach permaculture away from home and will be away for 14 days at a time, four times during June - September. I expect that you are in the house while I'm away to take care of everything. You can take time to go somewhere else when I'm home, if you like.
The house is from 1870 and there's quite a few things to maintain. I've worked a lot on it the last 9 years and have created a cozy clay-plastered indoor living room and a lovely workshop. This summer I'll be working on improving the workshop and general maintenance of house and garden.
The garden is based on permaculture principles and have a forest garden, social space, fireplace, lots of greens to eat. It's really a little paradise to me. I hope it will be that to you too :-)
Languages spoken
Danish: Fluent
English: Fluent
French: Intermediate
Accommodation
There are extra bedrooms in the house, so you can have a room to yourself,
What else ...
There are lots of lovely walks and you might find some of the rare orchids that are growing on the island (don't pick!). The beach is nearby. The island is mostly about finding peace and quiet, listening to birds and being in nature.
There are a few places that serve food or where you can go for a drink. There are couple of small museums.
Take the ferry across to Holbæk, a larger town, where you have everything a town offers.
Copenhagen is easy to reach via the ferry to Holbæk and train to the Central Station or Airport. If you're interested in Vikings there's a Viking festival in July and the city Roskilde, nearby, has a great viking museum and boats.
I grew up in Copenhagen, but I've settled on this island to get well grounded and I love to live off of the land as much as I can. I moved here in June 2014, but I'm still setting up systems and trying to get it all to work in this old house.
I'm also building relations to the community and my parents are on the island. It's a must to like cats, because my cat will be happy to have another human to cuddle up with.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
I have fiber internet and it works well.
Space for parking camper vans
I have a little space for a little camper under a tree :-)
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
My animals / pets
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Other help I did was painting, harvesting vegetables and fruits, making herbal salt,… read more
She is a great host and told me amazing knowledges about permaculture and plants.
This is one of my best experiences in Denmark that I spent at her beautiful garden with lovely cats, ducklings, and chickens.
And she showed me beautiful nature places around Orø. I also had a great time… read more
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Other help I did was painting, harvesting vegetables and fruits, making herbal salt,… read more
She is a great host and told me amazing knowledges about permaculture and plants.
This is one of my best experiences in Denmark that I spent at her beautiful garden with lovely cats, ducklings, and chickens.
And she showed me beautiful nature places around Orø. I also had a great time… read more
Throughout my stay, I had the opportunity to be involved with a variety of tasks and learn many new skills. Aside from being a beautiful place to just 'be', Cathine's permaculture garden was a clear example of the… read more
Cathrine's place is our first one we expirienced in work away. We stayed here for three weeks and it was really great. We had chance to do things that we never did before, she is resoursefull so we learn how to use less in most eficient way. In this place we felt like in our homes and do things that we really love. It is a great place for thouse… read more
Cathrine is a very friendly person who takes the time to show you things. I have loved to discover her island with her, I met very interesting and nice people too thanks to… read more
The surroundings and the house are great, if you love nature it's a good place to be. A quite town/island but not too quiet to be bored, taking a walk at the beach, going somewhere with the bike,… read more
Cannie and Linus are very gifted at cooking and to my great joy they mostly took over the kitchen… read more
We enjoy to stay there for over one month.Cat is a lovely and friendly girl with 3 cats .
We learn how to repairing windows, house .I knew many new plants from Cat
We live in a warm & beautiful room in her permaculture learning centre.
We had a great… read more
