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Right now:
Gardening season is basically over until late March 2025.
-What I really need is a person who would like to help me put up reused windows and glass doors as walls in my greenhouse. Everything else is now built!
-I'd love to host someone who'd like to organize my wood workshop, I've put up some photos of it, it's got potential, but needs a real makeover!
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Description of Nässelbacken:
Me and my teenage sons have a miniature farm on 2 hectares of Swedish nature.
On the top of the sunny hill are the little house and large trees. I'm in the middle of building the zero energy year-round greenhouse. More trees and forest gardens, edible landscapes and vegetable garden are newly established here.
Upcoming building projects that I need help with are: tiny house renovation; smart and innovative greenhouse; a rainwater collecting system; terrass; solar dryer, rocket stove.
Gardening projects run all the time, except mid winter, mostly focused on forest gardens/edible perennial plants and plants that benefit insects. I also aim at being self sufficient on staple foods such as peas, beans and maize. I'm already self sufficient on fire wood, so in winter, we cut and cleave a few trees.
In the bottom of the valley there used to run a creek, which has been underground for 70 years - we are aiming at freeing it as soon as possible. It is also a lovely natural alder wetland forest, full of birdlife, dragonflies, edible plants and flowers.
The southern end is where my friend sometimes has her sheep, and the stable also contains a cosy but rustic guest room for volonteers, including a small kitchen. This is also where we have the wood workshop.
To the west lies the Oak meadow, a tranquil place for meditation, a place for watching sunsets and sunrise, and listening to the owls through the night.
I who run this place am Tuve, ecologist and hobby farmer with a gardening education and 20 years of experience in small scale food production, orchards, poultry and vegetables. I have spent my life learning the skills necessary to make a good living without being stuck in the modern consumption dependence. I know many crafts, farming and what to eat in the wild.
Spinning wool from various animals is one of my hobbies, but also basketry and carpentry, along side of my main interests gardening and biodiversity. I love teaching my skills to those interested in learning.
On top of that, I love singing, talking, and sharing of the spiritual side of our existance.
This new farm is only five years old, but I have been a host for volonteers for 6 years on my old farm too.
Every second week, my two children, 16 and 18 years old live with me.
We have three cats, and four indian runner ducks.
If you are looking for more than a few weeks of volonteering, I am interested in sharing my arable land on longer term also, with people living in their own homes on wheels, yurts etc. It would be possible to bring your own animals, also grazing ones, as long as they can co-exist with the cats and ducks that already live here.
The food here is vegetarian. If you like cooking, vegan is no problem. Meat is rare.
Wifi is available in and around the main house. If you bring a camper van, you can park within wifi range.
Jobs include mainly building and gardening.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Creating/ Cooking family meals
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
I can teach you about:
Forest gardening
Wild edible plants
Crafts (if you are here long enough you could learn basketry and spinning)
Or we could do:
Singing together would be fun
Meditation, spirituality, drumming
Night-time safaris to see the wild white deer special to this area.
Having fun with the kids, playing cards.
Help
I mainly need help with
▪planting trees, weeding, gardening;
▪taking care of food produce;
▪organizing and cleaning in workshop and sheds;
▪building a terrass, greenhouse, chicken house, renovating tiny houses
Of course I will guide you in what to do.
Languages
Languages spoken
Danish: Fluent
English: Fluent
Swedish: Fluent
Dutch: Intermediate
French: BeginnerThis host offers a language exchange
We'd love to get better at French. We're very good at English and Swedish.
Accommodation
I have two choices for volonteers: A rustic guestroom in the stable that has a loft bed and it's own kitchen, but usually volonteers chose to eat with the family in the house. Or a tiny house next to the house with wifi. Only one bed.
Do let me know if you have allergies, the rooms might not be so dust free.
Please be prepared to accept that both these guest rooms are also used as storage, and they are not hotel room quality, they are rustic. The space in the tiny house is very tiny. The space in the stable is a bit like you'd imagine a farm hand's living quarters could have been a hundred years ago, except with electricity and running water!
What else ...
I can lend you a bicycle. There are walking trails in the surrounding landscape, which is a patchwork of farms, fields, small forests and pastures. There are lakes within cycling distance. It is situated in the middle of Skåne, has 3 national parks within 1 hour drive, and nature reserves close by.
Public transport exists, but is limited.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
Wifi available
Space for parking camper vans
Space available
Can possibly accept pets
As long as the pet leaves cats and ducks alone
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Feedback (10)
She always talked to me slowly and clearly because I am not good at English and invited me to watch movies together to let me relax.
I made a big compost outside with her, dug up nettles in the field for next spring and took care of ducks. She taught me a lot about… read more
As a hands-on experience for his future studies to be an architect, I hope this experience helps a bit.
Thank you, Dylan!
I was there for two weeks during the summer so most of the time we were outside working on the duck house, chilling in the garden,… read more
He took part of building a mobile house for ducks. This was a totally new kind of work for him, and he learned a lot. And the ducks now have a much better home, thanks to him and some other workawayers.
Valentin is friendly, good at sharing languages and… read more
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She always talked to me slowly and clearly because I am not good at English and invited me to watch movies together to let me relax.
I made a big compost outside with her, dug up nettles in the field for next spring and took care of ducks. She taught me a lot about… read more
As a hands-on experience for his future studies to be an architect, I hope this experience helps a bit.
Thank you, Dylan!
I was there for two weeks during the summer so most of the time we were outside working on the duck house, chilling in the garden,… read more
He took part of building a mobile house for ducks. This was a totally new kind of work for him, and he learned a lot. And the ducks now have a much better home, thanks to him and some other workawayers.
Valentin is friendly, good at sharing languages and… read more
In addition to skill, he is friendly, a good cook, a good guitarrist, dedicated to working for the… read more
Her english is very good and she understands all instructions.
Grete has assisted in laying a brick wall. Planted and sown plants in the garden independently. Weeded. Taken care of ducks.
She is helpful in the kitchen and cherful to be with.
I… read more
Take good care of him.… read more
Best regards from Martin
Cheerful and good natured. Tidy.
I highly recommend Martin!
Tuve knows SO, SO, SO much. You can learn a lot from them - from how to get tannins out of acorns to make them edible to what perennial vegetables are to how to craft willow… read more
You are welcome back, any time you want!
Thank you for your help!
They are sensitive, and need the housing situation to work for them, therefore they didn't stay more than 2 days out of the planned 12. That is the only reason I didn't give them so many stars. I'm sure that if my guest room had been ok for… read more
