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UP(TO)DATE: we are looking for new volunteers for spring and summer season - feel free to apply!
Small ecological community in two 100-year-old houses in a tiny village, 80km east of Berlin is looking for help! We established the project one year ago so there is a lot of renovation going on at this time - and a lot of room for your ideas! Our organic garden grows every week and all the beautiful fruit trees need a hand, too.
At the moment there are five humans (Jule, Alex, Irma, Martin, Jon) living here, plus one dog, about three cats, three indian runner ducks. We are looking forward to soon host some chicken again. We often have friends over and soon there will be more people and animals living here, too!
Gardening
Building
Babysitting / child care
General Maintenance
Cooking / shopping
Farmstay
Other
Help with Eco project
Help in the house
Besides living in a cool place away from the stress of a big city and close to beautiful nature, you can benefit from being able to learning german, basic woodworking and gardening skills as well as cooking delicious vegetarian meals with local organic ingredients. You may learn how to put a fire under a bathtub and then take a bath under the stars (we also do have a warm shower inside, though)
Basically, we need help with everything. You can help out in the garden at every time of the year, establish new beds or other structures to grow plants, get dead wood out of the trees and so on.
On the handicraft side, we try to refurbish a big old house and there is no lack of projects we are currently running, may it be roofing, woodwork, plumbing, brick work, painting work, electricity, oven maintaining and so on.
In colder parts of the year, there needs to be wood cut for our common shared living room.
You may take care of our super cool runner ducks and our chicken. Also, we want to refurbish two rooms in order to broaden the space where people can stay - may it be guests or volunteers! Also latest in early april a new batch of soy sauce is going into manufacturing. If you're into fermenting, that's your adventure!
Oh and we believe that this farm is a great opportunity for you to pursue your own little project (refurbishing a guest wagon, building a tiny house, clay oven or or or....), depending on your passions and skills of course - many things are possible!
german, english, french, some basic spanish and hungarian
Currently we provide one heatable guestroom with a double bed and two or three more double beds in shared rooms (depending on how many people are there in total, just some people might pass through occasionally). Bath room, kitchen and living room are commonly shared rooms. In summer time, you can also put your tent somewhere on the premise. We would also provide a tent if you're interested. We aim to built some wooden tiny houses for guests "soonish", that might even be a project for workawayers :)
PLEASE NOTE: since the house is quite old and our project quite new, please don't expect too much comfort, the overall condition would best be described as "rusty" (even though we have warm water, electricity and wifi...)
ALLERGY INFORMATION: we do have cats that also live inside the house and in the common rooms.
The closest train station is 7km away, we can organize a shuttle if you're in need. Berlin is 1-1,5 hours away, depending on the means of transport. We live in the Oderbruch region, a former swamp area. The river Oder with it's beautiful wetlands are close, as well as two national parks on both german and polish side.
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
More than two
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week, but it's really up to you and we are not too strict about that...
