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We are looking for volunteers to help us on our small farm (permaculture) located in Gullabo (Torsås municipality - Kalmar län).
Who are we? 🇧🇪🇫🇷
We are a Franco-Belgian family : Pauline and Pierre and two children aged 7 and 2.5 years old. We moved to Sweden in March 2023 and bought our house in November 2023. We have a 8000m2 land with several outbuildings.
We aim for food autonomy through permaculture and tend to have a lifestyle that is as natural, healthy and respectful of nature as possible.
I work part-time in Karlskrona and Pierre takes care of the farm full-time. Pierre has skills in permaculture (after years of practice and research), fishing and cooking.
We are producing for our own consumption and hope to be soon self sufficient 🤗
We speak French, English and Swedish.
We are located in the municipality of Torsås, 25 minutes from the sea (east coast), 45 minutes from Kalmar and 45 minutes from Karlskrona.
We live in the country side so it is easy to go for a walk in the forest or to bike/hike.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Interests
Sustainability
Farming
Music
Languages
Gardening
Cooking & food
Animals
Nature
Camping
Hiking
Cycling
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
What do we offer? 🌱🌞🍞🥗
A discovery of a different way of life, learning about permaculture, working in the garden, food preservation, cooking, baking... We really want to share our knowledge and skills with others.
We are a French-belgian family living in Sweden so we love to discover new culture and to exchange with people from all around the world.
We would love to learn from our volunteers also, about gardening, cooking, building or any other thing !
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
What are the tasks? 🌱🪵🍄🫐🫙
Working time is 4-5 hours per day, 5 days per week. Tasks and schedule may vary depending on time of year and weather.
- Work in the garden: seeding, transplanting, watering, harvesting, weeding and also picking in the forest (blueberries, mushrooms). Also helping with preservation of food.
- Collecting/chopping firewood
- Sorting/emptying our outbuildings
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
French: Fluent
Swedish: IntermediateThis host offers a language exchange
We speak French at home but can also talk English and Swedish. Pauline speaks a little bit German. We like to talk several languages and share ours with others ! Our kids speak French and Swedish.
Accommodation
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In exchange for your precious help you will get a room and food is included.
Meals are taken together, it is welcome to have some help for cooking time.
You have free access to the kitchen and the bathroom of the house.
You can also come with your van/truck.
We have a cat in the house. 🐈
Practical detail: we have our own wastewater collector, so we ask people to only bring natural shampoos/soaps.
Welcome 🤗
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Space for parking camper vans
If you come with your own van/truck you will have a lot of space to park. You will have the same access to bathroom and kitchen.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
4-5 hours per day, 5 days a week
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