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We are Meri 50 and Fredrik 42, living at country side and really enjoying it. We live 6km away from little town called Nykarleby/Uusikaarlepyy. It is located into swedish-talking region on Finnish west coast.
Our home is 300m from gulf of Baltic Sea, surrounded by fields and forest. We have here 2 horses, 1 shetland pony, 9 hen and 1 rooster, 4 big silver rabbits, 4 dogs (1 company dog, 2 hunting dogs, 1 australian terrier) and 1 snake. We warm the house with wood.
Meri is a Green Care coach and practical nurse, bachelor of social services and Instructor of socio-pedagogical equine activities. She works now for exchange student organization at the home office. Fredrik is a wilderness guide, but he is home also because of broken back. Fredriks 19 years old son is living with us. We are also support family for miners who has special needs.
We like outdoor life, camp fire, forest hikes, fishing, hunting and country life.
We need help with cleaning horse paddocks, chopping wood, gardening, painting stable building, renovating guest house and maybe sometimes helping with animals. We do not have real farm, even we do have two horses and few hen giving 5 eggs per day.
Dogs are spending time inside, and they are two packs who can't be "mixed". For now it looks like horses has to be taken into stable for the nights even on summer.
We do not usually cook vegetarian food. We have smoking-free household. If you use alcohol, we hope you can behave yourself ;) We have one guest room for work-a-way inside of our home, shared bathroom. Feel free to ask more!
Types of help and learning opportunities
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Interests
Pets
Plant care
Writing
Gardening
Carpentry
Animals
Nature
Sailing / Boating
Camping
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
City of Nykarleby is located to Gulf of Ostrobothia sea. Area is very flat, easy to bicycle and nature is always close. We used to have exchange students from different countries so we are quite used to introduce the area, living habits and organizing experiences.
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Help
The house is heated by wood. so there is always some chopping to do.
Big garden: garden tasks in summertime, snow chores on winter time.
Stable tasks, helping with horses and other animals.
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Finnish: Fluent
Swedish: Fluent
Accommodation
Bedroom
What else ...
Nearest railway station is Pietarsaari-Pedersöre and nearest airport is Kokkola-Pietarsaari
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
We have wi-fi.
Space for parking camper vans
Possibility to park next to the house and have electricity there
How many Workawayers can stay?
One
My animals / pets
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It was my first workaway experience and I had no knowledge about farm work but they kindly showed and taught me what to do today, also they always answer politely and explain everything what I had interest!
Best part, they gave me a lot of Finnish culture… read more
I had the chance to learn fishing and horse riding, which was fantastic. The tasks were manageable; each morning, I fed the bunnies, then moved on… read more
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It was my first workaway experience and I had no knowledge about farm work but they kindly showed and taught me what to do today, also they always answer politely and explain everything what I had interest!
Best part, they gave me a lot of Finnish culture… read more
I had the chance to learn fishing and horse riding, which was fantastic. The tasks were manageable; each morning, I fed the bunnies, then moved on… read more
We learned a lot about animals by taking care of them. The majority of the time was to clean the horses stable, or the field, so we shovelled a lot of poo (up to 12 wheelbarrow once!). But they have a lot of other work… read more
They are very kind and they gave me so much amazing experiences. Everything such as fishing, painting and gardening Fredrik taught me was so much fun for me! Meri was taking care of me all the time, she’s so nice and I love the raparperipiirakka she made! I’ll… read more
She had not much experience of house hold works - but that made her even more exact and careful. She always asked how to do things, and made sure she understood correctly. And everything so tidy after her! She was very independent and happy, positive way thinking girl. We also had some… read more
She had to go to work during the day and we didn't have a lot of time to talk, but whenever she came home and had free time, she was patient and talked to me!
She also taught me how to make a cake... it was really easy! If I get the chance to see Meri again I hope I can cook for her again!
We did a short… read more
