Help us on our permaculture farm on Hiiumaa, Estonia

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  Description

  Lend a hand and join in to build up our ecological farm on Hiiumaa-island in the northwestern part of Estonia. We are Beatrix (55) and Christian (59), experienced Waldorf teachers and gardeners, and in the process of designing our non-profit permaculture farm for seminars and workshops. Coming from Germany we develop our projekt every year from the begining of june till the beginning of october.
  
  Our farmplace is in Isabella küla, near Körgessaare on Hiiumaa. Meadows with neighbor cows and forests are surrounding us and mainly you can hear the sounds of nature. There are many healing plants just around the farm and wild berries in the forest. Our idea for the projekt is to create a place, where people can come down from daily life and live in a sustainable and natural way.
  
  In the yard we have pretty old an new buildings in construction. The kitchen is in a tent and the bathroom outside with solar shower and composting toilet. Living is possible in a tent or in the house under construction. Mainly we eat our own ecological vegetables and are cooking often vegan - allergies and food intolerances are no problem.
  
  Your working time per day will be 5 hours with several jobs in maintanance, gardenwork or building. The weekend is free. Normally we start with breakfast at 8.30 h, have lunch at 13.00 h and dinner at 19.00 h. You can stay at least 3 days up to as long as you want till the begining of October.
  
  Hiiumaa is called the island of landscapes, so you can find different places like little hills, swamps, bogs and sand dunes. To go for swimming you find several places, nearest is about 15 min by car or 40 min by bicycle, which both we have. Kärdla is the captial city of Hiiumaa with 3000 inhabitants and about 20 km from us. Here you can find shops, restaurant and coffeeshops.

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Charity Work

  Language practice

  Help with Eco Projects

  Gardening

  DIY and building projects

  Farmstay help

  Creating/ Cooking family meals

  Help around the house

  General Maintenance
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  UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  Often our neighbors step in our yard, all native estonians and born on Hiiumaa. They like meeting foreign people and you will get to know them soon. There is a little cultural program on the island, we often take part. You are very welcome to accompany us.
  
  During the daily life you can learn many things about ecological farming - Christian experienced
  many years in biodynamical gardening and seminar teacher for garden students. Beatrix loves cooking, baking and building. She can show you all with a lot of patience.

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  Projects involving children

  This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.

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  Help

  In this summer and autum we need help for:
  - maintance in the garden
  - harvest
  - creating the orchard with planting fruit trees and bushes
  - woodworks and painting
  - building
  - cooking
  - collecting wild berries and mushrooms

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  German: Fluent
  English: Fluent
  French: Intermediate
  Italian: Intermediate
  Estonian: Beginner

  This host offers a language exchange
  Both we want to learn more speaking and practicising estonian language. As we are teachers so we are glad to share german.
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  Accommodation

  We have two possibilities for accomodation:
  - a tent (3 persons) for your own with sleeping pad and sleeping bag
  - a room with fabric walls in our colored house with bed and blanket, which is eating place if it rains and tool barn in the same time
  
  The bath is outside, water will be heated with solarthermie and we use composting toilet.
  A wasching machine is in the house.
  Christian and Beatrix are living in a caravan.
  
  In our kitchen we try to combine estonian recepies with german or international coking. For example: I bake my own bread with sourdough and put additional rye malt inside, like it is here tradition. So we always look for traditions as a base and mix it up with new healthy knowledge.

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  What else ...

  In your freetime take one of our bikes and discover the wonderfull nature of Hiiumaa. When we have to shop for sure you can join us and visit lighthouses, museums, gallery or drinking a coffee. In the weekend we like travelling around the island - come with us!

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  A little more information

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    Internet access

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    Limited internet access

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    We have pets

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    We are smokers

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    Can host families

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  Space for parking camper vans

  Bring your van or camper as big as you want, there is space enough.

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  Can possibly accept pets

  In general we accept animals, please contact us before!

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  Two

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  Hours expected

  Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week

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