Ramon
& Charlotte

United States
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We are currently
Travelling
Our next destination:
Switzerland - from May 2025 until Jul 2025
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Hello! Our names are Charlotte and Ramon, we're both currently traveling together in hopes of learning as much as we can about raising livestock, cooking delicious food, and the cultural traditions behind both of those things. We especially love working with goats, and generally specialize in working with them, but happily work with other livestock as well.
We have experience working with both large and small herds of goats/sheep primarily raised for grazing/meat, as well as experience working on small-scale dairy operations.
We both enjoy a hard day's work, and then relaxing over good food, books and tea in our off-time.

***We have profiles on WWOOF, Trusted Housesitters, and Airbnb, and are happy to provide those since we have used them longer and have references/reviews!***
Interests
Mountain
Sustainability
Politics / Social justice
Nature
Languages
Hiking
Gardening
Farming
Culture
Books
Cooking & food
Carpentry
Animals
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Korean: Intermediate
Spanish: Beginner
More details about my language interests
Charlotte has professional experience teaching English as a Second Language, and both of us would like to improve our Spanish when possible.
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Skills and knowledge we'd like to share or learn
Some knowledge of:
Gardening
DIY and building projects
General Maintenance
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Life at a Farmstay
Animal Care
More details about your skills
Ramon has professional experience in cooking, baking, gardening, and goat herding.
Charlotte has professional experience goat herding, multispecies livestock grazing, farm education, teaching English, and carpentry.
We both have some experience with humane animal slaughter, skinning/tanning hides, and butchery, and are hoping to continue improving at these skills.
Age
28 & 34
What else ...
We both love learning about and enjoying new foods and the culture behind them. (hunting, butchery, foraging, traditional gardening/livestock raising practices.)
We value food safety and thoughtful, practical approaches to preparing food. We've worked on a wide range of farms, from conventional to organic, and are comfortable with any agricultural philosophies that value animal welfare.
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- Smoker
- Driver's licence
- Allergies
  None
- Special dietary requirements
  None

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16 Jul 2024

Left by host (Help us around our home and ...) for Workawayer ()

Ramon and Charlotte stayed with us in May and we did all connect very well. They have experience with farm life and wanted to come to Iceland and see how lambing season is done here.
They did amazing job helping us at the farm and where so nice to our family. We had a wonderful time having them stay with us.
They where easy to teach and talk to… read more

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6 Jul 2024

Left by Workawayer () for host (Help us around our home and ...)

Staying with Jórunn, Arnór, and their family for six weeks was an incredible experience. We traveled to the small town of Breiðdalsvík specifically for lambing season because we wanted to build upon our previous livestock work experience. We knew what we were getting into, and wanted to challenge ourselves, so we worked every day for the “night… read more shift” at the sheep house (a two minute drive down the road). It was definitely tiring, but in a good way. We had plenty of time before and after the busiest part of the season (500 lambs!) to explore the surrounding area - one of the most gorgeous places you can imagine, as the home is right near the ocean with breathtaking mountains all around.

Arnór and Jórunn are knowledgeable, experienced sheep farmers, and they welcomed us into their family right away. We were grateful that they gave us lots of responsibility with the sheep and the freedom to make mistakes. They were extremely patient and kind with every question we had, and were generous in making sure we were comfortable. We got to try so many Icelandic dishes, including the absolutely delicious lamb from the farm. A few times we got the chance to go with Arnór to visit some local farmer friends in the valley to get an even wider perspective on Icelandic farming, which was another valuable experience. We were able to learn firsthand about the endurance and community support required to manage a sheep operation of this size, and were glad to have the chance to try every new method Jórunn and Arnór taught us. We will never look at an ice pick the same way again ;)

Communication was excellent all around, and we always felt like we knew what was expected of us and that we could ask for help if we needed it. They even made it possible for us to borrow a car from a family member, which was very kind. There was also a very good balance of time on our own (working independently, cooking some of our meals in the comfy downstairs hostel) and time together for work, dinner, and joking around.

We will cherish the long conversations we had around the dinner table and hilarious laughs we shared. The whole family is fun and joyful to be around — the kids are all lovely and have strong personalities. Our only wish is that we had studied Icelandic to be able to talk to the two youngest kids!

If you are committed to experiencing real life in the East of Iceland with a wonderful family and their sheep, there won’t be a better place than here! We cannot wait to go back :)

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16 Mar 2024

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Ramon and Charlotte are wonderful. They each have incredibly interesting backgrounds and stories. We have never eaten better than we did when they were here. Some of the food they made were French onion soup, lots of delicious bread (we were eating 2 loaves a day), frittata, Mexican chocolate molasses cookies, and shoo-fly pie. They did a lot of… read more

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16 Mar 2024

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Gene and the housemates are incredibly kind, welcoming, and lovely to hang out with! We had a short but very sweet stay -- They were all very flexible and generous with our hectic schedule! We really appreciated that there was a written task list with priorities listed and clear expectations for work exchange. It was great cooking in the fully… read more

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