Family farm with horses welcomes some help in the farm near Tartu, Estonia

DISPONIBILIDAD

  2025 

 Estancia mínima:  Al menos una semana

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  • Descripción

    Descripción

    Hello! We are a family living in the countryside near Tartu (15 km). We bought the place in 2020 and have done some work, but more is on the list, like always at the countryside. In the last three summers, I have hosted a few volunteers and can host a few this year too. As we take you into our family and want to host you as well as we can we are capable of taking only a few workawayers each year. You are a good match for us if you have high motivation and some basic skills for work tasks and are a nice person to spend time with.

    NEW! Opportunity for September 2025! We have a plan to build a greenhouse from old windows. There will be another person who has experience in building a greenhouse and who will lead the work. You are most welcome to join us, if you want to get hands on experience from building something like this from scratch. We have separate rooms for two Workawayers upstairs in our house.

    We have several horses. I (Piret) train them according to the academic art of riding principles and offer them as natural living conditions as possible. If you are interested, I can show you what I do, but please note, that I do not offer riding with my horses.

    Also, I am into environment, sustainability, permaculture, and have worked as a climate policy expert for quite many years. We have a 4-year-old son called Iko and a 2-year-old daughter Iti. One day, we will have more farm animals, for sure, but not yet. My other half Tenno is working in the IT sector, and he used to be a sound engineer. We used to travel around quite a lot when we were young(er). Thus it would be nice to host some travellers in our home too!

    We try to combine modern conveniences with eco-conscious living, having solar panels and an electric car, and an automatic heating system, but then try to grow more and more food ourselves, reduce our environmental footprint, buy local and organic, and preserve food for winter etc. The farm is still a work in progress, and I am still starting up with the permaculture-style garden.

  • Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje

    Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje

    Ayuda en proyectos ecológicos
    Jardinería
    Construcción y bricolaje
    Ayuda en una granja
    Cocinar para toda la familia
    Ayuda doméstica
    Mantenimiento general
  • Intereses

    Intereses

    Acampada
    Política / justicia social
    Sostenibilidad
    Cultura
    Agricultura
    Fotografía
    Jardinería
    Cuidado de plantas
    Libros
    Animales
    Senderismo
    Naturaleza
  • Objetivos de sostenibilidad de las NU que intenta conseguir este anfitrión

    Objetivos de sostenibilidad de las NU que intenta conseguir este anfitrión

    Objetivos de las NU
    Fin de la pobreza
    Hambre cero
    Salud y bienestar
    Educación de calidad
    Igualdad de género
    Agua limpia y saneamiento
    Energía asequible y no contaminante
    Trabajo decente y crecimiento económico
    Industria, innovación e infraestructura
    Reducción de las desigualdades
    Ciudades y comunidades sostenibles
    Producción y consumo responsables
    Acción por el clima
    Vida submarina
    Vida de ecosistemas terrestres
    Paz, justicia e instituciones sólidas
    Alianzas para lograr los objetivos
  • Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje

    Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje

    We can share the Estonian way of living, and our knowledge of our land and culture. I (Piret, the host) can tell you about horsemanship, groundwork and the academic art of riding, which is my passion. Also, I can share experiences on how to keep horses - I am developing a paddock paradise (track system) for my horses and can tell you all about that. I can also show you how to take care of the hooves of the horse if you are interested. I recently finished a gardening school, though I am still a beginner in permaculture gardening, but have some knowledge which I am happy to share. Tenno's favourite topics are IT, sound engineering, music, and foreign politics, which he is always happy to chat about.

  • Ayuda

    Ayuda

    Some examples of tasks (depends on timeing and your preferences)

    - Fencing work
    - Painting stuff around the farm
    - Preparing garden beds (digging and getting rid of weed roots) +some other gardening tasks
    - Help around the house

  • Idiomas hablados

    Inglés: Fluido
    Estonian: Fluido
    Swedish: Principiante

  • Alojamiento

    Alojamiento

    You have your own room and a separate toilet on the second floor. We expect you to keep your own place tidy and help out with some weekly cleaning chores as you live here in our home. We live on the first floor. On the first floor, there is a bathroom with a shower. You can also use a sauna (separate house) as you wish. We will heat up the sauna from time to time, especially for social events, which you are more than welcome to join.

    We eat a lot of local and organic food. We also eat meat (prefer organic), but I also cook vegetarian food, no problem to do some vegan food as well if you prefer so. It would be nice if you are willing to share your cooking skills with us.:) We eat what we currently have at home and do not shop every day. My cooking style is to look into the cupboard and mix something up. Eating times are not by the clock, though we eat 3 times a day. Morning always comes with porridge.

    We spend quite a lot of time at home, but sometimes also go away for a few days. If we go somewhere for a day trip and you would like to join, then we are happy to take you. For example, last summers we have taken our volunteers for a music festival, a hiking trip, parties with friends, roadtrip to South-Estonia and swimming by the nearby lake.

  • Algo más...

    Algo más...

    It is possible to reach our place by free bus ride (20 min) from the Tartu bus station. Buses go around once every hour and Tenno often goes to the office during workdays, which makes it easy to visit Tartu.

    We live in the countryside, so it's a quiet place and it's possible to walk around our land (including a small forest) or on our village road. However, we don't have hiking trails or anything like this next to our property. For that, you would need to have a trip to some nature trail (we can recommend you, if interested).

    You should be able to work on your own, but I would be there with you helping out as much as I can.

    If we have a trip together somewhere for fun you are expected to pay your own admission fees, meals ect.

  • Un poco más de información

    Un poco más de información

    • Acceso a Internet

    • Acceso a Internet limitado

      Acceso a Internet limitado

    • Tenemos animales

    • Somos fumadores

    • Puede alojar familias

  • Puede acoger a nómadas digitales

    Puede acoger a nómadas digitales

    We have decent wifi here and have a home office for ourselves too.

  • Espacio para aparcar autocaravanas

    Espacio para aparcar autocaravanas

    We can provide you with electricity and water.

  • Podría aceptar mascotas

    Podría aceptar mascotas

    If pets can stay outside, then there is no problem (if they don't chase horses). We prefer no pets indoors (the main reason is that we do not fancy cleaning). Our own cat spends the summer outside and only stays with us in the house in the winter.

  • ¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?

    ¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?

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  • Mis animales / mascotas

    Mis animales / mascotas

    Profile photo of Nine horses at the moment

    Nine horses at the moment

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