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We are a German couple in their late 50`s and early 60`s with a dog and a cat.
We live here since 2017 near Sandviken in the Gävle area on the edge of the Färnebofjärden nature park on the Nedre Dalälven and after several moves across Europe we finally feel at home.
Our home consists of 5 hectares of land with 2 houses, a barn, an earth cellar and a pool house with Pool as well as our own spring with forest.
The nearest neighbours are about 900 m away. Other neighbours such as foxes have their den less than 100 m in sight of us. Deer and elk visit us regularly as well as rabbits, swans and cranes. We live very close to nature and pay attention to our "neighbours".
Thomas works as a truck driver and Jenny is mostly at home.
We have many ideas and some have already been implemented.
After suffering a ruptured aneurysm in 2020, Jenny occasionally needs time to rest and recover, which gave us the idea of using this platform to find like-minded people to help us realise our ideas and at the same time share our experiences with each other. As we’ve found our ”smultronställe” here we decided not to travel the world longer but to invite people who would like to share their culture and life experiences with us because this goes far beyond the holiday experiences one can make.
Implemented projects so far (short selection): The solar farm is ready now (groundwork on the meadow in 2023 by ourselves) and batteries to store some electricity have been installed as well (2024 off course by a certified local electrician company ).
The repair of the pool, for which a pool deck for sunbathing and barbecuing is now done although much of the pool surrounding has been destroyed during a fire of the sauna house in February 2024.
In 2025 the main project was the set up of a terrace in front of our house with a roof above.
We have enclosed our garden with a typical swedish branch fence for everything that crawls and flies - it also needs filling up from time to time.
We have built 3 beds in the garden so far, which are also being worked on.
Our guest house provides a separate studio to live in while you are here - with its own bathroom and kitchen.
Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje
Proyectos artísticos
Práctica de idiomas
Ayuda en proyectos ecológicos
Jardinería
Construcción y bricolaje
Cuidado de animales
Ayuda doméstica
Mantenimiento general
Intereses
Mascotas
Cultura
Cuidado de plantas
Música
Libros
Deportes acuáticos
Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje
We put up a typical Swedish fence for small animals.
Family connection if desired - we speak German, English and Swedish and are happy to help you learn one of the languages.
Ayuda
We always need some help in different areas (what needs to be done depends on time of the year), for example:
- gardening (preparing beds, weeding, planting, watering, taking care of fruit trees)
- harvesting & preserving food
- DIY and Building projects
- help around the house
- animal care (Belinda need to be brushed sometimes and Odin also loves it)
- chopping and stacking of fire wood for the swedish winters
What we expect:
5 hours a day/ 5 days a week but free on which weekdays
In 2026 we continue on our greenhouse where the ground is already done - for the rest we want to use recycled material and natural stone.
The garden should be sown and maintained.
On the front part of the plot we want to exteng our flower garden
and much more.....
We are quite flexible in adopting to the individual abilities of all our volunteers.
Idiomas
Idiomas hablados
Alemán: Fluido
Inglés: Intermedio
Swedish: IntermedioEste anfitrión ofrece intercambio de idiomas
Este anfitrión ha indicado que está interesado en compartir su idioma o aprender otro.
Ponte en contacto con él para obtener más información.
Alojamiento
We have 2 houses and in the first house a separate studio with kitchen and bathroom with shower. There is a bed in there that you can pull out and a table with chairs. There is a private terrace for the summer and for smokers. There is also a fireplace for the winter - wood can be found in front of the entrance. Everything for breakfast is in the fridge and there is warm food for everyone in the house.
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We have a beautiful bathing spot nearby in Färnebofjärden Nature Park. There are many activities on offer in the nature park such as: fishing, guided tours or kayaking. The nearest bus stop is about 1km away. We also offer a quad to go to the nearest lake, and we also have bicycles. We expect you to enjoy what you do with us, so the 5 hours of work a day can be freely chosen - we have enough projects where you can tackle :-)
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Acceso a Internet
Acceso a Internet limitado
Tenemos animales
Somos fumadores
Puede alojar familias
Puede acoger a nómadas digitales
There is free Wi-Fi available in the studio.
Espacio para aparcar autocaravanas
As we live in the middle of the forest, you can also park a motorhome in our car park – it is large enough.
Podría aceptar mascotas
We have a dog ourselves, so dogs are welcome, but the property is not fenced in.
¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?
Dos
Mis animales / mascotas
Odin
A Norwegian forrestcat, very calm and only indoor.
Belinda (4 meses)
A powerful young poodle
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Comentarios (18)
She was loved by Belinda and Odin as well and made it possible for us to visit our parents in Germany… read more
The apartment I stayed in, which is next to their house, was such a lovely and cozy placeーI really loved it.
During my stay, I helped them with tasks like weeding, picking blue berries and cranberries, painting, and cleaning the pool house.
Jenny is incredibly kind and an… read more
This were huge steps forward for the main project of 2025.
We learned quite a lot about… read more
Thomas and Jenny are such lovely people who take great care of their guests. The food was excellent and the accommodation spotless.
My work started with gardening, then I… read more
Both where very eager to learn about all the tasks we asked them to help us with and there have been quite a lot. The most intense and time consuming ones have been the carefull takedown of a barn (to recycle most… read more
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She was loved by Belinda and Odin as well and made it possible for us to visit our parents in Germany… read more
The apartment I stayed in, which is next to their house, was such a lovely and cozy placeーI really loved it.
During my stay, I helped them with tasks like weeding, picking blue berries and cranberries, painting, and cleaning the pool house.
Jenny is incredibly kind and an… read more
This were huge steps forward for the main project of 2025.
We learned quite a lot about… read more
Thomas and Jenny are such lovely people who take great care of their guests. The food was excellent and the accommodation spotless.
My work started with gardening, then I… read more
Both where very eager to learn about all the tasks we asked them to help us with and there have been quite a lot. The most intense and time consuming ones have been the carefull takedown of a barn (to recycle most… read more
We enjoyed the local dinner (Maultaschen) and fika (Feuerwehrkuchen) food they prepared for us and the really good… read more
Furthermore, they will go… read more
We laughed a lot and had really interesting conversations and the stop over of Florians parents were a highlight.
We really do wish both of them all the… read more
Nous travaillions 5h par jour, de 10h à 13h et de 14h à 16h, mais les horaires étaient… read more
She was not only fast in adopting to all the tasks we asked her but she completed them in an excellent manner. Due to the size of the tasks it took several days to complete them and Minori worked with them always in good mood.
As well did we have very interesting conversations… read more
My very first day started with painting the roof of the swimming pool. During my stay, I did painting, weeding, cleaning, picking lots of berries, and making jam with Jenny.
I really enjoyed these working 🥰
I also have my own business… read more
As we had almost only fine weather during her stay it was a lot of gardening work to do like mowing the lawn, weeding flower beds as well as our vegetable plantings and planting… read more
I met wonderful neighbours such as cranes, fox and rabbits. I enjoyed my first mid-summer in Sweden! In the weekend, I enjoyed the wonderful nature… read more
Even Belinda and Odin could rely on him as we had an invitation… read more
Thomas brought me the canoe to the lake so I could go there… read more
I really recommend these hosts to everyone who loves to spend time in the middle of nature in a peacefully place.
Wir können nur in den besten Tönen von diesen beiden liebevollen herzlichen ehrlichen Menschen sprechen oder schreiben.
Thomas mit seiner ruhigen Art konnte alles wirklich sehr verständlich erklären.
Dazu Jenny mit ihren immerwieder überraschenden Mahlzeiten und zwischendurch mit… read more
Michaela and Marco were very obliging and always thought along with us and always helped where it was necessary and thus helped us a lot.
They also… read more
It is worth to visit them and I wish them a lot of success with their projects.
Greetings Chris
really happy girl. she help us a lot with many things.
We can really recommend her.
Welcome back any time.
I had breakfast alone, and I was allowed to choose my breakfast. We cooked and ate lunch and dinner together. I've split wood and put it on, painted… read more
Pascal is open and uncomplicated and adapted very easy to the cold and snowy weather conditions during his stay. During his time we only had outdoor jobs but it has been no… read more
I stayed in my own room in a separate building with own kitchen and bathroom.
I had breakfast on my own and therefore they provided food according to my preferences. Lunch and… read more
