Help out on our family homestead with gardening and DIY projects in Sarajevo, Bosnia

Detalles

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  Descripción

  Howdy!
  
  My husband and I are expats that moved to Sarajevo, Bosnia in September of 2022. After years of knowing we wanted change, we decided to buy some land and start our new lives. We lived in Arizona, where we met at a dog park and bonded over our mutual love of, hiking, animals, and nature. Now, we work as professors, I teach history and my husband teaches Biology, and we run a small (and I mean small) farm. We have chickens, quail, ducks and sheep. My husband enjoys wood working and building things. If I can dream it up, he can make it a reality! I enjoy gardening, baking, cooking and preserving food. I am also a fluent Bosnian speaker and am happy to help anyone who needs help getting around and finding things to do in the city. My husband and I also have two dogs that enjoy lounging inside and running around the yard. We have dedicated the last year to slowly building our dream property. It started with updating our chicken coop, and now we have a chicken coop, a grow out coop for baby chicks, a duck area, a quail pen, and a sheep hut. We have lots of projects left to go, but we are excited for the future ahead.

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  Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje

  Ayuda en proyectos ecológicos

  Jardinería

  Construcción y bricolaje

  Cuidado de animales

  Ayuda en una granja

  Mantenimiento general
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  Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje

  I am Bosnian-American with a masters degree in history, Bosnian history. If you visit here I can assure you that I will make it a priority to teach you about this countries rich history. I am also bilingual and can help with any translation needs you may have. Bosnia is a country full of history and culture, just waiting to be unlocked. Along with seeing a beautiful country, we will teach you as much or as little as you wish about having a homestead. This can range from the harvesting of animals, to the preservation of food, and even building structures. We are also happy to sit with anyone and discuss our process moving to this country, and the trials and tribulations we have faced through our year here.
  
  We would love to spread our knowledge to others.

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  Ayuda

  It truly feels like we can never get around to all the projects. We regularly need help in the garden, this can be weeding, harvesting, pruning, planting, and prepping for the next season. We also have an orchard that is incredibly prolific. This year alone we lost lots of fruit because we can not get around to getting everything done. Once everything has been harvested comes the preserving. Goods are canned, jammed and frozen. Along with the garden we also harvest sheep, quail, and chicken. This process involves the harvesting and butchering.
  
  While gardening is just one of the many things on our farm, we also heat ourselves with wood and always need help with general homesteading chores. For example, this year we would really like to build a nice wood shed and an outdoor cellar for root vegetables.
  
  Whether you are an expert gardener, or have never touched a plant in your life, any help is good help!
  
  
  Currently our list of projects includes:
  Continuing building access steps up our hill
  Building a work table for the pantry/canning room
  Preserving all the fruit we pick
  add sheep shed roofing
  chop wood
  fence around garden
  fence around tress
  build duck enclosure
  get water to front yard
  Pull weeds in the garden beds
  Adapt one of the coops for baby chicks
  
  
  
  We truly love the workaway experience and one of the biggest reasons we do this is to meet new people and develop life long connections. For us, a workawayer is much more than a volunteer, they are people who became our friends and we continue to see. For example, one of our workawayers had 5 days off work and chose to visit us again to spend time together because we truly became close friends. With that being said, in order for us to get to know as many people as possible, we try to keep most of our workaway visits under two weeks. Of course, this is flexible, but that allows us to have time to recharge our social batteries and meet more people. We try to avoid having volunteers back to back, as we think it’s important for us as a family to have some time in between to spend together. That being said, if you see a date marked out as red, that means that we have already accepted someone during that time, we will be on vacation, or we will not be taking volunteers due to the weather. If you’re only here for a few days, we might be able to work something out on red days, but generally those are recharge days. If you see something yellow, we likely have some dates that are already booked but potentially might be open to having another workawayer. Green dates no one has reached out, and likely if you reach out, we can work something out :)

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  Idiomas hablados

  Bosnian: Fluido
  Inglés: Fluido
  Croatian: Fluido

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  Alojamiento

  We live in a family home! This means there is three separate entrances and three “families.” My grandfather lives in one portion, my mother lives in the second, and we live in the third. You would stay with us in our portion. You would have full access to our guest bedroom, which you would not share; unless you come as a couple, and you would have access to our shared bathroom. Our kitchen, garden, and farm fresh eggs are yours for the taking. You can cook and use the kitchen as though it is your own, and I am happy to fix you up a plate of whatever I’m making, I personally love making breads, pastas and cakes! We have two friendly indoor dogs (perhaps giants is a better term), that will keep you company during your stay. The bus stop is about a 3 minute walk away from our home and can take you into the city. Most of our work is done by sun down, so you can have the evening to explore the city and all the attractions.

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  Un poco más de información

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    Acceso a Internet

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    Acceso a Internet limitado

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    Tenemos animales

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    Somos fumadores

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    Puede alojar familias

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  Puede acoger a nómadas digitales

  In our guest room there is a small table that can double as an office. Our internet is not speedy by any means, but if you need to do video calls, send emails or edit pictures you can do so. My husband also works from home and has no problem :)

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  Espacio para aparcar autocaravanas

  Our driveway is quite long so we can accommodate just about any vehicle, including larger RVs :)

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  ¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?

  Dos

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  Horas esperadas

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

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