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In 2017 I decided to leave my old career in the restaurant industry and moved back to the farm I grew up on.
Here I spend most of my time working in the forest, logging and thinning in the winter and planting cultivating in the summer.
The summer is also spent maintaining the network of forest roads and building new ones in preparation for upcoming seasons.
I have a field where I grow a variety of vegetables for own consumption and the late summer and fall some time is spent foraging and canning for the upcoming year.
The farm is in Hillestad, 50 minutes from Oslo and 15 minutes from Holmestrand, a small city by the Oslofjord.
We also do commercial grain farming, but that activity does not involve workawayers.Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre
JardinageAide dans une fermeEntretien généralObjectifs de développement durable de l’ONU que cet hôte essaie d'atteindre
Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre
You'll be able to learn forestry and work techniques and skills related to my work.
My family is fairly active politically ranging from conservative and liberal to pretty far left.
I'm a trained chef and often cook traditional Norwegian meals.
If you want to learn or improve your ropes behind a bar I built myself a full bar upstairs where I'll happily share my skills and experience from many years as a bartender.Aide
The main help is forestry with changing tasks following the seasons, in the spring there's a few weeks of firewood production.
As a side project I'm working on the renovation of a cabin I have up in the forest, built a new roof in 2018, hope to finish the new floor and interior this year.
Since it's a old farm there's always some painting and renovations to the buildings that should be done too.Langues parlées
Anglais: Courant
Norwegian: CourantHébergement
I share my house with my two dogs Trym and Heimdal.
I have two guest rooms on the second floor, both with a double bed and a guest bathroom upstairs.
All meals are included in the work exchange and dinners are often eaten with my parents that lives next door.Autres infos...
Hillestad is 15 minutes from the Train station in Sande and Holmestrand with North and Southbound trains every hour, 20 minutes from Drammen and 50 minutes from Oslo.
It's 15 minutes from the Oslofjord.
Nature is close by with the forest behind the house and Hillestad lake behind the field in front of the house.Informations complémentaires
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Accès Internet limité
Nous avons des animaux
Nous sommes fumeurs
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Espace pour garer des vans
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She helped out with harvesting and conserving vegetables, pressing applejuice, setting cider and with the last production of firewood this year.
She's a quick learner that takes responsibility and are thorough in her work.
Outside of work she's a very positive personality… read more
The work depended on the season as well as on the weather. He instructed… read more
She arrived to potato harvest and jumped straight into it, bearely leaving her bag in the house before starting.
During the stay she helped in harvesting and conserving vegetables, making applejuice and cider and helping with the production of next year's firewood.
She have a… read more
Staying at your place was really cool. There is a lot of heavy equipment and I learned a lot from you. 👨🏼🌾🚜
He showed the other girl that was there and me how to make apple juice 🧃, how to prepare pickle beets, how to make firewood 🪵, how to go hunting with his two dogs 💗 and some bartender skills.🍸🥃
The mornings were pretty chill… read more
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She helped out with harvesting and conserving vegetables, pressing applejuice, setting cider and with the last production of firewood this year.
She's a quick learner that takes responsibility and are thorough in her work.
Outside of work she's a very positive personality… read more
The work depended on the season as well as on the weather. He instructed… read more
She arrived to potato harvest and jumped straight into it, bearely leaving her bag in the house before starting.
During the stay she helped in harvesting and conserving vegetables, making applejuice and cider and helping with the production of next year's firewood.
She have a… read more
Staying at your place was really cool. There is a lot of heavy equipment and I learned a lot from you. 👨🏼🌾🚜
He showed the other girl that was there and me how to make apple juice 🧃, how to prepare pickle beets, how to make firewood 🪵, how to go hunting with his two dogs 💗 and some bartender skills.🍸🥃
The mornings were pretty chill… read more
In this time she have helped with firewood production, planting of vegetables, maintenance of machinery and other work around the farm.
She's eager to try new things and quickly pick up how it works.
Outside of work she's social and quick witted, I can absolutely recommend hosting her if your paths cross… read more
Marlene and I had some wonderful 10 days at Lars. He took the time to teach us as much as possible about his work and country. I never would have thought I would work with a chainsaw but Lars made it possible. He is a very patient teacher but also a good person to chill with. We had cozy evening talks with eurovision, Biathlon or clarksons… read more
She is hardworking and always have a positive attitude.
Outside of work she is friendly and talkative.
As a bonus she's very organized, keeping her surroundings clean.
I can absolutely recommend letting her… read more
Thank you so for my amazing and very spontaneous three week stay at yours! I had the best time possible and really enjoyed the work time in the forest as well as every other (christmassy) activaty. I probably still owe you some work hours. Also your and your mothers… read more
You are a very good cook, the food was sooo delicious! Also it was very interesting talking to you and I learned so much.
And your dogs are the best!
And I enjoyed the… read more
She's a hard worker that picks up new skills easily.
The work she have helped me with have mainly been forestry, machine maintenance and building of tractor roads.
She picked up the technique with the saw quickly and are fully qualified to limb trees now.
She's probably my first choice… read more
Thanks a lot for my first work-away experience. It was great! I enjoyed going to the forest and learn a bit of what you do every day with so much passion. It is not easy but it is funny!
The chats developed at your parents while having dinner… read more
She's hard working and picks up new skills easily.
Most of the work she helped with was
forestry where she was limbing trees with a chainsaw and did maintenance on the saw.
Outside of work she's a little quiet at first but is very social after the first days.
She is hard working and picks up new skills easily.
Her work mainly consisted of limbing trees with a chainsaw.
Outside of work she's a bubble of energy, very social and always up for activities.
She's well organized and keeps things clean around her.
The work was interesting and versatile.
Lars is a fantastic cook, bartender and - at least in theory - a great pool player ("I know the physics, I am just not good at aiming"). Furthermore, he has a broad knowledge, so anyone interested in forestry, hunting, dog care etc. should… read more
She is hardworking and picks up new skills easily.
Most of the work she did here was limbing trees with a chainsaw.
Outside of work she is social and very easy to communicate with.
If you have the opportunity to host her i give my full recommendation.
She have a very positive attitude, is hardworking and pick up new skills easily.
The work she helped with was production of firewood and thinning forest where she was mainly limbing and cutting logs to lenght with a chainsaw.
I absolutely recommend her for future workaway stays.
She is hard working and picks up new skills with ease.
The main tasks during her stay have been thinning forest and firewood production.
Outside of work she is very easy to get along with.
After this time she almost feels like family.
Lars was a great host and a really nice person overall, I had a good time! Even when I had some issues regarding the work, he gave me other tasks and we worked our way around. Really appreciated him being so easy-going, approachable and communicative. Loved the skiing,… read more
She is hard working and eager to try new challenges, she picks up on instructions easily.
Outside of work she is social and easy to talk with.
She is a structured person who keeps it clean around her.
They are both hardworking and eager to try new tasks.
Outside of work they are very stoical and easygoing.
I had a great time hosting the two of them and can absolutely recommend their assistance.
I only stayed a few days in his house but i enjoyed it a lot! I learned so much about working in the forest, cutting trees and how to work with different machines. Before working… read more
It was a really great experience! Short but good
Lars is really welcoming, patient, pedagogue. Always smiling and got some good joke :D
The work is difficult but at the end of the day you can feel the duty accomplished
It was my first Workaway and that encie me to continue
Thanks again for your welcoming and see u in the… read more
Most of the work he was helping me with was hauling or logs with the winch and debranching logs with chainsaw.
He's social and very easy to talk with.
She is hardworking and shows initiative.
She is a quick learner and not afraid of trying new jobs.
She helped logging timber, picking stone, painting and with some engine maintenance.
She is social and very easy to be around.
The work mainly consisted of helping logging timber in our forest.
She is hard working and eager to learn new skills.
In the house she is very organized and cleans on her own initiative.
She seems to always be happy and easy to get along with.
I give her my greatest recommendation as a workawayer and wish her all… read more
He helped renovating my house and with forestry (clearing undergrowth with brushsaw and cutting branches of logs with chainsaw).
He is independent and a hard worker that takes instructions easily.
Without doubt a great helper that I give my highest recommendations.
She is very easygoing and social.
She helped me with renovation of my house and some forestry (clearing branches with chainsaw, winching out logs and working with a brushsaw clearing smaller trees).
She takes instructions easily and can work independently.
If you want some help with a little fun… read more
I had the opportunity to help with a variety of tasks. The work was always adjusted to my own strength and never too hard, and I could learn and improve lots of skills. The… read more
She is hard working and eager to learn new things.
She assisted me in the building of a new roof on a cabin and logging timber.
Outside of work she was social (during her stay we managed to watch almost all of Monty python), helpfull in the kitchen and clean and organized.
I can give… read more
She's a quick learner that tries any task without hesitation.
She helped renovating a cabin in the forest and her carpentry skills improved at an impressive rate during her stay.
She is very social and up for any activity.
I had a great time hosting her and wish her the best for the future.
Lars is a great guy. He is very welcoming, outgoing and incredibly knowledgeable about the area, the kind of guy that has something interesting to say about just about anything. It is so easy to talk to him and learn so much about local history, culture, wildlife, farming, forestry and so much more. He was also a… read more
They mainly helped working in the forest clearing with brushsaws, assisting in road maintenance and they helped splitting and packing firewood.
They are both quick learners that easily adapts to given instructions.
In the free time they are social, fun to be around and… read more
He took care of us at all times so we could feel at his place like at home. His… read more
They are both hardworking and easily adapts to new tasks.
The tasks they've had have been to dig out trees and dig paths between them to help logging in deep snow, they have helped winching out logs and cutting branches of the last logs… read more
Jana mostly worked in the garden while Marek was helping me in the forest and working on the tractor.
They are both hardworking and full of initiative as well as friendly.
I can give them my fullest recommendation as volunteers.
Marek usually helped in the forest,… read more