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Support our quest to become climate positive and regenerate our small-scale farm in Örebro, Sweden

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  • Activité récente: 29 mars 2024

Disponibilité

  2024 

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  • Description

    Description

    UPDATE 2024-03-07:
    Join us for the 2024 season as a valued volunteer during one out of two delightful six-week periods. We're excited to welcome 1-2 volunteers per period, with a minimum stay of six weeks.

    Our welcoming periods are:
    - May 10 to June 20 (six weeks): one position is filled up. For the very right person there might be another position.
    - August 3 to September 15 (six weeks).

    To ensure a mutually enjoyable experience, we're looking for individuals with documented knowledge and/or experience in some of the following areas: agroecology, permaculture, REX farm planning, holistic management, adaptive grazing, agroforestry, forest gardens, agroecological landscaping, and sustainability in general.

    Be sure to submit your application by the end of Mars. With ongoing recruitment, we're happy to connect with passionate and self-contained individuals. We eagerly await your application and the opportunity to share this enriching experience together!

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    Welcome to our place on earth: our farm close to Örebro, two hours west of Stockholm. We are two value driven, middleaged, individuals with a vivid compass for sustainable development. Our farm (7 hectare) is our place on earth since 2015. Our vision and plan is to live a good life here, where our needs will be met whilst navigating within the planetary boundaries. We are on our way to transform the farm to regenerative agriculture, enabling and encouraging biodiversity, circular flows, permaculture, perennial farming etc. The day we are leaving Tellus, we aim to leave our farm in a much healthier condition than it was at our arrival back in 2015.

    The other animals on the farm are: nine cuddly sheep, a bunch of geese, ducks, hens, a few sweet honey bee colonies, a magnificent cat with masterskills in hunting and last but not least an energetic and herd-oriented pumi dog.

    We are trained within the field of sustainable development, with specific competence in integrating the dimensions of ecological, social and economic sustainability. One of us works as a sustainability strategist (100 %) with the municipality as employer, focusing on the implementation of the UN Sustaineble Development Goals Agenda 2030, the SDGs. One of us is retiree. Outside paid work also involved in the transition network as course leader. Outside paid work almost all of our energy goes to the farm. To take care of ourselfes we do yoga, walks in the forest, bicycling, kayaking and fill up ur batteries in concerts or at cafés meeting friends.

  • Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

    Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

    Aide avec des éco-projets
    Jardinage
    Bricolage et construction
    S’occuper des animaux
    Aide dans une ferme
    Aide à la maison
    Entretien général
  • Objectifs de développement durable de l’ONU que cet hôte essaie d'atteindre

    Objectifs de développement durable de l’ONU que cet hôte essaie d'atteindre

    Objectifs de l’ONU
    Pas de pauvreté
    Faim «zéro»
    Bonne santé et bien-être
    Éducation de qualité
    Égalité entre les sexes
    Eau propre et assainissement
    Énergie propre et d'un coût abordable
    Travail décent et croissance économique
    Industrie, innovation et infrastructure
    Inégalités réduites
    Villes et communautés durables
    Consommation et production responsables
    Mesures relatives à la lutte contre les changements climatiques
    Vie aquatique
    Vie terrestre
    Paix, justice et institutions efficaces
    Partenariats pour la réalisation des objectifs
  • Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

    Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

    Staying at our farm will engage your hands, heart and head in a health promoting process.
    Hands: much practical stuff longing to get done.
    Head: get to know why things need to be done, to serve the vision.
    Heart: expanding love and gratitude to the nature in general and to all it´s eco-system services. Hopefully also development of friendship with the beings on the farm!

    Learning possibilities on site:
    Practical skills: ecological vegetable gardening, permaculture, keeping gene pool sheep, poultry, honey bees, composting, bokashi/effective micro-organisms, fermentation, compost toilets, biochar, etc.
    Theoretical skills: As above, plus sustainable devlopment, agroforestry, regenerative farming, holistic managemant and adaptive grazing, transition network-knowledge and UN Sustainable Development Goals.

    Cultural exchange: we are very interested in what is happening in the society, locally as well as globally, and enjoy such discussions. Also having a deep interest in research results regarding anything that could be implemented at our farm and will therefore be able to integrate many perspectives in discussions.

    You are invited to share your gifts with us, while we offer a nourishing sweet spot where you can flourish - aiming to reciprocal benefit of yours and ours abundance.

  • Aide

    Aide

    We're looking for individuals with documented knowledge and/or experience in some of the following areas: agroecology, permaculture, REX farm planning, holistic management, adaptive grazing, agroforestry, forest gardens, agroecological landscaping, and sustainability in general.

    You should also be happy to do outdoor tasks.

    We will offer clear structure during your helpdays. Instructions for the tasks will be there, with background information (vision, mission, aim), demonstrations and feedback. After instructions you will work independetly with most of the tasks.

    Working tasks in May-June 2024: planting, water and caring of small trees in our upcoming agroforestry as well as in our forest garden, mushroom farming, slug control, honey harvesting, caretaking of the veggie garden and green house (seeding, planting, weeding, watering), etc. If we as hosts are away from the farm caretaking of all the animals is also part of the help.

    Tasks in August-September 2024: berry picking, vegetable and fruit harvesting, food preservation, honey harvesting, planting, water and caring of small trees in our upcoming agroforestry as well as in our forest garden so they will survive the winter, producing biochar, etc. If we as hosts are away from the farm caretaking of all the animals is also part of the help.

  • Langues parlées

    Anglais: Courant
    Swedish: Courant
    Allemand: Intermédiaire

  • Hébergement

    Hébergement

    Your accomodation is either our tiny house (22 m2) or our one-room studio, 35 m² (shared with another volunteer). Beds and sofa for hanging out. Both accomodations have electricity, but no water or sewer (that is: no kitchen, toilette or shower inside the accomodations). A small kitchen in a nearby building is yours to use and take care of. Your bathroom (wc, shower and sink) is in our house (not shared with us, we have our own). In order to have a circular nutrition cycle we also use a compost toilette. Laundry- and WiFi facilities available. The courtyard environment is concentrated, with all buildings close to each other. There is also a sauna that you can enjoy.

    You arrange your own meals with groceries that we supply. Food is vegetarian.

    We are not overly strict when it comes to alcohol but we do not allow excessive consumption. Smoking is prohibited on our farm.

  • Autres infos...

    Autres infos...

    Our farm is easy accessible: buses takes you right into our regional capital Örebro (160 000 inhabitants) within 25 minutes (15 rides daily weekdays, a handful during weekends). From our regional capital you can go by train or bus to Stockholm (many times a day, the ride takes about two hours). Also Gothenburg is reached by train, city to city in three hours. Train to Oslo takes five hours.

    Surroundings of the farm (walking distance): Our home is situated on the countryside, in a small village. The surrounding area is diverse in biotopes, has a meandering river suitable for recreation, walks, bath, or stay overnight in a well-kept shelter. Nice walking areas. Rich in birds, deers and elks. Forest close by. The farm has beautiful peaceful spaces where one can rest, meditate or do some yoga. Lovely neigbours, caring community. A bunch of good transition network-friends close by.

    Within 20-25 km (easily accessible by bus): 1) Our regional capital Örebro (155 000 inhabitants). Summer of 2024 will the outdoor art biennal Open art take place. Restaurants, concerts, theater, cinema, aqualand, county museum, outdoor- and herritage areas, pharmacies and hospital, nightlife and shops. The town has recently been awarded town centre of the year, most beautiful municipal park as well as best environmental municipality in Sweden. () 2) Two picturesque small-towns: Nora () and Lindesberg () both very well worth visiting, with lakeside town centres.
    3) Kilsbergen, a low mountain range great for outdoor life, with semi-wilderness, nature reserves, hiking and mountainbike trails, shelters and cabins. Lots of information, maps etc available at several websites.

    Process prior to your visit at our farm:
    We want to be able to accept volunteers with accurate matching. To ensure this we look forward to receive an application from you. We want you to specify and include: your experiences, if you have tried Workaway/volunteering earlier and experiences from that, experiences or skills/talents that can be helpful in the work, what languages do you speak, why do you want to come here, etc. We will also have a video-meeting.

    Once you are accepted we need to stay in contact. If you do not respond to the answer we write to you we will cancel the agreement after one week - we do not want to deny other volunteers to come if it is not necessary. So check this site for answers if you request to come to our farm. We also want you to send us a phone number so we can keep in contact with each other.

    As we are striving to be climate neutral we´d love to have our volunteers traveling here by train.

    Welcome!

  • Informations complémentaires

    Informations complémentaires

    • Accès Internet

    • Accès Internet limité

      Accès Internet limité

    • Nous avons des animaux

    • Nous sommes fumeurs

    • Familles bienvenues

  • Espace pour garer des vans

    Espace pour garer des vans

    Cet hôte a de la place pour les vans.

  • Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

    Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

    Deux

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    Nombre d'heures attendues

    5 hours a day, 5 days a week

N° de référence hôte : 143716352341

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