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Hej!
And welcome to our place! Here some information about us, our projects and surroundings.
Who are we?
We are Ida (40) and Christina (37) who live here at this beautiful place together with Ida’s daughter, Ester (5).
Ida (Swedish) is a herbalist and works with teaching about plant medicine and runs her own course in plantmedicine at a school nearby. She will focus on creating the herbalgarden this season but she also is involved in the vegetable garden and loves to grow flowers, pick wild food/medicine and to create events and gatherings at the farm.
She lived at the farm now for 5 years.
Ida is having her mainfocus on developing the herbalgarden.
Christina (German) is right now studying sustainable gardening and permaculture and will be head chef of planning and organizing the vegetable garden, a big garden around 200-300 squaremeters wich has provided us with food for the past years. Christina is interested in cooking and baking, and preserving the harvested vegetables, herbs and wild food.
Christina came to the farm the first time as a volunteer 2021 and kept coming back until she decided to move in for real. It’s now been around 1,5 years we lived here together permanently.
Christina is boss over the vegetable garden this year.
We have many plans and dreams about what we can create (and are creating) here at the farm with endless possibilities.
We like to look at it as a creative and fun project where a lot of our common and personal dreams can come alive.
Food and meals
We like to eat together at least one meal a day and cooking could be part of the day sometimes (for those who are comfortable with that). We have in mind to try a kind of a schedule where everyone is responsible for cooking once a week for example.
We love to cook and eat good food, most likely directly picked from the garden and once in a while fish or meat from our own farm or friends/neighbours. As a vegan or vegetarian you are really welcome as well :)
The village and surrounding areas
The community in our village is a very vivid and creative collection of individuals. There is a lot going on and we have a rich social life that the volonteers easily can take part in.
There are many concerts, a cinema, handcraft evenings, flea markets, cafés, farmer’s markets and other things organised by people in the village.
Close by we have many lovely places to hang out, have a barbecue, take a swim or have a walk.
Projects for 2024
The herbal garden - an educational garden with 80 species of usable herbs:
designing, planting, cultivating, preparing, harvesting- this is one of the major projects of may/sept 2024 . The tasks are digging, building beds, designing, planting, cultivating, taking care of and other stuff for finishing the garden in the spring/early summer.
Vegetable garden and kitchen herb garden:
Growing for sustainability with compost and mineur from the farm.
We practice "täckodling" (cover the soil with organic material.
2021 Ida produced 200 kilos of carrots because they became huge :) and many hundreds of kilos of other yummy vegetables. We also like to plant a lot of flowers in the early season - Because we and especially Ida love them!
It’s going wild!
We are all really interested in wild stuff like berries, mushrooms, leaves, eatable flowers and want to spend more time in picking/harvesting them and use them fresh, dried, syrup and much more.
The big barn:
Cleaning and sorting out and decorate for using it for concerts, yoga and teaching.
General maintanance:
Cutting grass, easy reparation of buildings, preparing firewood for next winter. A part from this we might decide to do some renovation like painting.
Extra:
Ida would love to continue creating the web-based/online herbal garden education/content.
If someone has skills in layout, making videos- blogs and other stuff I am definitely going to consider that help- since it ´s not amongst any of our talents...
Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre
Projets artistiques
Jardinage
Bricolage et construction
S’occuper des animaux
Aide dans une ferme
Baby-sitting et jeux créatifs
Cuisine/repas pour la famille
Aide à la maison
Entretien général
Aide informatique/internet
Objectifs de développement durable de l’ONU que cet hôte essaie d'atteindre
Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre
Besides being a very beautifully located village along the river, Näsåker is a hub of an alternative community. Many people have moved here by ideological reasons. Many grow there own vegetables, are downshiftning, trying to live a simpler life without excessive consuming. This started already in the 70th so young and old in the alternative comunity share the same visions.
Näsåker is also a cultural place and the provider of a big famous worldmusic festival in august called Urkult.
Due to our rich communitylife many concerts are beeing organised even in beetwen the festival.
Näsåker is also a famous historical site which attracts many tourists in the summer.
Nämforsen in Ångermanälven has one of Northern Europe's biggest and most distinctive rock carvings of the approximately 2 300 rock images that were carved in stone right next to the rushing rapids.
The oldest have been made for over 6000 years ago.
The nature is stunning and some part of the river offers magical places where you can go swim in the waterfalls, we will bring you there.
Projets impliquant des enfants
Ce projet peut impliquer des enfants. Pour en savoir plus, consultez nos directives et conseils ici.
Aide
Some experience or knowledge of gardening or buildning is of course very welcomed, but not at all a must. The help that is needed is so various that it can suit many different people with different skills or experiences (or not so much experience).
For example, hanging out with the kids one day when we are working, is as much help as digging in the garden or building something.
We think that will and curiosity is a very good skill for people staying at our place.
Since we ourselves are learning by doing when it comes to renovation/constructing, a person with knowledge of constructing will have extra much to offer 😊
Langues parlées
Allemand: Courant
Anglais: Courant
Swedish: Courant
Espagnol: Débutant
Hébergement
There are several houses at the farm which all staying close to each other. For volunteers we can provide different accommodations.
One possibility is to stay at a log house called härbre. This has two floors. Under the roof you have a simple and cozy sleeping area. Downstairs you have a sofa, big table, an desk and some simple equipped kitchen. You can stay there alone or as a couple or friends.
Another option is to stay in the bagarstugan. Either you stay there at the upper floor with the best view on the garden and the sunset or downstairs in a cozy little room. Upstairs you have a double bed and an extra room with two separate beds. There are some armchairs and a table. Downstairs you will find a bed sofa to sleep on a desk with a view to the meadow and a chest of drawers.
Recently we bought even a caravan where you could also sleep :)
We have a separate shower house what also includes a sauna. The toilet(separett) is placed in the main house as well as a proper kitchen where we will have our meals together (if we are not sitting at one of the beautiful spots outside).
Our plan is to organise the cooking together with the volunteers so we can suit all needs. Ideal would be that we circulate with cooking but plan it together so we can make sure all ingredients are available. If someone doesn´t like to cook it’s not a must.
Autres infos...
We are easy going and social people and our lifestyles are quite dynamic.
If you live with us you can expect friends and family coming to visit us every now and then, that plans sometimes changes and that spontaneous activities happen quite often.
We appreciate taking coffee breaks and chill out and at the same time we like to really engage in a project.
You will most likely be invited to join for things in the free time but we respect if you just feel like chilling out or going off on your own as well as we might some time on our own sometimes.
Informations complémentaires
Accès Internet
Accès Internet limité
Nous avons des animaux
Nous sommes fumeurs
Familles bienvenues
Espace pour garer des vans
Cet hôte a de la place pour les vans.
Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?
Plus de 2
Nombre d'heures attendues
Maximum 5 hours a day, 5 days a week
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The farm itself is very beautiful and cozy and the surrounding nature is stunning.
Ida and Christina always made sure to make us feel welcome and from our first day on we felt right at home.
We sadly didn’t spent a lot of time with Helena because she was… read more
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The farm itself is very beautiful and cozy and the surrounding nature is stunning.
Ida and Christina always made sure to make us feel welcome and from our first day on we felt right at home.
We sadly didn’t spent a lot of time with Helena because she was… read more
Gården var uppe på en höjd med en helt otrolig utsikt, och som tagen ur en dröm med sitt stora grönsaksland och en otroligt vacker örträdgård. Det var tydligt att Ida… read more
I visited for 2 weeks in the summer of 2023 and to be apart of the small team of volunteers and friends was such a precious moment for me.
Ida has managed to build up quite a… read more
The place is magical - beautiful garden and farm houses overlooking the river and closeby waterfalls.
It has been grounding, nourishing, challenging and joyful:
the days were filled with various tasks and chances to help and expand my horizon. I've learned about plant… read more
Daniel and Ida are very sociable, having there friends and family staying for several days or weeks during the summer, with other people always passing by.… read more
Andrea thank you so much for you help this spring. Andrea took with soft hands care of all the plants. It really felt wonderful to be able to leave my plantbabies in safe hands, knowing that you took care of them carefully.
A lot of the work during your time here was to sew, replant, dig and work with different preparations… read more
Oh my god, such a great experience to have you guys here. You are both very sweet and lovably in you your own unique way.
We will remember a lot of laughs and good time, it was truly sad when you left.
It was fun and easy to work together with you guys, always up for everything. The onions you planted, the strawberries you took… read more
It was our first Workaway experience and we were so well welcomed in this beautiful farm and family. I really think it's a chance to live one month in this place, like paradise, in the middle of Swedish nature. Working isn't hard when you have this conditions.
We share the life of Ida, Daniel and Ester for one… read more
Paul is a very sweet and cool person that we really enjoyed having at our farm. We had a lot of fun together, Ester completely loved him(and the other kids at place to), he is very fun, kind, helpful, relaxed and very mature I would say, being quite young :)
Paul helped us out with many different things, he worked well both on his own or… read more
They adapted their conditions and even their main house to make us (me and two other volunteers) feel as… read more
We are so glad to have meet you. It feels wonderful to have shared such an enriching time together, an exchange that went much further than workinghours and accodomodation :)
This lovely family is very, very friendly and easy to have around. They have a clear and open communication, always with warmth and compassion and we really… read more
We are truly greatful to all the great footprints/progresses you made at our farm. They are both very handy, solution focused and we felt very safe to leave them with some of the more independent tasks, when we… read more
Seb and Alex is very warm and friendly and it was great to have them here. We were many kids (and adults) here at the same time but it all worked out well thanks to that everyone was so helpful and independent. We altered cooking/baking and cleaning and made the days… read more
We really loved to have Sophia and Lorenz here at our farm. It instantly felt very comfortable to have them here as a part of our farm and family. They are very entusiastic people (they even loved the more "boring" tasks as digging) and working with them in a team was just so fun! It was obvious that they liked to work hard,… read more
She helped us out with many different tasks at the farm and she was really hardworking and independent, she easily picked up new tasks and was also very positive about everything.
She baked amazing bread and was also very helpful in general with household things, she… read more
They are really lovely people and helped us out with various tasks at the farm (weeding, planting, building, digging, cutting grass, gardenwork, herbalgarden, etc).
They are both very communicative, helpful, interested and creative, for example… read more
He is a really kind, easygoing, relaxed person to have around, always friendly.
He worked with many taks here at our farm, some of them for the first time like sawing, weeding, making jam etc. He cooked delicious empanadas and stuffed zuccini for us many times and helped out… read more
