Living in an eco-village on the island of Orust, Sweden

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  Description

  I’m Annika, a woman living with my 9 year old daughter, in an ecovillage on the island Orust in the swedish westcoast. There are 17 households in the ecovillage. Everyone owns their own house and garden, and share some forest and community systems for taking care of cleaning the water and such. In the middle of the village we have a forestgarden, runned by a society. We have a lake close by for bathing och fishing. This ecovillage is mostly a quiet and laid back place. Sometimes too quiet! The residents are very interested in gardening, being busy with gardenwork, maybe we could be more social and less busy working. But then all of a sudden we're very social, inviting each other to dinners, helping each other out or work with building an community outdoor kitchen.
  
  I have a lot of projects going on. The most important is to build an extra room and a bigger kitchen in my tinyhouse. As a volunteer at my place you would be helping out with that, including carpenting and constructionwork, there will be a lot of trips to the hardware store and secondhand bargains. There will be digging for drainage and foundation. We will also work some in the garden and the greenhouse. But the main work this year is construction. Some days I will "lend" you out to help other members in the ecovillage and friends in the neighborhood, as we sometimes help eachother out with projects that need several persons, or just beacuse it's nice to work together. We have also common workdays in the ecovillage and in the forestgarden, where I usually bring the volunteers. I have friends that also hosts volunteers, and this can give a opportunity to meet and work with other workawayers.
  
  I've been a host for volunteers for many years and I really enjoy it! My profession is gardening, but I have a cronical disease and I'm not able to work. I have limited amounts of energy, and need to take brakes several times a day. Sometimes you would be working on your own. I'm not a carpenter, but I have several friends around that can tell and learn how things should be done, so we'll work it out with some planning, youtubemovies, experiments, learning by doing and handy creativity.

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  Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

  Aide avec des éco-projets

  Jardinage

  Bricolage et construction

  Cuisine/repas pour la famille

  Aide à la maison

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

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  Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

  Many people in this area are interested in caring for the environment, gardening, arts, culture, handicraft and building with sustainable material. It's can be possible to learn about these fields.
  
  We have a little village close by where you can swim in the sea, and have an icecream at the vegancafe'. Sometimes we go an see some art, or culture event. And all of a sudden, if I feel well I go away for a concert or a festival (fuzz, stonerrock&metal, doom, progessive&psykedelic rock is my taste in music :). Of course you can join if you want, or stay and relax in the ecovillage.
  
  How many people we are, working together, can differ very much depending on if you are one or two in the caravan, if there's volonteers coming in their own van or tent, if someone doesn't show up, if friends and family are around helping me work on the house. Mostly we are several people, but there are times when you will be the only guest here. If so, I will try to invite people here, or go visit friends, so you will get the chance to meet others. But it would be nice if you are selfgoing and like your own company as well.

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  Aide

  This year I wish to have a lower limit of age of around 25 years for the volunteers. This is based on my own experience, but of course it's induviduaI and can differ alot. But usually when you reached 25 or so, you've gathered more experience and knowledge from life.
  I would like to host persons who are not afraid of hard tasks such as dig in the soil, carry stuff around by hand or in a wheelbarrow, planting and weeding, and most important: Construction and DIY all kinds. Of course special skills like carpenter or constructionworker are welcomed.

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  Langues parlées

  Anglais: Courant
  Swedish: Courant

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  Hébergement

  The volunteer accommodation is a caravan placed in my garden. See pictures. The caravan is old but nice and clean. There are one kingzise bed and one smaller bed in each end of the caravan. The first volunteer decide if you want to share the caravan with another volunteer or not. If you want company you have to share the caravan :)
  
  I live very small, so volunteers will use an outdoor toilet and an outdoor shower when the weather is nice. if the weather is bad you can use the bathroom in my house. I have a washingmachine you can use.
  
  We will all take turns in the kitchen cooking, wash up and clean and other housework.
  I will mostly provide vegetarian or vegan food.
  If you have special foods just ask and I try to solve it.

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  Autres infos...

  There are bikes to use and sometimes you can borrow my car.
  
  Thanks to Johanna Fraenkel-Eidse for all the beautiful pictures in the profile.

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  Informations complémentaires

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    Accès Internet

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    Accès Internet limité

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    Nous avons des animaux

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    Nous sommes fumeurs

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    Familles bienvenues

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  Espace pour garer des vans

  I have a parkinglot in level where a campervan can get space.

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  Possibilité d'accueillir les animaux

  Cet hôte a dit qu’il acceptait les personnes voyageant avec un animal.

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  Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

  Plus de 2

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  Nombre d'heures attendues

  5 hours a day, 5 days a week

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