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Right now:
Gardening season is basically over until late March 2025.
-What I really need is a person who would like to help me put up reused windows and glass doors as walls in my greenhouse. Everything else is now built!
-I'd love to host someone who'd like to organize my wood workshop, I've put up some photos of it, it's got potential, but needs a real makeover!
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Description of Nässelbacken:
Me and my teenage sons have a miniature farm on 2 hectares of Swedish nature.
On the top of the sunny hill are the little house and large trees. I'm in the middle of building the zero energy year-round greenhouse. More trees and forest gardens, edible landscapes and vegetable garden are newly established here.
Upcoming building projects that I need help with are: tiny house renovation; smart and innovative greenhouse; a rainwater collecting system; terrass; solar dryer, rocket stove.
Gardening projects run all the time, except mid winter, mostly focused on forest gardens/edible perennial plants and plants that benefit insects. I also aim at being self sufficient on staple foods such as peas, beans and maize. I'm already self sufficient on fire wood, so in winter, we cut and cleave a few trees.
In the bottom of the valley there used to run a creek, which has been underground for 70 years - we are aiming at freeing it as soon as possible. It is also a lovely natural alder wetland forest, full of birdlife, dragonflies, edible plants and flowers.
The southern end is where my friend sometimes has her sheep, and the stable also contains a cosy but rustic guest room for volonteers, including a small kitchen. This is also where we have the wood workshop.
To the west lies the Oak meadow, a tranquil place for meditation, a place for watching sunsets and sunrise, and listening to the owls through the night.
I who run this place am Tuve, ecologist and hobby farmer with a gardening education and 20 years of experience in small scale food production, orchards, poultry and vegetables. I have spent my life learning the skills necessary to make a good living without being stuck in the modern consumption dependence. I know many crafts, farming and what to eat in the wild.
Spinning wool from various animals is one of my hobbies, but also basketry and carpentry, along side of my main interests gardening and biodiversity. I love teaching my skills to those interested in learning.
On top of that, I love singing, talking, and sharing of the spiritual side of our existance.
This new farm is only five years old, but I have been a host for volonteers for 6 years on my old farm too.
Every second week, my two children, 16 and 18 years old live with me.
We have three cats, and four indian runner ducks.
If you are looking for more than a few weeks of volonteering, I am interested in sharing my arable land on longer term also, with people living in their own homes on wheels, yurts etc. It would be possible to bring your own animals, also grazing ones, as long as they can co-exist with the cats and ducks that already live here.
The food here is vegetarian. If you like cooking, vegan is no problem. Meat is rare.
Wifi is available in and around the main house. If you bring a camper van, you can park within wifi range.
Jobs include mainly building and gardening.
Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre
Aide avec des éco-projets
Jardinage
Bricolage et construction
S’occuper des animaux
Cuisine/repas pour la famille
Entretien général
Aide informatique/internet
Centres d’intérêt
Végétarien ou végan
Dev. durable
Dev. personnel
Animaux de compagnie
LGBT+
Ferme
Soin des plantes
Jardinage
Cuisine et alimentation
Menuiserie
Animaux
Yoga / bien-être
Nature
Danse
Objectifs de développement durable de l’ONU que cet hôte essaie d'atteindre
Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre
I can teach you about:
Forest gardening
Wild edible plants
Crafts (if you are here long enough you could learn basketry and spinning)
Or we could do:
Singing together would be fun
Meditation, spirituality, drumming
Night-time safaris to see the wild white deer special to this area.
Having fun with the kids, playing cards.
Aide
I mainly need help with
▪planting trees, weeding, gardening;
▪taking care of food produce;
▪organizing and cleaning in workshop and sheds;
▪building a terrass, greenhouse, chicken house, renovating tiny houses
Of course I will guide you in what to do.
Langues
Langues parlées
Danish: Courant
Anglais: Courant
Swedish: Courant
Hollandais: Intermédiaire
Français: DébutantCet hôte propose un échange linguistique
We'd love to get better at French. We're very good at English and Swedish.
Hébergement
I have two choices for volonteers: A rustic guestroom in the stable that has a loft bed and it's own kitchen, but usually volonteers chose to eat with the family in the house. Or a tiny house next to the house with wifi. Only one bed.
Do let me know if you have allergies, the rooms might not be so dust free.
Please be prepared to accept that both these guest rooms are also used as storage, and they are not hotel room quality, they are rustic. The space in the tiny house is very tiny. The space in the stable is a bit like you'd imagine a farm hand's living quarters could have been a hundred years ago, except with electricity and running water!
Autres infos...
I can lend you a bicycle. There are walking trails in the surrounding landscape, which is a patchwork of farms, fields, small forests and pastures. There are lakes within cycling distance. It is situated in the middle of Skåne, has 3 national parks within 1 hour drive, and nature reserves close by.
Public transport exists, but is limited.
Informations complémentaires
Accès Internet
Accès Internet limité
Nous avons des animaux
Nous sommes fumeurs
Familles bienvenues
Possibilité d’accueillir les digital nomads
Wifi available
Espace pour garer des vans
Space available
Possibilité d'accueillir les animaux
As long as the pet leaves cats and ducks alone
Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?
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The work that had to be done could be quite physical sometimes as it involved digging a lot and moving heavy things. She tried the best she could to make instructions clear and give pauses… read more
When we talked she was both interested in telling things about her life and hearing things from me. She let me borrow her guitar and play on it. We also played guitar and sang together once and I really liked it. There were many apples and cucumbers so that I decided to make apple purée and pickled… read more
Kristina is great, I fully recommend her!
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Exactitude du profil:
(4.8)
Échange culturel:
(4.9)
Communication:
(4.8)
The work that had to be done could be quite physical sometimes as it involved digging a lot and moving heavy things. She tried the best she could to make instructions clear and give pauses… read more
When we talked she was both interested in telling things about her life and hearing things from me. She let me borrow her guitar and play on it. We also played guitar and sang together once and I really liked it. There were many apples and cucumbers so that I decided to make apple purée and pickled… read more
Kristina is great, I fully recommend her!
She always talked to me slowly and clearly because I am not good at English and invited me to watch movies together to let me relax.
I made a big compost outside with her, dug up nettles in the field for next spring and took care of ducks. She taught me a lot about… read more
As a hands-on experience for his future studies to be an architect, I hope this experience helps a bit.
Thank you, Dylan!
I was there for two weeks during the summer so most of the time we were outside working on the duck house, chilling in the garden,… read more
He took part of building a mobile house for ducks. This was a totally new kind of work for him, and he learned a lot. And the ducks now have a much better home, thanks to him and some other workawayers.
Valentin is friendly, good at sharing languages and… read more
In addition to skill, he is friendly, a good cook, a good guitarrist, dedicated to working for the… read more
Her english is very good and she understands all instructions.
Grete has assisted in laying a brick wall. Planted and sown plants in the garden independently. Weeded. Taken care of ducks.
She is helpful in the kitchen and cherful to be with.
I… read more
Take good care of him.… read more
Best regards from Martin
Cheerful and good natured. Tidy.
I highly recommend Martin!
Tuve knows SO, SO, SO much. You can learn a lot from them - from how to get tannins out of acorns to make them edible to what perennial vegetables are to how to craft willow… read more
You are welcome back, any time you want!
Thank you for your help!
They are sensitive, and need the housing situation to work for them, therefore they didn't stay more than 2 days out of the planned 12. That is the only reason I didn't give them so many stars. I'm sure that if my guest room had been ok for… read more
