ElkePu

Information de voyage

Actuellement, je suis

Description

Hi All,
my name is Elke from Germany. I quit my job in 2019 and since then I have been travelling between Germany and Portugal, Azores, Spain and Italy. Discovering I could live with less money and more time I am looking to extend my travelling and working experiences as long as possible / as long as it pleases me. That's why I am here.
I don't smoke, I am more or less vegetarian.
I love plants, especially perennuals, which is why I started my first volunteering on a permaculture farm in central Portugal. We built swales, planted a lot of trees, worked in the nursery, made hot compost, learned about worm farming, natural building etc.
The year after I built a cob house with 5 other students on the Azores islands.
In 2021 I did a one- month permaculture design course at Danyadara in Andalusia, Spain. There we harvested olives, preserved them in different ways, learned about fermentation, planted lemon trees, created our design for a 3.7 ha area, built a strawbale/cob wall, a grey filter water system for the outdoor showers including a ferro-cement pond , learned about non-violent communication, sociocracy and other important things about living in community.
In summer 2022 I spent 6 weeks in Northern Spain, where I was volunteering to build a cob strawbale house using the CUT technique. I learned a lot and also some Spanish.
During the last 2 years I spent around 3 months in the South of Spain and Sicily to help with gardening and food processing.

Centres d’intérêt

Langues

Activités en plein air

Plage

Montagne

Musique

Soin des plantes

Dev. durable

Jardinage

Danse

Architecture

Végétarien ou végan

Animaux

Yoga / bien-être

Nature

Ferme

Langues

Langues parlées
Allemand: Courant
Anglais: Courant
Français: Courant

Plus de détails sur les langues qui m'intéressent
Ce workawayer a indiqué qu’il souhaitait faire partager sa ou ses propre(s) langue(s) ou en apprendre une nouvelle. Veuillez le contacter directement pour en discuter.

Trouver un partenaire de langue

Compétences et connaissances que j'aimerais partager ou apprendre

Ça m'intéresse :  

S’occuper des animaux

Langues

Accueil / tourisme

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J'ai des connaissances :  

Jardinage

Entretien général

Aider dans une ferme

Éco-projets

Aider à la maison

Aide informatique / Internet

Préparer les repas / cuisiner pour la famille

Quelles sont vos compétences ?

Hi All,
I am Elke from Germany. When I quit my job as a translator with a big corporation in 2019 I first went house and garden sitting for a friend on the Azores island Faial. Later this year I attended a portuguese course in Lisbon and then headed to central Portugal to volunteer on the wonderful permaculture farm Keela Yoga Farm. I had registered for 1 month, but ended up staying almost 3 months. We did a lot of tree planting, creating swales, hot compost piles, drying herbs, ferment food, cutting wood from the forest for our wood burner, planning and creating guilds, some natural buidling (finishing a strawbale cob wall in the greenhouse), and many other things.
The year after was a bit difficult for travelling, but I managed to go to Sao Miguel (Azores) and we built a cob house with foundation and roof.
Last year I worked with a wild seed farmer in the South of Germany (Rieger Hofmann GmbH) for three months and learned a lot about seeds, harvesting seeds, planting seedlings, cleaning the herb beds.
In November I did my Permaculture Design certificate with Danyadara in Andalusia.
So I am very much into permaculture, plants and animals, but I also love meeting people.
I really love working with herbs, producing my own herbal medicine, creams and soaps.
I also tried to grow some mushrooms, but not in nature, just on a strawbale.
In summer 2022 I volunteered for a project in the mountains of Northern Spain where we built a strawbale house using the CUT (cell under tension) technique.
In 2024 I spent 3 months in Andalusia working on an organic finca and taking care of a permaculture garden.
When I am back in Germany I spend a lot of time with gardening, learning how to make sourdough bread and fermenting vegetables ;-)

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  Régime alimentaire spécial
  I don't eat meat.