Isabelle Valerie & Gerd

Information de voyage

Actuellement, nous sommes

Les activités qui nous intéressent :

regenerative agriculture, permaculture, market gardening (fruits, berries & veggies), herbs, food forests, planting, composting, preserving, slow cooking & baking, whole foods, natural building

Description

Hi, nice to meet you!
My name is Isabelle, I am 32 years old and from the North of Germany. I would describe myself as an open-minded, creative, and curious person.

About two years ago my partner Gerd and I settled down in a small town in the southeast of Schleswig Holstein to start our lifetime project of creating a home.
In 2023 I switched to working part-time in my job as a quality engineer in the medical technology/life science industry in order to spend more time in nature and gain more experience, knowledge and a deeper understanding of living a life in harmony with nature. Also in 2023, I have started to work with permaculture and the process of planning and evolving our garden that spans an area of over 2000 m².
When travelling, I am looking for diverse kinds of inspiration and a vivid interpersonal and cultural exchange, especially regarding approaches to self-sufficiency, permaculture, regenerative agriculture and communal living - which is why I have become a workawayer.

I am particularly interested in learning more about organic market gardening (fruits & veggies), agroforestry, food forests, wild herbs, humus formation, (re)development of natural cycles and self-sustaining systems e.g. with regard to water management, building with natural materials and food conservation techniques. I enjoy being around animals and wild nature of all kinds.

In 2018 I spent over three months in Norway working on a couple of organic farms via WWOOF. The experiences I made taught me a lot about nature, people and life and I am looking forward to being inspired by many more other places and people.

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Hello also from my side!
I am Gerd, 30 years old and since 2023 I live together with my girlfriend Isabelle and my sister’s family in an older house with a little bit of a garden located in a small town about 50 km east from Hamburg.

Up to 2022 I developed professional cleaning machines as a mechanical engineer. However, due to my care for planet earth, I looked out for a more purposeful job and the possibility to give my time and energy into projects that focus on solutions for the problems humanity faces. That’s why, in 2023, I started a PhD to research for solutions in mobile hydrogen storages as part of the needed turnaround in energy supply.

Since I enjoy handcrafting, I currently spend my free time with renovating our house by e.g. installing additional electric, fresh- and wastewater grids, building a new kitchen from the scratch and supporting my girlfriend in gardening projects. Although I have not done many of these projects before, I just really like to try new things in order to learn and improve my skills.
Moreover, I play the drums in a rock cover band and do triathlon.

I like to discover new cultures, alternative ways of living and like to put myself in different point of views. What I kept most in mind from my past vacations, hiking trips or Woofing experiences are the encounters with other people. These exchanges have been a great source of inspiration for me.
Topics I’d like to learn more about are organic gardening, traditional crafts, and ways of self-sufficiency. I’m happy to integrate myself into new projects and to get to know other places, habits, and people.

Langues

Langues parlées
Allemand: Courant
Anglais: Courant
Norwegian bokmål: Courant
Français: Débutant
Italien: Débutant

Plus de détails sur les langues qui m'intéressent
We are very interested in learning the language of the country we work in and the language(s) of the people we live and work with. If people like to know more about a language we speak or are even eager to learn one of the languages we speak, we'd be happy to teach them.

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Compétences et connaissances que nous aimerions partager ou apprendre

Nous avons des connaissances :  

Jardinage

Bricolage et projets de construction

Préparer les repas / cuisiner pour la famille

Aider dans une ferme

Éco-projets

Aider à la maison

S’occuper des animaux

Entretien général

Aide informatique / Internet

Enseignement

Langues

Quelles sont vos compétences ?

Isabelle's skills/education:
-Permaculture Design Course (PDC), 72h in 2023, and further education from 2024 on
-project management
-basic knowledge in gardening, composting, cooking, baking (e.g. sourdough)...
-pruning (apple trees)
-driver's license
-dog care (Isabelle grew up with several dogs and cats)
-guitar play
-please read "Description" text for further information

Gerd's skills/education:
-manual skills: repairing, constructing and building
-3D constructing (CAD)
-project management
-handling of tools and machinery
-basic knowledge in cooking, baking (e.g. sourdough)
-pruning (apple trees)
-driver's license
-drum play
-please read "Description" text for further information

Gerd and I went woofing in Norway on a couple of farms. There, we e.g. built an irrigation system, drove tractors and forklift trucks, splitted fire wood with axes or machinery, cared for sheep, seeded, cultivated, mulched, pricked, planted, harvested and preserved different kinds of vegetables and berries.

Âge

32 & 30

Autres infos...

Besides the slow food movement, we really appreciate the slow travel philosophy and are looking for places that can be reached by public transport – just so we neither need to own/rent a car nor to take a plane.

In September / October 2025 we are looking for a farm/project/host in the North of Norway :)

Informations complémentaires

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  Allergies
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  Régime alimentaire spécial
  If possible, we'd like to stick to an either vegan or vegetarian diet. Preferably we eat fish and meat only in exceptional cases (e.g. if it belongs to the local culture; but if we do so, the way of life of the animal and quality of the meat is important