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Living a self sufficient life in Southern Sweden! =)

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The experience

This position is mostly about gardening. Over the recent years we created a permaculture garden that gives us enough vergetables for the whole year. Composting is one of the keys in our work, because we are depending on access to good compost to keep our garden system running.

From July to September harvesting and foraging are the main tasks for this position.

What you offer

5 hours of help per day

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

What you get

2 days off per week

Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

Free Tours: We’ll take you on tours and rides around town. For free!

Free Hiking Tours: We’ll take you on excursions and hikes around town. For free!

Bikes at your disposal: You can use our bikes any time you want.

Pick Up: We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.

Permaculture Course: Take part in our Permaculture course for free.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Fast Internet Access: High-speed internet for you to work remotely

Requirements

Intermediate English or Intermediate German

Over 18 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

We start working together at around 9 am, one day it could be longer, another day shorter. We actually never count the working hours, it's up to you how much work you want to do.
Whatever you do, it's important that you do your job as good as you can. It's no help when we have to do it again ourselves anyway, because it hasn't been done properly. Take your time and do it as good as you can. That's way more important than doing it quickly.

Activities & Shift

In early spring we will work in the forest to collect fire wood and wood for the garden. Apart from that, until March we will boil some maple syrup, that is something special here in Europe. If you are interested how this works, you can learn it here.
In April/ May we will prepare the garden for the growing season.
From July to September it's about harvesting in the garden. Besides that, we will pick mushrooms and wild berries in the forest. We will also make wine from those berries.
We also have bees and will be harvesting honey and use it for different purpose, one of them is making mead. You can learn about all of this if you show some interst in these things.

If it all works out fine, we will take you on a trip in our beatiful nature which you will never forget. Either with the canoe, kayak, sailboat or bicycles.

Rules

We are not very restrictive with the most things. But there's no smoking in all of the buildings.