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Help us on our farm in Sweden!

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The experience

Hi we are Marcia and Dimitry and own a farm in Sweden in the province Värmland.

We have a lot of animals ( mostly horses ). The other animals we have are Cows, dogs, pig, chickens, parrot, cats. We have some holiday houses, those need to be cleaned on changing days.
So the tasks will be helping with the animals, feed them and cleaning the stables. Bringing the horses to the fields, snowplowing in wintertime, raking the terrain. Cleaning.


What you offer

32 hours of help per week

Farming: Plant crops, sow seeds and help in outside tasks.

Building & Repairing: Help with a wide range of repairs or building.

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

What you get

2 days off per week

Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.

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.

Discounts on Tours: Get discounts for tours and excursions around town.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

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.

Yoga classes: Take free yoga classes at our place.

Language lessons: Take free language classes at our place.

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

Basic Internet Access: Basic speed internet for you to work remotely

Requirements

Fluent English or Fluent Dutch

Over 18 years old

Only hosts solo volunteers (doesn’t accept couples or partners)

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

We want volunteers to do tasks for us and it would be nice if people are really interested in our animals and projects. We love people with own initiative, open-minded, honest, reliable, humor and open communication. We believe in everybody's speciatility and hope they will use this on our Farm to have a great time together.

If you can't do something it's no problem, but the willing to learn need to be there.
We believe it is important that people have perseverance.

Activities & Shift

The tasks are cleaning horse stables, take care about the animals, change bedclothes and cleaning the holiday houses on changing day, building projects, help with cooking and helping with the guests, snowplowing in wintertime, raking the terrain in summertime, some catering work.

But you're also welcome if you have experience with social media, photography, writer!

It can be that you are helping with preparing for one of our activities like cleaning and saddling horses, helping guests on their horse or at the Farm, walking beside a guest with horse on a trailride, horeca: organizing pancake nights, bar shifts in summertime.

If you wanna apply in summertime we only take people in with horse experience and who wants to work longer then 5 hours a day and want to stay at least 8 weeks. This is because it takes a lot time to get to know all the horses and because the horses need to have feed in the evening as well you'll work longer.

Rules

We don't want people to walk around all day with theirs phone in theirs hand.
And everybody should help to keep the house so clean as possible together, cleaning everyday. Vacuum cleaner and wipe down the counter and tables. Ones a week deeply cleaning of the house, you will find a cleaning list in the house. Also wash your bedsheets ones a week. You clean the house in your private hours since you live there yourself .

Be respectfull with each other.
If we are sitting at the campfire with the guests we do not use our cellphone. We are welcoming positive persons who are physically and mentally in good condition.
You can talk and usk us questions, there are no stupid questions and everyone have to learn.
But please be honest and listen while we explain things how we wants to have the care for our animals. If you forgot something or you don't know it anymore how it should be please ask us. We just want to have the best for our animals , stuff and projects.