Join our organic fruit tree farm & community
The experience
We are a happy family living with our friends – a community in a old farm in Blekinge, Karlshamn.
We have a place where you can be yourself truly and we need a lot of hands. We have 30,000m2 field, 20,000m2 forest and meadow. We grow about 80,000 fruit trees and also vegetables, herbs and roses. We have bees and small flock of chicken. We mostly need help in-house and with farm work like weeding, harvesting, fertilizing, digging and maintenance:)
What you offer
25 hours of help per week
Cleaning:
Help clean the kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms and common areas.
Building & Repairing:
Help with a wide range of repairs or building.
Farming:
Plant crops, sow seeds and help in outside tasks.
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.
Free Laundry:
You can use our laundry room freely.
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.
Requirements
Intermediate English or Intermediate German
Over 18 years old
Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers
Travel insurance
What's not included
Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa
Program Details
You will join in our family based community. We plan the tasks in the morning and they can vary a lot from season to season. You can say what you would like to do and learn about. There is always a lot to do and the activities can be quite physical. Around the fruit trees there is planting, digging, watering, fertilizing and grafting. And we also grow vegetables and take care of our bees and chicken. The historical old farm house from 1844 as well as the barns also needs a lot of love. Our beautiful flower garden also always needs care – planting, weeding and lawn mowing etc.
Activities & Shift
We love walking in nature and swimming in the lakes. Picking fruit, harvesting vegetables, stacking firewood for winter, pruning trees, slinging honey, picking flowers ... All this is very romantic, but it can still be physically demanding. And we also love to show you how a traditional old-school farm is run in southern Sweden. We even use organic fertilizer and the old farm tools instead of modern machines for most activities.
But the more old school you are, the more there is to do. We are therefor grateful for helping hands.
We can talk about what shifts work for you, usually people like to help from the morning and go for trips in the afternoon.
There are is great nature just around the farm with lakes, forests and we are not too far from the ocean at Karlshamn from where you can also take a boat to the many beautiful islands in the archipelago.
Rules
Our family-based-community is about love, care, friendship and mutual respect – for people and nature. To make it work when strangers come and live with us we have some simple house rules, we beg you to follow. There are also some rules how you behave when you are having tours out of the farm.
You see, we live in a countryside environment, pretty conservative, which means that your behavior will reflect back on our place so we kindly ask you to consider this during your stay.