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Calling early birds! Take care of cows on a Swedish farmstead

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The experience

Perfect for early risers, this opportunity lets you help in the morning and enjoy your afternoons free.

Your tasks include feeding, milking, cleaning, and bedding the animals, starting at 5 am and finishing by 10 am. Our animals need care 7 days a week, so your dedication is key.

Outside helping hours, treat your living space as your own with just 20 minutes of daily cleaning—vacuuming floors and keeping the bathroom tidy.

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

Cleaning: Help clean the kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms and common areas.

Kitchen Hand: Help prepare, finish and serve meals.

Animal Care: Help look after and take care of animals.

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.

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.

Dance classes: Take free dance 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

Intermediate English

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

Travel insurance

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Activities & Shift

Milking shifts, cows are milked and taking care of every day of the week including Saturday and Sunday. A volounteer helps with 5 shifts a week. It means that there is space for three volounteers that divide the 14 shifts among them.
Morning shifts are 5 to 10 am, and afternoon shifts are 3 to 8 pm. The most important shifts are every second weekend when the ordinary employee's have their weekend off.

The Volounteers should also contribute to the common tasks in the place they are living. Clean the common areas and contribute to coocking and dish washing.

Rules

I am sad to need to specify these rules.
1 The volunteer should clean their own room to the same standard as a clean hotel room when they leave so that it is ready for the next volunteer. Hello you are still here until you are on the bus. You are not leaving when you book your ticket.

2. During your stay you need to tidy up after yourself. Of course you should not leave your dishes and your food in the common kitchen but to have a zero impact you also need to spend 20 minutes every day on cleaning common areas.

3. Your working clothes are stored in dedicated places. We have one for clothes used when milking, one for used outside clothes and separate spaces for clean clothes, do not mix. And pleas do not put smelling please do not mix and do not put them in the common living room because you do not want smelling clothes in the area you consider your own.