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Friendly, multi function, organic and healthy life Finnish farm

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The experience

Sahala is a beautiful, well organized, innovative forest / field farm with the staff of 20 with well educated health expert owners with high awareness. We practice and develop smart, sustainable, science based rural life. We also look for members to goodlifecommunity.fi (GLC). We are close to a well equipped village, have lakeside saunas, restaurant, tennis court, gym, forest paths, clean lakes to swim and fish, 2 riding horses and a dog.

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

Housekeeping: Help with changing the bed linens and general housekeeping.

Administration: Help with booking systems and payments.

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

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.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, 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!

Free Parties: Get free entrance for the best parties in town.

Free Events: Get free entrance for the best events in town.

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.

Dance classes: Take free dance classes at our place.

Language lessons: Take free language classes at our place.

Holistic Therapies: You can take part in any of our therapeutic activities for free.

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

Dedicated Workspace: Specific space for you to work remotely

Requirements

Fluent English

Between 25 and 50 years old

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

Travel insurance

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

Here one can explore the forests on foot/ mountain bike, lakes with our patented canoes for 1-3 persons and rowing boat. We have excellent hiking trails and high-speed internet. We share willingly our high level knowledge in health, gardening, farming, forestry, sports, interaction and sustainability.
In house we have a gym, massage rooms (2). In the village there is a spa, yoga classes, church, library, sports hall, shops and museum. In our farm we have many options to help the staff in health.
Join us for an enriching and educating experience in the natural beautiful Finland and our intellectually and ethically oriented estate.

Activities & Shift

We choose tasks by the skills and learning capacity for each volunteer to help out alone or with someone in numerous kinds of chores and developments we have here. We hope for active attitude, social, open and brave mind, willingness to learn, test, try , discuss and experience. We welcome volunteers who have good interaction-, practical- and health skills.
We have work for visitors in our restaurant, gardening, cleaning, maintenance, farming, forestry and assisting visiting groups.

Rules

We do not take people who smoke, are heavy drinkers or drug users or people with crime register. Working for volunteers starts at 8 or 9. Lunch is at 11.00. Our social rules are openness, equality, togetherness, friendlynes, problem solving without delays, politeness, warm heartiness, forgiveness, physical, mental, social and spiritual health. We expect the volunteer to have social skills, normal living habits and initiative.
The lunch is served only 5 days a week. We provide food shopping /meals for volunteers for the weekends, when the company restaurant is not open.