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Sustainable, healthy, conscious and innovative coutryside living

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The experience

Sahala is a beautiful, modern, well organized, innovative forest / field farm with the staff of 5, and well educated health expert owners and high awareness. We practice and develop smart, sustainable, science based rural life. We also look for members to the goodlifecommunity.fi (GLC). We are close to a well equipped village, have lakeside saunas, berry garders, tennis court, forest paths, clean lakes to swim and fish, 2 riding horses, dog.

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

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

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

Painting & Decorating: Help with painting or decorating the property facilities.

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

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 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.

Dance classes: Take free dance 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.

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

Requirements

Fluent English or Fluent Swedish

Between 25 and 50 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

Be from outside Finland

Travel insurance

Mandatory volunteer introduction video

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

Large, historic and modern Sahala farm wants to network with like minded internationally aware young professionals, who want to build a bettter lifestyle for examble. We are developing, testing and applying truly sustainable farmlife with conscious choises and production with high quality social life and economy.

Activities & Shift

Volunteers are expected to participate any seasonal work what is going on. In the summer that is garder work, berry picking, muschroom picking, organizing, building maintenance, brush clearing in the forest, collecting, drying, milling and packing herbs, firewood work etc.

Rules

We are drug and smoke free. We are morning active, tidy and against any kind of corruption. We have general area cleaning together in every weekend. People are expected to build togetherness rather than isolation, care for common good order, tidyness, openness and good will in general. Values are also openness and honesty.