Decorated Farmhouse & Milk Production

The farm is actually two properties. The decorated farmhouse where the volouteers are staying and where I and my siblings grew up. And the nearby property that was added when my brother extended the milk production. Both properties are formally merged to one economic unit. The property is ecologically certified.

At the milk production you can help in the dayly work, you would help in the morning or the afternon shift, there are in total 14 shifts a week that should be filled, the morning shift 5 am to 10 am. The afternoon shift is 3 pm to 8 pm. The most important shifts are every second Friday to Sunday when the employees have their weekend of, yes cows need to be milked also in the weekend and you are a part of it. You should do 5 shifts a week.
You can also build fences for the animals. If you stay a longer time you can also drive the tractor in the fields.

The decorated farmhouse
There is a variety of work available, painting the outside walls, cement and restore old windows. Clean the attic and other spaces used as storage. clean windows. Clear the flower beds. Cut the grass. Do a proper floor scour as back in the days. There is cats living at the farmstead they are allowed to be inside the house but are more of outside cats but they need some love. There are also sheeps, heifers and bulls who we feed and water.

The volounteers live in my house. It is everybody's responsibility that daily cleaning tasks are performed.

I was born on this farm and it has always been a part of my life. First helping my parents and now living there whenever i can. I work as a teacher at the university of Uppsala in the electric engineering master program. When I am not working I sing in a choir and dance Salsa, Bachata, Lindy hop. I also play many instruments and hope we can jam. At the farm there first of all my brother Åke that is the main farmer, his wife Maria, the farmhand Anders that been with us for 30 years. There is also the milker Jesper. My sister is not living on the farm but will help with supervising of tasks whenever she can. The main stay is at the upper floor in the main building. There is a bathroom there, also a kitchen but it is mostly used as a room for volouteers. Downstairs there is a main kitchen, also two volouteers rooms that can be used in the summer. We cook together and go for weekly grocery shopping so there is always Ingredients for cook with. There is cats living at the farmstead they are allowed to be inside the house but are more of outside cats. To get to the farm you just book a ticket to Söderhamn or to Uppsala (if I am in Uppsala.) I have space in my apartment where you can stay until I am able to go to the farm. I discovered that I have to meet the new volouteers first (every time I let the volounteers staying at the farm receive a new volounteer there have been miss understandings that created problems). Söderhamn has direct trains every 2 hours during the day and 2 direct busses. It is very convenient to travel to Söderhamn from Arlanda but booking system is confusing. Don't even try to do it without talking to me, you will just end up booking the wrong ticket. 50% do not understand that Arlanda is on the way to the farm and closer to Uppsala than Stockholm. Everyone wants to visit Stockholm most do it before or after the farm stay. You could do a break and go back and forth, it takes less than 3 hours. If you are not yet 20 the cheapest ticket is three commuter trains. A 24 hour ticket in Uppsala and Stockholm county is 220 SEK, The ticket Söderhamn Gävle is 30 SEK, So for 280 SEK you are back and forth and the subway and busses in Stockholm is included the whole day. The first train leaves 7:04 am from Söderhamn. And you need to take the return bus from Gävle 22:30, Uppsala 21:12 and Stockholm 19:38. If you are 25 or less the best option is the red SJ departures within 24 hours, trains with lot of space have last minute tickets mostly avaliable for departures Tuesday to Thursday and Saturday, a single ticket is usually less than 200 SEK.


Avaliações

4.5
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Anfitrião & Equipe

4.5

Horas & Atividades

4.0

Hostel

5.0

Aprendizado & Diversão

4.5

Espanha

4

Olov was very nice, he took us to different places to enjoy our stay, and he was very flexible with schedules and days off, but on the other hand the house was quite messy and dirty, and most of the time we had to scrub and cook their things

19 dias atrás

Polônia

5

I had a great experience at the farm. It definitely taught me a lot and was so different from everything I’ve done before. Olle was very welcoming. He took us to concerts, local events and kept us updated about events happening in town. He gave us bunch of valuable pro-tips about traveling Sweden. Overall I had valuable time and would recommend the experience to anyone willing to
immerse with the local culture and farmlife.

20 dias atrás

Polônia

4

I stayed at the farm for 10 days with my friend. Olov makes a lot of effort to make volunteers' stays enjoyable and makes sure that everybody feels comfortable. The house was pretty messy and some tasks were hard, but Olov was flexible with us switching them, when we decided we prefer to do something else on the farm. He has a lot of instruments and amazing cats. Overall we enjoyed our stay there.

21 dias atrás

Estados Unidos

5

Great experience working on the farm! Super fun connecting with all the other volunteers, and everyone on the dairy farm is lovely and welcoming, very knowledgeable about Sweden and the farm, and eager and happy to share stories. The cow shift is very fun, it was so cool to learn so much about cows and to get into a routine taking care of them, and all of the nature around the farm is absolutely gorgeous.

21 dias atrás

Índia

5

Olov and his family were very sweet and made sure we had everything we needed. The place is as authethentic an experience it gets in terms of a rural swedish farm life. I got to learn a lot from this experience culturally and about dairy farming. It was also a good place to wind down and relax. Although the work can get intense somedays, you have the flexibility and your hours are respected. Dairy farming might not be everyone's cup of tea but i enjoyed it and taught me a life skill, and a newfound respect for farmers.

28 dias atrás


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