We need immediate help now in april..
Hi, Our family has lived on the farm since the 1650 at least, Today my parents are living in the new house and we are living in the big house with my wife and 3 kids (10, 13 and 16 years old). We are a very small family farm in Jämtland, on the 63 latitude, so we have short summers and a long cold winter.
Both Linnea my wife and me are working outside the farm, Linnea as a Building engineer in the next municipal, Me as a Senior Tech at a IT company where i am monitoring, installing and configuring servers in datacenters all around the world from remote from the farm office we have.
I love to share what I know about farming, so if you have questions. One of the main reasons you will come to us should be to learn about farming. The 4 hours you work every day will be intensive and hard working. We used to Ecological certified but from the summer 2022 we are not, due to i had to go from farming on 3 hectars down to 0,3 hectars when i had "got into the mental wall", and the cost of the certified cost to much. But we will grow the same way anyway. We now grow vegetables to our self for self-sustaining instead mostly so its realy small scale now. But we are working to expand the strawberrie, raspberry and fruit bushes field. We are also working with flowers in the greenhouse for sale.
To us you come to see and live nature, Learn about eco-farming on latitude 63, learning about growing in greenhouses. Cultural exchanges around the dinner table.
We accept volunteers from the volunteer organizations WWOOF (World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms)
Through WWOOF and LLOOF we can also accept Erasmus+ students
An ordinary day looks like this:
7-8 Breakfast (Saturday & Sunday between 8-9)
7:55 (8:55 Saturday & Sunday) We go through the main tasks for the day.
8:00-9:45 Morning tasks and instructions for the rest of the day (Saturday we start at 9 and Sundays we try to have a free day)
9:45-10 Morning Coffee break (very important to take a fika, (Not Saturday & Sunday))
10-12 Continue to work mostly outside with the task i have given you.
12-13 Lunch break
13-17 Free time. Either you work more to have another day off, or maybe a walk in the mountains? We have cars that you can rent.
17:00 Those who will cook dinner for the day, start cooking. (Mon-Thursday we need the volonteers to cook)
18:00 Dinner
18-20 The evening tasks and closing up for the night. Takes usually 10 min for 1 person.
Saturdays we start working at 9 to have one hour extra sleep morning.
Sundays, we only do the neccesary daily tasks and then take the rest of the day off.
Ordinary tasks are:
watering plants and caring for the plants in the greenhouse, seeding plants, cleaning pots, organizing and fixing things, weeding the fields, Building things, Cleaning the area, carrying stuff, Packing vegetables, cleaning vegetables, picking vegetables, snow shuffling, cutting wood, painting and everything else what is needed to do in a farm.
We expect you to help out 25 hours a week. You can work a full day to get another day free.
Take note of how much you work, and then you have worked more than 25 hours a week, you take a day off, Please inform me which day you want to take as a free day in advance so I can plan ahead. If you will not show up for the dinner, please inform the one who does the dinner in advance so they can plan.
The main rutines around the year is:
Spring (May-June) Making the fields and plants ready for summer.
Summer (June-August) weeding, take care of fields and greenhouses.
Autumn (September-Oktober) Harvest, Make us ready for the winter and cutting wood.
Winter (November-April) Keep the heat in the warm greenhouse and houses, taking care of the flowers in the greenhouse, keep the farm clean and maintainence.
Both of us work outside the farm as well, so we can't always work together with you, I am working from 10:00-17:30 at my other work in IT. Sundays we usually go to church and the volunteers are always free to join.
We also expect you to keep your room tidy, wash your own clothes in the washing machine and change the bed linning about every 2nd week and help out with the meals and kitchen duties. We expect you to cook dinner for everyone at least three times during a two week period if its enough volonteers here, Monday to Thursday we need help with the cooking due to we are working until dinner times. No smoking, drugs or alcohol is allowed at the farm.
You have to have personal healthcare insurance if you get sick and need medical help in Sweden. Like the European Health insurance card, Make sure you have such a valid insurance before coming to sweden.
Here you can find information about going to Sweden on swedenabroad.se and visitsweden.com
You can prepare yourself by reading the ”Living and learning on an organic farm guide” or you can also find study materials on the living and learning on organic farms webpage. we can also accept Erasmus+ students through LLOOF and their courses. Please check it out.
We have WiFi all over the farm and you will get the password for it when you arrive.
Accommodation
Cottage, 1 room, 1 big bed, 15 square meters.
Big house, Guest room, 1 room, 2 beds, 25 square meters.
We have two showers, One in the main house and one in the barn with a lower standard.
We have three toilets, One in the main house and one in the barn with a lower standard, and one in the office
We might have extra beds/madrasess if necessary, If you are a family and want to come to us, we only accept familys with children around the same age as my children.
Things to have with you.
Personal hygienic things, medicin, a active health insurance card. Good boots what fits the season. rough tough clothes to work in. (we also have spares if needed).
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Learning opportunities
Vegetable farming
Fruit or nut farming
Forestry
Wild foraging
Flower farming
Seed saving or production
Vegetable or fruit preservation
Beer, cider, wine, or juice making
Food justice / sovereignty
Mechanics / tools / technology
Methods or systems
Biological pest control
Host type
Self-sufficiency property
55
Hectares
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135.9
Acres
