Hello! My name is Lena, and I’m turning 61 this year. My husband Anders (64) and I live on our organic farm. Our children Johanna (28) and Benjamin (26) live nearby, and Johanna works full-time on the farm together with me. We also have a wonderful colleague, Therese, who works with us 25%.
We have a few animals around us as well: Johanna has a Vorsteh named Idun, I have a miniature schnauzer named Balder, and Therese has a Chihuahua called Lucy. Johanna also has a dressage horse, and we have other horses on the farm whose owners rent space in our stable.
We have been growing organic fruit since 2015, and we produce beverages such as fresh-pressed juice and cider from the harvest. We also run a restaurant and a farm shop.
A big part of our work is pruning old trees during the summer, removing older trees, and preparing areas for planting new ones. There is also plenty of weeding and grass mowing, although we use machines for much of that. We all help out wherever it’s needed whether that’s in the shop, the restaurant, the juicery, the orchards, or around the farm.
We live in a large house, and the top floor is reserved for guests. There are three bedrooms and a bathroom with a shower. We eat together in the restaurant twice a day. Breakfast is served in the house, and fika is often brought out to the fields. We cook a lot of vegetarian food, but we also prepare meat dishes this is, of course, optional.
We enjoy blues, rock, jazz, and cooking. We love walking the dogs and hosting our guests. We work almost ALL THE TIME, so we don’t have much time for other activities, but we do organise festivals and markets on the farm, and we often bring live music here as well. Be warned. This is not a holiday camp. Nor an all inclusive hotel. We are a working farm end in the autumn we work VERY hard. If you are not up for some hard work, don't bother applying. We will go through the work hours and the cooking schedule when you arrive. We like to have the dinners together. Sometimes lunch is not possible to have as a collective meal but we have to take turns. You are expected to take part in the farm with an interest and your own experiences and knowledge. We gladly listen to you! We have a lot of fun whilst working and Johanna and I have a dry sense of humour.
We gladly take you to the station (and pick you up of course!) should you want to go looking around the region/country. Need a few days in a row for a longer trip? Sure, not a problem. We work around most needs but you will need to communicate those with us!
I’m not very comfortable in any language other than English and Swedish and neither is anyone else on the farm. Sorry for this absolute inability to pick up French from all our wonderful wwoofers!
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Learning opportunities
Vegetable farming
Fruit or nut farming
Grain farming
Beer, cider, wine, or juice making
Bakery
Mechanics / tools / technology
Host type
Production farm
Certified organic
35
Hectares
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86.5
Acres
