OBS: We have room for 1 from the 18.9 - 23.9 and again from the 28.9 and forward:-) June and august is fully booked.
ABOUT US:
We live on a wonderfull organich appleorchard with old appletrees and a lot of other fruittrees and berries. We have a big vegtablegarden, where we grow a lot of our own food. We have honeybees, ducks and hens wich provide us with honey, meat and eggs.
We bake fresh bread every day and enjoy making great food.
We have 3 kids of the age of 8, 12 and 14 years, two cats and two friendly little dogs.
Signe is an expirented educator in gardening, biodiversity and have recently publiched a book about our vegtablegarden.
Mads is an excellent cook, creating a lot of lovely meals from our own garden. (We eat only a little meat, but are not vegan og vegetarian).
The farm is not far from Copenhagen and only 10 minutes from Hvalsø trainstation, where we pick you up, when you arrive.
If you want to take trips to e.g. Copenhagen, you can easy and cheap get to the station with puplic transportation called "plustur".
As Wwoofer you are living upstairs with the other woofers or in our small cottage. There are 2 rooms upstairs, so you migth share with the others. There are a seperat bathroom and toilet upstairs.
We always dine together in the evening and eat the lunch together when possible. In the morning Signe and Mads gets up early with the kids, so you eat breakfast with the other wwoofers exept from the weekends, where we mostly eat together.
The house is 250 square meter devided on two floors, and you will have acces to the the first floor with other WWOOFers. The farm is 25 acres - with many different kinds of apples, fruits and berries and 2000 walnut trees! We have several lakes and ponds.
We would like your help us take care os the animals, repair fences, build stof, make firewood, maintaine the buildings, pick apples and other fruits as well as weeding and take care of the vegtablegarden and the greenhouse.
Be prepared for some hard work and sore mussels, but also the great saticfaction of a job well done!
In the spring we (among other things)
- cut wood,
- make fences,
- sow flowers and vegtables,
- prepare the soil in the vegtable garden
- move the compost
- weed and take care of the greenhouses and
- repair and paint things.
During summer we tend the big vegtablegarden, tend the honeybees, harvest honey and maintain the buildings.
In the autum (august-november) we:
- pick the apples
- press apples and ferment them.
- tend to the orchard,
- fix and repaires what is needed.
- We harvest from the garden and preserve food.
We have a million exiting projects and would love to share our thougts and experience with you:-)
We expect you to work 5 hours per day with 2 day off per week in general, but we are quite flexible about the organization. Besides the work we expect you to take part in the daily chores in the kitchen.
Practicalities;
You will be outside most of the time, so we advice you to bring good workingclothes and boots, rubber boots and rainclothes. In summer a hat is good and in spring and winther good warm clothes is a must:-)
Internet access available.
We are non-smokers and smoking is not allowed inside.
We hope you will enjoy your stay and look forward to meet you. Your help means a lot to us:-)
Best regards Signe og Mads
Ps. If we don't answer your message right away, please feel free to writhe us again. It's not because we don't want to talk, its simply a matter of beeing busy outside and not beeing much in front of a computer. (Sorry)
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Learning opportunities
Vegetable farming
Fruit or nut farming
Poultry farming
Forestry
Beekeeping
Seed saving or production
Meat processing
Vegetable or fruit preservation
Beer, cider, wine, or juice making
Bakery
Methods or systems
Holistic management
No-till farming
Permaculture
