🏡🌲 Experience Rural Life in a Historic Swedish Home
The experience
Stay in a charming early-1900s house surrounded by forests, beautiful gardens, and peaceful walking trails. The nearest village and railway station are just 5 km away. Help with easy chores around the house and garden while enjoying your own space with a private bathroom. You’ll also meet 2 cats and 2 dogs who are always happy for some extra attention! 🐕🐈✨
What you offer
28 hours of help per week
Kitchen Hand:
Help prepare, finish and serve meals.
Gardening:
Help grow plants and cultivate gardens
Pet Sitting:
Taking care of and looking after pets.
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.
Pick Up:
We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.
Use our equipped kitchen:
Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.
Fast Internet Access:
High-speed internet for you to work remotely
Dedicated Workspace:
Specific space for you to work remotely
Requirements
Intermediate English or Beginner Swedish
Between 22 and 70 years old
Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers
Travel insurance
What's not included
Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa
Program Details
Easy workschedule will be set mutually at the beginning of each week. Main chores are to spend time with the animals and keep the property clean and garden maintained. Preparing food together and sharing meals is great fun and a superb way of getting to know each others cultures and interests. I love trying new recipes and sharing thoughts and experiences.
Activities & Shift
Housechores daily. Spending time cuddling the cats and dogs, cleaning up after them. Basic gardening and weeding
- lots of stuff to do !
Rules
No smoking allowed.
No drugs allowed.
If something isn’t working- let’s talk about it !
Cleaning up after oneself is mandatory.
Behaving respectfully towards each other and the animals.
No uninvited guests
I cover basic food costs. Any extras like chocolate etc is for the volunteers account. If you have food intolerances I cannot guarantee to cover the extra expense for this. It would need to be discussed