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Keep a beautiful shared house running on an organic, biodiversity-focused farm at 760 m in Vorarlberg, living with 3–7 volunteers. Mainly household (cleaning, laundry, preparing rooms, kitchen upkeep); with lower priority the position also includes some outdoor garden work and occasionally cooking. 30 h/week spread as you like, weekends free, organic vegetarian food, hiking from the front door. 4 weeks minimum.
30 hours of help per week
Cleaning: Help clean the kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms and common areas.
Kitchen Hand: Help prepare, finish and serve meals.
Cooking: Choose the menu, pick ingredients and cook delicious dishes.
Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens
2 days off per week
Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.
Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.
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.
Free Hiking Tours: We’ll take you on excursions and hikes around town. For free!
Bikes at your disposal: You can use our bikes any time you want.
Yoga classes: Take free yoga classes at our place.
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
Intermediate English
Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers
Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa
This is my private home and organic farm at 760 m in Dafins, Vorarlberg, shared with 3–7 volunteers: 40+ fruit tree varieties, berries, a pond, dry stone walls, deadwood hedges and wild bee habitats.
Your role: mainly household – keeping the shared house clean and welcoming: common areas, bathrooms and toilets, laundry, preparing rooms for new arrivals, kitchen upkeep, refilling supplies. With lower priority, the position also includes some outdoor garden work and occasionally cooking, depending on demand and the priorities set by me or the volunteer manager. You should know how to clean properly without detailed instructions.
Hours: 30 per week, spread as you like in agreement with me; two days off, normally Sat/Sun. Stay: 4 weeks minimum, ideally arriving at the start and leaving at the end of a month.
Room: private (occasionally shared when the house is full); towels, bedsheets and soap provided.
How the house runs: I work my normal job from home, so I'm around but not always available. I set the priorities; when a volunteer manager is here, they hand out the tasks and follow up, otherwise everything goes through me. Everyone also owns a few small house responsibilities (e.g. Bird Feeder, Pond Refiller, Laundry Hero); some rotate. Tasks run through our own task app and a group chat.
Food: I buy organic vegetarian staples weekly (rice, millet, pasta, beans, bread, butter, vegetables, fruit, yoghurt, milk, eggs, spices), plus what the garden gives. When a volunteer cook is here, lunch is cooked for the group; otherwise – and for all other meals – you cook for yourself from these staples. Meat, chips, sweets etc. aren't included; buy them yourself if you like.
You need a valid visa and health insurance for Austria. Detailed info document follows before arriv
House (main focus): vacuuming and cleaning common areas (kitchen, living room, yoga room, hallways, entrance, utility room); bathrooms and toilets; washing, drying and folding sheets and towels; preparing rooms for new arrivals; running and emptying the dishwasher; keeping kitchen and baking area in order; emptying compost and waste bins and taking out garbage the evening before pickup; refilling pantry jars and supplies; making our own laundry detergent; watering indoor plants; cleaning windows now and then.
Also part of the position, with lower priority: garden work such as watering, weeding, mulching, harvesting fruit and berries, feeding the worm compost and the wild birds; occasionally cooking for the group.
Projects that can come up: making signs for trees and plants, tidying workshop and garage, making jam from garden fruit, decorating and improving the house. Now and then there may be a chance to learn something extra – using a drill, driving the small tractor, working with wood. That's not guaranteed, so please don't count on it.
Rhythm: 30 hours per week, you track your own time and choose when to do your tasks. Tools go back clean, the same day, to the same spot.
No smoking and no alcohol anywhere on the property – also not on the street outside. For many people this is one of the reasons they come here.
Communication: I value honest feedback and better ideas. If something feels wrong, tell me directly. My office is off-limits; if the door is closed, knock – if I don't answer I'm in a meeting and will come to you later.
Commitment: if you become unhappy or something serious happens in your life, you're free to leave at any time. I'd just ask you not to commit and then leave early because something more interesting came up – I need to be able to plan with you.
Work: take ownership of your responsibilities and think along – if you see something that needs doing, do it. Some tasks might not be your favourite – that's part of sharing a house and farm. Mistakes are fine – rather try and ask than hold back.
Signs: around the house you'll find short signs (kitchen, dishwasher, washing machine, drying rack, cleaning, quiet hours). Please read and follow them. Quiet hours: 21:00–7:00.
Kitchen: phones away while cooking and at the table while others eat. Clean up after cooking; knives cleaned and put back right away, not in the dishwasher; cut only on wooden boards; sink sieves stay in place. Stove off before you leave. Separate the compost bins.
House: in winter, air rooms 5–10 minutes with windows fully open, then close them. Lights off when leaving a room. Fires in the stoves only after I've shown you how. Bathroom fan on when showering; never leave a running bath unattended. Take a house key when you go out.
Emergencies: find me immediately rather than fixing things yourself. Tell me if you're sick or injured.
Before leaving: clean your room and bathroom, wash your sheets and put fresh ones on for the next guest.
