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We stay at a very nice quiet place, if you like staying at quiet places, rural, this place is made for you. At winter we prefere hosting two people due to facilities in the house.
We are two guys Michael and Hans Olaf, we live in a small homestead, that we spent 10 years to renovate, still not finished, its a life time project. Always something to do.
Our home is ten minutes walk from the swedish border. There we have 3 beehomes, 3 phesant, 3 turkeys and a cat.
Hans Olafs grandfather bought a small forest, and made a homestead, Where Hans Olafs parents live. At Hans Olafs parents homestead there are some cows, a horse, 3 lamas, 3 pigs, a dog, a cat and hens, so we do supply our self with some food. We have a dream to make all the food we need at the location, but we have to take one step at the time. Hans Olafs parents are vital and energic.
Hans Olaf work at an university within sustainability. Michael has experience and education within tourism. We both sing in in the local Church choir.
If this sound interesting, please don’t hesitate to contact us for a chat to see if you would like to come here.
If you wonder about the tasks to be done, please have a look in the section about «help”. All kind of help is good as long as you are handy, interested in learning. And if you have skills or are highly motivated by the tasks we may offer, please send us a message.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Farmstay help
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Mostly the cultural exchange will be related to the homestead, and how life around it was, and am, and of course it dephends on the season. From late June to August we will a few times visit and show the local historical "farm museum", which opened a black smith workshop 2023. This museum shows how old manual small homestead were. We also go to a "Norwegian taco dinner" once a month (unless summer).
You may learn the local culture and history if that are your interest, you should taking this initiative. We also will try to serve you some traditional Norwegian couisine.
Help
You should be responsible and mature. Proaktive is a big plus. If you are practical, and enjoy to give a helping hand, read further. If you are social and like to contribute as a whole it’s a great extra.
At the moment we work inside the old barn, to tidy up and reorganize to make it practical after a long time used as storages for everything over many years.
We also have a house to do some renovation for January-February. If You Are very practical and responsible, we will probably be able to host You in your own house, thats another location, and we dont live there. Then You must be able to drive.
Tasks may be, dephending on time of the year:
Painting (summer)
Caretaking for the 🐝 (from April)
Looking after the animals (winter)
Fixing things for the buildings
Making firewood, cutting
Mechanic (old cars and tractors)
Gardening
Weed the ground/fields(summer)
Clean
If you don’t drive car, you have to go with us, you don’t find any public transport here. That means you should be able to manage yourself on your own when we may be at work.
All buildings were old and need maintenance. We like to keep the old buildings, as we think that is more sustainable, if we may have any use for them.
It’s a dream to build a micro house and a sauna.
We both are partly busy daytime, and mostly help in addition to the daily tasks will be afternoon or weekends. However we arrange tasks in weekdays as well.
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Norwegian bokmål: Fluent
Norwegian: Fluent
Polish: Fluent
Swedish: Fluent
German: IntermediateThis host offers a language exchange
We both know a bit german, and speak english quite well. Michael speaks polish. We like mostly to speak english or Norwegian, if you have any questions about it, pleas take contact.
Accommodation
We wholeheartedly invite you to become a part of our lives within our home. This means that you join a "close-knit community" where we collaborate on various activities. If you tend to spend a significant amount of time isolated in your room, don’t contribute to common meals, and leave to us to clean after you, it might be worth considering alternative hosts. The same If You cant leave your phone away. We encourage active participation both in the house, which includes contributing to meal preparation and assisting with regular house cleaning tasks.
You bring your own clothes for work and freetime. If You dont know what to bring, ask. For winter time you need warm clothes, wool and wind breaker. It can be minus 25-30 degrees celsius, and snow during winter. You have to prepare for that.
What else ...
The house is very rural located. We have an old car you may use if you need to go around while working. We also have some bicycles that might be fixed and used for transport if you like that.
We have fishing gear, if you are in to that.
We have an electronic piano, Michael play classical music, then it’s possible to play if you like.
You may see quite a lot of animals in their natural habitat. Moose, fox, rabbits, are very common, as well as a lot of birds. We have a little boat, that you may use on the small lake next to the house, when its no ice there. We also have another boat available in another lake, and a canoe in our garden. You may go camping, hiking, fishing.
In the forest you may find berries and mushroom during the summer season.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
If you don’t need to much capacity Internet is fine here, it may be limited in downloading and speed when downloading more than the monthly limit. If u do need more Internet, it’s possible to find out if we agree on it. Its 5G (Telenor mobile)
Space for parking camper vans
If you have an own vehicle you are most welcome to park it here, campervan etc. if you have a campervan, you may always ask about coming, even if our schedule is marked red👍🏻.
Can possibly accept pets
Pets are welcome as long that will work out with our animals and first off all our cat, Lukrezia.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
5 hours a day, 5 days a week
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Baptiste helped us with everything we… read more
It's also a nice place if you like fishing. A lot of lakes full of… read more
The main work was building the new barn, where I got to learn a lot of new things while doing carpentry. I also participated in taking care of the animals and other farm projects, like fencing. The tasks were always well explained and there was a very friendly and productive working… read more
To live with, Sonja is totally… read more
And unfortunately just for a week
But I got very welcoming by the whole family and got very integrated in a lot of different projects
They have a beautiful farm with lots of animals which you are taking care of
Hans Olaf and Michael are so nice people
And it’s a pleasure to live with them
The house is next… read more
Felix is nice to have in the house, he is clean, even though he messes a bit making food, but he also clean after… read more
We worked mainly at Hans Okaf’s parents place, they are very sweet and friendly, his dad is in his late 70’s and has more energy than a… read more
Brigitte is just the woman you… read more
If you plan the tasks in front, Alex appreciate is, but he is also accepting more ad hoc… read more
To keep it short for everybody else, I agree with the other guest:)
Thanks a lot for the great time!
Elias:)
I've spent roughly 2 weeks at Melby farm with the guys and other workawayers, I could have spend even more if I don't have a train ticket for a certain date. Since it was a pleasure to be here, and I enjoyed almost every moment, no matter work or freetime. Despite the sometimes demanding tasks, I… read more
Tamas stayed only for a little… read more
sorry for the late review, but here we go.
As we suppose, this feedback should also be for everyone that considers to stay at your place, so we will adress this review directly to all those keen workawayers!
We are to Germans who stayed for two and a half months at Hans Olafs cozy home in the middle of the… read more
Michael and… read more
He helped us with making firewood, driving tractor, using chain saw, he is a brilliant chef, he fed the cows, looked after the chickens, the lamas, the horse and pigs.
We had Campbell on the farm for 15 days, and it was a great experience. He does any task we gave him fast, effective, and he is not… read more
The tasks requested are typically tasks a ordinary farm ; fences, feed the animals, renovation, woodfire…
Hans Olaf… read more
I mostly worked at the Place there Hans Olafs Parents live. There I feed the Animals every day After that I did some other work like Cleaning the Workshop… read more
Hans Olaf, Michael and Jans Olafs parents, are realy open and kind people. You can talk with them a lot abaut everything. At the beginning it was a little bit difficult to comunicate with Hans Olafs parents, but google translater makes it possible.
We helped to take care of… read more
The Work was really diversified. I helped with the animals, make a Watersystem for the Cows, welding a shovel for the Traktor or demolished a old Silo. Sometimes I worked with his Father at the beginning it was a bit… read more
He listen carefully, and do his best to follow up. If he does not understand, he is not afraid of asking.
Never stress, just positive and good. Always in for anything. It was great time, and we especially liked the… read more
He listen carefully, and do his best to fit in, which he did in a very Nice way here. Never stress, just positive and good. Always in for anything. It was such a great time, and If You like to host anyone that just fit in and do his… read more
Hans Olaf, Micheal and the parents of Hans Olaf are all really nice person, I had very good time with them.
They helped me and explained the jobs I was supposed to do and they were always very helpful and available for… read more
I was originally only supposed to spend one week with Hans and Michael. I ended up staying with them for 10 days and I didn't regret it at all.
Very friendly and nice people with whom it is possible to agree on anything and work out the best solution for both… read more
We had much fun and he is always thinking about how he can help.
He is an really easygoing guy, who works fast and independent, when he is teached how to do it, or know it from before, and he really like to learn new things.
At freetime he is also… read more
He is an really easygoing guy, who works fast and independent, when he is teached how to do it, or know it from before, and he really like to learn new things.
He helped us with some heavy work: Building walls for a barn and other sement work, construction work,… read more
I've worked with Hans Olaf most of the time, and we had a very good synergy. He was patient with the things I didnt… read more
