We have an ecological farm in eastern Finland. The farm is specialized in maintaining biodiversity in certain areas with the help of cows and sheep. At the same time we protect the threatened Finnish original cows called kyyttö. We sell the milk direct to the customers, make cheese and sell purebred calves for farmers. Our farm is very traditional and a bit old fashioned. I milk our small cattle (4-5 milking cows) with an oldfashioned machine. Our vegetable garden is big, because we try to grow the potatoes, carrots, artichotes etc. for our own table. If the volunteers are interested in our farm, they may help me to feed the animals, maybe to shear the sheep with me and repair the fences with my husband. In the summer time there is much weeding. In the autumn we pick up the berries in the forest as well as mushrooms.
Projects for the wwoofers: Feeding and taking care of the animals, weeding the vegetable garden by hand, shearing the sheep.
PLEASE NOTE: We wish to have only wwoofers, who are already used to do physical work and preferably have also experience of animals. Taking care of animals requires the ability of pushing a wheelbarrow full of hey, lifting several 8kg water buckets and walking 5000 steps a day. We can take only one wwoofer at the time, and the working periods are limited to summertime. We are not able to host wwoofers in the winter.
About the house: Internet acces available. The voluntary workers get a room of their own. We serve ordinary, home-made food.
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Learning opportunities
Vegetable farming
Poultry farming
Sheep or goat farming
Dairy farming
Forestry
Cheesemaking
Vegetable or fruit preservation
Bakery
Food justice / sovereignty
Host type
Self-sufficiency property
20.2
Hectares
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50
Acres
