WWOOFING – Volunteering on Opsal Gard
If you would like to volunteer you will of course get your (mainly organic vegetarian) meals and stay on the farm if you are not local. You can contact us direct or if you want to stay for a longer period then sign up to the Wwoofers organisation (for free:).
A bit about our farm in English –
This is a new project on a very old farm. We are talking about a pioneering project! The focus is rewilding and biodiversity. While we grow our own food, the well-being of the forest and other wild and domestic creatures is super important.
The activities vary a lot! We are working with the horses, making fences and compost, planting trees and wooding for next winter, harvesting herbs berries and vegetables. We have made a forest garden with ‘fedges’, a mix of a hedge and a fence, and are organically restoring the house and barn..
No-one has been living full time on this farm for 50 years, so things are basic. The buildings are 200 years old and very cute and old-fashioned. There is electricity and internet but heating is by wood stoves and cooking on gas. There is an outside toilet but now we have water in the house and a washing machine.
Local area: We are 10 minutes drive from the station and the shop, which is 1 hour from Oslo. It’s a very friendly neighbourhood with quite a lot of artists, and people pop by for a chat which is not so usual in Norway!
Accommodation: Depending on how many volunteers are here, you will have your own bedroom and we share kitchen and food-making. I work as The Natural Storyteller, so some of the time I will be away during the day and you will need to be able to manage your own time. I have three grown up children who work with herbs, theatre and sustainable transport. They visit with their children, and there will be plenty of social interaction which you are free to join if you wish. There is a group of people who are supporting the farm who also live here and help at times.
We will also invite groups like Extinction Rebellion, the Permaculture organisation and some other spiritual groups to come and use the farm as inspiration and a place to work.
