Live with us

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Our permaculture community of neighbours is always in need of visitors that share skills/knowledge, visitors that can inspire, and be inspired.

The Hästekasen village foundation is looking for more residents to live with us as well as indiviudals and other communities to collaborate with.

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CURIOSITY

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VOLUNTEERING

We get a lot of requests from people who want to exchange work for living costs.

Most of the work here is not about generating an income, it is about fixing our livelihood and running the place, keeping it as sustainable as possible. So taking part to the community work does not really produce an added value that could cover for an extra person’s living costs.

Also, with an online presentation only, it is difficult to evaluate your skills and work attitudes. It is also difficult to understand if they fit our needs and our expectations.

But if you think you have strong competences to offer – make sure to convince us about that in a thorough presentation. And then pay for your stay, and if you produce something of value we will happily buy it from you.

We are constantly looking for carpenter skills, construction, mechanics…

We accept woofers, workawayers, worldpackers, neotribers and other types of volunteers who fit in our way of living and who have skills or knowledge to share and put into practice. Apply on the volunteering platforms or contact us directly.

If you are not skilled but interested in learning, we hold courses and also accept volunteers on Erasmus programs or other funded projects of the kind. But we cannot host and teach for free – simply because we are not available. It takes time to teach. Work is less efficient. Material gets destroyed. Learners consume ressources like food and firewood. And people often have different representation about what “hard work” means.

We also welcome long term visitors who want to try our way of living (see section below).

There is an ideal vision of what life at a permaculture farm is like. But surviving on the countryside is challenging. And community life is also challenging.

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LIVE WITH US AT HÄSTEKASEN VILLAGE

If you wish to stay longer make sure you read our description carefully as well as the Hästekasen village foundation’s statutes.

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Residency types

1. Board member of the foundation
2. Board member of the residents’ association
3. Leaseholder – owns their dwelling, holds a lifetime lease on a plot
4. Own dwelling with rented plot
5. Own dwelling without a plot
6. Tenant of a dwelling with rented plot
7. Tenant of a dwelling without plot
8. Short-term tenant (trial stay)
9. Short-term tenant – returning member
10. External supporter
11. Residential visitor
12. General visitor

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Costs

Always paid in advance, one month ahead minimum.

Do not include :

• Food – about 200€ / month
• Use of car

On top of payments you have to contribute to some community work.

Residents

Short term stay: add 20%

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Life long leaseholders

It is possible to buy a lease without living here, just as an investment and/or support for the foundations growth. The lease is refundable.

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Our fees and living costs are way lower than usual in Swedish society. This is because we share costs, and because we live simple.