Välkommen till Bäckdal

15:th of August typical autumn weather came. In the nights just one or two degrees plus and during th daytime +20 to +25. And air is so clear so clear. So full of lovely oxygen

Between middle of June and middle of August we work very, very much, because we have to do so. It can seems to be confusing of all mix we must do of different jobs. But so it is. So if you want to come here during that time - be prepared for that. Other times we just work 10-12 hours per day every day. Except for the snow period do we do very little job.

Midsummer sun = daylight 24 hours in summer. Little river for fishing. Vegetables and berries only for household. Warming up houses and for hot water done by wood.

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During summer-period we do not have any free days. If not weather stops working we work many hours every day. Sunday or Saturday are no rest days. All days the same. In winter-period (6 months) it is different. Regular time is the breakfast. And now we start 06.50. It is expected that you help with laying the table, wash and so on.

This is a small ecological farm. Our cattle living outside year around. Sometimes in the forest. Winter 6 months of year. Winter starts in October/November. Extremely short spring. Midsummer sun = daylight 24 hours in summer. Little river for fishing. Vegetables and berries only for household. Warming up houses and for hot water done by wood.

My farm has no possibilities to pay money to wwoofer/helpers.

This is a meat-eating region. It is the arctic. Trying to mostly use products which can grow here. Vegetarians are mostly good thinking people. But this is anyway the north. But we eat very much vegetables in the autumn.

Our basic food is our local ecological food. So we eat all of the meat when we have meat. And we eat fishes from the aelv. Mushrooms and vegetables. And we try to buy and eat local food. And if it something in our food you do not like - you do not need to ask to come here.

Because there are very few vegetables and very few animals which we humans eat. The reason we eat them is their species way of survive. It is their method for their race to live in the future. They have in this way "chosen" to give some of their lives to us so then we take care of the rest and give them food and become slaves of them and make it possible for them to spread out and survive. Therefore I have nothing in common with food-industry of any kind nor vegans or vegetarians which I find acting in the same way as the worst animal- and food-industry.

Ruminants, animals with four stomachs, specializing in converting nutrient poor, feed grain of grass type, to high quality food for humans in the form of meat and milk. Typically, those animals are fed with feedingstuffs, type soybeans and barley, which directly and indirectly, have a devastating effect on the abundance of wildlife that are destroyed and which also contribute to global warming. Such meat should you not eat. My animals gets only food that is natural for them, like grass, wild herbs and leaf, and which they are adapted to. Our meat is very suitable to eat.

Methane gas from ruminants is a very big part (25%) in the up heating and collapse of this planet. My animals are just eating grass. No serials or soybeans or any other strange products of any sort compared to their kind they get. My animals are breed and live under the best possible conditions which are possible to the animals themselves and to the climate changing process. Of that reason I am just economically concretely surviving of this type of farming and living. I will try to do what I can do of stopping the climate changes.

We pick mushrooms and wild berries in the summer and in the autumn.

Forest: Some part of the forest is very unique. We have the animals in the forest for eating the vegetables of that type of eco-system. In Swedish it is called "skogsbete". It has only existed in Sweden and never in rest of Europe the last 1000 years. It is classificated by the Authorities of Swedish government. This kind of farming ended during the 1930-ies. It still exist in more places in Sweden but this is the only place in north part of Sweden and therefore the only place on this earth. To have this type of forest and animals in the forest it is one of few possibilities for surviving in the future. (Now mankind is eating up and destroying the soil on this planet).
Best is to have two helpers here at the same time, best female and male. Not necessary a couple.

The last years it has been very many helpers/wwoofers here the whole year around. And I have got problems with my shoulders. Giving me pain and I can not work as hard and as much as before. So we think we maybe next year we probably will not have any helpers. So how it will be I do not know.

(And if you do not know the metric system and C degrees - do not come! I am so tired to explain what deciliter is, that one Swedish mil is 10 kilometers and that water freeze at 0 degrees and boil at 100 degrees).

Normally I will answer your request within 48 hours. If you do not get answer within that time. Please send mail again. If you do not get an answer from me depends on that I have no contact with Internet. I can be in another country, I am traveling, I be at hospital and things like that."

Please, do not send mass-(spam)-requests to many hosts. It makes much problems. Send just one request to one host and if no positive answer. Send to next host.

We have wild animals here as beavers, deers, elks (mooses), ravens, fox, bears and more.

Fishing is perfect in älven (kind of a river - English word is aelv). Good fishes for eating.

From April to October it is not so much snow here. It is a kind of summer period. And it easier for me to find jobs which can be done if you do not have any special skills needed just at that time.

Winter is from November to April. Most of the time it is very dark, even if the moon, the stars and the snow is shining. It is much snow and it can be very cold.

During the winterperiod it can be very isolated here. Because it is very hard when it is blackdark during the day and just some moon in the night. It is hard to find jobs to be done outside. Because of the coldness or too much snow. It is more house-keeping jobs during this period. And it is much more of social communication with few persons.

Housekeeping and housecleaning is also jobs which must be done. So this is jobs which must be done daily and weekly the whole year around. The garden, forest and the animals is made for what we can do here. It is not planned for any help. Of course there is always in the not snowing period things which one can do.

I have insurance for helpers for eventually bad accidents in their help of my farm. This insurance is valid for all kinds of help and for all persons here wherever they are coming from on this planet. It is you who are responsible to ask for information if you are insecure if you do not know how to do some jobs I think you can do. Tractors, animals, buildings, machines etcetera can be very dangerous if one make bad mistakes because one is missing knowledge.

I have had this insurance for over 20 years. No bad accidents had happened. But it is also good to take your own insurance when you travel around helping people.