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Autumn in Schweden

Hey då & welcome to my Blog (:

 

So let's start with an insight about "What the hell did I do in Sweden?!" (:

 

As many of you know I was traveling to Sweden in September 2023 and did my first official Work away on this cuuuute Eco Farm at a place called "Sunnemo".

It's a small village on the countryside, 1h away from Karlstad. 

I always wanted to experience volunteering in different countries and to meet people all over the world. 

 

I found this place through "Workaway" and the communication was really easy, uncomplicated and everything worked out very well.

The owner, Johan, is a super nice and energetic guy who loves to host workawayers who help to create his dream about an Eco Village and his own eco Farm with all kind of Veggies, fruits and chickens. It was a lot of fun to harvest 2398 potatoes, 57 pumpkins, a lot of carrots, kale, tomatoes and more. 

 

The newest Project of Johan and my favorite place to be, was the new Café on the Farm. They built everything by them selves from scratch. So impressive and beautiful! It's a place made of love, good energy and big passion for cakes, Fika and cafe !

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Apple picking

Freshly picked apples from our tree in front of our house. We spent a lot of time making apple cake, apple sauce or just snacking it (:

I loved that everything you need grows in your own garden and is just a step away. 

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Swedish House

We stayed all together in this cute Swedish house. At that time we were six Workawayers living there. We had a big kitchen where we had breakfast all together, a cozy living room for movie nights or jamming sessions and a Fireplace where we had our organic hot cacao every morning. So lovely!

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Cinnamon buns

Maybe cinnamon buns, called "Kanelbullar" were one of the biggest reasons why I came to Sweden haha (:  

We baked our own traditional cinnamon buns in the Café and it was the best thing to smell in the morning and snack a warm bite in-between.



The Café

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We sold everything that grew in our garden. Carrots, Kale, Cucumber, Tomatoes, Pumpkins, eggs and more. 
Our German Baker, Lisa, also made the best sourdough bread and buns I've ever had.

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Homemade carrot cake

Lisa also made all of the delicious and different cakes for the cafe! We had Carrot cake, Almond cake, chocolate cake and the most favorite of all was the blåbär cheesecake (blueberry cheesecake) Some of them were also vegan and gluten-free (:

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Flowers from the garden

We also had a lot of flowers to pick and decorate our cakes, the cafe or just to give it to people to make them happy (:

The colorful and wild Eco garden was a luxury to have and beautiful to look at.


This Café was my favorite place to be. On day one Johan asked me if I want to learn to be a Barista and serve cafe to the guests and for me this was a dream come true.

I love to be creative in any way especially with baking and food in general, so this was my favorite work on this cute little Farm.


The language was also not a barrier cause the Swedens speak fluently and perfectly English. But obviously I also fell in love with the language so I learned some phrases in Swedish and after some weeks I could communicate a little bit with the guests (: 

 

My duties in the Cafe: 

We started at 10am to prepare everything for the day. So in the morning we also baked cakes, fresh bread and buns. We also sold burgers, fries and sandwiches and prepped everything for that to. Igor and Malva, one of my best friends now, were the chefs in the cafe and made delicious food! 

 

We lighted up candles, cleaned the cafe machine and put on nice music, sang and danced to it (: 

 

At 5pm we closed and often were sitting together after we cleaned everything up and played some cards, played guitar, crafted something or learned Swedish. 


lingonberries

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Lingonberries
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Picking berries

I went together with Igor (In the Norwegian sweather) and Menno (funny looking character) on a nice walk and on our way we picked lingonberries and brought them back home. They grow eeeverywhere! The whole forrest is full of them, now I understood why they have so many things with Lingonberries like jam, sauces, cakes and more (: 

 

Autumn in Sweden was one of my most favorite things to do. I fell in love with this beautiful nature, the culture, the kind people and the language. 

I am more than grateful to had the opportunity to travel to Sweden and find some new friends and to volunteer through Workaway.  It's one of the best ways to travel on a budget, meet people who have a similar philosophy like you and learn so many new things you would probably never discovered (: 

It was a wonderful time I had and Sweden will always have my heart (:

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