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Sveiki! We are Ivan and Rūta, a couple gathering knowledge and skill in homesteading, farm life and self sufficiency.
We have a few skills already that can be useful or interesting to others, we are very interested and passionate about wild food foraging and food preparation, some herbal medicine and making extractions, natural cosmetics and repurposing used oil to make lye soap! We love making wild salads, gathering herbs for tea, jams, syrups, seasonings and our latest obsession has been making acorn flour for flatbread or pancakes every fall, which would be fun to share with others. We are also dabbling in long term food storage, canning, ferment and preserve, making herbal infusions and oils for both topicals and consumption, hand crafts like hand sewing, experiencing many natural materials from silk to leather or fur. We hope we can share and expand our knowledge with our hosts.
We are particularly interested in anything involved with homesteading and living with and off the land. We have been experimenting with gardening; in balcony, guerrilla and homestead, learning and implementing different techniques that brought both funny and satisfying results, we forage wild food in the summers, can fish and love to learn about providing for ourselves with limited conditions. From small city budgets, to remore places without access to stores - we will always find a way.
We enjoy learning about farm animal care and getting hands on experiences, such as being entrusted to take care of a 16 horse ranch alone (thank you Molėtų Žirgai), which has taught us so much about not only horsecare, but discipline, responsibility and especially teamwork, vulnerability and compassion towards each other as well. This experience has taught us skills that can be used both directly and as transferable skills in other environments, we work great as a team and individually.
We are welcoming to discomfort and new unfamiliar experience as well as we are very excited to learn and adapt to different lifestyles, conditions and people we will meet.
Interests
Pets
History
Drawing & painting
Art & design
Sustainability
Plant care
Farming
Animals
Cooking & food
Carpentry
Hiking
DIY & crafts
Gardening
Outdoor activities
Nature
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Italian: Fluent
Lithuanian: Fluent
Russian: FluentMore details about my language interests
Ivan would like to practice more with Lithuanian and Finnish
Skills and knowledge we'd like to share or learn
We're interested in:
Teaching
Babysitting and creative play
Helping around the house
Creating/ Cooking family meals
General Maintenance
Some knowledge of:
Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Life at a Farmstay
More details about your skills
Both have knowledge and experience in wild goods foraging and cooking, food preservation(canning, dehydrating (we make awesome beef jerky)), cheese making, sewing(and many crafts),
Ivan is very crafty and handy, knows welding, carpentry, very strong and capable.
Rūta has experience and education in assistant veterinary work, animal care and dog training, children's education exposition work. Enrolled in a beekeeping course, sews and fixes our clothes, makes extracts and natural cosmetics.
Both easily pick up new skills and are happy to learn more!
Age
24 & 27
Some more information
Smoker
Driver's licence
Allergies
Special dietary requirements
Feedback
We are in contact with them after their stay and feel that we created an authentic bond with them.
This is a couple that you can trust in your own home, as we trusted in our own home.
This is 2 people that… read more
We are grateful to them both for indulging our curiosity and thirst for knowledge. Adam’s… read more
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We are in contact with them after their stay and feel that we created an authentic bond with them.
This is a couple that you can trust in your own home, as we trusted in our own home.
This is 2 people that… read more
We are grateful to them both for indulging our curiosity and thirst for knowledge. Adam’s… read more
