Rūta & Ivan

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    Lithuania
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  • Description

    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: Fluent

    More details about my language interests
    Ivan would like to practice more with Lithuanian and Finnish

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  • 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

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    • Driver's licence

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    • Special dietary requirements

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