We are:

Bea and Christian, Uli and Michi, a team of younger and older people with diverse paths and work experience including pedagogical, horticultural and global travel.

Where:

Our location is the Mægede Talu (Estonian for farm
on the hill), an 11 hectare farm purchased in 2017
in the north of the island of Hiiumaa in Estonia.

What we offer:

  • The simple life vastly untouched environment with a solar-operated shower and compost toilette.

  • Basics in creating and working a permaculture garden, house construction, cooking and the knowledge and usage of herbs.

  • Playful activities in the encounter with nature.

The Team

Bea Wittekindt, born 1967, mechanical engineer, trained as a Waldorf teacher in Berlin, since 2008 working as a class and support teacher at the Waldorf School in Werder/Havel.

Christian Wittekindt, born 1963, gardening apprenticeship and agriculture in the Lebensgemeinschaft Bingenheim, farm manager on a Demeter farm in Schleswig-Holstein, altogether 20 years as horticulture teacher at the Waldorf schools in Elmshorn and Kleinmachnow near Berlin, since 2010 with his own gardening company, advanced training in permaculture, landscape therapy, aromacology, phytotherapy and wilderness education

Ulrike Brase: born 1987, training as event manager, freelance presenter and editor for various TV stations, conception, implementation, press work for music events, artist support, booking

Michael Dittmann, born in 1995, travels in many countries of the world, works on organic farms, bakeries, in the care of disabled people, several years of engagement on the donkey farm “Paraiso Del Burro” in northern Spain.

Participants

We issue invitations in Germany, Scandinavia, the Baltic States and our farm distributors. We are addressing young people between 18 and 25 years of age who are looking for life orientation after school. In this first year we only accept 12 participants. Those who do not get a place can be put on a list of latecomers.

If you want to know more about the content and the time structure, but also about costs and other important things

If you want to know more about the content and the time structure, but also about costs and other important things:

Welcome!