Descripción
Family of 3, son Cuan is 5, Leslie and Sean are in the early years of building a herbal permaculture small holding on 15 acres in East Clare.
Leslie is a trained and practicing herbalist, and
Sean has 15 horticultural experience, a permaculture degree, butcher training , and volunteered on farms and small holdings, all over Europe, and North and South America. He has been working as an organic market gardener for the last 5 years for a local farmer, while setting up a fruit and nut forest garden.
They are building a sustainable off grid farm, equipped with solar panels, well, back boiler, vegetable garden, polytunnel , herbal garden, forest garden, orchards, mushroom cultivation, fowl, horses, dogs, cats, community, playgrounds, zip lines,
Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje
Ayuda en proyectos ecológicos
Jardinería
Construcción y bricolaje
Cuidado de animales
Ayuda en una granja
Cuidado de niños y juegos creativos
Cocinar para toda la familia
Ayuda doméstica
Mantenimiento general
Ayuda informática
Objetivos de sostenibilidad de las NU que intenta conseguir este anfitrión
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¿Que es esto?
Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje
Having collectively over 30 years of horticultural experience, permaculture degrees, and experience in mushroom cultivation, Herbal medicine knowledge, naturopathy, butchering, water flittering, off grid electric technology, vegetable production, tree care, self building, bee keeping, livestock husbandry, etc. We are happy to share all that we have learned on our road to homesteading.

Having both volunteered for experience before many, many times, we see the value in one to one hands on knowledge exchange. Hard work and dedication will always be rewarded with plenty of time to question and learn. Fun and Learning are highly encouraged!
Community is a very important part of our farm, and we are very social, and have interesting friends constantly calling by. We live in a very interestingly sustainable part of East Clare, we are surrounded by food producers and avid home gardeners, who we meet with regularly.
There is a very active music scene in the local area, especially Irish trad, with festivals on in surrounding towns for most of the summer months.
We are close to two big university cities, Galway and Limerick, and not far from the wild Atlantic way.
Proyectos con niños
En este proyecto podría haber niños. Para obtener más información, consulta nuestras directrices y consejos aquí.
Ayuda
Huge range of tasks available. Daily tasks change with the seasons on our farm, and we have a wide range of interesting and often experimental projects on the go at all times. Tasks may be repetitive at times as with any small holding.
Daily tasks will include, cultivating food, weeding, feeding animals, and we are aiming to be as self sufficient as we can, so we are constantly cooking, dehydrating, persevering also. We also have lots of DIY building projects on the go all the time, from building animal house to creating saunas.
It’s a new permaculture project, so we’re still planning and creating a lot of new spaces on the land for biodiversity and our own living, and always need help with that.
Idiomas
Idiomas hablados
Francés: Intermedio
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Alojamiento
Mobile home, comfortable but rustic. Mobile is shared with our clinic, but separate from the family home. Separate double bed, own compost loo, small sitting room, shared kitchen, limited solar electric, 90% organic food….
Shared meals at least once a day midweek, breakfast DIY, shared harvesting, cooking and cleaning.
Very peaceful surroundings, and an amazing dawn chorus.
Algo más...
Very active community of small holding farms. Garden club once a month, unique Irish trad session in town 7 mins away. Sandwiched between two towns Tulla and Feakle, both about 5-10 mins by car. Bike available, one hour drive from the coast,…. half an hour from Limerick, Gort and Ennis, Galway city 1 hour. Seed savers 10 min drive.
We are very social people are constantly have friends calling by or visiting people. Close to Shannon airport.
Young, interested and motivated.
Un poco más de información
- Acceso a Internet
- Acceso a Internet limitado
- Tenemos animales
- Somos fumadores
- Puede alojar familias
Espacio para aparcar autocaravanas
Este anfitrión puede proporcionar un sitio para autocaravanas.
Podría aceptar mascotas
Possibly if the pet fits our farms, but must be good with all farm animals.
¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?
Dos
Horas esperadas
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week