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Experience the beauty of the garden of eden helping our family in the mountains behind Plettenberg Bay, South Africa

Availability

  2024 

 Min stay requested: at least 2 weeks

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  • Description

    Description

    We are a family with 4 children living in the mountains near Plettenberg Bay (35 minutes) and Knysna (45 minutes) on our beautiful property with pure spring water, majestic tress, dark night skies and endless mountain views.
    A lifestyle smallholding rather than a working farm, we have 4 horses, 2 dogs, 6 cats, chickens, beehives and large organic vegetable gardens.
    Our 4 daughters are ages 11, 6 and 4 years old and our newest addition is 6 months old.
    We homeschool and our eldest also attends a forest school 3 days a week.
    Our girls enjoy horse-riding and walking on our forest trails, swimming in our large dam and love arts and crafts.
    We are eco-conscious, free thinking naturalists that work in the natural health and nutrition field.
    We also love popping down to spend time on the beaches and exploring the forest trails around the garden route.

  • Types of help and learning opportunities

    Types of help and learning opportunities

    Language practice
    Help with Eco Projects
    Gardening
    DIY and building projects
    Farmstay help
    Babysitting and creative play
    Creating/ Cooking family meals
    Help around the house
  • Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Experience the beauty of the garden route while learning and living with an open and loving family exploring life in harmony with nature. We are health educators and chefs and love to share our love of food and healthy living, knowledge of self awareness, deeper embodiment and homesteading.

  • Projects involving children

    Projects involving children

    This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.

  • Help

    Help

    We would love someone open minded and creative who loves nature, children and animals (especially horses). We are looking for someone who can offer support in our daily flow of life which would include:

    some housekeeping, involvement with preparing meals, gardening, planting seeds and tending seedlings to support our aim for a continuous turnover of produce in our organic gardens, working on DIY building or other farm projects including indigenous reforestation efforts, feeding animals, playing, support with homeschooling / homework and housesitting when we’re away. Driving license a plus. If you are an experienced horse rider and can support our eldest to train her pony even better :)

    We would also love to expose our girls to other languages.

  • Languages spoken

    English: Fluent
    Afrikaans: Intermediate

  • Accommodation

    Accommodation

    You will have a lovely self contained living space in the form of a caravan on the edge of the forest and stream with its own bathroom with bath, spring water, kitchenette and outdoor fire pit adjacent to our home.

  • What else ...

    What else ...

    With our background in health research and practice we are looking for someone who has NOT been vaccinated for ‘covid’.

  • A little more information

    A little more information

    • Internet access

    • Limited internet access

      Limited internet access

    • We have pets

    • We are smokers

    • Can host families

  • Can host digital nomads

    Can host digital nomads

    This host has indicated that they love having digital nomads stay.

  • How many Workawayers can stay?

    How many Workawayers can stay?

    One

  • ...

    Hours expected

    Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week

Host ref number: 685143399477

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Lodge and farm in the Southern Drakensberg, South Africa