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Description
Can you weed? or use a hammer? or wield a broom? or plant a seed? or feed a duck or a fish? Can you sort things? or paint a sign? Can you lime plaster a concrete wall? Or organize a closet?
YOU are cheerful, positive, outgoing, interested in doing what you can to slow the climate catastrophe!
Our Permaculture Paradise has been a steady project over 30 years, our participation in the annual National Solar Homes Tour for over 25 years. The land for the intentional community we live in was bought in 1975, we moved here in 1987.
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We have been with WorkAway for a year now and have many years of hosting through another popular platform.
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We continue to work on being the future we aspire to live in.
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Our basic requirements are non-negotiable: Guests must be non-smokers and be Covid vaccinated and boosted, have health insurance and are LGBTQNAIS plus friendly .
We are waiting for you.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Help around the house
General Maintenance
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We live in a thriving intentional community, a solar energy mecca, with a budding medicinal plant sanctuary, hiking trails, a flowing river, bicycles, canoes & kayaks, a 3-acre pond stocked with Brim and Bass, another intentional community across the road, and our immediate neighborhood is filled with a collection of the finest humans!
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Learning opportunities include: homesteading, Medicinal plant cultivation, making herbal medicine, solar electric design, solar systems installation, applied permaculture principles, duck and geese care, Tilapia care in Solar Algae Tanks, how this Intentional Community operates, construction skills, wiring skills,
self-illumination/dismantling of white privilege, how liberal non-religious Quakers worship, fruit tree pruning, woodworking, ukulele lessons, harmonica lessons, uvulalating lessons, Tai chi practice, yoga practice, paddling a canoe or kayak, fishing, using an electric chain saw, cooking with a solar oven or on a wood stove, modified consensus process, how to throw an off-grid weekend outdoor party for 200 people, goat keeping, and great conversations about so many of life’s persistent challenges.
Help
We’d appreciate some help with plumbing an out-door shower. And if you’re plumbing adept, we eventually want to build a 2nd bathroom next to the guest apartment.
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We spend our days feeding, weeding, mulching & harvesting our veggies, fruits and medicinal plants, processing medicinal plants into plant medicines, and designing PV systems for others.
Currently, we’re building and wiring a Solar PV barn for ourselves. And ALL the garden tasks that go with Spring! We’d welcome you to help and learn along with us.
Alabama will never be the same for you.
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Spanish: IntermediateThis host offers a language exchange
We’re both intermediate level Spanish/ español proficient. We are good to practice English or Spanish with you. I (Sara) am also keen to learn sign language and also polish up my very rusty Hebrew.
Accommodation
Accommodations:
1) Private entrance apartment; a large room with queen bed, woodstove, air conditioning, fan, sink, swinging sofa, table & chairs, attached greenhouse.
2) Small Room in our home with double bed.
Both 1 & 2 share bath/shower and both our composting & flush toilets with us.
3) Private camper with bed, sink, and adjacent composting toilet.
4) Several places to tent camp with nearby composting toilet .
5) One location to hook up with nearby composting toilet.
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Food: We provide good wholesome food. 3 a day, at least one of those is shared family style. The others could be self-prepared.
What else ...
Why we do this:
We love hosting travelers, it’s like traveling ourselves because we get to meet you and hear your stories
We have a passion for helping others live sustainably, moving into the future, in an affirmably just, multicultural society. Plus, it’s just plain fun.
Stuff nearby you can do:
Locust Fork River (class 1-4) with canoe & kayak Races in February and March, Rock climbing/Palisades Park, see the cranes at their winter stopover, eagles, too, our annual Kids Day on the River in June, our annual National Solar Homes Tour in October, Farmers Market, local Botanical Garden, Covered Bridges, local theatre, Free Friday Foreign Film monthly series.
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A little farther away and yet still in Alabama …
Legacy Museum, National Peace & Justice Museum, Civil Rights Museum, Art Museums in B’ham & H’ville, Horseback riding at Oak Mountain State Park, Dauphin Island in the Mobile Bay.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
Decent WiFi. We use Zoom frequently. One of us uses it for work.
Space for parking camper vans
Tall trees provide shade. Composting toilet in lovely outhouse at site.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week
Feedback (4)
She jumped into whatever we were doing with enthusiasm and when she needed further clarification, she asked for it.
She helped with our waterfowl, our Tilapia fish and pet care. She weeded and paid… read more
Daniela cared for the animals (Tilapia, ducks, geese, dog), cared for the plants here (tomatoes, Shiitakes, medicinal herbs), did a LOT of… read more
Sara and Daryl were so kind and welcoming during my stay. Throughout my time with their community I was welcomed with open arms and given many opportunities to learn about gardening, solar power, and intentional communities. I also got to see a bit of the solar home tour which was such a great… read more
Sarah assisted in tidying up the gardens ( putting some beds to rest for winter, harvesting, digging, and… read more
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She jumped into whatever we were doing with enthusiasm and when she needed further clarification, she asked for it.
She helped with our waterfowl, our Tilapia fish and pet care. She weeded and paid… read more
Daniela cared for the animals (Tilapia, ducks, geese, dog), cared for the plants here (tomatoes, Shiitakes, medicinal herbs), did a LOT of… read more
Sara and Daryl were so kind and welcoming during my stay. Throughout my time with their community I was welcomed with open arms and given many opportunities to learn about gardening, solar power, and intentional communities. I also got to see a bit of the solar home tour which was such a great… read more
Sarah assisted in tidying up the gardens ( putting some beds to rest for winter, harvesting, digging, and… read more
Thank you so much for the past two months!
I love you guys, and I am very happy to have you as a part of my life.
I also like the people at Common Ground and this place.
I'm so golad to see guys.
Although Japan and this place are very far from each other
I forgot about that and just enjoyed myself.
I thought of this house as… read more
