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Host rating
80 %
Last replied
2 Mar 2024
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16
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Description
Come and join us if you love gardening, delicious wholesome food, nature, fishing, healthy lifestyle and music. We have all sorts of musical instruments and our family love making music.
We (my husband, our two adult boys and I) are living on a lifestyle farm with 2 milking goats, chickens, ducks, vege garden and orchard.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Creating/ Cooking family meals
General Maintenance
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
You can experience New Zealand lifestyle farm living.
Enjoy New Zealand lifestyle farm living and only 30 minutes from downtown Auckland. Explore all the beautiful beaches, streams, dams, hiking, bush walks around the area. We have our own beach that you can fish off, kayak or swim.
Help
Help needed to maintain our 5 acre lifestyle farm - gardening and maintenance.
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Malay: Fluent
Chinese (Mandarin): Fluent
Chinese (Cantonese): FluentThis host offers a language exchange
This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
You can contact them directly for more information.
Accommodation
Own room and delicious and wholesome food
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
18 hours a week, 2 days off
Feedback (16)
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Cultural exchange:
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Communication:
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The work was different every day, we did some sanding, painting, weeding, we planted banana trees, and even did some concrete.
You will find a lovely and very welcoming family here, we enjoyed every moment we spent with Charity and her family.
Also we learned a lot of new things, and we were… read more
We felt at home since the first seconde and we really enjoyed the time there, garden, fishing, music
Thank you again and see you :)
Pierre
I worked in a beautiful garden with many animals (chicken, goats, sheep, dog, cat..) It was really nice and calming to work there!
The… read more
I work in the garden for the time I was there, the garden is really cute, with lot of animals and it was a pleasure to work there.
The week-end Charity gave us the car so I hiked… read more
Charity’s… read more
We had our own… read more
I had my own room and everyday fresh goats milk, fruits from the orchard, smoothies, cereals and homemade… read more
I played board games and cards most nights with Charity's three sons (Caleb, Timmy and Dan), another workawayer that was woofing at the time, and Dan's friend Jimmy ,who was boarding at the… read more
