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Join a family living on an organic farm in Byrne Valley, South Africa

  • Bisher 1019 mal gespeichert
  • Letzte Aktivität: 26 März 2024

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  2024 

 Geforderte Mindest-Aufenthaltsdauer:  mindestens 1 Woche

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  • Beschreibung

    Beschreibung

    We are a family living on a twenty hectare Organic Farm.
    Our aim is to be as self-sufficient as possible and farm in a morally responsible manner, placing value on our environment above profit. Our kids were home-birthed, home-schooled, and home-fed in our home-built house.
    We have no aspirations to compete with commercial agriculture, but would rather sit back and enjoy some delicious homegrown and homemade food cooked with fuel from our farm.
    Although we do eat meat produced on our farm, we support vegetarians and can easily cater for them.
    We have a small herd of cattle that helps feed us and brings in some income.
    Our herd of goats is for land-clearing and milk and cheese, while their manure feeds the bio-digester for gas in the kitchen.
    Our horse, mule and donkey are for grazing rotation and parasite control while the Great Danes, besides being pets, are for breeding.
    We also have a few hives of bees for honey and a generally overgrown, out of control vegetable garden that always needs weeding. Our garden is managed using our adaption of permaculture methods which we have adapted over the last 25 years.
    We are lucky enough to live in an area with abundant fruit, so a big job in summer is to process and preserve fruit for the rest of the year.
    Having experimented with self-sufficiency on the farm since 1995, we have managed to grow and produce many of life's essentials (and luxuries), but still battle to produce all of them all the time.
    Our eco project is in response to the very visible increase in air-pollution in our once pristine valley, and the shocking evidence of climate change.We have started our own atmospheric carbon harvesting programme in the form of a sustainable reforestation project. We have planted the first 300 or so indigenous trees and hope to establish a new mistbelt forest.
    Our latest project is building a community shop and pizza oven, where we plan to use and sell, as many locally produced goods as possible.
    We greatly appreciate the way that volunteers help us to finish our projects and give us inspiration to start new ones as well as refreshing our enthusiasm for our goals.
    The activities on the farm are highly seasonal, but we always have a backlog of unfinished work that needs a happy and enthusiastic volunteer to complete.

  • Arten von Hilfe und Lernmöglichkeiten

    Arten von Hilfe und Lernmöglichkeiten

    Hilfe bei Ökoprojekten
    Gartenarbeiten
    Heimwerker- und Bauarbeiten
    Betreuung von Tieren
    Mithilfe auf einem Bauernhof
    Zubereiten / Kochen von Mahlzeiten für die Familie
    Hausarbeiten
    Handwerkliche Arbeiten
  • UNO-Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung, die dieser Gastgeber verfolgt

    UNO-Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung, die dieser Gastgeber verfolgt

    UNO-Ziele
    Keine Armut
    Kein Hunger
    Gesundheit und Wohlergehen
    Hochwertige Bildung
    Geschlechtergleichstellung
    Sauberes Wasser und Sanitärversorgung
    Bezahlbare und saubere Energie
    Menschenwürdige Arbeit und Wirtschaftswachstum
    Industrie, Innovation und Infrastruktur
    Weniger Ungleichheiten
    Nachhaltige Städte und Gemeinden
    Nachhaltige Konsum- und Produktionsmuster sicherstellen
    Maßnahmen zum Klimaschutz
    Leben unter Wasser
    Leben an Land
    Frieden, Gerechtigkeit und starke Institutionen
    Partnerschaften zur Erreichung der Ziele
  • Kultureller Austausch und Lernmöglichkeiten

    Kultureller Austausch und Lernmöglichkeiten

    Travellers will have an opportunity to try their hands at various aspects of a self sufficient orientated lifestyle in an African environment.
    We can facilitate an overnight stay in Indaleni Township with a Zulu family.
    By prior arrangement, we can also arrange a day trip to the nearby Tala Private Game Reserve.

  • Arbeit

    Arbeit

    Our workday is very flexible, starting at eight, tea time around 10:30 and ending at lunch time. Volunteers can also be asked to help with evening chores or supper preparations.
    As a result of the diversity of our farm there is a large range of things to do at all times. As a working farm, the time of year will determine your activities. Examples include:
    Milking/herding/slaughtering animals
    Making hay
    Forest regeneration
    Working in the garden
    Fire wood collecting/ wood chopping
    Weeding/clearing of fields
    Puppy feeding
    Cheese and butter making
    Its very difficult to accomodate volunteers who want to experience some specific activity or aspect of our farm as our focus is quite fluid and we could well not be needing help in the specific area wished for.

  • Gesprochene Sprachen

    Englisch: Fließend
    Niederländisch: Fließend

  • Unterkunft

    Unterkunft

    Volunteers will sleep in a building separate from our house with beds and bedding provided. The accomodation is very rustic but adequate.
    Nearby is the volunteer's kitchen, showers and toilets. Water is heated in a donkey boiler, so if you want a hot shower, make sure you can light a fire!
    We provide oats and maizemeal, milk, tea, coffee and sugar for volunteers in their kitchen for breakfast. At tea time and for lunch, there is homemade bread and a variety of toppings available in our house and we share a communal dinner.

  • Was noch ...

    Was noch ...

    In your free time there are beautiful walks and hikes in Mist Belt forest, plantations and grassland.
    There are mini-bus taxis to the nearest town, Richmond, on a regular basis from just outside our gate.
    Next door to our farm is the Oaks Hotel which has all the facilities of a country hotel.

  • Etwas mehr Information

    Etwas mehr Information

    • Internet Zugang

    • Eingeschränkter Internet Zugang

      Eingeschränkter Internet Zugang

    • Wir besitzen Tiere

    • Wir sind Raucher

    • Familien möglich

  • Platz zum Abstellen von Camper Vans

    Platz zum Abstellen von Camper Vans

    Dieser Gastgeber bietet Platz für Wohnmobile.

  • Hier sind Haustiere in der Regel willkommen

    Hier sind Haustiere in der Regel willkommen

    Dieser Gastgeber ist bereit, Reisende mit Haustieren bei sich aufzunehmen.

  • Kapazität - wie viele Workawayer maximal

    Kapazität - wie viele Workawayer maximal

    mehr als zwei

  • ...

    Arbeitszeiten

    max 25 hours a week, 2 days off

Gastgeber Ref-Nr.: 435862385325

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