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We are an adventurous family in a large house with 6 bedrooms, on 27 acres in a sweet valley. We like hosting friends and family for fun times around the dinner table. Community is key and we enjoy our neighbors dropping by.
Karl and I both work in the NGO space, trying to make the world a better place. He is an economist specialising in housing affordability, whilst I work in communication in a related organisation.
We are aiming to set up an affordable housing project on our farm, a Community Land Trust based on permaculture principles. A big project.
We start off small tho! Most guests soon gain an insight into how to propagate plants in our polytunnel. We have many trees to plant.
There are hordes of kangaroos, wood ducks, vibrant red rosellas, flame robins and musk lorikeets in this wee valley - all sorts of birds zoom past on our property. Endangered sugar gliders hide away in our front nature paddock.
Our kids are Tara (18) and twins Jamari and Curtis (15). They are real characters, sure to make your stay a genuine insight into Australian life. We also have Karl's Dad, Kevin (82), living with us. He has moderate alzheimers and is a steady hand/ low maintenance.
For 4 years we ran a community nursery in inner western Melbourne with the assistance of 75+ Helpers. Now we are nearly 8 years into our tree change we are well set up thanks to people like you, making it an even better house to host our traveling friends. So many travellers have made wonderful contributions to our way of life over some 13 years of hosting hundreds of you - we thank you all! We do love having new best friends come and visit us every few weeks.
We're pretty sure you'll take away some stories, strategies and smiles after some time with us too.
Malmsbury station is just five minutes away so we can easily pick you up from there.
*** Dietary requirements - we do eat meat so hope we can work together to make it all happen. Tara is vegetarian, so that means we cook parallel meals. We are also a FODMAP friendly household, with lactose and gluten on our radar. Regardless of the complexities of modern living, we love cooking straight out of the garden.
We are always impressed by just how many solid people with adventurous tendencies come to stay.
Go humanity ;) Come say hello~!~
Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje
Trabajo de caridad
Proyectos artísticos
Ayuda en proyectos ecológicos
Compañía para ancianos
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
Intereses
Sostenibilidad
Autodesarrollo
Política / justicia social
Trabajo de caridad
Escritura
Música
Libros
Astronomía
Animales
Naturaleza
Baile
Ciclismo
Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje
We teach you about permaculture design, kombucha production, fermentation, running a nursery, looking after chooks and ducks, the importance of soil PH testing, plus bonus geeky things. Things we are involved in include a relocalisation project, men’s and women’s circles, bulk buying, the village fayre, the farmers market and craft. We like discussing parenting philosophies, the alternatives to neo-liberal economics, Community Land Trusts and some kooky science - it all happens at our place. Solutions (or at least debating them) are the key to sanity in this mad, mad world.
Proyectos con niños
En este proyecto podría haber niños. Para obtener más información, consulta nuestras directrices y consejos aquí.
Ayuda
We see you as part of the family, so anything we have to do to keep the house running, we hope you will too. We share watering, gardening, farming, cooking, cleaning, kid wrangling, whatever needs to be done. Projects are planned around your skills. If you can build - great. If you can knit, well that too! The kids are at an age where they are able to look after themselves, but love playing board games etc. One of the main things we love you to help with is just keeping us company ;) it’s great to get to know what’s happening out there. And any help to get the kids off their screens is appreciated!
We are continually building soil so we have 7 composts, a hugelkultur pile and Biochar - wow that char is magic! These are all in aid of developing our productivity. Our self sufficiency is growing! Shitake mushroom logs are part of the mix. We are growing a 200 crown rhubarb crop so bring your fave recipe there. Alongside that are watering systems, polytunnels to maintain and tools to sharpen.
Idiomas hablados
Inglés: Fluido
Maori: Principiante
Alojamiento
Your bedroom has a sweet view of the sunrise. The room is a triangle shape and has its own wardrobe. The house is made from recycled goods so it is full of character. Or if you like your own space we can rig up the caravan. Great over summer.
Algo más...
Grab a bike and go for a cycle through the neighboring forest, hang with our horse-mad neighbor Steph, see the sights of the central highlands - we are 20 minutes from coolio Castlemaine, a similar distance to the mineral springs of Daylesford - both havens for creative cultures. Kyneton and Malmsbury are barely 10 minutes away and have their own farming and historical quirks. We have hammocks overlooking our 'love heart' dam, so there's plenty of nice views to enjoy on the site. Most days we have mobs of 10+ kangaroos awaiting your camera. Sunset is well celebrated, particularly on Fridays!
One of our challenges is to have five sweet reading spots on the farm. We've got three set up - all we need is to pull some tree stumps into place (1 for footrest, one for side table) in a few other select locations. Tasks like these - expect them written as a list on the back of an envelope to do if/ when you can. Its all fun.
And please, if you are coming all this way down south, please put the Pacific Islands on your agenda! Vanuatu (180+ islands), Papau New Guinea ..... Solomon Islands, they are all incredibly beautiful, with many areas not too commercialised.
Ahhhh to traveling tips.
Check you round the campfire!
Un poco más de información
Acceso a Internet
Acceso a Internet limitado
Tenemos animales
Somos fumadores
Puede alojar familias
Puede acoger a nómadas digitales
Karl & I both work online from home at present. We have some beautiful spaces to work from.
Espacio para aparcar autocaravanas
Beautiful camping spots abound.
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Everyone was so kind and friendly. Karl and Rayna are naturally super welcoming hosts, they made me feel part of the crew the whole time. Plus they are pretty rad parents, coolest ever.
Caravan was for myself and its… read more
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Everyone was so kind and friendly. Karl and Rayna are naturally super welcoming hosts, they made me feel part of the crew the whole time. Plus they are pretty rad parents, coolest ever.
Caravan was for myself and its… read more
I would regret it if I didn't go to meet you.
The work was moderate and they make sure that you get some hammock-time whenever the wheather is good ;)
I can only recommend to stay with this special family. I already miss you guys!
It was a beautiful, friendly and open minded exchang of experiences.
I learned so much from everyone and the tasks were very versatile and interesting:)
I'm glad that I could collect my first Workaway experience with this nice family
I learnd a lot about the native fauna and flora from Rayna and i've learned alot about composting and making bio char from Karl. Had good times hanging out with the kids, i've had my first victory ever playing… read more
i learned a lot from them
and the dinner is so delicious
there are cute cat and ducks
We went to town together, we went to watch football
had a very good time
Lea is an extremely intelligent young woman and we enjoyed many scintillating conversation while we shared a wide variety of tasks. She was up for anything and gave all activities a go.
We were sad to see you go and wish you all the best with your future studies and adventures!
Me and Patrícia lived with this wonderful family for about one month. We are really grateful that they invited us for Christmas and New Year's Eve and for all other events they engaged us in.
We felt completely part of the… read more
I really enjoyed my time in this beautiful place, especially walking with Rayna and playing with the kids..
Whole family was helpful with my English.., so thanks for your help and patience..!!… read more
Me and my partner stayed with them for aprox 2,5 week in march, and we had a great experience.
We've both learned a lot about how to grow your own veggies and how to teach your kids loads of valuable things of live <3. We've seen baby chicks been born and it… read more
My advice is to go Karl's and Rayna's place. There is so much nature to explore, so much to see and learn and also much to discuss on a high level of intelligence. I enjoyed my time there really much and even if sometimes the mood was not the best, after a short while everyone was nice and peaceful again. The jobs that I did… read more
Explore the fairy garden, go for a wild ride with the beast and share some quality time with the old mister roo, the chooks or boots. (the rabbit, not the shoes... I mean I doubt anyone would keep you from chillin with the shoes out the… read more
