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Kia ora!
Nau mai, haere mai ki Paritu
We are Jamie and Anna, and Kahu the dog living at the tip of the Coromandel Peninsula surrounded by forest and ocean.
We love sharing ideas, tastes of the world, culture, laughs, music, kai (food), cups of coffee and doing projects with 'Workawayers' of the world.
Our home is remote and off-grid. We set up everything ourselves: solar system, water comes from a spring, we are growing gardens and inspired by a recent trip to Thailand in the spirit of creating more 'sabai sabai' chill zones.
Come and Stay! We look forward to sharing our world with you & learning about yours!
Happy travels!
Jamie and Anna
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Help with Eco Projects
Teaching
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
You can learn about māori culture, meet family and people in our community, experience living closer to the land, discover stunning beaches, learn about our forest.
Help
Home Creation
The help is mostly physical such as
- Firewood - harvesting, clearing and stacking and moving.
- Building
- Painting
- Digging (drains)
Gardening
- Teaching - Would love to learn about food forests, compost systems, permaculture design and planning, succession planning, soil science and making soil good for plants, companion planting, pruning, and more!
- Gardening creation - clearing new spaces for gardening
- General Maintenance (removal of weeds)
Help in the whare (house)
-Cooking (we love tasting food from different parts of the world)
-Cleaning
Art
Kitchen cupboards - keen to get these gorgeous :) - if you're an artist/ mural painter please send through some of your work - we'd love to see it.
Painting we have a photograph of a portrait we would like painted. We love creativity so if you know how to make a lampshade you make, draw a cool design on a wall, sculpture or something else.... that's cool too.
Languages
Languages spoken
English: FluentThis host offers a language exchange
Te Reo Māori
Accommodation
We live 30mins north of Colville on the beautiful west coastline.
Our home is off-grid with solar power, outside compost toilet (long-drop), water heated via a gas water heater, and limited internet access. There is mobile reception on the hill.
Please note: your accommodation will be a private caravan, this does not have any access to power. Power is available at the house 10m away.
What else ...
Things you can do in your time off: If you after peace and tranquility then there is a lot to offer in this setting, beautiful landscapes, forest and ocean at your doorstep.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Hours expected
5 hours a day, 5 days a week
Feedback (9)
They really welcomed us into their home and life. Jamie is a well of knowledge about Maori culture. We really enjoyed hearing the folklore and learning fai from them!
The week flew and we felt like we could have stayed there for much longer in their… read more
We took her along to a… read more
They are living in harmony with mother Earth and sensitive to all living beings who they share their whenua and waters with.
I enjoyed getting to know them and learning from tangata whenua...
A magical area of Aotearoa, I wish them all the very best of Irish good Luck
Highly recommended
Sláin go fóill mo… read more
We visited one of my Marae and done some local ceremonies there for the Maori new year.We talked about Maori and Irish folk lore… read more
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They really welcomed us into their home and life. Jamie is a well of knowledge about Maori culture. We really enjoyed hearing the folklore and learning fai from them!
The week flew and we felt like we could have stayed there for much longer in their… read more
We took her along to a… read more
They are living in harmony with mother Earth and sensitive to all living beings who they share their whenua and waters with.
I enjoyed getting to know them and learning from tangata whenua...
A magical area of Aotearoa, I wish them all the very best of Irish good Luck
Highly recommended
Sláin go fóill mo… read more
We visited one of my Marae and done some local ceremonies there for the Maori new year.We talked about Maori and Irish folk lore… read more
He has a lot of knowledge about the Maorie culture and the medicinal plants in the Bush, he lives in a beautiful and peaceful house at the Coast and loves his environment. Jamy likes sharing all of this things with other people who are curious.
We have had with him a lot… read more
Jamie and Anna.
They told me so much about the Maori and Jamie knows a lot about the native plants.
They tried to help me with everything I wanted to do, which is really kind. And the food was good too! I loved to help you two around the house and with your nursery project. (Hopefully it will get bigger without… read more
You will learn a lot while you're staying with those 2!… read more
These are adorable people who know how to take the telps to live you to enjoy life with very interesting project.
They have an island culture and Maori are interesting and rewarding.
Friends of nature is an experience not to be missed.
You discover incrudeable things with… read more
Because of a tight time schedule we could only stay with Jamie and Anna for a week, but we'll make sure that we come back again!
First of all, Colville is a beautiful place. It's very laid back and the people are super friendly and helpful.
There is so much to see, and Jamie and Anna will gladly take you… read more
Both lovely people, really relaxed, positive and super hard working and we enjoyed each others cultures and company.
I miss them already and could not of asked for a better first workaway experience.
We painted rooms, dug holes gardens. carried firewood,and worked on the driveway and they always gave… read more
