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I have a little lifestyle block just out of Takaka/Golden Bay right at the beach. I have many different projects going. The work you might be doing is organic gardening, tree care, landscaping, basic building and so on. I have no kids, but some friendly chickens and a cat. Stay with us and enjoy beautiful beaches, yummy food and good company!
Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje
Ayuda en proyectos ecológicos
Jardinería
Construcción y bricolaje
Ayuda en una granja
Ayuda doméstica
Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje
You can learn heaps about organic growing, self-sufficient life style. learn to live from and cook from the garden.
Ayuda
There is always something to do: weeding, looking after trees, transplanting, getting seaweed, feeding the chickens, trying to find their eggs, playing with Choco the cat. Additionally, some easy house work such as helping to cook from the garden in the evenings. At times there are small building projects like garden shed, landscaping (making a path to the beach) and whatever needs to be done. After all the work is done you can sit on the veranda and enjoy the sea view or listen to the birds.
Idiomas hablados
Alemán: Fluido
Inglés: Fluido
Alojamiento
You will stay in a cozy caravan just next to the house as the house is low food print and a bit small. I'm not a vegetarian but cook minimal meat and would be happy to cater for pescatarians/ vegetarians and possibly vegans if you are happy to bring your own substitutes (milk etc.) The food provided covers 3 meals a day, breakfast is help yourself, for lunch I can make you a smoothie from the fruit and veggies in the garden and dinner is also provided. I love Asian food and some woofers say the yummy food was what they enjoyed most. If seafood is your favorite, you can collect mussels, cockles and pipis at the beach.
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As my property is not in town, it is a lot easier if you have your own transport to allow you to explore the local area in the afternoons and your days off (although I do have a bike you can use and it is possible to get around by hitchhiking if you don't have your own vehicle). There are many beautiful beaches and hikes in the surrounding area, including in the nearby Abel Tasman National park, as well as Wharariki beach and Farewell spit. You will live near to Takaka, a small hippie town with a Saturday market and lots to do.
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Acceso a Internet
Acceso a Internet limitado
Tenemos animales
Somos fumadores
Puede alojar familias
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Número de referencia de anfitrión: 871716187591
Comentarios (15)
4 may 2025
Dejado por el anfitrión para el workawayer (Mélanie)
Melanie was a wonderful addition to my life while she stayed with me for nearly six months—much longer than originally planned, which was a lovely surprise and worked out very well. Melanie is incredibly friendly, great company, and easy to get along with
We had many interesting and thought-provoking conversations and laughs together; she is very… read more
We had many interesting and thought-provoking conversations and laughs together; she is very… read more
(Excelente
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17 feb 2025
Dejado por el workawayer (Clara) para el anfitrión
Thank you Volker and Coco for the wonderful two weeks. We really enjoyed the time working in your breathtaking and amazing sustainable veggi garden, playing with Coco, cooking and trying out new things.
It was an amazing experience to harvest your own vegetables and cooking with the food directly from the garden.
The work was never too much,… read more
It was an amazing experience to harvest your own vegetables and cooking with the food directly from the garden.
The work was never too much,… read more
16 feb 2025
Dejado por el anfitrión para el workawayer (Clara)
Clara and her friend Maya stayed for two weeks at my place. Both are fantastic workawayer: high work ethics, friendly, and great company. We had great conversations and laughed a lot together. I am fully satisfied with the work they did: general gardening, weeding, harvesting, transplanting, and helping with firewood and tree care. They are… read more
(Excelente
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16 feb 2025
Dejado por el anfitrión para el workawayer (Maya)
Maya and her friend Clara stayed for two weeks at my place. Both are fantastic workawayer: high work ethics, friendly, and great company. We had great conversations and laughed a lot together. I am fully satisfied with the work they did: general gardening, weeding, harvesting, transplanting, and helping with firewood and tree care. They are… read more
(Excelente
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4 may 2025
Dejado por el anfitrión para el workawayer (Mélanie)
Melanie was a wonderful addition to my life while she stayed with me for nearly six months—much longer than originally planned, which was a lovely surprise and worked out very well. Melanie is incredibly friendly, great company, and easy to get along with
We had many interesting and thought-provoking conversations and laughs together; she is very… read more
We had many interesting and thought-provoking conversations and laughs together; she is very… read more
(Excelente)
17 feb 2025
Dejado por el workawayer (Clara) para el anfitrión
Thank you Volker and Coco for the wonderful two weeks. We really enjoyed the time working in your breathtaking and amazing sustainable veggi garden, playing with Coco, cooking and trying out new things.
It was an amazing experience to harvest your own vegetables and cooking with the food directly from the garden.
The work was never too much,… read more
It was an amazing experience to harvest your own vegetables and cooking with the food directly from the garden.
The work was never too much,… read more
16 feb 2025
Dejado por el anfitrión para el workawayer (Clara)
Clara and her friend Maya stayed for two weeks at my place. Both are fantastic workawayer: high work ethics, friendly, and great company. We had great conversations and laughed a lot together. I am fully satisfied with the work they did: general gardening, weeding, harvesting, transplanting, and helping with firewood and tree care. They are… read more
(Excelente)
16 feb 2025
Dejado por el anfitrión para el workawayer (Maya)
Maya and her friend Clara stayed for two weeks at my place. Both are fantastic workawayer: high work ethics, friendly, and great company. We had great conversations and laughed a lot together. I am fully satisfied with the work they did: general gardening, weeding, harvesting, transplanting, and helping with firewood and tree care. They are… read more
(Excelente)
29 ene 2025
Dejado por el workawayer (James) para el anfitrión
I had an incredible time during my three weeks here. Volker is everything you could want and more in a host. He's friendly, fair, and a good communicator. His property is beautiful and he has so much going on there. It was fun seeing what kind of jobs we would be doing each day. I highly recommend any other volunteers to stay with Volker and Coco.… read more
24 ene 2025
Dejado por el anfitrión para el workawayer (James)
James stayed at my place for about one month, and he was an absolute gem. He's a really hard worker who was great at communicating and getting things done.
James did lots of different jobs and all were completed to my fullest satisfaction. Here I would like to comment on a few:
His garden work was excellent - he handled everything from weeding… read more
James did lots of different jobs and all were completed to my fullest satisfaction. Here I would like to comment on a few:
His garden work was excellent - he handled everything from weeding… read more
(Excelente)
18 dic 2024
Dejado por el anfitrión para el workawayer (Kevin & Julia)
Julia and Kevin stayed at my place for about one week. They are both excellent worker, easy to have around, and interesting to talk with -just perfect workawayer. They did mainly weeding, transplanting, collecting and stacking firewood, general housework, AND FANTASTIC cooking. I was very happy hosting them and would have loved them to stay… read more
(Excelente)
10 dic 2024
Dejado por el workawayer (Kevin & Julia) para el anfitrión
We only stayed for a week with Volker, since we already had plans for the following week-otherwise we would have loved to stay longer! Volker has a beautiful spot with a peaceful surrounding and a wonderful view. We learned a lot from him both regarding work and life itself. He sits on a lot of interesting knowledge and thanks to him we also got… read more
9 nov 2024
Dejado por el workawayer (Torri) para el anfitrión
I stayed for a wonderful 5 weeks at Volkers place. originally planned on 4 weeks, but ended up staying alittle bit longer.
The accommodation was a cozy caravan.
Mainly work consists of light yard work that was fairly easy going. Also went down the road to harvest Cockles from the beach!
Excellent veiw of the Golden Bay from Volkers porch,… read more
The accommodation was a cozy caravan.
Mainly work consists of light yard work that was fairly easy going. Also went down the road to harvest Cockles from the beach!
Excellent veiw of the Golden Bay from Volkers porch,… read more
7 oct 2024
Dejado por el anfitrión para el workawayer (Torri)
I had hundreds of woofer, helpx-er, and workaway-er and I can clearly say that Torri is one of the best! Torri stayed for about 5 weeks, quite a bit longer than we had originally planned. All the work she did were to my fullest satisfaction: general gardening, weeding, transplanting, greenhouse-propagating cutting firewood and much more. General… read more
(Excelente)
31 may 2024
Dejado por el workawayer (Philippa) para el anfitrión
Volker was amazingly friendly and helpful, I did a range of work with him from office help to pulling down trees! We frequented the recycling centre to find some good bargains and the beach for cockles. My preferences were taken into account and I had a lovely time in all tasks I did. I would recommend this place to anyone looking for a Workaway.
22 may 2024
Dejado por el anfitrión para el workawayer (Philippa)
Phil stayed at my place for about one month. I had many woofers, helpx and workawayer and Phil is definitely at the top of the list: her work ethic is absolutely fantastic; hard-working, conscientious, thorough, highly motivated, following instructions, and asking for clarification when needed. Phil is great company, interested in a wide variety… read more
(Excelente)
2 abr 2024
Dejado por el workawayer (Fion) para el anfitrión
Volker is a really lovely and caring Host! The tasks he asked me to do was not very hard and I learnt a lot about gardening! He cooks very good food and is very interested im many things and we had a lot of nice conversations.
15 mar 2024
Dejado por el anfitrión para el workawayer (Fion)
Fion was here for about two weeks, Fion has great work ethics, works unsupervised, follows instructions and asks for clarification when needed. This made communication easy and straight forward. The main jobs were general gardening, weeding harvesting, lawn mowing, general household and kitchen work and last not least some amazing IT and computer… read more
(Excelente)
3 mar 2024
Dejado por el anfitrión para el workawayer (Noah)
I hosted many, many woofers, helpx-er and some workaway-er in my lifetime and the majority of them were great. However, sometimes I have struck GOLD, and having Noah stay here was like having found GOLD: excellent work ethic, fantastic communication, great company, highly motivated, and overall just fantastic. Main jobs were weeding, general… read more
(Excelente)
3 mar 2024
Dejado por el workawayer (Noah) para el anfitrión
Had an amazing week at Volkers beautiful home. Truly a home away from home with fair and nice work, amazing food and great conversations. Really enjoyed collecting mussels for dinner and overall the garden work was great.
Would’ve loved to stay longer.
All the best Volker
Noah
Would’ve loved to stay longer.
All the best Volker
Noah
6 ene 2024
Dejado por el anfitrión para el workawayer (Noëmi & Matthias)
Noemi and Matt stayed at my place for more than weeks. They fitted well into my - at times busy - schedule and were easy to get on with. Both have fantastic work ethics, are working hard and are conscientious. All the jobs were done to my fullest satisfaction. General housework, gardening, weeding, and delicious cooking were the main jobs.… read more
(Excelente)
9 oct 2023
Dejado por el workawayer (Hanane) para el anfitrión
Volker was such a nice host, very accomodating and always making sure we have a good work-travel balance.
I personally learned a lot about gardening with Volker and those skills helped me later on in other experiences.
My travelmate and I loved the experience and wished we stayed a bit longer.
Sorry Volker for the late review, I was sure I wrote… read more
I personally learned a lot about gardening with Volker and those skills helped me later on in other experiences.
My travelmate and I loved the experience and wished we stayed a bit longer.
Sorry Volker for the late review, I was sure I wrote… read more
15 ene 2023
Dejado por el anfitrión para el workawayer (Hanane)
Hanane and her friend Symeon were her for about two weeks. They are the perfect workawayer:
There Command of the English language is really good, communication between us was excellent, They have a great work ethics, work unsupervised and follow instructions. The main jobs were: general gardening, weeding, making and stacking firewood, general… read more
There Command of the English language is really good, communication between us was excellent, They have a great work ethics, work unsupervised and follow instructions. The main jobs were: general gardening, weeding, making and stacking firewood, general… read more
(Excelente)
6 ago 2023
Dejado por el anfitrión para el workawayer (Verena)
Verena stayed at my place for two weeks. She is the perfect workaway-er: Fantastic work ethics, great communicator, interesting company, friendly, pleasant humour, and always friendly. All the work she did were done to my fullest satisfaction: general gardening, weeding, sowing, transplanting, mulching, tidying up general housework, fantastic… read more
(Excelente)
11 jul 2023
Dejado por el workawayer (Annalena) para el anfitrión
I had such a great time at Volkers place. I stayed only a week with him, but in that short time he taught me so much. I learned a lot about native plants, especially vegetables and about New Zealand's culture and history. Furthermore he has so many great, funny and interesting storys to tell.
The work was a lot of fun, because Volker took my… read more
The work was a lot of fun, because Volker took my… read more
9 jul 2023
Dejado por el anfitrión para el workawayer (Annalena)
Unfortunately Annalena could only stay for one week; however the week with Annalena was full of fun, laughter, cool conversations, stimulating questions and amazing answers. Annalena has a great attitude towards work, asked for clarification if needed, follows instructions and works superfast and efficient: gardening, weeding, transplanting,… read more
(Excelente)
1 jul 2023
Dejado por el anfitrión para el workawayer (Tim)
Tim stayed at my place for a bit more than three weeks. I hosted over the years hundreds of helpx-er, woofers and workawayer and I cansay that Tim is definitely Topshelf☺: he is highly motivated, has a great work ethics and work attitude, no job too big or too small. The main jobs were in the garden and on the land: heaps of weeding, making,… read more
(Excelente)
8 may 2023
Dejado por el workawayer (Sophie) para el anfitrión
I learned a lot about low-impact living and so many other things from living at Volker's place. He is full of knowledge and funny stories and made some great recommendations for things to do in the Golden Bay area. I also met some of his local friends and enjoyed chatting and learning from them too. The tasks I did varied each day but mainly… read more
4 may 2023
Dejado por el workawayer (Louise) para el anfitrión
Volker is a funny and joyful guy, he knows soooo many things, that's truly impressive and I loved learning about random stuff I didn't know. During my 6 month trip I visited a lot of autonomic houses and Volkers house was another one of those. I truly admire people that achieve to built and live in those kind of houses. Another thing I admire… read more
2 may 2023
Dejado por el anfitrión para el workawayer (Louise)
Louise was an absolute delight to host🎈. She is funny, has a great sense of humour😂,has a fantastic work ethics💪 and fitted extremely well into my at times unpredictable schedules. Originally she only wanted to stay for one week but stayed for a whole month! THANKS
Louise was very willing to do weeding, weeding and weeding. She also made some… read more
Louise was very willing to do weeding, weeding and weeding. She also made some… read more
(Excelente)
29 abr 2023
Dejado por el anfitrión para el workawayer (Miembro de Workaway)
Marlis and Henry stayed at my place for a bit more than a week. Unfortunately we had a lot of rain while they were here, but they coped very well with flexible arrangements we made together and I am glad that they were able to do a four day hike in the Abel Tasman National Park during the dry spell.
Our communication was great and ALL the work was… read more
Our communication was great and ALL the work was… read more
(Excelente)
28 abr 2023
Dejado por el workawayer (Miembro de Workaway) para el anfitrión
We spent over a week with Volker. He is polite and easy to talk to, really kind and good-hearted and we felt very welcomed. His lifestyle is very eco-friendly, the food is homegrown and tastes good and you can learn a bunch about resourcefulness and also mental well-being. The work was easy and very little and he was flexible, when we… read more
21 mar 2023
Dejado por el anfitrión para el workawayer (Laia & Xabier)
I had over the years hundreds of woofer, helpxer and workawayer. Laia and Xabier are definitely at the top. They stayed for about three weeks and did amazing work on my property: gardening ( weeding, planting, harvesting, preserving fruit, etc), general house work ( cleaning, tidying up, cooking, baking, some office and computer work),… read more
(Excelente)
21 mar 2023
Dejado por el workawayer (Laia & Xabier) para el anfitrión
We had such a wonderful time with Volker and Coco 😺 we had a good comunication from the first moment and Volker was flexible and king. The job was easy and not hard at all, usually in the garden, but also in the kitchen, with the chickens, tree care...
We learned many things with Volker and he was always opened to share his knowledge with us or… read more
We learned many things with Volker and he was always opened to share his knowledge with us or… read more
3 sept 2022
Dejado por el anfitrión para el workawayer (Andrea)
OMG, I just saw that I did not write your well deserved feedback. It has been a while, hasn't it, but I do remember that I was ad when you left. The greenhouse was very overgrown and extremely wet before you came. You have transformed it while you were here, the plants you weeded and the plants you put in the ground are striving. Thanks.
Andrea… read more
Andrea… read more
(Excelente)
23 ene 2022
Dejado por el anfitrión para el workawayer (Laura)
Laura stayed at my place for about one month. I am rather new to workaway, but i hosted hundreds of woofer over the years and Laura is really at the top: Laura's attitude and work ethics are fantastic. She saw what needed to be done and did it without asking. Laura helped me while renovating my house, she did some gardening, general housework and… read more
(Excelente)
18 ene 2022
Dejado por el workawayer (Laura) para el anfitrión
I had a wonderful experience staying with Volker and Coco.
The work was mainly helping Volker at his other property, painting, gardening and general maintenance, it was really nice to look back and seeing what progress we had made. A few other times I helped in the vege garden at Volker's house. This was my favourite part (: Volker's land really… read more
The work was mainly helping Volker at his other property, painting, gardening and general maintenance, it was really nice to look back and seeing what progress we had made. A few other times I helped in the vege garden at Volker's house. This was my favourite part (: Volker's land really… read more
25 jul 2021
Dejado por el anfitrión para el workawayer (Bastien & Melissa)
Melissa and Bastien stayed for nearly two weeks at my place; I would have loved to host them longer, but unfortunately they had previously arranged commitments. I thoroughly enjoyed having them here: they worked hard, unsupervised and followed instructions at the same time. Their work ethics is excellent, they work effective, thorough and all the… read more
(Excelente)
28 ene 2021
Dejado por el anfitrión para el workawayer (Fatima)
Fatima was my first workawayer. She stayed for two weeks at my place and I can only say positive things about her. Fatima is highly motivated and has a great work ethic. She worked unsupervised, followed instructions, and asked for clarification if needed.
The main jobs were weeding, watering plants, feeding chickens, general housework, some… read more
The main jobs were weeding, watering plants, feeding chickens, general housework, some… read more
(Excelente)
19 ene 2021
Dejado por el workawayer (Fatima) para el anfitrión
I'd love to thank Volker for being out there to share his lifestyle and his knowledge. He's been on Helpx for more than 30 years, even before there was platform online for that!
He's got lots of professions therefore, fun facts about everything!
I learned a lot about zero waste, organic growing and my favorite part... chickens!!
It's very… read more
He's got lots of professions therefore, fun facts about everything!
I learned a lot about zero waste, organic growing and my favorite part... chickens!!
It's very… read more
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