Beschreibung
We are a French English couple in our seventies. This year, we are sharing the farm with a nice couple, cedric (French) and Francisco (Chilian), who are new farmers.
We have 3 children and 4 grand children.
Nigel is a farmer and also a musicien, and Renée used to be a chef in her own restaurant.
We have a very small farm ( 3600 meters carre) and we are developing a model of small farm on which a family could economically live on.
Cedric and Francisco are now growing the vegetables and are selling them through an AMAP (sustenable basket system)
Nigel is now retired and just grows the baby plants.
We will need help tiding up around the house and organizing the new garden. Also, we need somebody in summer looking after the kids when the parents (our daughter Joanna) is working making Lebanon food for her association.
Help is very varied.
Arten von Hilfe und Lernmöglichkeiten
Kunstprojekte
Sprachpraxis
Hilfe bei Ökoprojekten
Gartenarbeiten
Heimwerker- und Bauarbeiten
Babysitten und Kinderbetreuung
Zubereiten / Kochen von Mahlzeiten für die Familie
Hausarbeiten
Handwerkliche Arbeiten
UNO-Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung, die dieser Gastgeber verfolgt
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Was ist das?
Kultureller Austausch und Lernmöglichkeiten
With us there is a multitude of exchanges like cooking courses, music courses (guitars), showing eco construction and in learning how to grow vegetables...
I am always ready to show my surrounding as villages or cities (Toulouse.) .
Projekte mit Kindern
Dieses Projekt schließt möglicherweise den Umgang mit Kindern ein. Mehr Informationen findest du in unseren Verhaltensregeln und Tipps hier.
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Now Nigel is retired and relaxed in his new life.
I, Renée will need help in reorganizing the house, moving furniture, a bit of painting maybe plastering....and also cleaning the garden.
We have been welcoming people for the last 7 years .

Nigel was the farmer and I, Renée, am the cook. We love to share our experience, and we ask for three and a half hours help a day, generally in the morning, from Monday to Friday
Sprachen
Gesprochene Sprachen
Englisch: Fließend
Spanisch: Fließend
Französisch: Fließend
Dieser Gastgeber bietet Sprachaustausch an
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Unterkunft
You will be staying in the small cabin which can lodge up to three helpers. It is an ecological construction made of straw bales and clay plastering with a kitchen and shower. We share the meals for lunch during the week and you will be independent for breakfast, evening meals and all weekends.
We will provide you with the food, of course.
We have a natural swimming pool and compost toilets
Was noch ...
We are a 20 min train journey from Toulouse, and I often take the volunteers to the nearby market of Muret on a Saturday morning
Nigel is a musician and a good singer, he knows all the Beatlles songs!
We are both retired, but we have a very strong social life with lots of young people around us
We love to share all of what we have learned in growing vegetables , building the house (we live in a Eco house we have built with volunteers)
In general people are very pleased to share two weeks with us and they easily become friends....
Etwas mehr Information
- Internet Zugang
- Eingeschränkter Internet Zugang
- Wir besitzen Tiere
- Wir sind Raucher
- Familien möglich
Kann Digital Nomads unterbringen
Dieser Gastgeber nimmt gern Digital Nomads bei sich auf.
Platz zum Abstellen von Camper Vans
Dieser Gastgeber bietet Platz für Wohnmobile.
Hier sind Haustiere in der Regel willkommen
Dieser Gastgeber ist bereit, Reisende mit Haustieren bei sich aufzunehmen.
Kapazität - wie viele Workawayer maximal
zwei
Arbeitszeiten
4 heures par jour max, 5 j/sem.

Gastgeber Ref-Nr.: 262865948727

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03.11.2021

I had a super great experience at Renée and Nigel's peaceful organic vegetable micro-farm. I very much recommend staying at their place if you get the chance to!

Renée and Nigel are great lovely hosts. They are very social, friendly, easy-going and generous, happy with mixing and mingling with all kinds of different people, and curious to learn… read more more about them. I found them very inspiring. I really enjoyed their contemporary bohemian approach of life, both chilled-out and down-to-earth, patiently and perseveringly taking up daring practical projects such as building a house, a farm and a swimming pool from scratch, or organizing a cultural festival at their place. I especially liked Nigel's approach to micro-farming with its carefully thought-through organization, which I found really fascinating!

Renée and Nigel's place is super lovely. It's in a 3500 square-meter garden with spacious vegetable patches, several fruit trees, a big swimming pool, and three greenhouses - two of which have been converted to accomodations for farm workers. The neighbours (very friendly too) are taking care of a similar-sized vegetable garden that can be accessed directly from the property. The house and accomodations have their walls built from strawbale and mud, and their structure made from wood beams: this gives you the really cool feeling of staying in some remote African country.

I really enjoyed my work there, with its very relaxed and varied rhythm, typically less than 3 hours a day. Typical tasks I did: pick fresh vegetables, weed out the vegetable patches, plant seeds or baby plants, water the plants, stack wood for the winter. Mondays and Tuesdays were slightly busier since on Tuesday evenings vegetable baskets are distributed to the 30-ish subscribers of the AMAP (farming products association).

Throughout my one-month stay, I teamed up with Cédric and Francisco, two super friendly full-time workers who were assigning me new tasks every day. I'm really very glad about this teamwork with Cédric and Francisco, which worked out super smoothly and easily, and made my experience all the better! :)

I was accomodated on my own in a spacious wood-beam-structured and strawbale-mud-walled "flat" under one of the greenhouses, which felt cosy and comfy. Shower was shared with Cédric and Francisco, who were always very flexible and easy-going about it. There was a fridge and gas stove for my personal use, which was very convenient. I was free to help myself to food like garden vegetables or fresh eggs whenever I liked, which I'm very thankful about (organic vegetables & eggs taste awesome!).

Full flexibility applied for the meals. Most of the time I cooked and ate on my own, and sometimes we shared a nice tasty lunch or dinner with Cédric and Francisco, or/and with Renée and Nigel. The friendly neighbours also joined us a few times. On Tuesday evenings we had a delicious convivial evening buffet and drinks with the friendly subscribers of the AMAP.

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08.05.2021

This is my first Workaway experience in a small farm, I wanted to see from the inside how it works, from seeding to sell the produces, either plants or veggies.
After spending about a month with Nigel, his wife Renée and friends I got at least a glimpse of what it takes.
Nigel is very relaxed and jovial with a old-style British sense of humor,… read more

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16.10.2019

Bonjour,
Je suis restée deux semaines chez Nigel et Renee et c est vraiment chouette, tu travailles en général de 9h à 13h, tu manges avec eux le midi et le soir tu es autonome mais tu avez de quoi faire à manger.
Ils sont très sympas, donc tu ne ressens pas une mauvaise pression et tu es indépendant ds ton cabanon de jardin !
Merci encore Nigel… read more

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Young volunteers who helped with the pool

Place du Capitol Toulouse

Newly-planted leeks

Pumpkins!

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The orchard seen from the house terrace

The terrace of the helpers' cabin

Water lilies of the swimming pool

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03.11.2021

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08.05.2021

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16.10.2019

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28.11.2017

Vom Workawayer (Errico) für Host

I've spent few months with Nigel and Renée,
they are some very caring person, I was just arrived in Toulouse,
couldn't speack any French,
they were very patient, and helped me wiht the language,
had an amazing accomododation with private kitchen for dinner time, I ate with them at lunch time.
I've discovered the beautiful area around and… read more

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10.04.2017

Vom Workawayer (Anne & Michael) für Host

Thank you Nigel and Renée, we spent 2 weeks with Nigel and Renée and came away feeling like we had learned a lot and contributed as well. Thay were very patient, friendly, and helpfull, as we did not speak any French, so needed help organizing out time off. The cabin we stayed in was very comfortable and cosy. I really can't thank them enough for… read more

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14.11.2016

Vom Workawayer (Ibai & Laura) für Host

Super stay at Renée's and Nigel's! They really try to make of the stay a real learning experience, explaining thoroughly every detail and making sure you understand. We did some arrangementes here and there, and helped finishing the walls of a room made of straw and cob! We learned a lot about this building technique, and got tons of info and… read more

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25.06.2016

Vom Host für Workawayer (Juliet)

That was very nice to have Juliet as a workawayer .
She was very helpful in the garden and I can still appreciate the work she has doned.
I am shure we will met again in Toulouse.
Thanks again Juliet for your help,
Renèe

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01.05.2016

Vom Workawayer (Juliet) für Host

At first the accommodation seemed basic to me as a city-dweller - I didn't realise how many things I take for granted. But then, I was given such exceptional kindness and hospitality. Renee was enthusiastic about showing me every detail of the local community life and villages, which was exactly what I wanted. Wonderful! Nigel has retired from… read more

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17.11.2015

Vom Host für Workawayer (Dahiana)

what a pleasure to work with Dahiana. She is quick to understand what it has to be done, is very autonomus and you can trust her with the work. She integrated the group very easily and we really appreciate " sa joie de vivre".
I think she has the workaway spirit and hope for her to find the good place to go on with her traveling.
Nigel and i… read more

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31.08.2015

Vom Workawayer (Dahiana) für Host

So happy to have cross path and been chosen by this beautiful couple.
They are welcoming, warm and know how to make you learn without a feeling of workers/ host.
Thank you Nigel, for the learning in the vegetable field, the music , that was great, though "psycho killer" will never leave my head ever again BUT i am glad i discovered it :)
Thank… read more

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14.09.2015

Vom Workawayer (Hanna & Carli) für Host

I stayed at the farm for 10 days and I had a very nice time there. Nigel and Renée created a beautiful little organic farm near Toulouse. The work they asked for was more than fair: we did fruit picking, planting and some weeding from 9 am to 1 pm with a long break in between. All afternoons we were free to do whatever we liked, which was mostly… read more

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06.09.2015

Vom Workawayer (Rodrigo) für Host

I stayed one week at Nigel & Renée's and I whish I could have stayed longer, because I was enjoying myself big time. The work in the mornings was fun and ilustrative, I loved learning about the process of growing vegetables. Nigel guided us each morning with absolute passion and friendliness in these matters.

We would enjoy Renée's company and… read more

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