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Beschreibung
This is an organic farm run by around 30 of us (plus children). We live in different households that have been adapted from a Georgian manor house, stable block and other outbuildings. We garden and farm a large area of land and our charity, The Frome Society, runs occasional events such as singing workshops, yoga etc.
We are not a commercial enterprise. We tend our 40 acres of land together to produce a significant amount of our own food including meat, milk, eggs, fruit and vegetables.
The land includes pasture (for dairy cows, sheep, goats, chickens and sometimes pigs and geese), arable fields (producing feed for our animals as well as ourselves), a walled vegetable garden, greenhouse and polytunnels, orchard, a small area of woodland and a lake and garden. We welcome help with everything around the place - including the animals, in the veg garden, on the grounds and buildings and with things like cheesemaking when the milk is in full flow!
We generally host up to 3 Workawayers (and Wwoofers) for roughly two to three weeks at a time. We do this about once a month from late spring through to the end of summer.
We generally we start looking at things to be done around 10am , pause at 1pm for a lunch hour and finish around 4pm
Arten von Hilfe und Lernmöglichkeiten
Gartenarbeiten
Betreuung von Tieren
Mithilfe auf einem Bauernhof
Handwerkliche Arbeiten
UNO-Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung, die dieser Gastgeber verfolgt
Kultureller Austausch und Lernmöglichkeiten
We have been hosting for almost 40 years now. People seem to like it here... learning a little about community living and helping out with tasks about the farm.
We prefer that our volunteers are reasonably proficient in speaking English.
Registered charity
This host is a registered charity in the UK and is looking for help with their charity project. Guidance on charity worker sponsorship by a UK registered charity, can be found here.
Arbeit
We mainly require help on the farm and garden and with the farm animals. If you have building skills we may have maintenance or building projects that you could assist on. When there is a lot of milk being produced we welcome help with cheese-making.
Please note: WE DO NOT HOST FAMILIES
Gesprochene Sprachen
Englisch: Fließend
Unterkunft
Accommodation is in a shared or private room and includes a toilet and shower room. Plus a larger kitchen and sitting room. We can accommodate one campervan.
We provide vegetarian food for you to self-cater most meals. We have a communal meal every Saturday evening and usually there are one or two other shared meals per week. Please note that we try to use or own produce as much as possible which includes a lot of dairy and eggs.
Was noch ...
We are in a rural area, seven miles from the nearest town. If you don't have your own transport we can usually sort out lifts into town on days off. Local attractions include the nearby small city of Hereford famous its cathedral housing the Mappa Mundi, the book town of Hay on Wye and walking on the Malvern Hills. The closest town is Ledbury which has some interesting shops and decent coffee shops.
There is a nice circular walk out the back of our place over the fields via a small hamlet and church (no shops or pub there though) through woodlands and parkland. The walk takes about an hour and the best bit is you can do it without having to get in a car or walk along a road.
Etwas mehr Information
Internet Zugang
Eingeschränkter Internet Zugang
Wir besitzen Tiere
Wir sind Raucher
Familien möglich
Platz zum Abstellen von Camper Vans
Dieser Gastgeber bietet Platz für Wohnmobile.
Kapazität - wie viele Workawayer maximal
zwei
Arbeitszeiten
Maximum 25 hours per week
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She was a great help in the garden - she is a knowledgeable and experienced grower - and is that rare and wonderful… read more
It helped that she was really keen to try her hand at cheesemaking because we were overwhelmed with more milk than ever at the time of her visit. She learns fast and is really good in a kitchen set-up. By… read more
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She was a great help in the garden - she is a knowledgeable and experienced grower - and is that rare and wonderful… read more
It helped that she was really keen to try her hand at cheesemaking because we were overwhelmed with more milk than ever at the time of her visit. She learns fast and is really good in a kitchen set-up. By… read more
There was one other volunteer when I was there, we each had our own rooms that were super comfy. Different residents would request our help for either the morning or afternoon,… read more
They came initially for 2 weeks but we asked them to stay an extra week as they were such a great help to us - in fact we asked them to stay longer but their UK trip was nearly… read more
The members of the community are so nice to you, that you don't really see that you are working with them, it's a deep, honest and enriching moment of sharing...
The place is just amazing and peaceful, as for the rooms, they are really good too!
I also learned a lot about… read more
She… read more
Angela came to us for 2 weeks initially and turned out to be someone we never wanted to let go of. She has been a wonderful positive presence on the farm whenever she is here - a powerhouse in the garden and fields,… read more
It was wonderful to work with so many different members, milking the goats and cows, tending vegetables, pruning trees… read more
I arrived in mid March, lockdown happened and so I stayed for 4 wonderful months!
The work varied from preparing growing beds, propagation and planting out, cheese and jam… read more
