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Live with our intentional community in beautiful rural, northern Alabama, USA

  • Letzte Aktivität : 14 Juni 2025

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  • Beschreibung

    Beschreibung

    Hurray ! you are reading our profile to see if we are compatible. We’re pleased!

    My family and my family’s friends are from all over. My mom is from Scotland, my nieces from India, my brother-in-law from Australia, my partner’s family is Swedish, and my friends are from South Africa, Japan, Mexico, and Brasil and Columbia.

    We have valued the opportunity to learn about so many places just through our family, and friends. We continue to appreciate the opportunities to learn about other cultures through Workaway, as well as welcome folks from various places in the United States.

    We have space for two different people or a couple and another different person right now. Could this be YOU? There is so much to learn! And plenty of time to relax!

    Can you weed? wield a broom? or plant a seed? or feed a duck or a fish? Can you sort things? or paint a sign? Or organize a closet? Or do something we don’t know we need but you know how to do it?

    We are excited to welcome you. We love folks who are cheerful, positive, outgoing, interested in learning about living sustainably and doing what you can to slow the climate catastrophe! And the mess we are in.

    Additionally, we love showing off the area around us and showing our guests a good time.
    Recent fun activities our guests enjoyed in this past month included attending a traveling photography exhibition of John Lennon photos, a classical guitar concert, a visit to a puppetry museum, a visit to a guitar maker’s studio, touring the local old courthouse, luncheon with neighbors, stargazing, hiking to the nearby river, and watching films together. Plus evening conversations !

    Our Permaculture Paradise has been a steady project over 30 years, our participation in the annual National Solar Homes Tour for over 25 years. The land for the intentional community we live in was bought in 1975, we moved here in 1987.
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    We have been with WorkAway for three years now and have many years of hosting through another popular platform.
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    We have helped people aspiring to serve in the PEACE CORPS and we are a “soft-landing” for folks after serving in PEACE CORPS and other similar situations. Our place is relaxing and we are chill.
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    We continue to work on being the future we aspire to live in.
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    Our 4 basic requirements are non-negotiable:
    We prefer guests who are non-smokers/non-vapers, and e who are Covid vaccinated and boosted, have health insurance that covers you while you are here, and are LGBTQ plus friendly and safe.

    We are waiting for you.

  • Arten von Hilfe und Lernmöglichkeiten

    Arten von Hilfe und Lernmöglichkeiten

    Kunstprojekte
    Sprachpraxis
    Hilfe bei Ökoprojekten
    Seniorenbetreuung
    Gartenarbeiten
    Heimwerker- und Bauarbeiten
    Betreuung von Tieren
    Mithilfe auf einem Bauernhof
    Zubereiten / Kochen von Mahlzeiten für die Familie
    Hausarbeiten
    Handwerkliche Arbeiten
    Hilfe mit Computer /Internet
  • Interessengebiete

    Interessengebiete

    Nachhaltigkeit
    LGBTQ
    Events & Sozialleben
    Musik
    Sprachen
    Gartenarbeiten
    Yoga / Wellness
    Segeln / Boote
    Natur
  • UNO-Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung, die dieser Gastgeber verfolgt

    UNO-Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung, die dieser Gastgeber verfolgt

    UNO-Ziele
    Keine Armut
    Kein Hunger
    Gesundheit und Wohlergehen
    Hochwertige Bildung
    Geschlechtergleichstellung
    Sauberes Wasser und Sanitärversorgung
    Bezahlbare und saubere Energie
    Menschenwürdige Arbeit und Wirtschaftswachstum
    Industrie, Innovation und Infrastruktur
    Weniger Ungleichheiten
    Nachhaltige Städte und Gemeinden
    Nachhaltige Konsum- und Produktionsmuster sicherstellen
    Maßnahmen zum Klimaschutz
    Leben unter Wasser
    Leben an Land
    Frieden, Gerechtigkeit und starke Institutionen
    Partnerschaften zur Erreichung der Ziele
  • Kultureller Austausch und Lernmöglichkeiten

    Kultureller Austausch und Lernmöglichkeiten

    We live in a thriving intentional community, a solar energy mecca, with a budding medicinal plant sanctuary, hiking trails, a flowing river, bicycles, canoes & kayaks, a 3-acre pond stocked with Bream and Bass, another intentional community across the road, and our immediate neighborhood is filled with a collection of the finest humans!
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    Learning opportunities include: homesteading, Medicinal plant cultivation, making herbal medicine, solar electric design, solar systems installation, applied permaculture principles, duck and geese care, Tilapia care in Solar Algae Aquaculture Tanks, how this Intentional Community operates, construction skills, wiring skills, self-illumination/dismantling of white privilege towards an end to racism, how nonreligious, liberal Quakers worship, fruit tree pruning and care and harvesting, woodworking, ukulele lessons, harmonica lessons, uvulalating lessons, Tai chi practice, yoga practice, paddling a canoe or kayak, fishing, random bursts of whistling or singing!, using an electric chain saw, cooking with a solar oven and/or on a wood stove, modified consensus process, how to throw an off-grid weekend outdoor party for 200 people, goat keeping, a house concert you might perform in, and great conversations about so many of life’s persistent challenges.

  • Arbeit

    Arbeit

    Many guests like to practice English with us. Fun!!
    We’re mostly outside gardening and that works for having conversations and practicing, if desired.

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    We spend our days feeding, weeding, mulching & harvesting our veggies, fruits and medicinal plants, processing medicinal plants into plant medicines, installing various solar (PV) applications for ourselves and designing PV systems for others.

    I sing with the Huntsville Feminist Chorus. You are welcome to attend a rehearsal, or even a performance.

    Currently, we’re watering and weeding and transplanting. Beltane has just passed and summer solstice is fast approaching. We’d welcome you to help and learn along with us.

    Alabama will never be the same for you.

  • Sprachen

    Gesprochene Sprachen
    Englisch: Fließend
    Spanisch: Gute Kenntnisse
    Sign language (American): Grundkenntnisse
    Hebrew: Grundkenntnisse
    Japanisch: Grundkenntnisse

    Dieser Gastgeber bietet Sprachaustausch an
    We’re both intermediate level Spanish/ español proficient. We are good to practice English or Spanish with you. I (Sara) am also keen to learn sign language and also polish up my very rusty Hebrew. I am interested in Japanese culture.

  • Unterkunft

    Unterkunft

    Accommodations:
    1) Private entrance apartment; a large room with queen bed, woodstove, air conditioning, fan, sink, swinging sofa, table & chairs, tiny fridge, attached greenhouse.
    2) Small Room in our home with double bed, desk, chair, lamp, shelves, drawers, air conditioner, electrical outlet. Big solar windows.
    Both of the above share bath/shower and both share our composting & flush toilets with us.
    3) Private camper with bed, sink, and adjacent composting toilet.
    4) Several places to tent camp with nearby composting toilet .
    5) One location to hook up with nearby composting toilet.
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    Food: We provide good wholesome food. 3 a day, occasionally one is shared family style. The others are self-prepared.

  • Was noch ...

    Was noch ...

    Why we do this:
    We love hosting travelers, it’s like traveling ourselves because we get to meet you and hear your stories
    We have a passion for helping others live sustainably, moving into the future, in an affirmably just, multicultural society. Plus, it’s just plain fun.

    Stuff nearby you can do:
    Locust Fork River (class 1-4) with canoe & kayak Races in February and March, Rock climbing/Palisades Park, see the cranes at their winter stopover, eagles, too, the neighborhood Mardi Gras homegrown silliness parade, our annual Kids Day on the River in June, our annual National Solar Homes Tour in October, Farmers Market, local Botanical Garden, Covered Bridges, local theatre, Free Friday Foreign Film monthly series.
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    A little farther away and yet still in Alabama …
    Legacy Museum, National Peace & Justice Museum, Civil Rights Museum, Art Museums in B’ham & H’ville, Horseback riding at Oak Mountain State Park, Dauphin Island in the Mobile Bay.

    You can use one of our bicycles to get around. It’s also entirely likely to get a ride with one of us to town.

  • Etwas mehr Information

    Etwas mehr Information

    • Internet Zugang

    • Eingeschränkter Internet Zugang

      Eingeschränkter Internet Zugang

    • Wir besitzen Tiere

    • Wir sind Raucher

    • Familien möglich

  • Kann Digital Nomads unterbringen

    Kann Digital Nomads unterbringen

    Very good WiFi. We use Zoom frequently.

  • Platz zum Abstellen von Camper Vans

    Platz zum Abstellen von Camper Vans

    The space is near our workshop and our home. There are lots of tall trees. The composting toilet looks out into the woods.

  • Kapazität - wie viele Workawayer maximal

    Kapazität - wie viele Workawayer maximal

    mehr als zwei

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