Help a rural couple with animals in Upper Hutt, New Zealand
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: 12 Juni 2025
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Angela and Mac took us in on very short notice, and we’re incredibly grateful for that. We stayed with them for about a week and had a great experience. The work they gave us was very manageable and we were allowed to choose from various tasks — we helped repair fences, fed the pigs and chickens, stacked firewood, and deep-cleaned their fridges.
… read more In return, we were treated to delicious meals every day, and when we cooked ourselves, we were encouraged to use their ingredients.
They were also really flexible with work hours, so we completed a full week’s work over just three days. This gave us plenty of time to explore the area and even take a relaxing day off when the weather wasn’t great.
Angela and Mac made us feel very welcome from the start, and we felt completely comfortable in their home. We’d definitely recommend them to other Workawayers! Their animals were also a highlight — Sox and Beth, their two dogs, and their cat made our stay even more enjoyable. Beth was just two months old when we were there, full of energy and a bit destructive at times, but both she and Sox followed us around while we worked and were much calmer afterward.
All in all, we had a wonderful time and truly appreciated the hospitality. Thanks again, Angela and Mac!
Vom Workawayer (Selma & Hannah) für Host
Mac and Angela are lovely people, with lovely animals - we were even lucky enough to tend to piglets while we were there!
The task of feeding the cows, pigs, chickens and dogs is a daily pleasure and we had plenty to keep us busy with lovely walks nearby and a great work/life balance.
Though our stay was cut short, we are very grateful to these
… read more two for our experience!Du kannst nur Workawayer mit aktiver Mitgliedschaft kontaktieren.
Vom Host für Workawayer (Selma & Hannah)
These two were great fun, great company and a great help. Unfortunately, Hannah got offered a job in Queenstown so they had to leave early.
Vom Workawayer (Raquel) für Host
Wonderful experience with Angela and Mac. We enjoyed a lot the outdoor jobs we have done in their house, good communication and we felt at home, thank you for that!
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Angela and Mac took us in on very short notice, and we’re incredibly grateful for that. We stayed with them for about a week and had a great experience. The work they gave us was very manageable and we were allowed to choose from various tasks — we helped repair fences, fed the pigs and chickens, stacked firewood, and deep-cleaned their fridges.
… read more In return, we were treated to delicious meals every day, and when we cooked ourselves, we were encouraged to use their ingredients.
They were also really flexible with work hours, so we completed a full week’s work over just three days. This gave us plenty of time to explore the area and even take a relaxing day off when the weather wasn’t great.
Angela and Mac made us feel very welcome from the start, and we felt completely comfortable in their home. We’d definitely recommend them to other Workawayers! Their animals were also a highlight — Sox and Beth, their two dogs, and their cat made our stay even more enjoyable. Beth was just two months old when we were there, full of energy and a bit destructive at times, but both she and Sox followed us around while we worked and were much calmer afterward.
All in all, we had a wonderful time and truly appreciated the hospitality. Thanks again, Angela and Mac!
Vom Workawayer (Selma & Hannah) für Host
Mac and Angela are lovely people, with lovely animals - we were even lucky enough to tend to piglets while we were there!
The task of feeding the cows, pigs, chickens and dogs is a daily pleasure and we had plenty to keep us busy with lovely walks nearby and a great work/life balance.
Though our stay was cut short, we are very grateful to these
… read more two for our experience!Du kannst nur Workawayer mit aktiver Mitgliedschaft kontaktieren.
Vom Host für Workawayer (Selma & Hannah)
These two were great fun, great company and a great help. Unfortunately, Hannah got offered a job in Queenstown so they had to leave early.
Vom Workawayer (Raquel) für Host
Wonderful experience with Angela and Mac. We enjoyed a lot the outdoor jobs we have done in their house, good communication and we felt at home, thank you for that!
Du kannst nur Workawayer mit aktiver Mitgliedschaft kontaktieren.
Vom Workawayer (Yiling) für Host
We stay 5 days with Angela and Mac. They are really nice, and not just them, dogs and cat are friendly as well, especially socks! We were feeding the pigs, and chicken, he always came with us.
Unfortunately, we met the cyclone in those days, but we do not that much outdoor work, we turned to do some clean job in the house in big rain day.
It's
… read more very special experience!Du kannst nur Workawayer mit aktiver Mitgliedschaft kontaktieren.
Vom Workawayer (Hanna & Tabea) für Host
We stayed about two weeks with Angela and Mac and it was a great time. The tasks we had to do were feeding the pigs and chickens and cook dinner. We also painted the fence and did some gardening and cleaning the house when it was raining. Mac loves the bbq and will definetly cook you a delicious steak! Both of them are very easy going. The dogs
… read more are adorable and socks was our daily companion while feeding the pigs. We also met some of their friends and had a typical kiwi bbq;). We had some days off to explore Wellington and the area and Angela recommended us some great things to do. We are very thankful for our experience, especially because our ferry got cancelled and delayed on our last evening, so they let us stay one more night until we could finally catch the ferry! Thankyou and we hope to see you again :)Du kannst nur Workawayer mit aktiver Mitgliedschaft kontaktieren.
Vom Workawayer (Juha-Matti & Elisa) für Host
We stayed at Angela's and Mac's home for about a week and we enjoyed our stay!
We started every morning with feeding pigs, chickens and ducks and changing their waters. Most of the other work we did was placed also outside; gardening/weeding and fixing fences but we also cleaned some parts of the house on a wet weather. We did also some hay work;
… read more we lifted hay bolts to trucks and then unloaded them to a barn, which was a rough evening. But after hard work we got rewarded with beer and delicious dinners. Mac grilled some proper steaks a few times!
Family's dogs are great! Especially Socks stole a piece of our hearts. Socks is overly excited and happy; he always wants more and more attention and demands some belly scratchs, but we sure were always ready to give him some!
We thought that we'd work for 4-5 hours a day 5 days a week but it turned out that we worked everyday. But sure everyday wasn't a full work day and hosts were flexible to arrange us a chance to get our car inspected one forenoon. And we also did one longer work day to get one day off for a Wellington day trip. There's a 40min train from Upper Hutt.
Thank you Angela and Mac, you are friendly and hospitable and it was a fun week at your place!Du kannst nur Workawayer mit aktiver Mitgliedschaft kontaktieren.
Vom Host für Workawayer (Mollie & Alex)
Well, we're late posting this but...these guys were amazing. Good fun, hard working and we miss them.
Vom Workawayer (Mollie & Alex) für Host
Angela and Mac took us in and made us instantly feel at home. The communication was easy breazy and they made sure we were comfortable with our work before leaving us to do our thing. Manchita, Max, and Socks gave us steadfast company and we enjoyed our daily farm animal chores. Mac always kept us laughing, made sure we were making use of the spa
… read more pool, and taught us quite a bit about farm life. Angela cooked lovely meals with lots of home grown produce and meat, invited us to join her in some of her community relations as a city council woman, and shared lots of local knowledge with us. Our month at Dunvegan was incredible and we couldn't recommend spending time with these two any more highly!Du kannst nur Workawayer mit aktiver Mitgliedschaft kontaktieren.
Vom Host für Workawayer (Veronica & Jose Pedro)
This couple were fantastic. English being their second language was no barrier. They're great cooks and know about water systems and other handy stuff like electrical wiring etc. We got so much done while they were here and has a lot of fun.
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Vom Host für Workawayer (Pablo & Yanina )
These two were just great. To have someone who loved food and prepared to cook it was an absolute godsend to us. They also knew how to light a fire and keep it going. We are so busy that coming home to a warm home in the winter with delicious food prepared was such a pleasure and special to us. Yanina and Pablo are warm, caring and prepared to
… read more work hard on the farm and in the house. They cared for our animals like we would and took to it like ducks to water. We highly recommend them.
Vom Workawayer (Pablo & Yanina ) für Host
We have an amazing month in Angela & Mac´s house. They all the time make us feel that we were in our home, they are very generous and kindly. we enjoy our time in there feeding the animals, playing with Manchita and Rain, expending time with them in the weekends.
The place is very confortable and relaxing, It have a great view and you will have
… read more everything you need and more.
Angela advised us of the things we could do in Wellington and its surroundings.
We not only have a great experience there, we feel like part of the family.
Thank you very much for all!
Yanina & PabloDu kannst nur Workawayer mit aktiver Mitgliedschaft kontaktieren.
Vom Workawayer (Fabrizio & Harmonie) für Host
We really loved the farm life at Angela and Mac's house! They are a lovely couple, very friendly, kind and always in a good mood! The accomodation was great as well as Angela's yummy dishes! We've also been very lucky to be invited to Angela's father annual hunters dinner where we tasted different wild meat courses and delicious desserts,
… read more definitely the best meal we've ever had in New Zealand!
Our main job was feeding the pigs, the cows and the sheep everyday, plus other works like weeding the garden, planting grapes, spreading compost and cleaning. During the weekends we helped Mac to build a fence stile and to move Lucky to her new pig-shed (that was hard!) where she gave birth to 5 cute piglets a few days after!
Upper hutt is also a good starting point to visit Wellington and surroundings (Putangirua Pinnacles, Cape Palliser etc.). Angela will give you good advices on how to plan your excursions.
Thank you very much for making us feel part of your family and for your great hospitality! We hope to see you again in Europe! We wish you the best!Du kannst nur Workawayer mit aktiver Mitgliedschaft kontaktieren.
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