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Description
We are Edward and Lydia, a retired English couple living in a remote hamlet in Northern France, with a developing food-forest permaculture garden, a comfortable but rickety farmhouse and various outbuildings in assorted states of decay and renovation. We eat well, cooking food fresh from our garden and from the local markets, and we enjoy music and dance.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Learn with us rather than from us about permaculture, agroforestry, and traditional and modern building techniques.
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
There's always stuff to do: pruning, digging, harvesting, building renovation and maintenance, housework, weeding. Practical skills are helpful, but we like to share what we have learned and to learn new skills together.
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
French: Intermediate
Accommodation
Accommodation is usually in basic but comfortable bedrooms in the main house. In summer, possibly camping in a dedicated camping field. Bath and shower provided. Meals are taken together round the kitchen or dining-room table; everyone helps - if not with the cooking, then with the clearing up. Lunch is the main meal of the day, breakfast and supper are smaller meals. Diet is omnivorous, leaning heavily towards the plant-based and minimising ultra-processed food - we are happy to welcome and cater for vegetarians.
What else ...
We're a few km from local towns etc, and there's no public transport, so mostly we rely on the fibre internet connection for our entertainment. Bicycles available to explore the local countryside and to go into town. We would collect travellers from the mainline railway station, about 35km away.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
We have a 1Gb/s fibre internet connection, and quiet desk space. However, it would be the volunteer's responsibility to comply with French social security and workplace law.
Space for parking camper vans
Smaller vans only. Larger vans will find it difficult to negotiate the track to the camping field.
Can possibly accept pets
Well-behaved dogs are acceptable; however, we are surrounded by farms with livestock often including suckler cows (suckler cows get very aggressive towards dogs and their owners, instinctively protecting their young), and the dog will need to come to an accommodation with the Tom, the resident cat.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
2-3 hours most days, occasionally more.
