Volunteer in South west France

Description

We are Mo and David. We moved to this very beautiful part of South West France in November 2007 after 15 years running a Retreat Centre near Canterbury Kent. We are both artists, David has many skills and has a brilliant woodworking workshop. He is also fully skilled in building and maintenance. David and Mo built a kiln last summer and Mo is returning to making ceramics just for fun, after a long absence. Volunteers would be welcome to use the pottery and art studios in their spare time.
We live 15 minutes from a small town in a rural area, so if you like a quiet life this is the perfect place.
We have about four and half hectars (about 12 acres) of land, which consists of woodland and meadows, a rose garden surrounds the house, we also have a thriving organic vegetable garden.

Types of help and learning opportunities

Gardening
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance

Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

We would be pleased to teach some wood working skills in our well equipped workshop, we also have a pottery workshop and gas kiln, we are happy to teach clay work, throwing etc.

Help

General gardening, grass cutting, hedge trimming, rose pruning, looking after the vegi garden.
Various building projects this spring. Help with preparing meals and clearing up.

Languages

Languages spoken
English: Fluent

This host offers a language exchange
This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
You can contact them directly for more information.

Accommodation

We have one large double bedroom in the house which would be available if we have no other guests.

What else ...

We would like to have volunteers who have had a little experience in gardening and the use of gardening equipment, i.e. strimmers, hedge cutters, etc. We would like maximum of two people at a time, and we would suggest a one week stay to start with. If we are happy together we would like to make some longer stays. Time off can be spent in the Woodworking and/or Pottery Workshops. This is a very rural part of France, one and half hours from Pyrenees mountains, and two hours from Biarritz. There are many walks from the house, and we have bi-cycles to lend the workawayer.

A little more information

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  Internet access

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  Limited internet access

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  We have pets

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  We are smokers

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  Can host families

Space for parking camper vans

We have plenty of room to park a Camper van, no limitation.

Can possibly accept pets

Small obedient dogs.

How many Workawayers can stay?

Two

Hours expected

5 hrs