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8 Nov 2023
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Kia ora! Nau mai Haere mai!
We, that is my Kiwi partner Jordan, our 4 year old daughter Aylah, our nearly 1 year old daughter Juliette and myself, Anna. Together we live with our gorgeous cats Nero and Nala, our 4 fish and our 5 chickens on an 800m section in Huntsbury. Our home is surrounded by walking tracks, the port hills, the adventure park and the river, around 4km from the city Centre.
We are in the process of transforming our home into a self (community) reliant and sustainable home following permaculture principles.
We are really passionate about permaculture, herbal medicine, sustainable living and everything that comes with this.
We are always looking for people who would like to be part of this journey and would love to hear from you.
Our current projects include:
•looking after the vegetable garden
•weeding and prepping the soil
•setting up an aquaponics set up
•growing seeds and transplanting seedlings
•building garden frames for the raspberry beds
•building a pizza oven
•harvesting herbs and drying them
But are also super keen to hear your ideas about different projects.
We are happy to share our knowledge and learn together with you/from you.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We have previously travelled as helpers ourself and stayed and learned from locals. In exchange for 4 hours of work a day you can stay at our home and share our kai (food) with us.
We live in a newly renovated house in a quiet suburb (Huntsbury) in Christchurch close to the adventure park, the river and awesome walking tracks. Our home is around 4km away from the city centre
We are looking for people who would like to stay at least 3 days and a max of a week. This can possibly be extended
Let me know if you have any questions:)
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
We are in the intermediate stages of our permaculture adventure and would love some help with several different projects such as:
-setting up water storage and grey water collection
-building solar food dryer
-weeding
-growing seeds and transplanting seedlings
-building outdoor furniture
-building garden frames for the raspberry beds
•harvesting herbs and drying them
-oiling the decks
If you have any other ideas and/or specific experiences we would love to hear about them and potentially include them as well.
If you don’t have any experience, we are happy to teach you some stuff and/or figure it out together. There is also always heaps of weeding and soil improvement to do (adding buckets and buckets of wood chips and green bio mass)
Languages
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
Spanish: Beginner
French: BeginnerThis 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
You will have your own bedroom in our home (or your own studio downstairs pending availability) and we would share the rest of the house and the garden area:)
What else ...
We often go fishing/tramping on the weekends and you are welcome to join us if you choose to:)
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
This host has indicated that they love having digital nomads stay.
Space for parking camper vans
This host can provide space for campervans.
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Hours expected
4 hours a day, 5 days a week
Feedback (9)
Our girls very much enjoyed playing with them and we had some wonderful evenings :)
Recommend meeting them!
All the best you guys :)
We were very comfortable in the house with them and the kids, helping them around the house but mostly the garden, which is amazingly beautiful together with the house and surroundings. Anna gave us different tasks to do for a few days which we could do freely and easily and still enjoy our afternoons… read more
Our eldest daughter still talks about them. Enjoy the rest of your trip. We high.y recommend Mara and Jenna to everyone :)
The work was easy to manage and we were able to organize our own time, which was great for exploring things. Anna gave us… read more
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Our girls very much enjoyed playing with them and we had some wonderful evenings :)
Recommend meeting them!
All the best you guys :)
We were very comfortable in the house with them and the kids, helping them around the house but mostly the garden, which is amazingly beautiful together with the house and surroundings. Anna gave us different tasks to do for a few days which we could do freely and easily and still enjoy our afternoons… read more
Our eldest daughter still talks about them. Enjoy the rest of your trip. We high.y recommend Mara and Jenna to everyone :)
The work was easy to manage and we were able to organize our own time, which was great for exploring things. Anna gave us… read more
Der Austausch war einfach und unkompliziert.
Nach einem Frühstück haben wir für ca. 4h im Garten gearbeitet. Unkraut entfernen, die Terasse streichen und die Wege Saubermachen waren dabei unsere Aufgaben.
Abends durften wir lecker selbstgekochtes essen gemeinsam mit der Familie genießen.
Das… read more
They are such an inspiring family, and living their life to the fullest. The kids are so polite and heartwarming, and the garden project is… read more
We would love to come back and see you again at some point.
Lots of love,
Manuel and Cristina
She helped us with weeding our garden. Enjoyed having her around and would recommend her to others:)
They helped us plastering an outside area and helped with the chickens:)
Would highly recommend hosting them:)
