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3 Feb 2026
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Description
We are a family of 4 with a 10 year old daughter and a 8 year old son who live on a 1 ha lifestyle property. We enjoy sharing our place and our sustainable living experience with a wide range of people. Nearby attractions include the Bay of Islands, Waitangi Treaty Grounds, Ngawha natural hot pools, Kauri forests, beaches and the tourist town of Paihia.
"The Northland family whose food forest feeds - with 250 edible plants - sustains them" - Stuff News, June 2023
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
Interests
Yoga / Wellness
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We love sharing our place with a wide range of other people and cultural exchange opportunities include events with other homeschool families, local environmental projects, garden workshops, crop-swaps (events where the local community all come together to share produce and knowledge), social events and family outings. We learn so much ourselves from having others staying with us.
Projects involving children
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Help
We are looking for help in our organic food forests and gardens. We will be doing tasks together alongside each other and sharing skills so no previous experience is necessary, but you will need at least moderate fitness. We are experienced gardeners and our interests include sustainable living, regenerative agriculture, permaculture, food forests, edible landscapes, seed saving, syntropic agroforestry, biodynamics and Maori organics (hua parakore). There will be lots of opportunity to learn and exchange knowledge and ideas,
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Accommodation
Accommodation is in a large room in our house and we eat together. Parking for self contained vehicles is also possible.
All meals are provided. We are vegetarian with eggs, and dairy (milk, butter, cheese, yoghurt) . Most vegetables and fruit are organic fresh from our gardens.
What else ...
If you are travelling by bus we can pick you up from the Paihia bus station.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Space for parking camper vans
This host can provide space for campervans.
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
My animals / pets
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I really enjoyed getting stuck in with the gardening and Graeme taught me so much about permacultures and food forests. They are a hardworking family with a passion for the garden trail and the workshop events they host which you can read more about on their website: Northland Edible Garden… read more
I really enjoyed my stay with them. The work was very satisfying and I also could do things that I liked. The food, vegetarian, was straight from the garden and I really enjoyed that. So many fruits as well Ripe from the trees.
They got their milk, yoghurt and cheeses… read more
She is a knowledgeable and experienced gardener, who travels with her own special tool to cut off dead dahlia flower heads. She 's fun, interesting, enthusiastic and a hard worker. She's also helpful, no fuss and low maintenance. Marian had imitative and even got our kids to enjoy tidying up their… read more
She is an experienced gardener with many skills, works well with others or alone and is a steady, hard worker. We particularly appreciated her cleaning out the house gutters and an epic stint lawnmowing. Highly… read more
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I really enjoyed getting stuck in with the gardening and Graeme taught me so much about permacultures and food forests. They are a hardworking family with a passion for the garden trail and the workshop events they host which you can read more about on their website: Northland Edible Garden… read more
I really enjoyed my stay with them. The work was very satisfying and I also could do things that I liked. The food, vegetarian, was straight from the garden and I really enjoyed that. So many fruits as well Ripe from the trees.
They got their milk, yoghurt and cheeses… read more
She is a knowledgeable and experienced gardener, who travels with her own special tool to cut off dead dahlia flower heads. She 's fun, interesting, enthusiastic and a hard worker. She's also helpful, no fuss and low maintenance. Marian had imitative and even got our kids to enjoy tidying up their… read more
She is an experienced gardener with many skills, works well with others or alone and is a steady, hard worker. We particularly appreciated her cleaning out the house gutters and an epic stint lawnmowing. Highly… read more
