Gardening help at our beachfront, organic lifestyle-farm in West Auckland, New Zealand

New Zealand

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23/05/2022
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Come and join us if you love gardening, delicious wholesome food, nature, fishing, healthy lifestyle and music. We have all sorts of musical instruments and our family love making music.
We (my husband, our four adult boys and I) are living on a lifestyle farm with 2 milking goats, many chickens, ducks, geese and a home vege garden and orchard.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Gardening
DIY and building projects
General Maintenance
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Animal Care
UN sustainablity goals this host is trying to achieve
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What's this?
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
You can experience New Zealand lifestyle farm living.
Enjoy New Zealand lifestyle farm living and only 30 minutes from downtown Auckland. Explore all the beautiful beaches, streams, dams, bush walks around the area. We have our own beach that you can fish off, kayak or swim.
Help
Help needed to maintain our 5 acre lifestyle farm - gardening and maintenance.
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Malay: Fluent
Chinese (Mandarin): Fluent
Chinese (Cantonese): 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
Own room and delicious and wholesome food
A little more information
- Internet access
- Limited internet access
- We have pets
- We are smokers
- Can host families
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
18 hours a week, 2 days off

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(5.0)

Communication:
(5.0)

05/03/2021

Left by Workawayer (Maxime & Caroline) for host

Charity’s place has been our home for almost 8 months… even if we initially planned to stay 2 weeks only. We had such a great time there, the family is outstanding, so welcoming and willing to share a lot. The atmosphere in the house is really nice, you’ll always have someone playing music, or some delicious food cooking on the stove….
Charity’s… read more

(Excellent )

09/01/2021

Left by Workawayer (Mikey & Nancy) for host

We stayed at the Chias for two great weeks. They are a brilliant friendly family and the best workaway experience! After a rocky time at a previous workaway we were very nervous about trying another one, luckily Charity and the family were brilliant, warm and welcoming. Very much a busy, musical family but they always had time for the workawayers.… read more

(Excellent )

30/08/2020

Left by Workawayer (Andrea & Jon) for host

We are so glad we have met the Chia's family; Charity, Timothy and her 3 sons. They were very welcoming, relax and made us felt at home straightaway. Charity and her family are very knowledgeable and talented musicians. Discussions were interesting and often fun and it was always nice to listen to them music or to play board games.
We had our own… read more

(Excellent )

01/08/2020

Left by Workawayer (Andries & Sinead) for host

Our stay with Charity was really nice. she's a wonderful and kind person, as are her husband and sons! All of her freshly made food was amazing we were never hungry! We had a variation of jobs which were very rewarding. The property was beautiful, and has a private beach!! We loved it here, highly recommend!

(Excellent )

28/06/2020

Left by Workawayer (Fanny & Philippe) for host

My husband, my two young sons and I stayed one week at Charity's place. It was a great experience for each of us. Charity has a beautiful farm with a huge garden and we worked mostly in the garden, planting trees and building fences. Charity is the most kindest and strongest person I've ever met. She knows everything - how to cook delicious… read more

(Excellent )

30/05/2020

Left by Workawayer (Elena) for host

What a beautiful experience stay with the Chia's Family!! I've been with them for 6 weeks during the lockdown doing just small works to manage the house, like cleaning, cooking and general help Charity, the mum, for 3-4h by day, 18h a week.
I had my own room and everyday fresh goats milk, fruits from the orchard, smoothies, cereals and homemade… read more

(Excellent )

25/05/2020

Left by Workawayer (Jossian) for host

I stayed with Charity and her wonderful family for a little over 2 weeks. It felt as if I became a part of the family because they were all so welcoming.
I played board games and cards most nights with Charity's three sons (Caleb, Timmy and Dan), another workawayer that was woofing at the time, and Dan's friend Jimmy ,who was boarding at the… read more

(Excellent )

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