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Description
We are a Japanese/French family of 4 with 2 big shepherd dogs, goats, bees, and chickens. We live in a beautiful, secluded little valley where we renovate old Japanese traditional buildings, do permaculture (swales, various earthworks, fruit forest, mobile chicken farming, etc). At the moment, we are trying to develop food stuff based on eggs, berries, medicinal plants. We love music, high culture, philosophy, real art, cinema, board games, family hikes, archery, fencing, sports.
NOTE ON AVAILABILITY: We would need someone from around mid July, 9, or 10th.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Language practice
Help with Eco Projects
Teaching
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Babysitting and creative play
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
Interests
Culture
Movies & TV
Videography
Technology
Pets
Farming
Astronomy
Writing
Carpentry
Cooking & food
Gardening
Languages
Photography
Plant care
Music
History
DIY & crafts
Books
Art & design
Architecture
Animals
Cycling
Water sports
Hiking
Outdoor activities
Mountain
Winter sports
Team sports
Nature
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
You will discover rural Japan, traditional buildings, cob constructions. You will perform lots of varied tasks one need to do on a homestead, skills that could be helpful in anyone's life, especially if you are interested in sustainable, off the grid lifestyles. We speak French and Japanese in addition to English.
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Help
We are renovating traditional Japanese houses (flooring, ceilings, painting, cob, etc) do various landscaping projects (brushcutting, stone retaining walls, pond making, logging, wood splitting, infrastructure building), have a few goats, chickens and dogs that need simple care like dog playing, feeding, egg collecting, coop cleaning. We also have a big garden.
Our two boys are very sociable and love meeting and playing with new people. Spending time with them will be great.
IMPORTANT NOTE: We only want proactive, hard working, and responsible individuals who are not afraid to get dirty. Work ethic is primordial to us, if you are the rough type who rushes through work, or of you prioritize your phone, please do not apply. You need to be in good physical condition. We also want hygienic people who wash their hands when coming from outside, after toilet, and shower everyday, washing hair every 2 days at least.
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
French: Fluent
Japanese: FluentThis host offers a language exchange
Nous avons deux jeunes enfants qui parlent français. Nous voulons leur donner l'occasion de pratiquer avec un maximum d'interlocuteurs. Si vous êtes une famille francophone avec des enfants, contactez-nous.
Accommodation
Japanese style room with bed in separate pavilion.
We cook a mix of well balanced Japanese and Western foods, bake our own bread, make a lot of BBQs, even during winter. We don't do kosher, halal, nor vegetarian/vegan so please, do not apply if you have such diets.
What else ...
Our land is surrounded by forests and mountains with small temples and beautiful scenery at walking distance. We are about 50 minutes north of Okayama city/Kurashiki in Kibichuo-cho.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
My animals / pets
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This is the best Workaway I did so far.
The work was always interesting and I learned a lot of things. We do so many things that the day goes by very quickly ! The main task is taking care of the animals and everyday you get some various tasks such as… read more
No day passed was similar to the next, always outside with… read more
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This is the best Workaway I did so far.
The work was always interesting and I learned a lot of things. We do so many things that the day goes by very quickly ! The main task is taking care of the animals and everyday you get some various tasks such as… read more
No day passed was similar to the next, always outside with… read more
Highly recommended.
they are all really warm hearted and helped me with planning my next trips around Japan and gave me some really good recommendations.
The… read more
Since I only travelled through Japan for a month, it was a great way to explore the life of the Japanese countryside in addition to visiting its beautiful cities. It was great fun working together with Simon on the land, Kei provided… read more
My tasks during the day consisted mostly of different kinds of gardening work in the outside area -… read more
The work was diverse and rewarding, the family was very welcoming and the food was absolutely amazing. Work doesn't feel like work in this little paradise and where you work hard you also definitely get the opportunity to explore and enjoy various aspects of… read more
