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Description
We are a Japanese/French family of 4 with 2 big shepherd dogs, goats, chickens, etc. We live in a cute, 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, cinema, board games, family hikes, sports.
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
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.
We like proactive, hard working and responsible individuals who are not afraid to get dirty. You need to be in good physical condition.
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
French: Fluent
Japanese: FluentThis host offers a language exchange
Nous avons 2 jeunes enfants qui parlent français. Nous voulons leur donner l'occasion de pratiquer avec un maximum d'interlocuteurs.
Accommodation
Japanese style room with futon 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.
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
Can possibly accept pets
Only if pet lives outside the house. All our animals live outside.
How many Workawayers can stay?
One
Hours expected
Flexibility required, minimum 6 hours.
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they are all really warm hearted and helped me with planning my next trips around Japan and gave me some really good recommendations.
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they are all really warm hearted and helped me with planning my next trips around Japan and gave me some really good recommendations.
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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
