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Description
Sleepy Hollow farm is Paul, Sharon & Lottie’s home and has been established over the last 10 years. We are a Christian homeschooling family keen on self sufficiency and organic practices. Amongst a menagerie of different creatures, we run 2 milking cows and 2 pigs, handful of sheep and 2 x alpacas. We also process the wool (Paul is a shearer)and enjoy spinning it and if interested you can learn that too. We have an ever growing productive vegetable garden including a range of summer berries and vegetables and we also breed our own livestock for meat. This is all for our own consumption and to share with family/friends.
The kitchen, centred around the slow combustion stove, is always busy with the baking of organic home made bread and the making of cheeses. Through the summer it really ramps up as we process and can as much extra produce as possible, with a fair bit of experimentation and fun.
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Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Light gardening
Creative DIY projects
Animal Care
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Light maintenance
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Interests
DIY & crafts
Gardening
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UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
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Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Share our experiences as we attempt to be as self sufficient as possible. We love to encourage a barter/trade/gift economy within our local community. learning possibilities including cheese making, bread making, wool processing and spinning, shearing, butchering, harvesting honey, making soap and more. Paul is milling timber regularly, shearing sheep , extracting honey from our bees at certain times of the year as well as home butchery, and general farm duties. Many things to do and learn. Highlights from previous workaway visiting guests are the food, fun and animals .
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Help
We are most keen for some extra hands to manage the large veggie garden(weeding, mowing, picking the produce, then preserving the produce, mulching, digging, pruning) and help with the care for the animals.(feeding them, moving them to a new paddock ) If you are interested in helping/learning with the sourdough bread and cheese making (every 2 to 3 days making either camembert or a hard cheese).
....So we are looking for people keen to work alongside us as well as being able to do tasks independently once being shown what & how to do it. At this stage it is volunteer exchange for food/accom. We are not a business earning money from our produce. -
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Languages spoken
English: FluentThis host offers a language exchange
This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
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Accommodation
Accomodation is a caravan and we are currently fitting out a large bus , (happy for help with this too) There is also a single room at the house available.
You can join us for all your meals or prepare your own with food provided or a mix of both. We grow, make, bake and butcher nearly all our own organic food. -
What else ...
We are near to the beautiful seaside village of Wynyard where you can grab a coffee in one of the cafes (not better than Sharons coffee though), here are also the main supermarkets and transport links for Launceston and Hobart.
We are totally surrounded by forestry full of beautiful trails to explore as well as the rivers and waterfalls. Explore the forested local area to find the perfect relaxation location or to birdwatch.
We are happy to help out with a bit of sight seeing & town trips locally if you don't have transport. -
A little more information
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Internet access
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Limited internet access
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We have pets
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We are smokers
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Can host families
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Space for parking camper vans
At the house there is wifi Reception is pretty good there.
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How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
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Surrounded by lots of animals, nature and warm-hearted people, I had a truly wonderful experience.
It was a priceless time.
First of all, the family of three gave me a warm welcome.
Although my English wasn’t perfect, they spoke to me slowly and clearly. Thanks to that, I was able to relax and enjoy my … read more
The whole family (and Kylie of course) was so kind and welcoming - we very quickly felt we were in a home away from home. They are such inspiring people - we took away many skills and learnt so much in … read more
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Surrounded by lots of animals, nature and warm-hearted people, I had a truly wonderful experience.
It was a priceless time.
First of all, the family of three gave me a warm welcome.
Although my English wasn’t perfect, they spoke to me slowly and clearly. Thanks to that, I was able to relax and enjoy my … read more
The whole family (and Kylie of course) was so kind and welcoming - we very quickly felt we were in a home away from home. They are such inspiring people - we took away many skills and learnt so much in … read more
