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I'm retired. Antarctic expeditioner. I have travelled the world and lived and worked in deserts and Antarctica and many other places. Now I live a very pioneer-off-the-grid lifestyle in a forest I have built. The forest is 50 acres, cool temperate. Has all the main Tassie animals calling it home. Devils, quolls, birds, frogs, bettongs, bandicoots, and so on. The farm is off-grid, so we produce our own timber, food, water, power, and so on. Things to see in the local area. Mount Field National Park (including waterfalls and glowworms, mountain caves, Tasmania's tallest tree forest, Salmon Ponds, the Southern Hemisphere's oldest hatchery, trout fishing, and many hikes and trails in the local area)
Types of help and learning opportunities
Gardening
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Interests
Camping
Nature
Mountain
Gardening
Carpentry
Books
History
Animals
Sustainability
Culture
Farming
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
The skills I can pass on. How to build a farm system in an off-grid pioneer fashion. Learn how to choose trees and turn them into usable timber to be used in buildings or on the farm. How to grow food in a cool temperate sandstone landscape. How to collect water and move it around on a mountain landscape. I can teach people how to look after chickens and bees. Also during the warmer months, honey collection. Teach people how they can read a forest and care for the animals and plants that live within it. The world is full of knowledge, so always be willing to hear other people's ideas.
Help
Help is firewood collecting, gardening, and looking after the animals and plants and helping build any new project cabins.
Languages
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.
You can contact them directly for more information.
Accommodation
Either log cabins with a fireplace or glamping tent (with wood stove), or you can bring your own tent or accommodation
What else ...
Mount Field National Park. Salmon Ponds, Waterfalls.
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Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
This host has indicated that they love having digital nomads stay.
Space for parking camper vans
This host can provide space for campervans.
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
My animals / pets
Egg chickens
