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Hi
I live on a small organic rural property in Victoria, 1 hour away from Falls Creek Ski Resort and beautiful Kiewa River. It is 45 minutes from Albury/Wodonga which has the closest Airport and Railway Station.
I am establishing a Permaculture lifestyle & occasionally host healing art workshops. Eventually I hope to be having regular retreats, there is still a lot to do before this would become a reality. My youngest son has just finished his permaculture certification and he is busy gardening and needs some help! I am an artist and chef and love to cook using ingredients from the garden, I usually bake sour-dough bread and use our own fresh eggs for breakfast and more. My son and I love meeting people from all different backgrounds and cultures and also love travel.
If you decide to come and visit, you would be able to explore this wonderful part of the world as well as get to know us. During your stay you could help around the place for a few hours each day in exchange for accommodation and food. Also there would be a chance to explore yourself and your own creativity as well.
Our farm is on 7 acres, and there is always something to do, growing seedlings, weeding and planting vegetables in the vegie garden, helping with our chickens, maintaining chestnut orchard and gathering during the autumn, various painting and renovation projects. (Including doing up an old school-bus for accommodation). There is a range of projects to work on and it depends on what you feel you can handle. Most people stay for longer than planned as it is such a nice area with lots of places to drive to and explore.
I have a spare room as well as lots of room for tents or you can park your van under a shady tree!
We have had lots of people stay over the years through WWOOF and Workaway and had a great time with everyone we met. We welcome people who share their favourite things to cook and look forward to meeting new Friends!
Hope to see you soon!
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Interests
Culture
Events & social
Politics / Social justice
Vegetarian or vegan
Van life
Self development
Sustainability
Pets
Movies & TV
LGBTQ
Writing
Plant care
Photography
Music
Gardening
Drawing & painting
Cooking & food
Carpentry
Books
Art & design
Animals
Yoga / Wellness
Nature
Hiking
Fitness
Dancing
Cycling
Camping
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
It is a lovely area where we live, with natural rivers and mountains. We love meeting people from all different cultures and love having great conversation over dinner! All the people we have met have enjoyed staying with us and we have enjoyed meeting and getting to know them. Life is pretty simple here and we live a quiet life-style - love music, art and the environment and are passionate about improving this property so that food is grown everywhere!
Help
There is gardening in our vegetable patch, and around the farm, some help is needed with cleaning as would be required in your own home, from time to time we have renovation projects going on and would like some help with painting, building, general maintenance, I love colour and have tile mosaic, decorative paintings projects and more going on from time to time. Help with cleaning out our small chicken shed, weeding, blackberry slashing, chestnut gathering during the season.
Currently I could use some help with:
Mowing
Clearing a part of the paddock
Tree pruning
Tree planting
Building raised beds
Renovation of part of the house
Painting
Mosaik Tiling
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Dutch: Beginner
Accommodation
In caravan, separate studio, tent - we live in a small rustic farmhouse. Share meals (even have a turn cooking your favourite food) with family and be a part of preparation and cleaning up.
What else ...
Falls Creek Ski Resort is one hour away and is beautiful to explore at all seasons. In summer the rivers are great to swim in and there is horse riding and mountain biking in the area. It helps if you have your own transport but when we go into nearby Mt. Beauty for shopping, you are welcome to come along.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
During your stay you are welcome to use wifi. Currently our small acreage is in a mobile blackspot, so having online access via wifi is available.
Space for parking camper vans
I have lots of spots on the property that would be suitable to park vehicles, camper vans or motorhomes.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
My animals / pets
The Chooks
Teddy Waddy
Terra
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We helped clean the chook hutch, strim larges areas, clear the veggie patch, build fires, help reorganise things and start work on redoing the bathroom!
Sigrid is a wonderful chef (you will be very lucky with all the meals!) and… read more
At the farm, we stayed in a cozy studio separate from the main house. It was the… read more
he was good company and was willing to try his hand at whatever was needed. Even though he was not familiar with some things, including using a brush cutter and whipper snipper. He got quite good at using those!
At the time he was with us, we had a bit of an overflow so we set up a bit of a 'glamping ' tent and he… read more
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We helped clean the chook hutch, strim larges areas, clear the veggie patch, build fires, help reorganise things and start work on redoing the bathroom!
Sigrid is a wonderful chef (you will be very lucky with all the meals!) and… read more
At the farm, we stayed in a cozy studio separate from the main house. It was the… read more
he was good company and was willing to try his hand at whatever was needed. Even though he was not familiar with some things, including using a brush cutter and whipper snipper. He got quite good at using those!
At the time he was with us, we had a bit of an overflow so we set up a bit of a 'glamping ' tent and he… read more
They are both welcoming and open people who made sure I had everything I needed.
It was a relaxing and free environment, I could get food whenever, be in my separate room out in the main house, walk around and there were no set times to work I just did a few hours at my own pace.
I chose to weed the… read more
I am not good at speaking English, but they try to understand what I said.
I have many memories such as blackberry, cooking, bushwalk and so on.
Every memories I will never forget.
I am so happy to see you, and I’m glad my first workaway was Sigrid and Alex.
I wanna… read more
Absolutely essential you try her Tagine aswell.… read more
A warm, loving and extremely kind person like you guys will forever hold a place in my heart.
Thank you for being so genuinely wonderful, helped me searching a job in Falls creek, I had a great winter season on the mountain.
Asian food Therapy was… read more
