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Hi! I'm Saskia, I am principally a street theatre performer, puppeteer and tap dance/lindy hop teacher and I live part time with my 17 year old daughter Dixie Lu. Next door lives a lovely French young couple with their 2 year old girl .In the double decker bus lives a circus and dance performer. Other lovely folk are coming and going at various times, meaning that this can be a dynamic place sometimes.
We live not far from Montbrun Bocage. This village and surroundings are a bit like living in community ,as we help each other, and there are always get togethers, little concerts, etc., to meet interesting people from all over the world .
We're in the process of creating a (semi!) self sufficient space that will integrate a creation studio, a workshop space for different classes/retreats , and various accommodations with vegetable growing and some keeping of animals (at the moment we have 4 cats and 2 donkeys!). The land is 4 hectare wild woodland and 1 hectare sloping prairie.
The help that needs to be doing is mainly building projects (traditional and non traditional methods), and woodland work (clearing, wood collection, building steps, walkways, cabins). It's more or less all outdoor work. Anyone with building / carpentry experience, or with permaculture knowledge would be especially welcome.Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We love to exchange skills! You will be in a beautiful surrounding, in full nature in the foothills of the French Pyrenees, get to know the donkeys, experience how to live in a community (meaning, around the local village) with a local artisan market, lovely people who like to live off grid, enjoy a basic life style...
Help
We always need help with general maintenance (some strimming, veg garden chores, woodland etc), up keeping the buildings, chopping and splitting wood, some computer tasks, and building various wooden structures.
The help is varied and seasonal, and always (usually!) fun.Languages spoken
English: Fluent
French: Fluent
Dutch: FluentAccommodation
We have a London Double Decker Bus with accommodation upstairs and downstairs, with kitchen and wood burner, and a lovely 1960's caravan for 2 . If that's all full there is also small bell tent available. The communal toilet is a compost toilet, and there is a communal solar shower.
All the accommodation is warm, dry, and cosy!What else ...
Where we are is kind of remote, would be good to have a vehicle but definitelly not crucial.
The project is happening as it unfolds, i.e. it's improvised! We live near the village of Montbrun Bocage which is a kind of Shangri-La, there is a wonderful market on Sundays and lots of great characters live in the area, including Spanish, German, Dutch, Italian, Japanese and Thai speakers.
We are vegetarian, therefore all meals will be meat free.A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Space for parking camper vans
There's a big nice place with electricity available
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
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Ohh, where to start?
Saskia‘s place is as joyful, exeptional and creative as herself. Even after weeks you will discover new details of the dedicated work she put in every area. I had the luck of staying in an old… read more
She was here together with another workawayer (Spiros) and they worked well together, which meant that I had some time for… read more
I had another workawayer (Mara) here at the same time and they worked well together. I sometimes had to do other things… read more
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Ohh, where to start?
Saskia‘s place is as joyful, exeptional and creative as herself. Even after weeks you will discover new details of the dedicated work she put in every area. I had the luck of staying in an old… read more
She was here together with another workawayer (Spiros) and they worked well together, which meant that I had some time for… read more
I had another workawayer (Mara) here at the same time and they worked well together. I sometimes had to do other things… read more
The work we did… read more
It was my first Workaway… read more
I just love… read more
Saskia lives in a beautiful part of the world and her place is lovely... I stayed in the caravan which was incredibly cosy and super quiet; especially when accompanied by Tigey, one of the resident cats :)
Saskia made me feel at home instantly, and the food she cooked… read more
He mainly helped with building tasks and had some good ideas, and did the work with care. It was a pleasure to have him around.
The tasks were almost all outdoors, and were mainly strimming, building stairs, clearing areas from nettles and brambles....not the greatest tasks but they did them without any complaint :) I had to go away for a few days for work, and… read more
She is a very welcoming host, and the place is great to have a peaceful time.
Merci pour l'accueil, et à une prochaine j'espère !
Noé & Cami
Saskia is a very attentive and caring person, and above all creative. She has an admirable push to create projects and carry them out and it was very nice to be able to participate in some of those projects.
I did several jobs, especially carpentry, helping to finish… read more
He helped with various tasks, splitting wood, digging trenches, strimming, painting,...
He's very helpful, works hard, and did everything with a smile. He's a very nice person and has a good sense of humour.
He can come back anytime!
She's super helpful, a great cook, positive and fun and a… read more
He's very skilled , he knows a lot , and helped mainly with electrics , but also some outdoor hard work and splitting wood (he's a strong guy;)
We had some interesting talks as well, it was a pleasure to have him around. He could only stay… read more
The place is very quiet and beautiful.
There is many very nice people around.
I definitely recommend this place for people who love nature and like creativity.
I already think about going back!
Merci beaucoup :)
Benoît
They both worked hard and with enthousiasm, and they were eager to learn. Good luck in Spain guys!
Thank you, Saskia for having us at your beautiful home!
This was our first host experience we had and it couldn't be better. Saskia was really kind, open minded and careful. When we arrived it felt like a safe place for us. From the first moment we knew that's a place, we like to stay! And it has been confirmed!
We had nice… read more
From hardcore strimming in the sun, weeding the veggie garden, painting the dance hall and workshop....
Once well explained they worked individual ,I could trust them to do the job well. We also had some nice talks and as time passed… read more
We had a great time there. We helped Saskia with the garden -diverse tasks- and some eco-building. We had two days of "chantier participatif" with her friends, to help put "enduit-terre' in her barn, that was super fun and we learnt some nice… read more
The idea was to go for a month and we ended up staying with her for three wonderful months!
With Sas and the genius of Dixie Lu we spent very beautiful moments during lunch, work mornings with coffee breaks and on weekends in the markets of Montbrun-Bocage, Saint Giron or Les… read more
I gave them varied work, some not always that interesting for them but they did every job with enthousiasm . They were very helpful, both hard workers, skilful and did all jobs with precision.
When they got really into a job /project… read more
Work wise I arrived at the end… read more
We would love to see you again (Actually ,Mat and i need some help for November to start with the barn... hint?)
Thank you guys and i… read more
There is always fun work to do around the grounds and Saskia has millions of brilliant ideas to make the place better. We had lots of fun feeding and caring for… read more
The work atmosphere was harmonious and happy. His beautiful land surrounded by green was a motivation in itself to help in the… read more
Work was… read more
Come back anytime Morna!
Xxx
I want to succeed in the making of the Clafoutis aux figues as well!
Thanks to Ben and Dixie Lu for their… read more
we had a really good time staying in their lovely wagon. lots of different jobs, making steps, preparing the potager, putting on the new roof for the old barn (that was really fun) and so on. they're very passionate people, always doing something, making stuff happen,… read more