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Description
Experience farm living out in the country with us in majestic southern Chile.
We are childhood sweethearts who have been happily married for many decades, originally from Southern California, the Oregon Coast and down here for ten years and for the balance of our lives.
We both have always been hard workers but at the end of the day it’s time for fun, laughter, music (gringo), wine, the national beverage, pisco sour and of course, food.
It is always fun to share life's experiences and stories with our guests from different countries of the world. We have hosted 33 couchsurfers and Workawayers from 23 countries and always enjoyed the cultural exchange with them.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Language practice
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Farmstay help
General Maintenance
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Having ten years living experience in our adopted country, our cultural exchange to share will be our perception of Chile through the eyes of U.S. expats. Most of our friends are from Chile and other Latin America countries offering wonderful insights into this warm and friendly culture. We can share some of the traditions, food and beverages found in this interesting corner of the world.
Help
We have several acres in the south of Chile that we are restoring back to its natural state with native vegetation to offer the wildlife a safe clean environment in which to live.
We are removing invasive plants brought here originally by the Spaniards and later by the Germans. We will resume planting native vegetation towards the end of autumn and making some stone sun basking areas for lizards and other critters. Utilizing the running water on the property, we now have our first seasonal frog pond complete with tadpoles and soon frogs.
We could use help with an eleven meter greenhouse and irrigation system designed, and then the fun part, planting fruits and vegetables.
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Spanish: IntermediateThis host offers a language exchange
We will share our English and hopefully you can offer to improve our rather poor Spanish.
Accommodation
We offer a nice private comfortable bedroom and your own bathroom. We will be happy to share meals and beverages. You will have access to the kitchen but as we are vegetarians, no meat or fish is to be cooked.
This a tobacco free home.
What else ...
We live 25 Km. down a beautiful road following a huge lake from Puerto Varas, out into the country. There is a bus that runs every 20 minutes a short walk from our house with a covered bus stop, yes, it rains a lot here. We rent a comfortable farmhouse on an active sheep farm surrounded with a beautiful garden and a majestic view of Volcan Osorno, and the Andes mountains.
The lake, Lago Llanquihue, is less than one Km from here and offers, in addition to it's beauty, swimming, windsurfing, fishing and kayaking. We don't fish but do have two nice kayaks we can share.
Snowboarding/skiing on Osorno is 30 minutes away, trekking, mountaineering, rock climbing, white water rafting, fishing and cycling are popular here and can be experienced nearby.
We are nature lovers who live a simple,happy life shared with dear friends from all points of the compass. We are vegetarian and generally follow a healthy diet, but can't resist some of the local desserts and other treats found here, life's too short.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
How many Workawayers can stay?
One
Hours expected
Maximum 5 hours a day, 5 days a week
Feedback (6)
It was too bad the weather was so poor as we would loved to taken her to more interesting places and share this special area we call home.
Julie was always ready to help out with anything we were doing and fun to share the kitchen with.
We wish her all the best on her adventures!
Wendy and Greg always made sure I had everything I needed. We spend a lot of time talking, exchanging point of view of the… read more
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It was too bad the weather was so poor as we would loved to taken her to more interesting places and share this special area we call home.
Julie was always ready to help out with anything we were doing and fun to share the kitchen with.
We wish her all the best on her adventures!
Wendy and Greg always made sure I had everything I needed. We spend a lot of time talking, exchanging point of view of the… read more
They’re finishing to build their shop and house and soon… read more
They are very open-minded, relaxed, friendly and caring couple :), always helping others and enjoyed to talk with them about interesting topics. (and with Wendy we had our "reading… read more
She is always welcome to live and work with us and has become a good friend.
