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Join an artistic family and help with our garden oasis in Hepburn, Australia

Availability

  2025 

 Min stay requested: No minimum

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  • Description

    Description

    We are 2 artists / graphic designers with 2 boys (aged 16 and 21)... 16 year old still lives at home. 21 year old lives in Melbourne but home some weekends. We live less than 1.5 hours from Melbourne in idyllic Hepburn / Daylesford. We love our rural area for the creative community and the laid back country lifestyle. We have two cats, one is getting older and wants lots of attention, they are both smoochy. We also have 9 chickens who provide us lots of eggs!

  • Types of help and learning opportunities

    Types of help and learning opportunities

    Art Projects
    Gardening
    DIY and building projects
    Farmstay help
    Creating/ Cooking family meals
    Help around the house
    General Maintenance
  • Interests

    Interests

    Technology
    Events & social
    Sustainability
    Pets
    Culture
    Self development
    Movies & TV
    Music
    Books
    Art & design
    Photography
    Gardening
    Cooking & food
    Writing
    Performing arts
    Drawing & painting
    Animals
    Yoga / Wellness
    Nature
    Dancing
    Beach
  • Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    We run an art gallery in Hepburn that hosts many artistic events throughout the year. Everything from art classes and yoga to exhibitions and group shows, movie nights and events for our 3 annual festivals (Chillout in March, Words in Winter in August, Swiss Italian Fest in October). We love it when people like to get involved in our local community and offer many ways that you can do this.

    We will be sharing our home with you, we lead a busy lifestyle heading to Melbourne & Ballarat each week for work here and there. We invite people who are happy to pitch in and join us in the many and varied things we do and are also happy to be left to do some gardening or other tasks on their own sometimes too!

  • Help

    Help

    The stay will be at our home in a spare room. We both work full time lecturing, mentoring and running the gallery and need lots of help around the place, especially in the garden. We have two properties to maintain. In return for 5 hrs of work per day we will provide accommodation & all meals and good conversation!
    We have a pool to swim in summer and cosy central heating in winter. Duties will include:

    - Oiling our deck / painting a fence
    - Help create our veg garden weeding
    - Mowing / brush cutting
    - Pruning trees
    - Potting plants
    - Weeding / Watering
    - Mulching / Composting
    - Helping with meal preperations
    - Light cleaning duties (vacuum, mopping)

    We have space for up to 2 people in a spare rooms in the main house with a queen size bed. We also have accommodation at the gallery in a caravan.

  • Languages

    Languages spoken
    English: Fluent

    This host offers a language exchange
    I would like to learn dutch (Morgan) and Kim has some very basic Norwegian from her exchange there when she was 16 years old.

  • Accommodation

    Accommodation

    The stay will be at our home in a spare room in the main house. There is a queen size bed and seperate bathroom shared with our son. We both work full time lecturing, mentoring and running our gallery and need lots of help around the place. We have two properties to maintain. In return for 5 hrs of work per day we will provide accommodation & all meals and good conversation!

    We have a pool to swim in summer and cosy central heating in winter. At our second property there is a caravan available with a double bed. This has it's own facilities (kitchen) and a seperate bathroom with shower and large bath and toilet a few metres from the caravan.

  • What else ...

    What else ...

    Mixed diet. Veg ok. No Smoking Inside. Broadband Internet. Prefer 1 week stays, negotiable after first few days. Local store 20mins walk. Bikes available. Train & bus to Daylesford from Melb daily. Tourist area well know for natural mineral water, massage, bush walks.

  • A little more information

    A little more information

    • Internet access

    • Limited internet access

      Limited internet access

    • We have pets

    • We are smokers

    • Can host families

  • Can host digital nomads

    Can host digital nomads

    Our internet is pretty good for a regional area with average download of around 25mbps.

  • Space for parking camper vans

    Space for parking camper vans

    We have places to park a van at both properties with power available if needed.

  • How many Workawayers can stay?

    How many Workawayers can stay?

    More than two

Host ref number: 375822366798

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