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27 Mar 2024
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Description
We are an off-grid, family-run hostel in a peaceful forest on a hill in Tasmania, Australia. We are a friendly large family, and we love welcoming travellers from all backgrounds, religions, and nationalities. We love cooking fresh food from the garden and sharing our table with travellers. We love books, music, travel, history, languages, and meeting people from all over the world.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Farmstay help
General Maintenance
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
You will learn about off-grid living with solar power, wood-fueled hot water, rainwater, and composting toilets. You will be surrounded by native forests and our amazing wildlife. We are a culturally mixed family with a lot of traveling experience and we love to introduce people to life on our island state.
We are open about our faith in Jesus Christ. You may ask questions about this while you are here, and we are happy to answer. We are also happy to pray with you. But if you do not want to have spiritual discussions, you are still welcome.
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
My husband and I and our young family run our hostel. We need help from workawayers mostly with simple outdoor/gardening jobs like path edging, digging garden beds, mulching, and weeding — and with cleaning and guest care tasks at the hostel. If you have more experience, we would love your help with bigger projects, like blazing trails, building a deck, etc.
As long as you enjoy working in nature and getting your hands dirty, you will be happy here.
Languages
Languages spoken
Spanish: Fluent
French: Fluent
Tok Pisin: Fluent
German: Intermediate
Italian: Beginner
Chinese (Mandarin): BeginnerThis host offers a language exchange
Between us as a couple, we speak French (Christina), Spanish (Peirce) and Tok Pisin (Peirce), and Peirce is conversational in German. Peirce is also actively studying Italian and Mandarin and would love your help to learn either language! (In fact, as a language lover, Peirce loves to connect with travellers over whatever language they speak — and he has studied little bits and pieces of many languages, including: Arabic, Japanese, Hebrew, Koine Greek, Korean and Portuguese.)
Accommodation
Hostel-style bunks in a shared room with 5 others. Our hostel rooms are single-sex for safety and privacy. We have comfy sprung mattresses and clean bedding.
There is a communal kitchen and eating area, and an outdoor picnic shelter with a wood fired pizza oven. You can enjoy these facilities at any time. You are able to use our private laundry facilities. You are welcome to share our table for a healthy, delicious and substantial main meal each day. You will have access to our shared hostel kitchen and veggie garden for other meals.
What else ...
We are only 30 minutes from the capitol city, Hobart, a quaint and artistic city on the waterfront. We are close to several national parks with lots to see and do. We run a shuttle every day to local bus routes. This is a friendly, safe region, with lots of opportunities for farm work and for exploring wilderness areas.
A little more information
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
Your van is welcome here. We aren't able to power campervans, so if your unit needs power, you should bring a generator.
Can possibly accept pets
If your pet is friendly, we're open to hosting him / her. Contact us to discuss details.
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Hours expected
4 hours a day, 4 days a week
Feedback (17)
As traveller plans often change, we understand that Workawayers sometimes need to cancel on us. We've had numerous friendly cancellations *with notice*, and we're more than happy to adjust. Ricardo is our first traveller to fail to… read more
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As traveller plans often change, we understand that Workawayers sometimes need to cancel on us. We've had numerous friendly cancellations *with notice*, and we're more than happy to adjust. Ricardo is our first traveller to fail to… read more
I originally planned on staying for just one week, but that eventually turned into five months. I spent the first few weeks volunteering and enjoying the solitude, but with Peirce's help, I… read more
You will not regret having Matt to stay with you. Matt stayed five months with us, first as a volunteer and then as a guest at our hostel. Matt's an awesome human, who worked hard and carefully at all his tasks, including building a tiled patio outside our front door. We miss him already!
We would definitely recommend her as a great help.
Pierce has huge kindness and I respect him from hart.
and Caroline made me yummy dinner everyday.
The housemates are so nice and I got my best friends here.
There also have big nature. I worked for hostel with chilling and relaxing.
I can't write on all of my favorites about this hostel because I have so many… read more
Everything D + E set themselves do they did excellently. They worked on… read more
The beginning of my experience in Australia it wasn't that nice, but I took a good decision coming to this place where… read more
The atmosphere that they are a big part of creating is warm, calm, and make you feel very welcome from the very first moments.
My work was mostly gardening with Christina, who knows a lot and is lovely to talk to and… read more
Greta was so diligent in everything she did — she put together a watering system for our garden which is AMAZING! Planning it all, sourcing the materials, finding the right folks to get the right advice, building, testing and installing it… read more
I felt very welcome from the beginning. The place is stunning and a great place to learn about self sustainability and permaculture gardening. The food was amazing and I had a… read more
Pierce and Christina always are worried about whether you are overworking, and care if… read more
The whole family was really lovely and very welcoming, and I really enjoyed my… read more
First of all, their house and hostel take place in a very amazing area. Close to Hobart, the hill where they live offers a great view to the mountain, beautiful sunsets. On the night we can see the milky way, lots of stars and wild wallabies.
The work was not hard at all and very interesting… read more
They must have needed big patience with our english but they've been kind and treated us like a part of family.
Children have tried to talked us over and over even though we don't understand very much...sorry about that ( ´_ゝ`)
But we were really glad.
We enjoyed staying in your… read more
