Be part of our family on an intentional off grid community near Nimbin, Australia

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  Description

  We are a family of four. Peregrine (Perry) is 6 years old and is very chatty and friendly and Pascoe is 4 years and obsessed with trucks and diggers. We live on an intentional community, off grid, not far from Nimbin, in the rainforest that backs on to the Night Cap National Park.

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Language practice

  Help with Eco Projects

  Gardening

  DIY and building projects

  Babysitting and creative play

  Creating/ Cooking family meals

  Help around the house

  General Maintenance
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  UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

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  What's this?
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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  Anna is a Naturopath who is passionate about whole food nutrition, organic produce, herbal medicine and homeopathy. She is also passionate about keeping fit and having fun through circus skills, especially trapeze, stilts and acrobalance and also loves yoga. Our local community hall has tumbling mats and circus apparatus and there is often classes on offer by other skilled teachers in the community.
  
  Nick is an Architect who works from home who specialises in Urban Design. He is a creative individual with a background in ceramics but focuses his creativity on projects for and within the house.

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  Projects involving children

  This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.

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  Help

  We are still building our home and have projects with plastering, painting and finishing details. We have some flitches leftover from milling some local wood for our house frame that we would like to use for trimming round windows and architraves.
  Our garden is an ongoing project with landscaping and keeping the forest back that we would like some help with. It is a regeneration project really, restoring bushland from reclaimed paddocks and removing weeds. We also aim to get better at producing food.
  Playing with Perry and Pascoe to free us up to get into these projects ourselves is also useful, as well as contributing to the cooking and running of the household.

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  English: Fluent

  This host offers a language exchange
  This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
  You can contact them directly for more information.
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  Accommodation

  You will be accommodated in the wooden A-frame bedroom of the stone cottage which was the original building on our site which we call 'The Hobbit House'. It was built by a biker in the 80's. It now accommodates our kitchen in the downstairs stone section with the bedroom upstairs, separate from the main house.

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  What else ...

  On days off there are bush walks to explore in the nearby national park as well as the iconic village of Nimbin. We like to get to the coast when we can, often heading over to Brunswick Heads, Mullumbimby, Byron Bay or Ballina.
  Having your own transport, is an advantage, considering we are 15 minutes drive from the closest town. However, there is some limited opportunity for using the local school bus system or hitchhiking is fairly easy in our area.
  Workawayers should note we have compost toilets and being that our property backs onto the Night Cap National Park , should expect to see wildlife including Goanna's, bush turkeys, spiders (rarely harmful ones) and occasionally snakes.

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  A little more information

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    Internet access

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    Limited internet access

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    We have pets

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    We are smokers

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    Can host families

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  Can host digital nomads

  This host has indicated that they love having digital nomads stay.

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  Two

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