Join our rural lifestyle with horses and discover Amberley, New Zealand

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  Description

  We’ve recently purchased a beautiful lifestyle property in North Canterbury and are looking for friendly, practical helpers to stay with us and lend a hand with a variety of projects as we settle in.
  
  We also have horses, so if you have experience and interest, we’d love help with them too — but this is entirely dependent on your comfort and skill level.
  In return, you’ll be staying in a relaxed, welcoming home with a social, easy-going couple who genuinely enjoy meeting new people, sharing stories, and learning about different walks of life. We’ve both had plenty of life experiences and value good conversation, laughter, and shared meals.
  Our location is a big bonus:
  Close to stunning beaches for swimming and horse riding.
  Conveniently near the highway.
  Easy access to Amberley, Leithfield, Rangiora, and Christchurch.
  We’re also developing a second property for sale, so there’s always something interesting happening and plenty of variety in the work.
  If you enjoy the outdoors, animals, and a friendly household where you’re treated as part of the family rather than just extra hands, we’d love to hear from you 🙂
  We have plenty of spare rooms so can accommodate couples and we have more than one bedroom available. You will have your own bathroom.

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Gardening

  DIY and building projects

  Animal Care

  Help around the house

  General Maintenance
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  Interests

  

  Pets

  

  Movies & TV

  

  Farming

  

  Events & social

  

  Plant care

  

  Gardening

  

  Cooking & food

  

  Carpentry

  

  Animals

  

  Water sports

  

  Beach

  

  Hiking

  

  Yoga / Wellness

  

  Outdoor activities

  

  Nature
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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  We’re a friendly Kiwi couple who enjoy meeting people from different backgrounds and sharing everyday New Zealand life. With us you’ll get a taste of relaxed “Kiwi culture” — barbeques, chats over dinner, beach trips and spending time outdoors. We’re happy to share what we know about our local area, native plants and wildlife, and (for those interested) a bit about horses and rural living.
  In return, we love learning from our guests — new recipes, languages, stories, traditions and different ways of seeing the world. For us, cultural exchange is simply about sharing daily life together with respect, curiosity and a sense of fun.

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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

  Help is mostly light to moderate outdoor work, such as:
  Painting and general maintenance.
  Gardening, pruning, and fencing.
  Odd jobs around the property.
  
  Help with fence painting, feeding animals, gardening, cleaning windows , handling horses etc. I am a qualified carpenter and will be working along side you and my partner is an experienced horse rider.

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  Languages spoken

  English: Fluent

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  Accommodation

  Individual bedrooms and your own bathroom - shared kitchen and two lounges- the bedrooms are very private away from the hosts. We will all share dinner meals and the kitchen will be available for making breakfast and lunches

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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

  We have satellite internet

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  Space for parking camper vans

  We have plenty of room - 12 acres

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  Can possibly accept pets

  We are anti cats (environment reasons) dogs ok but they must be safe around horses and people friendly - no vicious breeds

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  More than two

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  My animals / pets

  

  Buster Reynolds (7 years)

  17h Trakehner geilding - buster is currently getting started (a bit late but has been able to mature) i bred him myself out of the first foal I bred- Foxy

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