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A family of five living in an old farm house in East Cork Ireland. We offer a mobile and caravan on site in the yard and paid hours to help with the farm landscape work , woods and gardens.
Adjacent to Ballycotton Fishing village and 5km from Ballymaloe House Hotel and Cookery School beside Shanagarry. Beautiful rural setting with Cloyne village a walking distance of 2km away. Midleton town 8km away is closest hub with famous whiskey distillery, farmers market and train links to Cork City and all it's culture and urban amenities.
Cork city is 15 mins from Midelton by train, Airport is 30 mins drive away. The renovation project was done in a slow self build conservation manners.
As per the guidelines for work aways, we offer €15/20 an hour for time worked based on the project.
The farmhouse is over two hundred years old and is set on 13 acres of woodland, we have planted a biodiversity birdseed cover in the northern flower field and have a large hay field in the south filed facing a lower wetland meadows.
On site is a wood cabin with electricity and a woodburning stove, a sauna, a 2 bed mobile home with water and gas cooking facilities, a caravan and various working sheds and shipping containers.
We have plans and need help to make a walking route through the woods and already have a lovely boundary trails around the property.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Light gardening
Creative DIY projects
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
Light maintenance
Interests
Van life
Politics / Social justice
Music
Art & design
Architecture
Animals
Mountain
Yoga / Wellness
Sailing / Boating
Movies & TV
Sustainability
Events & social
Culture
Carpentry
Drawing & painting
Cooking & food
Gardening
Plant care
DIY & crafts
Beach
Nature
Water sports
Hiking
Cycling
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Workdays will be involved in landscape maintenance. Cork is a hub of excellent food, local artisan makers, pottery makers, carpenter. We are part of the Cork craft and design currently on a furniture show due to open in Ballymaloe Grainstore on July 24th.. The beach's of Ballybranigan and Ballycroneen are walking cycling distance from the house.
Projects involving children
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Host offers payment in line with the minimum wage
This host offers accommodation and payment.
Help
Esther is a landscape architect and designer and works on site specific landscape sculptures. Ed a stone mason and makes bespoke furniture.
We need help in general gardening, land woodland maintenance.
All work will be done in unison with Ed and or Esther .
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Accommodation
A double bed mobile home and a single bed in the same mobile home with full kitchen dining living combo. Gas hot water. Shower bathroom. Full electrics, well water, toilet facilities. A wooden studio cabin with double sofa bed and stove. 8mx4m
A caravan with fixed double bed. Shared food preparation in mobile. Garden bbq set up with large table. We have a sauna on site and free standing 5m pool, Salads and winter veg available from garden. Large sheltered inner garden .
What else ...
We are living in the main house
All our boys attend the school of music so any musical visitors who can help with practice are welcome. Bassoon. Trombone and double bass. Previously piano.
We have another stone building we will begin to renovate for rentals in 2028 and plan to build a natural swimming pool beside the sauna in the inner garden.
The house has streams, ditches and rivers running all through the woods fields and property. An edible salad watercress grows in the lower marshy field.
It's a magical setting on 13 acres, we would love for anyone with like minded ethos to come share our journey.
Esther is from a large rural family from Tipperary so social and large gatherings are our forte we both traveled extensively in the past and love meeting and connecting with interesting people.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
Internet is good.
Space for parking camper vans
Lots of room for campervans etc
Can possibly accept pets
2 cats on site and a small dog on site Very easy.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
My animals / pets
mid night (4 years)
Mid night arrived the same week as bread and is a very scardy cat and lives outside.
Bread (4 years)
Very friendly grey tabby cat; it was a stray about 8 months old. It's old family has got new cats so we kept him
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