Share rural life at our old farmhouse in East Cork, Ireland

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  Description

  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 for specific help with carpentry to build a lean to and clearing woods.
  
  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 on the specific business work and other related 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 work on the wooden lean too ; experienced workers required.

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Light gardening

  Creative DIY projects

  Creating/ Cooking family meals

  Help around the house

  Light maintenance
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  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
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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

  Workdays will be involved in carpentry project for September and woodland maintenance and setting up test bed crops for spring flowers. Cork is a hub of excellent food, local artisan makers, pottery makers, carpenter. The beach's of Ballybranigan and Ballycroneen are walking cycling distance from 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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  Host offers payment in line with the minimum wage

  This host offers accommodation and payment.

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  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 land and woodland maintenance and would like motivated workers

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  Languages spoken

  English: Fluent

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  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 .

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  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 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.

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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

  Internet is good.

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  More than two

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  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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