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We are Megan, John and River
We warmly welcome you to our home situated within an ecovillage on the Central Coast just 1.5hrs north of Sydney.
Update Dec 2025:
We finished our house 1 year ago now so its time to already sand back and revarnish the external woodwork and do some more work on the garden. John also loves some admin help on the computer.
If you'd like to enjoy visiting our ecovillage and help with this work during March we'd love to hear from you.
A little about us...
John works in the conservation of nature and founded the Rainforest Information Centre. He regularly facilitates deep ecology workshops across Australia. He has made films and recorded albums about nature and you can always encourage him to get the guitar out around the fire.
Megan, formerly working at a not for profit within the Aboriginal community in Sydney, is presently working 3 days a week and project managed building our hemp home.
River is 12, attends a local school, loves books, hanging with his friends, basketball, soccer, music and video games! He loves the cultural exchange with our guests.
We have moved into our home.
We would like your help with woodwork, gardening, housework and cooking. From time to time John needs computer help with his admin.
We love to have volunteers with us and during 2024 hosted people from all over the world. We collaborate with our friend and neighbour Benjamin who is also doing a natural build. You can look up his workaway site and see it is favourited over 250 times with more than 20 five star ratings, so you will find other travellers here for sure.
We share the cooking responsibilities - sometimes you will cook at your accommodation, maybe with other workaways, sometimes we will eat together at our home. We will obviously provide the food either way and we have lots of healthy food from our garden too. Many evenings there are events at the village, like yoga, crafting, dancing in the dark, a movie, a board games night and of course you may wish to enjoy your own company.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
Interests
Nature
Sustainability
Self development
Politics / Social justice
Gardening
Dancing
Camping
Beach
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
The ecovillage is an intentional community of about 150 people. There are often 4 or 5 volunteers staying here and they share a kitchen/dining/hangout space. There are frequently lots of interesting community activities going on such as; crafting, group meditation and yoga, dancing in the dark, pot luck dinners. Sometimes we have organised events like gigs, fundraisers, quiz night's.
Terrigal beach is a great nearby haven with a plethora of shops, cafe's and eateries. We are lucky to live in the heart of Strickland State Forrest. Beautiful bushwalks are right at your doorstep. A calm and serene dam is located just behind your accommodation for swimming, meditating and relaxing.
Help
We are welcoming workaways for the month of March. Thankyou.
We have now built and moved into our hemp home at the eco village and from time to time need help with remaining building projects, gardening, housework, cooking and computer help.
Update as of December 2025:
When we have capacity for exchange again in March 2026 these are some things we need help with:
1) Sanding and re-varnishing our outdoor woodwork eg the pagola, the outdoor setting, the kitchen servery.
2) some cooking and light housework
3) some watering and weeding around our paths and lovely vege patch
4) some easy work washing down the outdoor mudbricks and sealing them - it needs dry weather to do it.
5) if you have some carpentry skills - creating some shelves for the bathrooms and pantry - cutting, fitting, sanding and varnishing.
Help hours per day will not exceed 5 hours unless you wish to work extra hours for more full days off which we can accommodate.
You will be well rewarded with a lovely place to stay and wonderful connections with other travellers and villagers.
We look forward to hearing from you. Please mention something from our profile to let us know you have read it. thanks
Languages
Languages spoken
English: FluentThis host offers a language exchange
I'm particularily interested in Spanish for myself and my son because I have some school basics in the romance languages (Italian/french/spanish)
Accommodation
Accommodation is in a tent or your own van at the ecovillage campground surrounded by trees and birdsong. The facilities include a kitchen and dining room, toilets and showers. You will have access to wifi in the heart of the village.
We will provide all you need for accommodation including tent, mattress, linen, blankets, pillow, etc
What else ...
You can catch the train to and from Sydney and enjoy a show or the sights. If you are staying a while, we also are flexible with you taking some time off and visiting the blue mountains so feel free to discuss with us what you'd like to do in this whole region.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
You will have access to excellent wifi.
Space for parking camper vans
This host can provide space for campervans.
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
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Andreas came for 2 weeks and was so helpful to us and so easy to have around the house that he stayed 6 weeks..we loved having him with us on Christmas day.
Andreas transformed the house while he was here ... he is strong and dedicated,… read more
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Andreas came for 2 weeks and was so helpful to us and so easy to have around the house that he stayed 6 weeks..we loved having him with us on Christmas day.
Andreas transformed the house while he was here ... he is strong and dedicated,… read more
This is ones of that places where you can learn new stuffs and create real connections with people. Since the first moment they have made me feel part of the family. When you are travelling around the world by yourself these things value more than anything… read more
The workaway is as described. I thoroughly enjoyed all tasks on the build, specifically making the bannister out of saplings. They are very patient and great teachers and… read more
Gemma was reliable, diligent, fast at her work while attending to the details. She could problem solve and in a humble way offer better options for completing the task.… read more
