Join our family in our ecovillage in Narara, Australia

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  Description

  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:
  We finished our house 1 year ago now so its time to already sand back and revarnish the external woodwork.
  If you'd like to enjoy visiting our ecovillage and help with this work during late feb, march, early April we'd love to hear from you.
  
  Look forward to hearing from you
  Megan
  
  
  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 11, attends a local school, loves books, hanging with his friends, soccer, music and minecraft. 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 like a family would, each taking turns to cook dinner, we love learning new recipes from you :). A typical evening involves sharing stories over dinner, going to a village event together, or playing board games around the table. Of course you may wish to enjoy your own company and that's welcome to.

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Language practice

  Help with Eco Projects

  Gardening

  DIY and building projects

  Creating/ Cooking family meals

  Help around the house

  General Maintenance

  Help with Computers/ Internet
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  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.

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  Help

  We aren't taking anyone til late feb next year. 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, homework, housework, cooking and computer help.
  
  Up date as of November 2025:
  When we have capacity for exchange again in late feb 2026 these are some things we'd need help with..
  1) some cooking
  2) some light housework
  3) some 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.
  
  and for someone interested in woodwork:
  5) sanding back our wooden outdoor setting and varnishing it.
  6) resanding and varnishing the wooden 'servery' at the kitchen window
  7) creating some shelves for the bathrooms and pantry - sanding and varnishing. We have a handyman who could put them in if needed.
  
  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

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  English: Fluent

  This 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)
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  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.
  You may be able to stay in a bunk room in the village 'hostel' accommodation called "Paperbark House", which has a shared kitchen, lounge, wifi and dedicated bathroom facilities. Just ask me about it when you connect.
  Either way we will provide all you need for accommodation including tent, mattress, linen, blankets, pillow, etc

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  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.

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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

  You will have access to excellent wifi.

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  Space for parking camper vans

  This host can provide space for campervans.

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  Two

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  My animals / pets

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