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Family of 3, son Cuan is 5, Leslie and Sean are in the early years of building a herbal permaculture small holding on 15 acres in East Clare.
Leslie is a trained and practicing herbalist, and
Sean has 15 horticultural experience, a permaculture degree, butcher training , and volunteered on farms and small holdings, all over Europe, and North and South America. He has been working as an organic market gardener for the last 5 years for a local farmer, while setting up a fruit and nut forest garden.
They are building a sustainable off grid farm, equipped with solar panels, well, back boiler, vegetable garden, polytunnel , herbal garden, forest garden, orchards, mushroom cultivation, fowl, horses, dogs, cats, community, playgrounds, zip lines,
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Babysitting and creative play
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Having collectively over 30 years of horticultural experience, permaculture degrees, and experience in mushroom cultivation, Herbal medicine knowledge, naturopathy, butchering, water flittering, off grid electric technology, vegetable production, tree care, self building, bee keeping, livestock husbandry, etc. We are happy to share all that we have learned on our road to homesteading.
Having both volunteered for experience before many, many times, we see the value in one to one hands on knowledge exchange. Hard work and dedication will always be rewarded with plenty of time to question and learn. Fun and Learning are highly encouraged!
Community is a very important part of our farm, and we are very social, and have interesting friends constantly calling by. We live in a very interestingly sustainable part of East Clare, we are surrounded by food producers and avid home gardeners, who we meet with regularly.
There is a very active music scene in the local area, especially Irish trad, with festivals on in surrounding towns for most of the summer months.
We are close to two big university cities, Galway and Limerick, and not far from the wild Atlantic way.
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Help
Huge range of tasks available. Daily tasks change with the seasons on our farm, and we have a wide range of interesting and often experimental projects on the go at all times. Tasks may be repetitive at times as with any small holding.
Daily tasks will include, cultivating food, weeding, feeding animals, and we are aiming to be as self sufficient as we can, so we are constantly cooking, dehydrating, persevering also. We also have lots of DIY building projects on the go all the time, from building animal house to creating saunas.
It’s a new permaculture project, so we’re still planning and creating a lot of new spaces on the land for biodiversity and our own living, and always need help with that.
Languages
Languages spoken
French: IntermediateThis host offers a language exchange
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Accommodation
Mobile home, comfortable but rustic. Mobile is shared with our clinic, but separate from the family home. Separate double bed, own compost loo, small sitting room, shared kitchen, limited solar electric, 90% organic food….
Shared meals at least once a day midweek, breakfast DIY, shared harvesting, cooking and cleaning.
Very peaceful surroundings, and an amazing dawn chorus.
What else ...
Very active community of small holding farms. Garden club once a month, unique Irish trad session in town 7 mins away. Sandwiched between two towns Tulla and Feakle, both about 5-10 mins by car. Bike available, one hour drive from the coast,…. half an hour from Limerick, Gort and Ennis, Galway city 1 hour. Seed savers 10 min drive.
We are very social people are constantly have friends calling by or visiting people. Close to Shannon airport.
Young, interested and motivated.
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Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Space for parking camper vans
This host can provide space for campervans.
Can possibly accept pets
Possibly if the pet fits our farms, but must be good with all farm animals.
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Feedback (4)
We only stayed for a week, but both the work we have been doing and the cultural exchange were excellent, due to Sean and Leslie's sense of being extremely understanding and kind to us.
They gave us the chance to adapt to different types of work, that made our stay easy-going.
They offered us… read more
Sean and Leslie are so generous with their food too, preparing two delicious meals a day full… read more
The work was very enriching for me, as I wanted to learn about agriculture and sustainability, and I… read more
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We only stayed for a week, but both the work we have been doing and the cultural exchange were excellent, due to Sean and Leslie's sense of being extremely understanding and kind to us.
They gave us the chance to adapt to different types of work, that made our stay easy-going.
They offered us… read more
Sean and Leslie are so generous with their food too, preparing two delicious meals a day full… read more
The work was very enriching for me, as I wanted to learn about agriculture and sustainability, and I… read more
Leslie, Sean and Cuan are a wonderful family 😍. I spent two weeks of my trip with them. The work was very varied from gardening to painting projects. They took my abilities into consideration and even asked me what kind of work I would prefer to do 🥰. I received a lot of appreciation and… read more
