Help in our permaculture garden in Ulladulla, NSW, Australia

Availability

  2025 

 Min stay requested: at least a week

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Details

  • Description

    Description

    Our family home is nestled in seclusion on 1/4 acre in the heart of town with Australian birds & wild life a plenty, a creek & bush reserve. Our garden consists of fruit trees, Bush Tucker, herbs, veggies, worms, bees, chooks & ducks. Must love animals and have no allergies as we have indoor cats and our friendly Labrador, Dex. We accept workers in a gift economy sense. Give freely, receive freely. Share the load with a bit of help in our home & garden in exchange for accommodation & sharing skills.

    We follow permaculture methods because we are passionate about self-reliance & future steading. We love growing, cooking, preserving, fermenting, medicine -making & brewing our home-grown & local produce. We have many permaculture systems in place & can show how these self-sufficient principles work in a 'normal' aussie house block in suburbia.

    Experience sustainable and self reliant practices like permaculture, fermenting, greenhouse gardening, propagating, home brewing, beekeeping, making mead, canning & pickling, weaving & Herbal medicine.

    Other hobbies include weaving, bushwalking, swimming, surfing, cycling, music, craft and yoga.

    Keith is Canadian (we met while he was backpacking & surfing in Oz in '89), Nicole is of Italian heritage and grew up in Ulladulla. We have 3 grown children & 2 beautiful grand daughters 3&4 who live around the corner & visit often. We are easy walking distance (10mins) to Mollymook beach, Ulladulla Harbour & shops & a few minutes drive to Milton.

    We prefer to start with a 1-2 week stay and longer by negotiation . Work is 2-3 hours (weekends free), leaving you plenty of time to explore the beautiful south coast. Acommodation is self contained so you can cook for yourself, and share some meals in the big house with us.
    Learning sustainable and self reliant practices like permaculture, fermenting, greenhouse gardening, propagating, home brewing, beekeeping, making mead, canning & pickling, weaving & Herbal medicine.
    Nicole also runs the occassional community workshop.

  • Types of help and learning opportunities

    Types of help and learning opportunities

    Gardening
    DIY and building projects
    Animal Care
    Help around the house
    General Maintenance
    House sitting
  • Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Gardening, composting, humanure, beekeeping, worm-farming, fertigation, greywater, making seaweed fertiliser & soil amendments, wicking beds, driveway gardening, food preserving, herbal medicine, home brewing. Daily kitchen, animal and garden rituals and practices in a self reliant aussie homestead, preserving through the seasons.

  • Help

    Help

    Work includes general tending of garden, animal care, making compost, mulching, digging, weeding, herb & food preserving.... in flow with the day, season & moment. Some home and garden maintenance is also required sometimes. We prefer someone with some gardening experience & able to work is independently.

  • Languages spoken

    English: Fluent

  • Accommodation

    Accommodation

    Accomodation for 1 or 2 in 'The Cottage', a private, self-contained 'tiny house' in our garden, with a Double bed, hot outdoor shower, composting toilet & camp kitchen with fridge, hotplate, convection/ grill/microwave & BBQ. We share some meals, mixed diet. Length of stay to be negotiated prefer 1-2 weeks. Long term by negotiation after initial stay.

  • What else ...

    What else ...

    Surfing beaches, bushwalking, town, shops, music, cafes all walking or cycling distance.

  • A little more information

    A little more information

    • Internet access

    • Limited internet access

      Limited internet access

    • We have pets

    • We are smokers

    • Can host families

  • Can host digital nomads

    Can host digital nomads

    This host has indicated that they love having digital nomads stay.

  • How many Workawayers can stay?

    How many Workawayers can stay?

    Two

Host ref number: 733987914997

Website Safety

Feedback (1)


Photos

The image shows a man, woman, and dog in the back seat of a car, with the woman wearing glasses and a headband, and the man in a white t-shirt.
The image depicts two white ducks in a garden, surrounded by plants and a wooden fence, with a deck and a small shed in the background.

Feedback



General help for dynamic people Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia
Join our family and experience the outback in Central Australia