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Hurray!! You are reading our profile to see if we are compatible. We’re pleased!
Right now, we’re looking for guests who would like to visit between September and early December.
My family and my family’s friends are from all over. My mom is from Scotland, my nieces from India, my brother-in-law from Australia, my partner’s family is Swedish, and my friends are from South Africa, Japan, Mexico, and Brasil and Columbia.
We have valued the opportunity to learn about so many places just through our family, and friends. We continue to appreciate the opportunities to learn about other cultures through Workaway, as well as welcome folks from various places in the United States.
We have space for two different people or a couple and another different person right now. Could this be YOU? There is so much to learn! And plenty of time to relax!
Can you weed? Sweep with a broom? or plant a seed? or feed a duck or a fish? Can you sort things? or paint a sign? Or organize a closet? Or do something we don’t know we need but you know how to do it and can show us how?
We are excited to welcome you. We love folks who are cheerful, positive, outgoing, interested in learning about living sustainably and want to learn what you can do to slow the climate catastrophe! And the mess we are in.
Additionally, we love showing off the area around us and showing our guests a good time.
Recent fun activities our guests enjoyed in the past few months included attending a traveling photography exhibition of John Lennon photos, a classical guitar concert, a visit to a puppetry museum, a visit to a guitar maker’s studio, touring the local old courthouse, luncheon with neighbors, stargazing, hiking to the nearby river, and watching films together. Plus evening conversations !
Our Permaculture Paradise has been a steady project over 30 years, our participation in the annual National Solar Homes Tour for over 25 years. The land for the intentional community we live in was bought in 1975, we moved here in 1987.
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We have been with WorkAway for three years now. We continue hosting through another popular platform we have been on for over 10 years.
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We have helped people aspiring to serve in the PEACE CORPS and we are a “soft-landing” for folks after serving in PEACE CORPS and other similar situations. Our place is relaxing and we are chill.
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We continue to work on being the future we aspire to live in.
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Please read this:
Our 4 basic requirements are non-negotiable:
We require guests who are non-smokers/non-vapers, and who are Covid vaccinated and boosted, have health insurance that covers you while you are here, and are LGBTQ plus friendly and safe.
We are waiting for you.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Language practice
Help with Eco Projects
Elderly Companionship
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
Interests
Sustainability
LGBTQ
Events & social
Music
Languages
Gardening
Yoga / Wellness
Sailing / Boating
Nature
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We live in a thriving intentional community, a solar energy mecca, with a budding medicinal plant sanctuary, hiking trails, a flowing river, bicycles, canoes & kayaks, a 3-acre pond stocked with Bream and Bass, another intentional community across the road, and our immediate neighborhood is filled with a collection of the finest humans!
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Learning opportunities include: homesteading, Medicinal plant cultivation, making herbal medicine, solar electric design, solar systems installation, applied permaculture principles, duck and geese care, Tilapia care in Solar Algae Aquaculture Tanks, how this Intentional Community operates, construction skills, wiring skills, self-illumination/dismantling of white privilege towards an end to racism, how nonreligious, liberal Quakers worship, fruit tree pruning and care and harvesting, woodworking, ukulele lessons, harmonica lessons, uvulalating lessons, Tai chi practice, yoga practice, paddling a canoe or kayak, fishing, random bursts of whistling or singing!, using an electric chain saw, cooking with a solar oven and/or on a wood stove, modified consensus process, how to throw an off-grid weekend outdoor party for 200 people, goat keeping, a house concert you might perform in, and great conversations about so many of life’s persistent challenges.
Help
Many guests like to practice English with us. Fun!! We enjoy conversations while gardening, preparing meals together, on walks, at the pond, around meals, and in the evenings.
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I sing with the Huntsville Feminist Chorus and go up weekly for rehearsals.
Alabama will never be the same for you.
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Spanish: Intermediate
Sign language (American): Beginner
Hebrew: Beginner
Japanese: BeginnerThis host offers a language exchange
We’re both intermediate level Spanish/ español proficient. We are good to practice English or Spanish with you. I (Sara) am also keen to learn sign language and also polish up my very rusty Hebrew. I am interested in Japanese culture.
Accommodation
Accommodations:
1) Private entrance apartment; a large room with queen bed, woodstove, air conditioning, fan, sink, swinging sofa, table & chairs, tiny fridge, attached greenhouse.
2) Small Room in our home with double bed, desk, chair, lamp, shelves, drawers, air conditioner, electrical outlet. Big solar windows.
Both of the above share bath/shower and both share our composting & flush toilets with us.
3) Private camper with bed, sink, and adjacent composting toilet.
4) Several places to tent camp with nearby composting toilet .
5) One location to hook up with nearby composting toilet.
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Food: We provide good wholesome food. 3 a day, occasionally one is shared family style. The others are self-prepared.
What else ...
Why we do this:
We love hosting travelers, it’s like traveling ourselves because we get to meet you and hear your stories
We have a passion for helping others to learn to live sustainably, moving into the future, in an affirmably just, multicultural society. Plus, it’s just plain fun.
Stuff nearby you can do:
Locust Fork River (class 1-4) with canoe & kayak Races in February and March, Rock climbing/Palisades Park, see the cranes at their winter stopover, eagles, too, the neighborhood Mardi Gras homegrown silliness parade, our annual Kids Day on the River in June, our annual National Solar Homes Tour in October, Farmers Market, local Botanical Garden, Covered Bridges, local theatre, Free Friday Foreign Film monthly series.
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A little farther away and yet still in Alabama …
Legacy Museum, National Peace & Justice Museum, Civil Rights Museum, Art Museums in B’ham & H’ville, Horseback riding at Oak Mountain State Park, Dauphin Island in the Mobile Bay.
You can use one of our bicycles to get around. It’s also entirely likely to get a ride with one of us to town.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
Very good WiFi. We use Zoom frequently.
Space for parking camper vans
The space is near our workshop and our home. There are lots of tall trees. The composting toilet looks out into the woods.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
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Sara and Daryl were very welcoming. This was my first workaway experience, and although there were so many things I did not know prior to my stay, their kind guidance helped me through everything I did.
They warmly welcomed me to their entire community, and I felt… read more
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Sara and Daryl were very welcoming. This was my first workaway experience, and although there were so many things I did not know prior to my stay, their kind guidance helped me through everything I did.
They warmly welcomed me to their entire community, and I felt… read more
She jumped into whatever we were doing with enthusiasm and when she needed further clarification, she asked for it.
She helped with our waterfowl, our Tilapia fish and pet care. She weeded and paid… read more
Daniela cared for the animals (Tilapia, ducks, geese, dog), cared for the plants here (tomatoes, Shiitakes, medicinal herbs), did a LOT of… read more
Sara and Daryl were so kind and welcoming during my stay. Throughout my time with their community I was welcomed with open arms and given many opportunities to learn about gardening, solar power, and intentional communities. I also got to see a bit of the solar home tour which was such a great… read more
Sarah assisted in tidying up the gardens ( putting some beds to rest for winter, harvesting, digging, and… read more
Thank you so much for the past two months!
I love you guys, and I am very happy to have you as a part of my life.
I also like the people at Common Ground and this place.
I'm so golad to see guys.
Although Japan and this place are very far from each other
I forgot about that and just enjoyed myself.
I thought of this house as… read more
