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Hello travellers!
We're so happy you found us!
We are an adventure loving organic farm family, now in the lush forest of Melbourne and we have a great opportunity here for someone/a couple who LOVE kids, adventures, helping & nature!
We live on 3 lush acres of ferny tree and bird filled bushland in beautiful Belgrave South in the heart of the Yarra Ranges.
We moved here from our organic veggie & egg farm 2 years ago and it has been just the tree change our souls needed to fully thrive!!
The girls attend Steiner School locally and we are building a beautiful community up here running regular events and gatherings on the land & making friends.
We're looking for a "Mary Poppins" magical dream angel with a sunny disposition and a great work ethic to join us in our magical creative life in the heart of nature!
We have a private self contained 1 bdr apartment available with a queen size bed for an independent person who is really keen to help for 20-25 hours a week in caring for our two darling little girls (Matilda age 6 and Elodie 4), as well as general housework, cleaning, general home tidying, sorting, decluttering, and keeping on top of the ever flowing baskets of laundry.
Ideally, you would have plenty of experience with little ones and are available for at least a month.
We feel that this is the minimum amount of time to get to know us, get in a good flow, and really immerse in the beauty of nature & flow with our family here. In a dream scenario with the right person, we would love someone for 3 months (term 2 of the VIC school year).
We are more than happy to offer you to do your hours over 3-4 days so you can have a couple of days at least to yourself, every week if this works better for you. And for the right person, we can help with hours towards your 88 days. :)
We prioritise people with their own car & a clean drivers licence, but no stress if you can't/don't drive.
We love adventures to the forest, warm days on the beach, going to cafes, op shopping, hiking to waterfalls, visiting the snow, hiking trails, trips to the farm, swimming pools, the lake and more!!
The girls LOVE making art, crafting, dancing, singing, gymnastics, swimming, playing, puzzles, circus school. running, walks to the park, bike riding, scooters, reading millions of books, and of course, Barbies!! Haha!!
The garden is a mix between a tidy functional front & back yard surrounded by wild bush! Plenty of fire wood to collect and trees to trim back as well as planting fruit trees and natives all around the block.
As mentioned, we also have a 60 acres organic veggie and egg farm in Koo Wee Rup (also listed on Workaway) for those wanting a more rural adventure & attend farmers markets every weekend or do their 88 days.
In our home we eat all organic veggies(grown on our farm), free range pastured eggs, meat traded for veggies at the farmers markets we attend, and whole foods from local health food shops, and can provide our workaways all organic veggies & eggs from our farm to enjoy!
We do enjoy sharing meals during the week, but you're also very welcome to treat your stay as a retreat and cook for yourself or enjoy the many lovely takeaway options in the area. We love fish & chips on a friday night!
Also, if you prefer having quiet time to yourself of an evening, that's great. We have big respect for healthy boundaries and welcome & appreciate honest, open communication in our home and our family.
If all this resonates with you & inspires you to reach out - we're really looking forward to hearing from you!
Warmly,
Clare, Paul, Matilda & Elodie
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Language practice
Help with Eco Projects
Teaching
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Babysitting and creative play
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We are experienced workaway hosts with over 8 years of hosting travellers on our organic farm, in Koo Wee Rup and a year here at home.
We are avid world travellers - Paul and I have been all over the world - to South America, India, South East Asia, UK, Europe and more, and love music, nature, cultivating quality connections and conversations of a spiritual nature.
Paul is farming 7 days a week but comes home to the Hills three to four nights a week and loves cutting up fire wood from trees on our property & hosting dance parties for the kids in the garden & listening to Harry Potter by the fire.
Clare is back into her own business of running womens' circles, mother circles, monthly kirtan singing circles and cacao ceremonies as well as her online beauty business.
We love to meet likeminded people who want to share their language, culture and food with us!
Clare grew up in Melbourne before living in Ireland and England for 7 years in her 20's, then returning home and immersing in her spiritual studies and practices & becoming a full time mama.
Paul lived in India for 2 years in his 20's following his own spiritual path, and ultimately discovered a love for growing organic food.
We know our way around this area & Melbourne and are very happy to recommend places to go and explore!
We LOVE to cook and have plenty of recipes to share too. Clare is always happy to have helping hands chopping up veggies for dinner!
We love music, art, festivals, dancing, living an organic lifestyle, hosting gatherings, cacao ceremonies, monthly community cacao kirtan, kids parties, living in harmony with nature, consciousness, and much more!
We are very community minded and love a good co working day!! :)
We're keen to find people who want to become a part of our family and help us take care of our beautiful children, home and garden.
If you have any questions - please don't hesitate to ask!
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Warmly,
Clare & Paul
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
We are looking for super organised, efficient, trustworthy, innovative and solutions focused, warm, nurturing & communicative folks to help us in our busy lives!!
A special someone who would love to get their hands dirty in the garden with a bit of weeding, sweeping, gathering wood would be great...
Ideally a nurturing warm loving attentive presence to help with the girls - playing, reading stories, doing art projects, taking care of them when we need to attend farmers markets or coming with us to the market...
plus someone who enjoys general housework, cleaning, decluttering, sorting & folding laundry...
and helping with land care - creating wood piles, collecting branches that gather in the gardens for fire wood
Helping run the household, beautify the home and keep on top of the beautiful chaos.
We value our family time but we also we love having a cultural exchange and want to share our lives with you and would love to learn all about your culture too!!
Ideally this person is keen to do their workaway hours over a small handful of days and enjoy quiet time on our spacious property, take themselves on fabulous adventures, day trips, or maybe even explore near by on their days off.
We're also open to having someone stay who is studying part time, so you can help us and still do your own study in your own time.
The apartment accommodation is self contained in our sanctuary retreat (formerly a fully operational 5 star rental apartment) above the double garage - separate to the living space of the house, so you would have absolute privacy to yourself. We are only interested in hosting respectful, trustworthy individuals who understand that this is not a party house and peace in our home is paramount.
We have discovered that running the gorgeous online AirBbB is significantly less important to us than having much needed help and support with our kids while Paul is farming 7 days a week and getting this beautiful home and garden and grounds really buzzing with life, love and joy is a top priority this year! :)
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
German: Beginner
Spanish: Beginner
Accommodation
You're in for a real treat here!!
We have a beautiful one bedroom QB apartment with own bathroom, lounge room, kitchenette and office area, private garden and more.. formerly a "superhost" 5 star bnb retreat, this apartment is beautifully appointed and a real oasis in the trees..
This apartment is attached to the house by a long corridor and sits above the double garage.
The kitchen in the accomodation is suitable for cooking simple meals, (toast, smoothies, eggs, reheating meals, light dinners, etc) but if you're wanting to cook more elaborate meals or do some baking you're most welcome to use our main kitchen. We also have a BBQ!
Our property is on 3 lush private acres and is absolutely filled with incredible plants, flowers and birds!
We have a resident wombat, deer, kookaburras, king parrots, black cockatoos, rosella, and so much more!
There are many little places in the home and garden to sit and relax, meditate & contemplate life and nature while looking out into the forest and trees and the beautiful sunset and sunrise.
We also have an outdoor fire pit nature garden and are keen to build a tipi and plant more fruit trees!
We have been here two years and are still discovering the magic and wonder of this beautiful property..
We are a short 2 minute walk to the bus stop, local shops, cafes, butcher, supermarket & bakery.
What else ...
Belgrave South is a beautiful little town at the foothills of the Yarra Ranges / Dandenong Ranges..
We're a short 2 minute walk up to the shops, cafes, parks, supermarket, wholefoods health food shop, bus stop, etc.
We are right near the Puffing Billy iconic steam train and literally hundreds of incredible hiking trails to waterfalls, fern lined tree giants and incredible bird and wild life..
We are less than 5 minutes drive or a 45 minute walk in the hills to Belgrave train station and township with everything you need - cafes, shops, supermarkets, restaurants, bars, library, etc.
We are 15 minutes to Narre Warren, Ferntree Gully , Berwick, and other major shopping town centres.
Even though it feels like we're out in the wilderness here because of our spacious private bush block, we're only 40 minutes to Melbourne CBD.
Plus, there is a local bus that will take you to the Belgrave train station & many other locations.
Clean full drivers license a definite bonus! You can borrow our car if you need to run errands or if you're dropping the girls off at kindy, dancing, etc.
We live a natural, organic, chemical free life and our children are at the local Steiner school. This is the reason we moved away from the farm and up into the hills, for our children to be surrounded by nature, and a nurturing school environment as well as the awesomeness of the farm and farmers markets where we spend most of our weekends.
We already have an amazing community of like minded and hearted folks up here in the hills and are keen to share this little slice of paradise and way of life and living with fellow travellers and like minded souls looking for a stable happy family home base on their adventures of Australian soil.
Looking forward to hearing from you if this resonates with you.
Warmly,
Clare
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
we have an excellent wifi connection and desk in the apartment which you would have full use of at any time, especially helpful if you need to study online on your days off.
How many Workawayers can stay?
One
Hours expected
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week
