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Description
Close to city, a 10 hectare block (27 acres), with ~5 hectares of native bush, lots of birdlife, the rest is pasture with sheep including lambs at the moment. There are magnificent views to the town and Kapukataumahaka (Mt. Cargill), the organ pipes are also close by, lots of nice walks abound. Our place is quiet, only 2 neighbors in the far distance. We have a cockdoodle dog about a year old who is very friendly when not chasing chooks or sheep.
Food wise, we can supply the food though you are welcome to bring your own as well, we sometimes have shared meals, sometimes not, depends on who's around. You are expected to cook dinner on a rostered day on basis and help with dishes when not cooking gain for dinner. If we are not feeding you breakfast and lunch then typically we would like 3 h work per day, if covering all food costs then 4 h per day would be expected. We can do vegetarian meals or with meat which we often get from the farm.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Farmstay help
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Perhaps culturally interesting living on a farmlet?
Help
We are a small lifestyle block fairly close to Dunedin.
In terms of things to do there's plenty of gardening, a large 36 m2 plastic tunnel house for tropical style gardens and, and two other decent sized outside gardens, there's also about 10 chooks and various coops. Bottom of the block has a wild steep creek with waterfall and wee pool. Our place is fairly close to town, (~9km to CBD) which is quite bike able down hill and do able up hill. Current projects is building grey water system, for the caravan, also have firewood cutting, gorse pulling, scotch thistle control well as fixing fences and rebuilding gates etc.
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Indonesian: Fluent
Spanish: Intermediate
Accommodation
We normally accommodate, 1 or 2 workawayers, or occasionally a family. We have 2 caravans, one that easily accommodates 4 people and has a shower, and a second smaller one which easily accommodates 2, but no shower yet.
What else ...
If you enjoy playing music this you can give it a try here.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can possibly accept pets
So we are on a rural lifestyle block with sheep and chickens and a cockadoodle. Really safe traffic wise as there is none, but if dogs would not need to eat the chickens and if cats need to not eat the birds..
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Feedback (1)
We were very well fed and the caravan was warm and comfortable.
They are an incredibly welcoming and interesting family and we learned a lot during our time with them.
Thank you all again!
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Feedback
We were very well fed and the caravan was warm and comfortable.
They are an incredibly welcoming and interesting family and we learned a lot during our time with them.
Thank you all again!
