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12 Feb 2025
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Description
Hello we are Tristan, Ruby and Mae. Tristan and Ruby are in their early 30s and Mae is 3 months old. We are aiming to live a more sustainable life, grow our own organic food, and to rescue more animals in the future. Available from Jan 2024
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We have 6 ducks, four cats, three sheep and three cows. All pets. We will have chickens in January. There will be a lot to learn about keeping animals and how they help us grow organic food.
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
No particular skills are needed, but we are most keen on couples or pairs of work awayers. It would also be beneficial to be physically fit as there is plenty of physical work to do. We require help mainly with weeding around our gardens. There might be some work planting native trees. The animals we have are mostly friendly and you can spend some time relaxing with them.
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Accommodation
We have a cabin overlooking our pond. With a queen-sized bed, chest of drawers, and coffee and tea making station. Cooking will be done in our kitchen as the cabin doesn't yet have facilities. A toilet and shower is currently being built. As we have a new born we would love someone who enjoys cooking who could do some meals for us. We will pay for/grow the food.
What else ...
We are in a great location to explore Northland. We are 2 hrs north of Auckland, 1hr from Kai Iwi lakes. 1 and a half hrs from Waipoua forest, 22mins from Waipu Gorge scenic reserve, 50 mins from Waipu caves, 40 minutes from Mangawhai heads beach, 55 minutes from Whangarei where the Hundertwassa.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Space for parking camper vans
We have space for a large camper. It will be parked next to fruit trees, a shade house and above ground mineral pool.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Feedback (3)
Amrei and Carla worked hard and got a lot done. They also loved helping looking after baby Mae and were great with her, cooking and were very respectful and friendly guests. We hope you both enjoyed… read more
We've got very well welcomed and we directly felt we could talk about anything with them! We really enjoyed the small cabin we were staying at, taking care of their pets when they were away, playing with Mae and sharing any kind of conversation!
The work was fair, we were mainly pulling up the… read more
Our daily tasks mostly involved weeding, strimming, mulching, chopping down trees and some cooking.
It was our first ever workaway and we couldn’t have asked for a better family to host us, they were so kind and welcoming and are people… read more
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Amrei and Carla worked hard and got a lot done. They also loved helping looking after baby Mae and were great with her, cooking and were very respectful and friendly guests. We hope you both enjoyed… read more
We've got very well welcomed and we directly felt we could talk about anything with them! We really enjoyed the small cabin we were staying at, taking care of their pets when they were away, playing with Mae and sharing any kind of conversation!
The work was fair, we were mainly pulling up the… read more
Our daily tasks mostly involved weeding, strimming, mulching, chopping down trees and some cooking.
It was our first ever workaway and we couldn’t have asked for a better family to host us, they were so kind and welcoming and are people… read more
