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28 Feb 2024
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Description
We have 25 acres in beautiful Central Florida, where we train and breed warmblood horses. There are currently 14 horses and we have three cute dogs also, and plan on getting chickens soon too!
Workawayers that come will not be involved with the horses in the business, i.e. client horses - only our personal animals. Involvement at all with the horses depends on whether we feel it's appropriate given experience level and intuition. Please note there is no riding available!
Types of help and learning opportunities
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
General Maintenance
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
My husband is from Germany and is fluent in English, German and Afrikaans. I am from England and we have both lived in Europe, Africa and are now settled in Florida! It would be a great chance to speak conversational German, or learn more about horses and general maintenance on a farm!
Florida is very interesting and there is a lot of history here to explore, plus water sports, shopping, etc.
Help
General maintenance is always helpful - cleaning, weeding, painting, things like that. We also have several projects on the go - mostly outdoors work like building fences and cutting branches, tidying up in general, and if you are familiar with horses, there would be opportunities to be involved with them too. Some dog sitting is possible. We need energetic, happy and polite people who LOVE animals!
Languages
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
Afrikaans: IntermediateThis host offers a language exchange
Spanish, French
Accommodation
You will either have your own room and share bathroom and kitchen with one other person in a small apartment, or you will be in a modern camper by yourself. Usually you will get your own food out of our food allowance, and can prepare it yourself, or with the others if there is someone else here doing Workaway at the same time as you. We have an outside grill and space for relaxing as well as inside.
What else ...
Florida is very laid back and there are many things to do here including hiking, water activities, shopping etc. You can get a ride to stores to get groceries etc.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
How many Workawayers can stay?
One
Hours expected
Maximum 5 hours a day, 5 days a week
