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We live on a small hobby farm just out of Toodyay, WA - a beautifully little town with lots to see and do around!
We’re a 2:1 FIFO family with 2 kids and several animals.
We love good food and keeping busy whether indoors or out and about.
Surrounded by native vegetation and animals, it’s a gorgeous place to live!
Types of help and learning opportunities
Language practice
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Babysitting and creative play
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Interests
Sustainability
Pets
Self development
Farming
Plant care
DIY & crafts
Books
Cooking & food
Gardening
Animals
Outdoor activities
Hiking
Yoga / Wellness
Nature
Camping
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Explore native Australian bush,
Get an insiders experience inside a FIFO and bilingual household (English and Afrikaans)
Lots of opportunity to learn about from scratch cooking, farm/animal maintenance
Gain experience looking after kids
Toodyay (and surrounds) is a very social town and has many opportunities for paid work, socialising and learning.
We love learning about the adventures that others have had, what’s important to them, learning bits of a different languages and testing out new foods!
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
We’re looking for someone willing to help with day to day “life” (especially when dad is at work)
We’re willing to work with you and your skillset, as long as clear expectations are set from the beginning (both ways)
Many of the tasks will be shared with us, so you’ll rarely be doing anything ‘alone’ or without help.
Tasks may include;
- helping with the kiddies
- light cleaning at the end of the day
- caring for the animals (currently; quail, chickens and silver perch in aquaponics system)
- firebreak and fuel load maintenance
- cooking / meal prep
And so on
Languages
Languages spoken
Afrikaans: Fluent
English: FluentThis host offers a language exchange
We’d love to learn more languages (open to any) though it’s important to us that you at least have an intermediate level of the English language so we don’t have issues in miss-communication
Accommodation
You’ll have access to a private bedroom inside the main house with queen bed, simple desk, bedside table and wardrobe. The bathroom is shared between yourself and the kids.
As long as you maintain an average of 20 weekly ‘work’ hours, the room, food and internet would be included in your stay.
What else ...
Only main considerations for our property include;
- we live solely off rainwater tanks (filtered for drinking) meaning long showers and big bathes are a no-no.
- there is limited transport available other than car sharing with us for getting between the property and town or the city however there is a train that comes through should you want to use that
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
We don’t have super high speeds and do sometimes have drop outs. We’re on the Telstra-Starlink network
Space for parking camper vans
We have a private, dedicated space for campers/motorhomes though you’d need to be fully set up with a generator for power and waste management unless you intend on using the main house for personal hygiene needs.
Can possibly accept pets
Pets are welcome as long as you can guarantee they will not cause issues with wandering to other properties, chasing after domestic or native animals or be excessively noisy (eg barking all day)
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
My animals / pets
Silver Perch
Quail
Chickens
Dune
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