Homestays, Volunteering & Working Holidays in France

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Countryside home with garden in Geneva region, Viry, France
Hello, I am a classical musician, just retired. Living close to Geneva, (15km from downtown), but in Haute Savoie - France. Countryside-property with an important garden, beautiful view and quiet surroundings (center of village 1,5km) Music is ......
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Volunteer on a small organic farm in Auvergne, France
Smallholding in central France, there's a huge garden to tend, woods to manage and animals to tend. The garden is organic, so plenty of weeding required! Also some building work is going on, so if you're handy with a saw, screwdriver and a ......
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Multicultural French and Canadian family with tutoring, home and garden projects in Osséja, France
Hello! Bienvenue! My name is Manon and our family is bicultural French from France and bilingual English and French Canadian. We live in both the French Pyrénées and Montréal, Québec, Canada (we alternate between both locations). We have hosted ......
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Meet international people and and learn local history in Lamonzie-Saint-Martin, France
Togehter with my French wife Carole and our dog Corben we found an abandoned chateau close to Bordeaux, fell in love and renovated it during 6 years. The exact location is close to Bergerac, a beautiful city in the heart of vineyards in the ......
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Join our community growing a food forest in Confolens, France
(EN) First thing first: we are not professionnal farmers, and we are not expecting hours of work ... you can look at it as a "couchsurfing" (FR) Pour commencer: Attention nous ne sommes pas des professionnels, et nous n'attendons pas des heures de ......
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Join our family and learn how to grow and preserve your own food in Alsace, France
We are a French-German family with two children (13 and 6 years old). My mother tongue is german, my husbands french. At home we mostly speak french. We live in a small village in Alsace / France close to the German border. We grow our own food ......
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Learn about gardening in the countryside of the Perigord Blanc, Dordogne, France
Hi, My name is Sharon. We ( my husband, daughter and myself) are living on an 18th century property the countryside of the Perigord blanc, part of the central Dordogne Région. Our work eventually evolved to the preservation of period houses and ......
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Share family life and outdoor projects in front of Mont Ventoux near Brantes, France
We are a couple with 2 young children. We are living in the Mont Ventoux region, in the north of Provence. We are living in a yourte, the time to fix the house, and the father of my husband is living in a part of the house. We are not farmers ......
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Help with house sitting and experience village life in Baigts, France
--- from 22nd/23rd May - 15th/16th June --- We are currently looking for a last minute Workaway and preferably a couple to work with us as we get the house and garden in ship shape for a family wedding this summer. We have been fortunate to spend ......
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Help us restore our 18th century home in the National Park of the Cevennes, France
There are two of us, Bill and Anette with Lila and Rosie the two yellow Labradors, a cat, chickens, and goldfish, etc. We have a wide range of life experiences and we're good teachers. The report from the nieces and nephews is "they are fun!"
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Help improve our Walipini green house in Confolens, France
HELLO EVERYONE We can welcome you this year from the 21 of june to the 5 of july and from the 15 of august to the 30 of august 2026. For a little over 4 years that we have been here at Bois de Pommeau, we have been lucky to be in nature, surrounded ......
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Non-profit create a syntropic forest garden and learn about ecology in Espinasse, France
Hello! My name is Émile. After many wanderings, I've landed in the Combrailles, an hour northwest of Clermont-Ferrand, in the Puy-de-dôme region, in France. The Combrailles is a large region of sparsely populated hills, with a lot of bocage. The ......
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Share experiences and skills with our multilingual family in Bussière-Dunoise, France
I'm Louis, I am 25 years old nature lover from the UK living in rural France with my dad Jamie. We're both passionate travellers and love to share our experiences. And let us learn from your experiences, knowledge and cultural differences.The ......
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Help with our rural property and enjoy the beautiful countryside in a peaceful area in Central France
HI, I am Paul living in central France. I am looking for are looking for volunteers to help with the property our ongoing barn conversion project, and the maintainance of I have a large garden, and an orchard totalling about one and a half hectares ......
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Help and escape to the French countryside in Gavaudun, France
We’re an English couple who recently moved to a farmhouse on the border of the Lot-et-Garonne and Dordogne. It’s a lovely, peaceful place with plenty of charm—and also plenty of overgrowth! The property includes meadows, an orchard, a small ......
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Share your skills and creative ideas in my hobby horse farm in the South of France
Hello to you, My goal is to awaken and develop my newly bought little now renovated farm on at least 5 ha privately owned land and vineyard in the Languedoc South of France. I (45 year old, French/English/Dutch mother of 10 year old son) also own a ......
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Help with gardening, storage, painting DIY in Dordogne Valley, near Rocamadour, France
Hello everybody ! I'm in transition now, I try (beginner ;-) to live self-sufficient in food in the Lot (46), 200 km north of Toulouse and 50 km from Brive la Gaillarde, in the Dordogne Valley. It is a small house on the countryside surrounded by ......
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Language exchange and help us with the garden and house in Haute-Provence, France
We live in Haute-Provence, in "Les MONGES" (Mountain massif in the south of Alps mountain range), à BAYONS, a little village placed at SISTERON north-east side, in a detached-house with a garden (3 345 m²). My wife, Françoise (59 years old) and I ......
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Create a medicinal and aromatic garden in Legé, France
May 2026. I'm back after three months of training in Ariège. Starting in June, I'll be back tending the garden and harvesting. There are also some hanging clotheslines to build. I now have a comfortable caravan to host guests. My land is small. I ......
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Share your culture and discover the countryside of Brittany, France
We are Chantal & Michel. we live in a small village in South Brittany, between Nantes and Rennes. We run 2 self catering holidays in our converted 17-19th century farm. Our property is 2.1 hectares, fields, woodland, large gardens for leisure,and a ......