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Meaning of the colours:
Workawayers needed
Possibility that workawayers are needed
No availability
By default (toggle switch to the left) hosts who have both yellow AND green indicated for the months
you have selected will be shown. If you move the toggle to the right ONLY hosts who have indicated
green will be shown.
Meaning of this:
By default (toggle switch to the left) will show hosts who have ANY of the months you have chosen
marked as available. This means that some of the months might be marked red (no availability.) If
you need to see ALL of the months you have selected as available move the toggle to the right.
Hi there,
My name is Bernadette. I've been workawaying for several years and I found it was a wonderful experience and a smart way to travel and connect with local people.
I now live in my country, in the Loire Valley where I bought a house that I ......
Hello and welcome 😊
I am a 53-year-old woman living in the countryside in western France, on a peaceful 3.5-hectare property with a small lake and a lot of nature around. I work mainly from home, so I am present every day and I live a simple, calm ......
We have a large period property in the Loire Valley surrounded by two acres of land with orchards and trees. The previous owners have left us cider making equipment that we would love to restore into working condition. We also need to tend to the ......
My name is Nathalie, and I've been living in a small village near the Vendée region for a year now with my cat, Lounie. I've been a Qi Gong instructor until recently, but I've decided to focus on growing and processing medicinal and aromatic plants. ......
Camille, Nicolas and their 4 children: Thibaud 16 years old, Athanase 11 years old, Augustin 9 years old and Sixtine 6 years old. Camille is a housewife. We are renovating a 280m square house with a 2600m square garden in the heart of a village of ......
Steve and I (Jane) have been living in France for over 20 years and have moved to our rural idyll. We have an old farm house, perfectly habitable but in need of some refurbishment; a derelict cottage in need of total renovation; a workshop fully ......
Hi, my name is Julie and I live in a beautiful farmhouse in the Loire Valley between Angers and Saumur. I have 2 hectares of land to manage but also to enjoy; huge ornamental garden (more English style!), large organic vegetable garden, woodland, ......
I am an English, retired language teacher, loving a sociable laid-back life in a French village. However, now disabled, I am no longer able to cope with my small house and garden in south Vendée. I also need someone to look after my cats when I am ......
Hello, we are Gwendoline and Arnaud and we have created our association in february 2021 in the purpose to offer all kind of activities to (re)connect human and nature, and to rescue farm animals in need.
Our main activity is animal mediation ......
We’re an American family that moved to France a couple years ago with a big dream to bring back life into an old chateau. It’s a magical place surrounded by a forest and a little river, about 20 minutes from Laval and 1h 15m from Paris (by ......
Hi there,
I’m Laure, I’m 32 years old and I live in a small village of the Saumurois region.
I grew up between Romania and France and travelled a lot.
I’m passionate about nature, art & creative projects. After moving abroad and doing myself ......
I reforest an old meadow of 2.5 hectares in Villevêque, Rives su Loir en Anjou, to transform it into a kind of garden-forest. It is located in front of the farmhouse where I live with my family (our 3 children are students and live elsewhere). I ......
Couples Only
We are an easy going Swedish couple living in our beloved romantic Chateau in the north Loire with our Golden Retrievers Lisa and Rosa. We have three grown up kids who have left the nest and live in Sweden.
We own and run an ......
Hello,
we are a family of 4 (Sophie and Paul), our sons (Bastien, 29 and Thibaut, 23), and our cat Iris. The house is located in a small village of 2,000 inhabitants near Nantes (35 km) and the Atlantic ocean (30 km). We have for you a huge garden ......
We are a family with two children. My daughter and son have left home to start their own lives, so we have a spare room to host guests and a caravan available in the summer. I only speak French; my husband speaks a little English, but we'll always ......
We are a retired couple trying to live a simple, reasonably self sufficient way of life.
This is a great place to start a retreat, rethink and readjust to a different way of life. You can be alone and not lonely and learn how to leave a lot of what ......
Hello,
How nice that you are looking at our workaway account. We are Han & Anita and we are busy to renovated a farmhouse in St Denis de Jouhet. We also want to live here as self-sufficiently as possible. Creating a vegetable garden on a ......
We are a couple mostly living alone but as we have a big family with 12 children between 36 and 17 and also 16 grandchildren sometimes they stay at home during week-end or holydays.
We live in a castle surrounded by a large park 15km from Nantes and ......
Dear Workawayers,
My name is Daniel, and I love plants and woodworking. I've been combining these two passions for a long time. My house is a former school and convent built in 1820, where more than four thousand children learned to read, write, ......
There is lots of work to do on my house and garden to make it even close to what I want it to be for mum and I, that's where I could really use some help. My ambition was to make this place a rest place for other carers to take be able to take a ......
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