Homestays, Volunteering & Working Holidays in New Zealand

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Lifestyle farm based on permaculture practices with a lovely river near Te Mata, New Zealand
We are a couple developing our place using permaculture, land share and hosting. Having finished our straw bale farm shed, house and fencing. Gardening, tree planting and looking after cows, chickens and donkeys, gorse clearing. We are omnivores ......
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Outdoors while exploring Greta Valley, New Zealand
We are 10 minutes north of Greta Valley on a Sheep and Beef farm. The house is on a hill with magnificent views, with a walking track up to the top with 360 views of North Canterbury. There is a hut for you to sleep in for your own privacy which has ......
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Experience rural life surrounded by nature and beaches in Northland, New Zealand
Paul and I searched for ten years to find our stunning coastal site on which to build our dream home, recently completed in 2024 after four years of hard work. We still have a lot of work to do before the landscaping is looking as we envisage but we ......
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Help in a beautiful location on the coastal peninsula in Northland, New Zealand
Our place gets busy over the summer months , so we really need help with cleaning. A max of 3 hours per day... not every day but we pay a minimum of 10 hours per week. Your room is part of the main house with your own bathroom and entrance. You ......
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Welcoming help in a garden paradise on the Otago Peninsula, Dunedin, New Zealand
Our place is a beautiful, peaceful seaside house and established garden on the amazing Otago Peninsula, in the township of Portobello. We are passionate about gardening and the simple life - working toward our goals slowly as we bring up our ......
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Come and join our Eco building project on Great Barrier Island, New Zealand
Our Community was born in 1975 when a group of young friends including Manu's father and uncle who got together and bought this land of native bush to start a community of like minded people, in that first period they built the communal house we ......
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Help with refining house, gardening and energy systems near Hauraki Gulf beach, New Zealand
We are Emily and Terry, a transplanted Canadian and a long time New Zealander. We live on a 70 Hectare block of family owned land with our two dogs and a donkey. At present there are two permanent households. We live off grid and aim for low ......
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Join us with daily life at our home in New Plymouth, New Zealand
Hi, we are a family of 4, kids aged 22 months & 3. 5 years living in New Plymouth Taranaki, 3.5km from Ngamutu beach and less than 5 km from Centre City. We immigrated from South Africa (Pretoria) in 2019. I serve as a Minister at a Presbyterian ......
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Spend NYE at our big sunny home and care for our pup in Wellsford, New Zealand
House sitting dates needed for: 29th December - 3rd Jan. Hey! I’m Helayna (31), a website designer/developer, and my husband (36) is a waterproofer. We live in Wellsford with our 3-year-old daughter and our Staffy, Sammy. Sammy is the real boss of ......
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Help us with the house move and learn how to look after animals in Kaeo, New Zealand
***Urgent help from woofers needed in the Far North*** Kia Ora, our family of 3 is living in the Kaeo/Whangaroa Area in the beautiful winterless Far North of New Zealand. Claudia is from Germany and Cameron is from New Zealand. We both speak German ......
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Creative living with our community in Wellington, NZ
Do you enjoy kids, nature, regenerative agriculture, holistic wellbeing? We run a program that works with kids who are usually neurodiverse and the school system just really isn't working for them. This group of kids is currently planting out a ......
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Coaching and help with projects on our farm in the Hunua Ranges, New Zealand
We are based on 185 acres in the Hunua Ranges, only 45 minutes South of Auckland City. We have enjoyed having volunteers stay with us for over 10 years now and have just recently discovered the workawayers website. We are always happy to host hard ......
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Enthusiastic gardener? bird watcher? peace seeker? welcome to Little River, New Zealand
I am a builder, gardener, philosopher and bird enthusiast and have been involved for many years in events and festivals. I have a small and quirky property in Little River, NZ covered in fruit trees and berry bushes and teeming with native birds
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Enjoy stunning views south of Napier, New Zealand and help around our property
We would like a strong, capable male or couple to help us clean ceilings, inside walls, clean & wipe cupboards, wash windows, water pressure our roof & pathways, prepare 2 raised bed gardens for spring garden planting. We like a sense of humour, ......
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join our family home and the chaos in Raumati south, New Zealand
We're a lively, liberal, alternative family of 3 adults, 3 kids, 2 dogs, 2 baby goats, 2 kats, foster kittens, and a paddock of ponies across the road - and we need help taming the chaos! If you enjoy decluttering, tidying, and cooking for a crowd, ......
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Join us around the farm in the Northland Region, New Zealand
We are a retired couple living on the Kaipara Harbour in Northland. We have a 6 acre lifestyle property with three cows, 8 sheep, 8 chickens, two dogs and three turtles. We have been living here 9 years since returning from France where we worked ......
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Experience beautiful rural living and the outdoors near Auckland, New Zealand
Our warm modern house is situated on 18 acres of beautiful rolling green hills with its own small area of native bush. We (my husband Bruce and myself) have 2 Labrador dogs 3 chickens and one Kitten who has just been added to the family. We run a ......
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Join our friendly and inclusive family in Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
Hi! We're a family of 4 - myself (Jo) and my 3 children (Samuel 12, Ollie 10 and Annie 7). We live in a lovely place called Welcome Bay in Tauranga. We're right next to a beautiful bush reserve and close to the city and bus routes. My children love ......
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Experience coastal living north of Auckland, New Zealand
Kia ora / Greetings, Our names are Mike and Karena and we are in our early 60''s. We live in an architecturally recognized house in Opahi Bay which is in beautiful Mahurangi West, a northern coastal rural area in greater Auckland (approximately 1 ......
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Help us with our wetland restoration project on a peninsula on the Waimea Inlet near Māpua, Nelson, New Zealand
Our property is on the shore of the Waimea Inlet near Māpua Village. The estuary is home to many wading birds and most of our work is restoring the intertidal estuary margin and regenerating coastal forest. Our project is to increase numbers of ......
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