Homestays, Volunteering & Working Holidays in New Zealand

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Become part of our busy little family living on the farm in Ashburton, New Zealand
We are a busy young family on a farm. We have an active lifestyle and would like you to join us to help with the day to day activities. We are a couple in our 30s with two young boys who are very active. We offer a lovely quiet location in the ......
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Come and help our little family and enjoy living in Oakura, Taranaki, New Zealand
Hello, we are a little family that loves living in Oakura, Taranaki. My kids are 9 and 12 and love being outdoors. I am finishing renovating our home and garden and would love to have some help and can offer someone (or a couple) travelling a chance ......
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Learn about rural life at our property situated in the beautiful Clarence Valley in NZ
My property is situated in the beautiful Clarence Valley on the North Kaikoura Coast with easy access to ocean, river and mountains. I am looking for people with practical skills in gardening, cleaning and building maintenance to help me maintain my ......
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Join us at our little oasis and stay in a cosy retro caravan in Lake Hāwea, New Zealand
My sweetheart son and I would love you to join us at our little oasis of fruit trees, medicinal herbs, and veges, less than 10mins walk from the gorgeous Lake Hāwea. I moved back to my motherlands, Aotearoa-NZ, in September 2024, after 14 years ......
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Help with our house and garden and experience the Northland, Kaipara, New Zealand
I'm Donna and I live with my partner Cath in the Northern Kaipara just 2 hrs North of Auckland We are women in our 50s who have open minds and wide interests. We can accomodate a couple or an individual . We have moved to the country 2 yrs ago ......
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Come help in our house and garden near Thames, Waikato
Friendly couple with 1 dog living on a 180 acre lifestyle block with bush tracks/forest streams. We generate our own power with hydro and solar and have an under ground spring for water. We have chickens and a few cattle. We are 8 kms out of the ......
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Enjoy a little piece of NZ paradise, build a hotel for some chickens and enjoy sunny Napier, New Zealand
Hi I would love some help with developing gardens & general help building a cabin etc...... Kiwi guy - needing help to develop my small piece of land in a country environment, beautiful forest trails on doorstep, picturesque lake Tutira 7 mins ......
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Stay with an elderly man in Auckland, New Zealand
We only consider female applicants, sorry. Family Home in Birkenhead, Auckland. Only a 15-minute bus ride into the city (and only a 5 minute walk to the bus stop), we are very conveniently located to get to know Auckland. There are beaches in all a ......
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Help our bilingual farming family in Foxton, the Manawatu, New Zealand
Hello, We are family of 5 including ourselves and 3 lovely children from ages 8 down to 3. We are also managing a dairy farm in Foxton, the Manawatu and would love to have a workawayer to come and help support us with a few little family things so ......
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Join our outdoorsy, bilingual family in beautiful Taranaki, New Zealand
We are lucky to call New Plymouth home, as it's such a special little place where all things fun can be found: the sea, the mountain, the wind and beautiful surrounding nature. Our house is ideally located next to a council-owned reserve, in a ......
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Join our family and help with gardening in magical Mangawhai, New Zealand
We are a busy family located rurally in magical Mangawhai, near to beautiful beaches. We grow a lot of food and always need help with gardening projects and general jobs around the farm.
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Join our family and enjoy farm life in Motueka, New Zealand
.*We have a 30 acre lifestlye block, 25 mins from Motueka with cows, sheep, chickens, bees, horses/ponies and a glowworm grotto!. There is a large veggie garden which provides most of our vegetables, tunnel house and an orchard. We try to eat as ......
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Join our relaxed company and explore the surroundings in Whangarei, New Zealand
Hi, we're an older couple, Tony and Maree, with a mid-size rather rustic property with great views north over Whangarei town basin and behind to the Whangarei Heads. We're two minutes from the middle of town and an easy walk. We're fixing up an old ......
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Learn native forest conservation at our eco-project in Orewa, Auckland, New Zealand
Our names are John and Laura, James and Liz and the 2 kids, Wayne and Bill, we live In OREWA, AUCKLAND, in a Native Forest. We would love some help. Forest care and maintenance. Maybe some tree planting. There are some other chores in the house, ......
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Join a Kiwi family and help with day to day life in Martinborough, New Zealand
Hello, We are Michelle and Ross also Abby who is 14 yr and shes home on the weekends from school. We have 2 lifestyle blocks 3.7 ha and 6.4 ha. We live at the 3.7 ha property renovating our home, planting trees etc. Block 2 - a beautiful block with ......
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Join a welcoming family and explore the beaches in Far North, Peria, New Zealand
Want to learn about growing food, happy to jump right in and help in a busy family? Availability for 1-2 people, inside and outside work, lots of gardening , fruit tree maintenance, cleaning and possibly babysitting while I’m in the home office, ......
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Come join our seaside home in Kuri Bush, New Zealand
Kia ora! Welcome to our home on the south coast of Ōtepoti/Dunedin. There are 6 of us that live here fulltime, but the heart behind this place is that it is a home for many. As many of us have had beautiful experiences woofing and doing workaways ......
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Easygoing farming family living in a beautiful part of Otago needing help with farming, New Zealand
We live and work on a 600ha sheep and beef farm in Otago, New Zealand. We run around 4000 ewes and have 100 breeding cows. We have farm dogs, cat, chooks, pet lambs and a pony for the girls .... I think that is about it - a good selection of farm ......
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Enjoy small town culture and explore the area in Rāwene, New Zealand
We live in a small country town in the Far North of NZ. We are retired and love our garden. We love to create great local food, go sailing, have sailed the Pacific Ocean, are active in our community, music, and travelling, mostly in NZ now to see ......
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Experience off-grid sustainable living on a permaculture farm with food forest and veg garden in Hastings, New Zealand
We are a well known 16 acre permaculture farm and plant nursery in Hawke’s Bay, supplying over 400 species of ‘permaculture’ plants, including the widest range of medicinal herbs in the country. We also run workshops and tours - Jo has been teaching ......
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