Homestays, Volunteering & Working Holidays in New Zealand

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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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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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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 around our home and share our culture in Auckland, New Zealand
We have a lifestyle block that is set up for horses about 1 hour from Auckland City centre. We are 10 minutes away from the township of the Pukekohe. Our home is fairly small but a comfortable 3 bedroom home. It is just my husband and me plus our ......
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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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Join us on our family project - permaculture in progress in Auckland, New Zealand
Hello fellow travellers 🌺 It’s has always been my dream to become as self sufficient as possible so since buying our beautiful acre property over looking the Hauraki Gulf last yr I’ve been not stop trying to put it into motion. We’re ultimately ......
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🥑 orchard in Paengaroa, New Zealand
Hi! We are Brendon, Mayson, Archer (2) and Amelia (7m) and we live on an avocado orchard in the beautiful Bay of Plenty. We have a small herd of cows, chickens, ducks and a cat. We are located right in the centre of many great beaches, lakes, ......

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Help for our community driven day care centre in Waikanae, New Zealand
We are Jan and Marian. Dutch from origine, both over 60 years old, living in New Zealand since 2007. In June 2025 we moved our green care farm from Raumati to Waikanae ( still Kâpiti coast) leasing a larger house with lots of land , semi rural. The ......
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Stay right on the edge of Fiordland National Park in Te Anau, Southland, NZ
We live in Te Anau, right on the doorstep of Fiordland National Park. We have 2 children Rita 9 and Austen 6, a dog and 3 chickens. We run a charter boat business in Dusky Sound and absolutely love the outdoors. We try and grow as much produce as ......

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Wake up to the sound of Tui and Fantails and join our day-to-day family life in Lower Hutt, New Zealand
We are a multicultural blended family of 6 (baby girl Maia was born end of June) who enjoy being active in the outdoors, touring with our campervan when time allows, being part of a very cool church community and traveling overseas. Judith came to ......
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Help us with care of goats and aviaries in North Auckland, New Zealand
Please read our profile and only apply if you have the skills we need, especially the ability to work with birds and dogs. We are currently looking for someone to help around the house, sort “stuff”, cook (if you have the ability), some light ......