Homestays, Volunteering & Working Holidays in New Zealand

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Waikato, New Zealand

Join us for gardening and share skills, art and music in Miranda, New Zealand
Hello Everyone - we are Mark, a semi-retired(ish) maths and English teacher and Kanani, an artist and grower. Spring is here and there's lots of land work to do. It's a beautiful time of year and a beautiful place to come to. We have been lucky ......
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Waikato, New Zealand

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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Canterbury, New Zealand

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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Northland, New Zealand

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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Otago, New Zealand

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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Auckland, New Zealand

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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Waikato, New Zealand

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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Taranaki, New Zealand

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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Auckland, New Zealand

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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Northland, New Zealand

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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Canterbury, New Zealand

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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Auckland, New Zealand

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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Nelson & Bays, New Zealand

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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Bay of Plenty, New Zealand

🥑 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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Wellington, New Zealand

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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Auckland, New Zealand

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 ......
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Tasman, New Zealand

Participate in creating harmonious community life in Lower Moutere, New Zealand
Kia ora I'm Ethan, and welcome to my little corner of Motueka, New Zealand. I'm passionate about creating abundant and diverse ecosystems, building sustainably, and learning to live more closely with the land. This project is my way of expressing ......
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Auckland, New Zealand

Come and join us with childcare in a vibrant and diverse area of West Auckland, New Zealand
Come and experience life out in Glen Eden West Auckland, gateway to the Waitakere Ranges and Karekare, Piha beach. Kerri is as Kiwi as they come, and works part time at a University mentoring students from the school of education. She has been ......
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Marlborough , New Zealand

Come and spend some time in the beautiful Marlborough sounds New Zealand
My partner and I have just retired from our flower farm and are in the process of turning our boat access only Bach (New Zealand holiday home) in the Marlborough Sounds into our permanent home. We have many different projects on the go that we could ......
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Nelson & Bays, New Zealand

Developing a Large Eco Garden and home grown food Garden. New Zealand
Got a bit of rain in your NZ trip? Well, flood damaged block had a river though the middle of it. Good food, good music, plua , I was in Europe in a heatwave was happening, same time flooding. Hello , I,m Bryn A traveler ,and workaway volunteer ......
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