Homestays, Volunteering & Working Holidays in New Zealand

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Join our organic family farm near Dunedin, New Zealand
A young family running an organic farm... We have a room to spare, fun company, and lots of board games. We need help with our animals (dog, goose, duck, and chicken), our projects (mostly improving workawayer facilities), our gardening (weeding, ......
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Stay in my gorgeous cottage and learn about natural plant growing in Waiuku, New Zealand
Hi There I would love to host you in my cute little cottage in the country in Waiuku, rural South Auckland. Here I love to live a healthy peaceful lifestyle, and grow lots of different plants, flowers, vegetables, fruit, etc. I also have a couple of ......
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Create a permaculture food forest & be part of our family life in Ōhau, New Zealand
We are a warm, creative, slightly chaotic family who loves nature, good food, being outdoors, and meeting people from around the world. We host Workawayers because we enjoy sharing our home, ideas, skills, and garden — and because we love the ......
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Help on a lifestyle block in West Auckland, New Zealand
Hello. We have a wonderful 10 acre lifestyle block close to the villages of Waimauku and Kumeu (wine country) in the north west part of Auckland, just 35 mins drive to the city outside of the rush hour and 20 mins drive to the beautiful Muriwai ......
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Embrace the wild on our sustainable homestead in Northland, New Zealand
We live on 60 acres 40 min out of whangarei, two thirds of it is native bush and some grazing and our space has our house, a big workshop and a sleepout for the volunteers and huge gardens. There is a single and a double bed in the sleepout and ......
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Stay at a suburban house while enjoying the many tourist attractions in and around Rotorua, New Zealand
After a break for a few years, I'm delighted to be back on Workaway. I look forward to connecting with independent travellers who can help maintain my suburban Rotorua home in exchange for comfortable self-contained accommodation.
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Stay a few weeks in lovely Coromandel , New Zealand
My Workawayers help 4 hours per day, five days a week, for really nice and clean accommodation, breakfast and a big lunch and getting a home from home. I am sorry, but I do not cook vegan or just vegetarian. On your days off, you would have to cook ......
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Meet the cutest and friendliest sheep in the world and enjoy our place in Rotorua, New Zealand
This is a working farm. The work is physical hard, and can be repetitive, and takes place in all weather conditions. I’m looking for motivated, reliable helpers who take pride in doing a job properly and can work both independently and with ......
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Learn new skills and enjoy the outdoors in Whangarei, New Zealand
Whangarei, 2 hrs drive North of Auckland. Recently, I moved to a modern house with fantastic panoramic views over Whangārei, water view toward Onerahi & Mt Manaia. There is a huge deck outside for practicing yoga as well as a large indoor space ......
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Join us by the sea and be part of family life on Waiheke Island, New Zealand
Hi workawayers! We're looking forward to meeting you :) ** Semi-last minute ** Sadly our current workawayer needs to return home due to a family emergency. :( So we're looking for a workawayer (or couple) to join us approx 8-25 ......
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Explore the area and learn new skils near Hamilton City, New Zealand
Currently: General property upkeep at present . We live on a small lifestyle block of 2 acres about 16km from Hamilton city outskirts with our young adult and school aged children. We have older children and grandchildren living in Ireland and the ......
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Experience family life in Russell, Bay of Islands, New Zealand
Hi! We’re Kristy, Danny, and Billy. We live in the seaside town of Russell, just a 10-minute walk from town and close to beaches in every direction. We love going to the beach, swimming, hiking, food, games, fishing, gathering seafood, sports and ......
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Outdoor gardening in South Auckland, New Zealand
My husband and I are in our early 50's/early 60's and in 2014 built our home on 2.5acres. My parents live with us in a separate part of the house. We have planted approx 5000 trees with the help of Trees For Survival and Auckland City Council. We ......
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Help with housesitting, animal care. Hokianga, New Zealand
Dates help wanted: 13 Apr- 27 May 2026. We are looking for an active person or couple to look after our lifestyle block from 13 Apr- 27 May 2026. Our names are Rick and Lindy , and we are a couple in our 60s and 70`s, living on a 125 acre ......
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Help us around our home in Napier, New Zealand
We are a couple (both in our early 40s) with a 6 yr old boy, 2 yr old girl, and a 7 year old English Springer Spaniel, so you must like kids and dogs! We have a family home in the suburbs of Napier that we have been renovating and we're hoping to ......
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Help us with some window cleaning and woodstacking in Rotorua, New Zealand
Married couple in mid 50s living in a 4 bedroom single level house on a large property with beautiful mature gardens. We have 2 adult children and 2 grandchildren who visit often. Workawayers would be doing odd jobs, house tasks, gardening, stacking ......
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Help around our home and garden in Methven, New Zealand
Looking for a single, couple or 2 friends together, energetic, for all sorts of tasks in country life: Housework,gardening, feed chickens ,firewood, and general tidying up around the property. At the moment we are also looking specifically for ......
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Join us on our lifestyle block in Geraldine, New Zealand
We are a lifestyle block in Geraldine with sheep cows and pigs + dogs We have a large garden and my husband also does homekill meat. He loves hunting and fishing We have a self contained unit available. We also have our 23yr old Autistic son ......
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Experience typical Kiwi family life in Geraldine, New Zealand
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Workaways ! Have loved all our 2025 Workaways and looking forward to meeting all the cool travellers in 2026 ! I have free approx 1 week from 9th Feb And then March 4th - 18th free April 15th - 21st ......
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Join us on our small farm on beautiful South Island's east coast, New Zealand
Our small farm is just south of Timaru on the east coast of the beautiful South Island, New Zealand. On the farm we have a few very spoilt cattle and lease some land out to some girls to use for their for horses. We take hay off the paddocks in the ......
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