Anna

Australia
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I am currently
Travelling
My next destination:
Spain - from Jan 2024
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Description
I'm 26, and am travelling in Europe for all of 2024.

I love the outdoors and am excited to do lots of walking in wild areas, as well as work outdoors. I'm hoping to spend most of my time on farms.

I'm passionate about protecting this precious planet we live on and learning about how we can best care for local ecosystems. For the last ten years I have been involved with Friends of the Earth as a volunteer and campaigner for environmental protection, and a this work has often involved working with farming communities.

I love cooking, reading, writing, playing and listening to music, gardening, working with people and animals, walking, swimming, and trying my hand at new things.
Interests
Music
Beach
Events & social
Camping
Languages
LGBTQ
Culture
Hitchhiking
Van life
Yoga / Wellness
Mountain
Gardening
History
Cooking & food
Hiking
Sustainability
Winter sports
Writing
Politics / Social justice
Nature
Farming
Books
Animals
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Spanish: Intermediate
More details about my language interests
Keen to improve my Spanish, which I have been learning at uni for the last few years.
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Skills and knowledge I'd like to share or learn
I'm interested in:
General Maintenance
Life at a Farmstay
Art Projects
DIY and building projects
Some knowledge of:
Gardening
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Eco Projects
Helping around the house
Animal Care
Hospitality/Tourism
Charity Work
Languages
More details about your skills
I adore cooking and studied it for three years at high school, including my final year where I designed a folio of recipes featuring olive oil as a core ingredient - sounds like a weird ingredient to focus on, but it taught me a lot about making the simplest combinations of ingredients taste truly gourmet! I've also volunteered in a vegetarian restaurant in Melbourne as a kitchen hand and worked in a cafe on an inner-city farm. Basically anything to do with food, I'm in! I love harvesting, preserving and preparing it and creating a ritual around eating it to honour the process involved.

I have gardening skills from the gardens I've helped grow at home and previous workaways. I am keen to learn more about growing different foods in different local climates and seasons. I have worked with animals in previous workaways (mainly goats) and have had my own chickens for a few years, so know a lot about caring for chooks.

I am confident in the general housekeeping skills needed to maintain a guesthouse. I cleaned my parents' airbnb apartment for years, and did the cleaning/turnover work at a bunkhouse in Scotland for a month-long workaway.

I work well in a team, having had experience volunteering on environmental campaigns at Friends of the Earth for ten years now. This has also given me skills in organising events, and working with others in an consensus-based decision making model.

I'm a fast learner and eager to develop new skills, so if you tell me what work is needed I should be pretty adaptable to pick it up and get to know the ropes!
Age
27
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- Smoker
- Driver's licence
- Allergies
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26 Nov 2024

Left by host (Learn new skills and discover ...) for Workawayer ()

Anna was very good help for us in all works. She is hard-working and nice person.
Don't hesitate to accept if you receive a request from Anna.

(Excellent )

22 Oct 2024

Left by Workawayer () for host (Learn new skills and discover ...)

Staying at this place is like stepping back in time, in the best way. It is a beautiful old homestead where Tuula has lived for her whole life, and it is full of history of many past eras. Not to mention in a stunning natural area - surrounded by forest, on the shore of a huge lake, mountains in the distance.
I was here for nearly three weeks,… read more

(Excellent )

22 Nov 2024

Left by host (Help with daily life and with ...) for Workawayer ()

Anna was volunteering here for 2 weeks during the autum 2024. She approached every task with a positive attitude and had an impressive work ethic. She assisted with a variety of jobs around the house and reindeer farm. Her ability to adapt and tackle different tasks was truly commendable, and she was always willing to lend a hand wherever it was… read more

(Excellent )

9 Nov 2024

Left by Workawayer () for host (Help with daily life and with ...)

I planned to stay at Ragne's for one week in October and ended up staying two, because there was lots of work to be done before the frost came and I was really enjoying the stay. I did an interesting variety of work, including preparing the smokehouse for smoking reindeer meat, cutting up and mincing meat, raking, repairing fences, collecting… read more

(Excellent )

25 Aug 2024

Left by host (Petsitting and the outdoors ...) for Workawayer ()

Anna has been a wonderful help and company for the weeks she spent with us. She also minded the house for a week as we were away, and she did a great job! I was doing an intensive course for the first 3 weeks and I was not around during the day and studying in the evening (thankfully for her my family was a bit more available in the evenings!),… read more

(Excellent )

21 Aug 2024

Left by Workawayer () for host (Petsitting and the outdoors ...)

I originally planned to stay 3 weeks at Riverlodge and ended up staying nearly 5! And I would happily have stayed even longer at this gorgeous home in the Avoca Valley. Clothilde, John, Nele and Anna have become another of my 'families away from home.'
For the first part of my stay, Clothilde was doing an intensive study course in Dublin, so I was… read more

(Excellent )

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26 Nov 2024

Left by host (Learn new skills and discover ...) for Workawayer ()

Anna was very good help for us in all works. She is hard-working and nice person.
Don't hesitate to accept if you receive a request from Anna.

(Excellent)

22 Oct 2024

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22 Nov 2024

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9 Nov 2024

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25 Aug 2024

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21 Aug 2024

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19 Aug 2024

Left by Workawayer () for host (Come to help in my garden and ...)

I was only able to stay at Valli's for five days (having to shorten it from a planned two weeks) and I am sad that I wasn't able to be there for longer, as so many wonderful things were packed into those five days! Delicious food, energising gardening work, gorgeous walks, Valli's enthralling stories and adventures to nearby parts of Co Sligo.… read more

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4 May 2024

Left by Workawayer () for host (Help at our tiny getaway on ...)

I worked here April, the first month of the year that the business is back open. I already know it's going to be a big highlight out of all my travel.

Aideen and Martin are wonderful, welcoming hosts and Nancy is a hilarious, creative delight to play with. I found the work to be very well coordinated - Martin explains everything clearly and… read more

(Excellent)

17 Mar 2024

Left by host (Organic farm and olive grove, ...) for Workawayer ()

Anna is an enthusiastic and positive person who is concerned and knowledgeable about environmental issues.
She applied herself concientiously to any job that was thrown at her, whether it was a task in the garden or restoring our yurt to its former glory!
She takes initiative and has good attention to detail.
On a social level she enjoyed the… read more

(Very good)

16 Mar 2024

Left by Workawayer () for host (Organic farm and olive grove, ...)

I spent a month at Kate's finca at the end of winter. It's the longest I've spent at a workaway so far, but time absolutely flew by and I'm sad I couldn't stay longer!
Most of my work was in the series of bountiful gardens across the farm, and I enjoyed learning about permaculture principles of gardening. The work was always varied and… read more

(Excellent)

19 Feb 2024

Left by host (We are a little community of ...) for Workawayer ()

Anna estuvo dos semanas con nosotros en casa, es una persona muy fácil de convivir, siempre dispuesta a ayudar y colaborar en lo que hiciera falta. Nos estuvo ayudando a hacer un montón de leña para el siguiente invierno, y además ayudaba en las tareas del dia a dia de casa.
Una persona muy recomendable!

(Excellent)

19 Feb 2024

Left by Workawayer () for host (We are a little community of ...)

I spent two weeks at Victor and Blanca's gorgeous farm nestled in the Pyrenees peaks. I couldn't imagine a more delightful way to start off my time in Spain! They are so warm, fun and easygoing, and every day was a great mix of work, rest and excellent food. Every meal was such a plentiful feast of delicious local foods. Usually followed by some… read more

(Excellent)

13 Jun 2018

Left by host for Workawayer ()

Anna was a huge help to us, on both visits. She got stuck in with all jobs - learning to milk and feed the goats and help in the cheese room. She was lovely to have around the house and is a fantastic baker. She kindly came back to our farm to help out on our open day. We wish her all the best and hope to see you again if you're headed to the UK

(Excellent)

15 Jun 2017

Left by Workawayer () for host (Stay on our goat farm near ...)

I had a small window of free time before I had to be back in London to go somewhere else, so decided to find a workaway and Sarah accepted my last minute request to stay for a week. As the first workaway I've done, I can honestly say it has been the best experience of my travels so far!
Sarah and Ian are a wonderful, welcoming couple and their… read more

(Excellent)

1 Jun 2018

Left by Workawayer () for host (Come and join us in our ...)

I stayed here for a week and a half before I had to meet a friend in Rome, but I feel so in love with the place that after my three days away I came right back for another two weeks. Every day at this farm was an adventure and a chance to learn something new - from baking all our bread for the week in the wood fired oven, to harvesting and… read more

(Excellent)

4 Sep 2017

Left by host (Join a self- sufficient ...) for Workawayer ()

Anna is a lively and interested young girl that immediately puts hands on- when I got her from the train station to our "working kitchen" she took over cutting green beans without speaking the language of my grandparents who worked there at the time. She blended in the household just fine and I she enjoyed the WLAN, walking and sleeping in her… read more

(Very good)

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