Stacy & Sebastian

Travel information

We are currently

Activities we are interested in:

We would love to meet up with other families that are also into traveling, unschooling, spirituality etc. We're in southern France and will head to Spain in the spring!

Description

We are an German-American family with three children (born: 2010, 2012, 2016) looking to learn together more about organic farming, permaculture, natural building, animals and, in general, teach our kids using the school of life.

My husband and I met each other while doing WWOOFing, HelpX and other Work and Travel „gap year" volunteering in India. We then traveled together to Australia - and met up to start our family in Germany. We then slowly kind of lost ourselves in a life full of jobs and schooling. We are currently planning on spending at least 1 year, maybe more, volunteering and traveling together in Europe, and then doing roughly the same in America. Then maybe we settle down and build our earthship and become our own self-sustaining farm and can host Workawayers!.

We have been traveling now for a few months in Germany, Austria, Italy, France and Spain. We're now officially no longer registered in Germany and are teaching our children through unschooling/worldschooling/roadschooling what it’s like to work and serve others while learning a thing or two along the way.

Our motivation at the moment is to shake ourselves free of the system we were stuck in for so long. We're happy when our basic needs are met, when we meet amazing other traveling souls along the way, can give back/work/learn from others and still have some time for the family, nature, meditation and ourselves.

We have all our camping gear with us, so if the weathers ok we can set up tents. We're also flexible as to where we sleep and we're all happy -and very much value - when we have a place we can feel comfortable/at home. We have solar panels and power banks so we can and would love to try out off-grid projects too.

Interests

Languages

Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: Fluent

More details about my language interests
I give English lessons online once a week and could help someone interested in improving their English. We (both adults) are interested in learning Spanish!

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Skills and knowledge we'd like to share or learn

We're interested in:  

Gardening

Animal Care

General Maintenance

Eco Projects

DIY and building projects

Life at a Farmstay

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Some knowledge of:  

Charity Work

Art Projects

Babysitting and creative play

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Able to teach about:  

Languages

Teaching

Creating/ Cooking family meals

More details about your skills

Our skill sets?

Green thumb, yoga teacher (yin, kids and laughter yoga), good cook (for larger groups too), certified HeartMath Resilience Coach (www.stacywedding.com) and Integral Master Coach, handy with tools, learn quickly, project management experience, volunteer organization experience, inclusions specialist/special needs assistant, artist/mandala painter, guitar/violin/drum players and three eager kids that also get a lot done, want to learn about the world.

We're a creative family that also enjoys painting and doing crafts. The kids love animals and want to learn more about them. Otherwise the boys love anything having to do with big tools and machinery, our daughter is in love with horses, cats, dogs (most animals really) and enjoys helping out in her own playful loving way.

So far we've been learning (through volunteering/WWOOFing etc): how to harvest veggies, fruits and herbs/flowers, making cheese, pressing and producing juice from apples, feeding animals, collecting eggs from the chicken coop, milking cows, helping to build/finish a seminar house, pour cement, painted a huge mandala inside, helped build a wooden fence on a deck, cooking, cleaning, food preservation, baking bread, how to make renovations to old buildings... and much more!

Age

40 & 41

What else ...

We love to explore new cultures and be in nature. Board games are also always good. Family time a must. If you're interested in talking about things philosophically and spiritually then we'll get along just fine.

Oh, and everyone seems to ask this so I'll just include it in here - our kids are old enough that they pretty much keep themselves busy. They want to know what we're doing and where we are- but then enjoy reading, playing (if there are animals around, then playing/taking care of them especially) and exploring on their own. They don't distract us from work- in fact when a bigger project is going on then they love to jump in and help out. We also expect them to take on a daily job or duty like checking on the chickens/eggs or feeding the cat etc.

Some more information

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  Smoker

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  Driver's licence

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  Allergies
  Our son has a bad grass allergy that acts up on the early summer...

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  Special dietary requirements
  We avoid wheat and have two that are lactose intolerant (we can eat breads with spelt and other grains and cheeses that are older/harder - or raw milk is also ok)... Two of us are vegetarians.