Georgia

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Hi, I'm Georgia,

I'm currently living in West Sussex, UK. I'm from Northumberland, UK.
For a few years before Covid I oscillated between Workaway projects focused on permaculture and art, seasonal festival work setting up glamping camps and my antiques and vintage shop in Whitley Bay, a beautiful part of the northeast coast and my hometown.

I have an organic perennial vegetable allotment, with fruit trees, and I'm experienced in raising vegetables and some permaculture ideas and techniques. I'm a keen cook, experienced in campfire cooking :)

I am an on again off again artist primarily interested in waste materials, making sculptures with used woods, plants, found objects... I beachcomb for interesting rocks and seaglass.
I draw in pastel and charcoal and make things with paper mache like mirror frames and lamps.
My partner and I have been building our campervan from an old transit for the past year, it's almost getting there! We are both keen scuba divers, having lived in Bermuda in 2021, I am rooted to West Sussex at the moment because of his work and so I'm travelling locally, but alone.

Workaway adventures and similar projects have been an amazing dreamspace for me over the years, I value these connections it allows us to make that can be so strong, I value so deeply these shared goals for connection, conscientiousness, sharing, community, slow living, environmentalism... Workaway has allowed me the time and space to take pleasure in simpler things, good stars to look at, home-cooked or better yet home grown food, being outside enjoying nature, living with the seasons and meeting people to share ideas and good times with.
My goals for the coming season are to find and build these connections closer to home and to root myself in a thoughtful and intentional community within the UK. I want to get outside, get out of my own space and be open to adventure again. I'm looking to build experiences and develop networks and skills that will support our dreams of having our own place/ space in the future, workshop, campsite, nature retreat, food forest... whatever it may turn out to be.

thanks for reading x

Languages spoken

English: Fluent

Skills and knowledge I'd like to share or learn

I'm interested in:  

DIY and building projects

Life at a Farmstay

Languages

Teaching

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Some knowledge of:  

General Maintenance

Eco Projects

Charity Work

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Able to teach about:  

Gardening

Creating/ Cooking family meals

Art Projects

More details about your skills

Since this last year I have maintained my own allotment garden space of around 100 square metres. From this and spending time with some people knowolagable in permaculture methods I know some ways to grow edible things, herbs and vegetables. Everything I make in the garden, like everyone, is an experiement and it's always affected so much by the conditions specific to the time and by what you have around,I like to reporpose things and find solutions to problems using waste or discarded materials. Of course I belive it should only be organic, without poisons, working with nature, following the sun and cycles, supporting genetic diversity by growing herritage veriety and by no dig, becuase its best to work improving the soil not destroying its structure.
I am particularly interested in gaining skills in eco building techniques, or having the oppertunity to help build with natural materials. I have some experience with adobe construction but i would like to know a lot more. I am confident with tools and I like to show you don't have to be a macho man to get hard jobs done. If I haven't done something before I like the opportunity to try.
I hope in the future to join with some friends or future friends and make a space where we are an intentional community, where I can plant a food forest, we can build homes close to nature and not harming the earth, live and learn, cook together, share knowolage and welcome many people to a different way of being. I hope I already bring some good energy to places that I go, that I'm open and a good mediator between people. I'm a good listener, a quick learner for most things, reliable, trustworthy and hard working.
I can cook well, better for many people than for few! In London we had many guests through airbnb and couchsurfing and I'm pretty great at putting up bell tents! (from my summer festival job)
I am used to being outdoors for long periods of time, I love to be quiet and listen to nature around me and the weather rarely phases me, I'm from England and we're used to doing everything in the rain! I dislike being hyperconnected to the modern world.
My fine art practice, though a bit dusty at the moment, is based mainly in collaborative or collective projects to imagine and create a better, more sustainable or green future. While studying I worked to dismantle traditional or steriotypical roles of the artist, working in accessible or socially engaged ways to improve or subvert the pitfalls of the artistic institutions I was embedded within. More recently I have focused on drawing and collecting and reourposing discarded materials and interesting objects from nature to make 'objet d'art'
I have an interest in and some skills in pottery making that I would love to have the oppertunity to develop, I've worked as part of a team to build a neolithic style pottery kiln, I can harvest and process my own clay and I'm proficient in some hand building ceramic techniques.

Age

30

What else ...

My main aim with everything is just to be open minded and enthusiastic and to learn and share as much as possible.

Some more information

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  Smoker

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  Driver's licence

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  Allergies
  no

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  Special dietary requirements
  I am vegetarian