Jack & Emily

Travel information

We are currently

Activities we are interested in:

Low impact living, organic food growing, agroforestry, One Planet Development, tiny homes, natural building, community building, Forest School, wild camping, cycling.

Description

Hello! Thanks for reading our profile. We are Emily and Jack...

Jack is a Forest School teacher and charity project manager from south west England, Emily is an NHS Paediatrician with special interests in refugee health and nature therapy from London. We live on a community owned and co-managed regenerative farm in west Wales. We are the founders of Child of the Earth CIC - providing joyful and inclusive forest school and outdoor education to local children and families.

We want to reconnect with nature, meet exciting people with fresh ideas and explore together.

We are learning skills and ideas to enable a low impact life in harmony with the land. In 2021 we stayed with 8 workaway hosts in the UK, Spain and Portugal. We think it is the absolutely best way to travel, learn new skills and to make genuine connections with people.

We are both hard workers and love getting stuck into a project. We are really looking forward to getting sweaty and muddy and enjoying the feeling of our hands and muscles being used for their intended purpose - working with the land and natural materials - not stuck to screens! We enjoy the balance of an early rise and hard working morning, followed by a well deserved swim and relax in the hammock afternoon...

We are hoping to link up with workaway hosts / projects where there is a good balance of independent vs group working and down time. We highly value both quiet, reflection time AND learning from, socialising with and having fun with others!

Looking forward to perhaps meeting you soon. :)

Interests

Languages spoken

English: Fluent
Spanish: Intermediate
French: Beginner
Portuguese: Beginner
Romanian: Beginner
Swahili (Kiswahili): Beginner

Skills and knowledge we'd like to share or learn

We're interested in:  

DIY and building projects

General Maintenance

Life at a Farmstay

Eco Projects

Languages

Art Projects

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Some knowledge of:  

Gardening

Babysitting and creative play

Creating/ Cooking family meals

Animal Care

Charity Work

Helping with Computers/ Internet

Teaching

More details about your skills

We work hard to be kind, dynamic, enthusiastic people. We enjoy responsibility and take initiative. Everyday we do our best to use these skills to bring positive change and energy into the world.

Growing: organic food production, gardening, basic permaculture principles, landscaping, tree-planting

Construction/Woodland: chainsawing, power tools, cob building, french drains, simple building projects, dry stone walling, painting and decorating, basic woodwork, straw bale building, compost toilet principles and construction

Working with children: forest school, childcare, paediatric first aid, teaching english

Academic/professional: Emily: paediatric doctor with experience in expedition and wilderness medicine, humanitarian aid, nature connection/nature therapy and outdoor leadership; Jack: Environmental psychology Msc, Director of woodland cooperative, Trustee of healthcare charity

Bonus skills!: vegetarian/vegan cooking, bike maintenance, ultimate frisbee, juggling, guitar, campfire songs and stories, tree climbing, football, knitting, whittling and green woodwork, backgammon...

Age

33 & 34

What else ...

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”

― Rumi

Some more information

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  Smoker

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  Driver's licence

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  Allergies
  No allergies.

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  Special dietary requirements
  Prefer vegetarian/vegan. Free range eggs and responsibly farmed meat is ok. Would like to eat local food.