Chelsea

United States
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I'm in Italy near Rome, let me know if you want to meet up!
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Hi! I'm Chelsea. I finished my undergraduate degree in engineering, and I want to pursue a master's, after traveling the world a bit. I have been traveling and doing Workaways (mostly farms) since September 2023. I'm from Minnesota, USA, where we have a hobby farm with bees, chickens, fruit trees, and a vegetable garden. I love DIY projects like knitting, spinning, tapping maple trees for syrup, growing mushrooms, and baking sourdough. I LOVE food, especially if it's home grown! Therefore I like cooking and baking too.

I love traveling to places off the beaten path to experience new cultures, cities, and nature. I hike and bike, but not very fast :D. I can speak Mandarin, some French, a bit of German, and English of course. I love learning languages because I love talking to people!

So, hi! 你好！Bonjour! Hallo! I hope to hear from you!
Interests
Music
Technology
Culture
Plant care
Books
Outdoor activities
Nature
Farming
Beach
Cooking & food
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
French: Intermediate
Chinese (Mandarin): Intermediate
German: Beginner
More details about my language interests
This workawayer has indicated that they would be interested in sharing their language(s) or learning a new language. You can contact them directly to discuss this.
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I'm interested in:
Languages
Some knowledge of:
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Life at a Farmstay
Animal Care
More details about your skills
Since my family has a hobby farm in Minnesota, I can do a lot of gardening/farm stuff. At my workaways I have helped with construction projects (like building an adobe roof, digging a pond).

I can do general gardening, weeding, tree care etc. I can drive an ATV and tractor. I also have a driver's license and an international driver's permit.

I've helped my dad with our beehives for years! Super comfortable with bees. We've made beeswax candles, hand cream, and soap too.

We had egg chickens and meat chickens, and I butchered all our meat chickens. (Would probably need to watch some YouTube tutorials before doing it again, it's been a while).

I am a pretty good cook and baker! (And I love food. Huge passion of mine is eating!) Canning, fermenting, and preserving stuff is all super cool to me.

A big hobby of mine is fiber arts, like knitting and crocheting. A friend and I acquired some raw fleece from a sheep and picked, scoured, carded, combed the fleece, spun it on a spinning wheel into yarn, dyed it with foraged dyestuff, and knitted it into hats! I knit lots of socks and hats.

Basically I love making things and I love to learn!
Age
23
Some more information
- Smoker
- Driver's licence
- Allergies
- Special dietary requirements

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4 Apr 2024

Left by Workawayer (Chelsea) for host (Help me to look after my ...)

Nathalie and her son George very graciously welcomed us to their home. Nathalie is clear with expectations and rules around the house which makes the Workaway run smoothly. George is a great kid, full of energy. Cargèse is a beautiful place surrounded by nature and I felt so lucky to have a lovely experience with the lovely host family.

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2 Apr 2024

Left by host (Help me to look after my ...) for Workawayer (Chelsea)

Chelsea, thank you for coming to our house and for your help!
It was a pleasure to have Chelsea around, she's great at cooking/baking, we didn't go hungry as long as she was in the kitchen!!!
Also positive in her attitude, we shared some good laugh and it was a breath of fresh air. She's very caring with animals, my cat in particular is missing… read more

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26 Mar 2024

Left by Workawayer (Chelsea) for host (Come join our family and ...)

This is a special place, a mostly self sufficient small mountain-top village overlooking the mountain range and the sea. Be aware there is limited electricity from solar panels, cold showers, wifi in one room of one of the houses, and in the winter the houses are heated with wood fires. The location is quite remote, ~1 hour of driving windy… read more

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19 Feb 2024

Left by host (Help us at L'ombre du ...) for Workawayer (Chelsea)

Chelsea is an easy to live person, that we had great pleasure to meet. She learns quickly and is very adaptive. She has done every task we asked.
We had a really good time with Chelsea!

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15 Feb 2024

Left by Workawayer (Chelsea) for host (Help us at L'ombre du ...)

I had a very special experience for 10 days at this farm. After a few nights at an apartment in town (Hajeb el Ayoun), the other volunteers and I decided to stay at the farm (a short drive outside town) and sleep in one of the adobe eco-domes. We harvested hay and palm tree branches, mixed mud, and started building another adobe dome. Basset and… read more

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4 Apr 2024

Left by Workawayer (Chelsea) for host (Help me to look after my ...)

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2 Apr 2024

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26 Mar 2024

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19 Feb 2024

Left by host (Help us at L'ombre du ...) for Workawayer (Chelsea)

Chelsea is an easy to live person, that we had great pleasure to meet. She learns quickly and is very adaptive. She has done every task we asked.
We had a really good time with Chelsea!

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15 Feb 2024

Left by Workawayer (Chelsea) for host (Help us at L'ombre du ...)

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4 Feb 2024

Left by Workawayer (Chelsea) for host (Volunteering at a house farm ...)

I spent a month with Ascenzio’s family and it was a great experience. They are a wonderful, open-minded and kind family. I was there around New Year’s so I met all his adult children who were home for the holidays and each one of them TRULY treated me like family. I felt so welcome and we did many fun things like cooking and eating delicious… read more

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13 Dec 2023

Left by Workawayer (Chelsea) for host (Summer Farm Fun in Sarande, ...)

Shawn and Kyle have a vision for their land, for people to come together in nature and experience a flourishing ecosystem of animals, gardens, duck ponds (hopefully one day), etc. I was there a bit more than a month during November-December and it was off season. We worked on weeding, burning brush, digging irrigation trenches, building a duck… read more

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3 Dec 2023

Left by Workawayer (Chelsea) for host (Contribute to our garden ...)

Rasim and Meral are the most generous, kind-hearted people you will ever meet. They truly treated me like family and included me in meals, going to the beach or to visit friends, and their day-to-day life. They also helped me plan the places I should visit nearby. The work was mostly simple gardening and making the outdoor area look nice. They… read more

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6 Oct 2023

Left by Workawayer (Chelsea) for host (Help us in our farm near ...)

I had a very interesting experience with Memet and Elif and their kids at their farm. This was my first time in Turkey and first Workaway. The first few days I spent at one of their apartments in the residential area of Koycegiz since there was a family of workawayers staying at the farm, and I helped with household and childcare tasks. (I also… read more

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