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Help on my small unmodernised farm with the vegetable garden and animals in Manot, France

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  • Última actividad: 15 feb 2024

DISPONIBILIDAD

  2024 

 Estancia mínima:  Sin mínimo

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  • Descripción

    Descripción

    Hello lovely people! I live on a small farm with about 1 hectare of land and three old stone barns in a very rural part of the Charente. Small fields, dotted with the beautiful red-brown Limousin cows and interspersed with woodlands can be found all around here. The farm is situated in a hamlet down a peaceful and quiet country lane. I have two donkeys, 3 hens, 2 cats and a dog to keep me company as well as a multitude of sparrows and blue tits. My daily life consists mainly of looking after the animals and doing tasks in my vegetable garden. My approach is to do as mant tasks as possible manually. So I don't own any mechanised machinery for the land. The times before the Industrial Revotution often comes to mind.
    Living in this landscape and with this climate, there is an abundance of food that nature provides. At the moment of writing, it is autumn, there are walnuts, chestnuts and apples to collect and plenty of fruits to prepare for preserving.

    If you interested to stay here then a reflective approach on how to live a life less harmful to wildlife is needed. So if you're keen to use the bike and public transport rather than the car you will be very welcome. If you have heard of the Arts and Crafts movement and like their principals of avoiding using industrial scale products to craft tools and other items necessary for living then you get an impression what being here is about.

  • Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje

    Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje

    Práctica de idiomas
    Jardinería
    Cuidado de animales
    Ayuda en una granja
    Mantenimiento general
  • Objetivos de sostenibilidad de las NU que intenta conseguir este anfitrión

    Objetivos de sostenibilidad de las NU que intenta conseguir este anfitrión

    Objetivos de las NU
    Fin de la pobreza
    Hambre cero
    Salud y bienestar
    Educación de calidad
    Igualdad de género
    Agua limpia y saneamiento
    Energía asequible y no contaminante
    Trabajo decente y crecimiento económico
    Industria, innovación e infraestructura
    Reducción de las desigualdades
    Ciudades y comunidades sostenibles
    Producción y consumo responsables
    Acción por el clima
    Vida submarina
    Vida de ecosistemas terrestres
    Paz, justicia e instituciones sólidas
    Alianzas para lograr los objetivos
  • Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje

    Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje

    The benefits of this cultural exchange are mainly related to the experience of working and living in a rural and agricultural environment. You can learn and practise skills to grow and care for food and learn skills to explore ways how to use resources which are freely available around the land rather than shop bought.

    I am an English language teacher and host and teach French students during school holidays. So learning English and French might be of interest to you.

    Patisserie is my specialist subject in cookery and I love to make cakes, pastries and deserts!

  • Ayuda

    Ayuda

    The help needed here mainly involves doing tasks and maintaining the vegetable garden, keeping the fields free from saplings, clean the donkey stable, feeding the animals and maintain fencing and fruit trees. There's also tasks to be done in the kitchen with preserving and conserving. A 5-hour helping day, 5 days out of 7 is expected. We will do projects mostly together.

  • Idiomas

    Idiomas hablados
    Inglés: Fluido
    Holandés: Fluido
    Alemán: Intermedio
    Francés: Intermedio

    Este anfitrión ofrece intercambio de idiomas
    I'm originally from Holland but lived in the UK for decades, raising my two sons and working there as a teacher. Since 2018 I live in France and teach English as a Foreign Language.

  • Alojamiento

    Alojamiento

    The accommodation is in my spacious 4-bedroomed house. There is a bedroom with a double bed for you to make your own and shared shower room and toilet. There is good Wifi connection and the lounge and kitchen is also shared.

  • Algo más...

    Algo más...

    The often beautiful weather and quiet country lanes lend themselves to walking and cycling tours. The local town Confolens, about 15 minutes cycling distance, is very attractive with the river La Vienne running through it. In Confolens there's also a small cinema and a cultural (mainly music) site located in an old farm. Other cultural activities are organised throughout the year by the local authorities. You're very welcome to join in with the activities I provide for the students such as playing tennis, horse riding, playing board games, role-play, kayaking and swimming in the river.

  • Un poco más de información

    Un poco más de información

    • Acceso a Internet

    • Acceso a Internet limitado

      Acceso a Internet limitado

    • Tenemos animales

    • Somos fumadores

    • Puede alojar familias

  • Puede acoger a nómadas digitales

    Puede acoger a nómadas digitales

    The internet connection is good and unlimited. You can use a private space to work from.

  • ¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?

    ¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?

    Más de dos

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    Horas esperadas

    Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week

Número de referencia de anfitrión: 431833652322

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