Ben & Christelle

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Greetings!! We are Ben (27 years old) and Christelle (24 years old). We currently live together in a van that we converted ourselves, based in Brighton, UK.

Ben has a background in engineering. He loves to work things out and understand how they work, with appreciation for fine details. He has most recently trained in market gardening and works part time as a grower on a 1/2 an acre on a community farm.

Christelle has a background in music and has always felt drawn to community and participating in the world in the most conscious way possible. She enjoys growing and fermenting veg, studying different healing modalities and hosts the wood fired sauna at the community farm. She is experienced in holding space, and having grown up as a carer to her father, she is very compassionate and on a journey of learning different ways to help heal the land, animals and fellow humans.

Together, we have a lot of responsibility at our community farm, Lovebrook. We run the veg box scheme, packing and delivering 30 boxes a week. We also run the stall at our local markets selling our chemical free, no dig veg. We are enjoying moving away from the monetary system and have begun working in exchange as much as possible. Living in a van has been a huge step for us in moving away from the system, and getting closer to our goal of self sufficiency. It has given us the flexibility to really focus on what’s important, nourishing ourselves by spending most of our time in nature and being involved in different communities.

We are very interested in eating healthily, having a mostly vegan, gluten free and sugar free diet. We have studied permaculture and natural farming and are motivated to learn to grow more mindfully, in alignment with the Earth and nature.

We enjoy looking after our bodies and mind through self-development practices like meditation, breathwork and yoga and also how to feed our bodies holistically through sourcing organic or locally foraged food. We also love cooking as a way of expressing creativity and also to nourish our bodies and share this with our community.

We have both done work aways separately before. Please see Christelles review from a banana farm in Australia below…

Gary: Christelle is one of the best Workawayers you will host, I can guarantee. She's super chilled and nice to talk to. I could talk to her all day in fact. She's a very interesting and open minded girl with a big heart. Great help, great company, just what Workaway should be about. Thanks Christelle. You're a champ!

Intereses

Yoga / bienestar

Vida en autocaravana

Vegetariano o vegano

Deportes de equipo

Sostenibilidad

Autodesarrollo

Naturaleza

Actividades al aire libre

Cuidado de plantas

Montaña

Idiomas

Agricultura

Fitness

Jardinería

Senderismo

Cocina y alimentación

Playa

Arquitectura

Idiomas

Idiomas hablados
Inglés: Fluido
Español: Principiante

Más información sobre tus intereses idiomáticos
For the past year I have learning Spanish after travelling to Mexico, currently to a beginner level. I would love the chance to improve my language skills as part of my workaway!

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Habilidades y conocimientos que queremos compartir o aprender

Nos interesa:  

Proyectos de construcción y bricolaje

Ayuda doméstica

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Ciertos conocimientos de:  

Jardinería

Proyectos ecológicos

Cocinar para toda la familia

Ayuda con ordenadores/Internet

Que habilidades tienes?

I have developed good problem solving skills working as a civil engineer for a number of years. This has included design of large structures like buildings, roads and bridges but I can also apply these to smaller residential examples. As part of my work I have little experience building small structures such as walls and decks and would love to work on these.

Having learnt about permaculture principles I understand how to build some of the key bits of infrastructure such as compost toilet, wild forest garden, grey water management and sustainable energy generation, but am looking for somewhere I can put this knowledge into practice.

I have learnt a lot in the past year about growing food and have a well-established garden of home-grown produce. I understand lots about how best to grow edible plants, but also how to forage for several things in my local area.

I am a confident cook and love learning about the medicinal and healing properties of food. I am great at making fermented foods and have made my own sourdough bread, which if you have ever tried takes some time to master!

For the past year I have been taking basic spanish lessons and have chosen to travel to Spain to improve my language skills.

Edad

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I love running and walking in nature, swimming in the sea/natural lakes.

I love foraging for local food or mushrooms

I love playing team sports socially such as volleyball and football

I have a daily meditation and yoga practice

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  Dieta especial
  I am plant-based currently do not eat any animal products or processed foods