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Help with a home DIY project on our ecovillage in Narara, NSW, Australia

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  2025 

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  • Description

    Description

    Hi I'm Jay—I live in an Ecovillage in Central Coast NSW with my partner Cathie (who's Irish) and our two sons, 4 and 8 years old. I'm fluent in Spanish, and Cathie's fluent in Italian.

    I'm a writer with a background in non-profit advocacy, Cathie's a singer with permaculture and natural building experience. We love gardening and playing music and parenting. We're a neurodivergent and queer-friendly family, we're honest and clear communicators.

    We bought a normal suburban house right on the verge of the amazing local Ecovillage, in which we're very active members. Now we're renovating it with largely recycled materials—as well as scoping some cob building extension, installing a pool, and building a sauna — and we need some help :)

    The Ecovillage is a thriving community of 200+ members nestled in the Narara Valley, with a private entrance to the majestic Strickland Forest, which is home Australia's oldest arboretum. We enjoy a shared dam for swims in epic forest surrounds, and a solar smart-grid powers our homes.

    The homes themselves are amazing — all designed to amazing building standards using technologies like rammed earth, strawbale, passivehaus and earthship design. There's even a famous hobbit-house made with cob.

    Our Ecovillage is fortunate enough to host Deep Ecology workshops with the pioneering nature champion John Seed — one of our members — and we're just 20 mins drive from spectacular beaches.

    Workaway folks and wwoofers camp and stay in houses all round the place, so there's often groups of travellers building and learning as a step on their journeys around Australia. We're a fun community with music, storytelling and shared dinners. We use a cool system called sociocracy for shared decisions and volunteering — so if you're into social innovation it's a fascinating place.

  • Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

    Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

    Pratique d’une langue
    Aide avec des éco-projets
    Jardinage
    Bricolage et construction
    Baby-sitting et jeux créatifs
    Cuisine/repas pour la famille
    Aide à la maison
    Entretien général
  • Centres d’intérêt

    Centres d’intérêt

    Livres
    Dessin et peinture
    Nature
    Plage
    Danse
    Bénévolat
    Événements/vie sociale
    Culture
    Films et télé
    Dev. durable
    Politique/justice sociale
    LGBT+
    Bricolage / artisanat
    Musique
    Jardinage
    Cuisine et alimentation
    Langues
    Arts du spectacle
    Voile / bateau
    Sports nautiques
    Cyclisme
  • Objectifs de développement durable de l’ONU que cet hôte essaie d'atteindre

    Objectifs de développement durable de l’ONU que cet hôte essaie d'atteindre

    Objectifs de l’ONU
    Pas de pauvreté
    Faim «zéro»
    Bonne santé et bien-être
    Éducation de qualité
    Égalité entre les sexes
    Eau propre et assainissement
    Énergie propre et d'un coût abordable
    Travail décent et croissance économique
    Industrie, innovation et infrastructure
    Inégalités réduites
    Villes et communautés durables
    Consommation et production responsables
    Mesures relatives à la lutte contre les changements climatiques
    Vie aquatique
    Vie terrestre
    Paix, justice et institutions efficaces
    Partenariats pour la réalisation des objectifs
  • Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

    Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

    I've mentioned our Ecovillage in the first response — it's an amazing place that's home to some incredible people — so many unique opportunities to participate in a unique culture with a spirit of collaboration and care. Also to share your culture in meaningful ways with well-travelled, curious folk who love to listen and learn.

    We have talks and events, workshops and music. Wednesday night is a DJ — 'dancing in the dark' in our village hall, plus there's yoga, forest walks, swimming and more.

  • Aide

    Aide

    Mostly help as we renovate our house inside and out. We'll be laying flooring, painting, building a deck around our pool, building a sauna, converting a studio room to a standalone apartment, and building some cob feature walls.

    Depending on when you arrive, we'll also have some gardening tasks — and of course the Ecovillage is on the doorstep to explore involvement in amazing builds and a very active community garden.

    You'll be doing tasks with us both, but mostly me (Jay) on most jobs. I'm learning as I go so you won't get a masterclass, but you'll have access to some very cool and qualified people who help us with design, planning and trades.

    Sometimes you might help care for our sons, the youngest is 4 years old. This might be preparing some food, or taking a walk through the village, or dropping at school or daycare, or playing games, that kind of thing.

  • Langues

    Langues parlées
    Espagnol: Courant
    Italien: Intermédiaire

    Cet hôte propose un échange linguistique
    We miss speaking Spanish and Italian! We love our kids hearing us speak with people, and joining in. We're both good conversationalists in any language :)

  • Hébergement

    Hébergement

    Choose from either a lovely, freshly renovated downstairs 1BR apartment, or a campsite in the heart of the Ecovillage (and possibly with other wwoofers in the village). In the apartment you'll have your own kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, and a shared laundry.

    In the apartment your windows look out on a pool (we're installing it in a few weeks) and over the green hills of the Ecovillage, with a short path and 20 second walk to arrive.

    We're happy to share meals sometimes, and we'd love if you sometimes cooked for us (if you like cooking). We're flexible on food, but we're very busy with kids and work and village volunteering so we're not able to provide meals every day, or even most days. It'd be more a social thing to invite you for dinner sometimes. But the Ecovillage has big dinners every month — delicious!

    If you were camping, you'd be using shared bathroom and shared mudbrick camp kitchen — which has a firepit and great vibes, just near the dam.

  • Autres infos...

    Autres infos...

    We have a golden retriever dog named Champ. He's an older dog, enormously charming and gentle, no aggression at all. His first language is Spanish (long story!).

  • Informations complémentaires

    Informations complémentaires

    • Accès Internet

    • Accès Internet limité

      Accès Internet limité

    • Nous avons des animaux

    • Nous sommes fumeurs

    • Familles bienvenues

  • Possibilité d’accueillir les digital nomads

    Possibilité d’accueillir les digital nomads

    I work remotely too.

  • Espace pour garer des vans

    Espace pour garer des vans

    In a big campervan, we'll find you a spot in the heart of the Ecovillage!

  • Possibilité d'accueillir les animaux

    Possibilité d'accueillir les animaux

    Just no dogs inside on the freshly renovated flooring, otherwise all welcome. Our dog is very mellow.

  • Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

    Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

    Plus de 2

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Enjoy the beautiful Sunshine Coast whilst helping me out with my various projects in Mooloolah Valley, Australia
Enjoy the simple life at our eco-village on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia