Be part of our everyday family life and learn about gardening in Black Hill, NSW, Australia

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  Description

  We are a semi retired couple who made the leap 4 years ago to off grid living on 10 acres of virgin bush. It is a peaceful relaxing retreat environment surrounded by kangaroos, native birdlife.. our peace of paradise. We have built 2 tiny houses a shed and just moved into our new home. We are established gardens, a greenhouse, orchard areas, lawns, fencing for our little miniature pygmy goat family of 4! Chickens and coup are next on the list and appropriate fencing and farm type boundary fencing.
  
  There are plenty of tasks we would love help with, if you have farm, gardening, building, machinery experience ( our ride on mower isn't starting lol) would be great.
  We love hosting friends here from interstate and international. We have family and friends visit often. We are non smokers and require volunteers to be non smokers too. We live in a high fire danger area so this is very important.
  
  We have volunteered ourselves for 3 months in France so know what it's like to have a great host to make the experience extra special.
  
  We have 4 adult children who live close by and 4 grandchildren. Our property is very central to Newcastle beaches, Lake Macquarie and Hunter Valley vineyard area.
  We are Not within walking distance to public transport ( your own car would be beneficial) however we are 10 Min drive to train station and bus routes.

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  Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

  Aide avec des éco-projets

  Jardinage

  Bricolage et construction

  S’occuper des animaux

  Aide dans une ferme

  Entretien général
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  Centres d’intérêt

  

  Jardinage

  

  Dessin et peinture

  

  Cuisine et alimentation

  

  Sports nautiques

  

  Plage

  

  Nature

  

  Films et télé

  

  Soin des plantes

  

  Arts du spectacle

  

  Photographie

  

  Musique

  

  Animaux

  

  Menuiserie

  

  Architecture
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  Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

  Volunteers helping with gardening on our 10-acre property will also enjoy a hands-on cultural experience in the Australian bush. We have goats, share practical building and maintenance skills, explore the surrounding native landscape, and were welcome volunteers to be part of our everyday family life, including meeting friends and neighbours learning our way of life in Australia and hope to hear about our volunteers culture through shared stories.
  We love hosting travellers, we have traveled ourselves and best memories we have are those staying with people in their home/ community, getting to know their friends and families. We offer this experience.
  We love playing cards, movie/ games nights , relaxing in the pool in summer & fire pit gatherings (in winter).

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  Projets impliquant des enfants

  Ce projet peut impliquer des enfants. Pour en savoir plus, consultez nos directives et conseils ici.

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  Aide

  You would be helping my hubby mostly, he is here all the time, he has a building background and so much knowledge and skills in so many areas that he will share, he requires help with all his projects from fencing, decks, setting up chicken coup, gardening. We are hoping you will learn from us and you will have skills we can learn from you.
  We are learning to set up Permaculture, eco friendly sustainable lifestyle here, you will learn skills that we have this far about irrigation, harnessing all our water, storing it , being mindful of not wasting it, you will learn how our solar system and battery room is set up and provides all our power. We have a worm farm septic system which is super interesting to learn about. We are learning how to compost and make our own soil, we are novices and also hope we can learn from our volunteers if they have skills in these areas.

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  Langues parlées

  Anglais: Courant

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  Hébergement

  We have a beautiful self contained tiny house available for your stay, there is option for a queen bed or two.singles, it has a small kitchen and indoor shower and cassette eco toilet.
  Food is supplied for you to make your own. You may join us at the main house for an Aussie BBQ at times.

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  Autres infos...

  We love showing people around our city and valley and can recommend many tourist spots close by and if time permits to take you to.see these. Our house rules are to be kind, have open honest communication, no extra visitors to the property without consent. Be energetic, strong & have time off and enjoy your stay.
  We are able to host solo traveler or two singles willing to share or a couple - max of 2 in same bedroom - our tiny house only has one bedroom

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  Informations complémentaires

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    Accès Internet

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    Accès Internet limité

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    Nous avons des animaux

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    Nous sommes fumeurs

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    Familles bienvenues

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  Espace pour garer des vans

  We have spaces for campers / motorhomes that are self sufficient, we have septic drop system and we have access to power on sunny days.

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  Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

  Plus de 2

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  Mes animaux

  Miniature pygmy goats

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