Join us in beautiful rural Whangārei, New Zealand

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  Description

  We live in a beautiful rural location, surrounded on all sides by stunning native forest, giant boulders and scores of native birds.
  
  It is incredibly peaceful here and yet only 10-15 minutes drive from central Whangārei.
  
  We moved onto this land in the winter of 2024 and we are starting to create a little regenerative haven. We are starting from scratch with vegetable gardens, a home orchard and many other fun projects.
  
  Tasks include: creating new garden beds, cleaning, weeding, making compost, track clearing through the forest, saving seeds and planting. We also share daily tasks such as cooking meals and cleaning up after meals.
  
  After a hot day of working in the garden, jump into the swimming pool to cool off, or take a walk through the forest.
  
  We home educate our 3 children and we believe that their teachers will come from the community - we are certainly not their only teachers. So if you have skills like art, music, teaching bitcoin - anything really, and you are keen to share your talents with the children, this will be very welcome.
  
  4-5 hours work per day. If you stay a week it works out as 5 days work, 2 days off. 
  
  We are also more than happy to offer other options such as, if you bring your own camper-van to stay in and prefer to look after your own meals, then you can do 2-2.5 hours per day. Get in touch to discuss options.
  
  When you are here, you will be experiencing genuine Nz family life - that can be hilarious, hectic, noisy and fun. Sometimes we will have the time to work alongside you, however, sometimes, when family life is busy, you will need to work alone at your tasks. This means that you need to be self-motivated, and responsible. This means that you need to be self-motivated, and responsible. Of course you can ask for direction or clarification about any task.
  
  Whilst we have not yet hosted Workawayers, we have hosted Wwoofers. Here's some feedback from a wonderful Wwoofing family we hosted recently:
  
  "We are a family of 5. We were welcomed by Sam and Aria's entire family to their beautiful property for two weeks. Living conditions were wonderful. We were able to help and exchange a lot with them. They respect working hours and make sure they allow you to discover the surrounding area. We discovered vegetarian cuisine with great pleasure. It was a very nice meeting. We highly recommend this wwoofing to everyone!"

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  Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

  Pratique d’une langue

  Aide avec des éco-projets

  Enseignement

  Jardinage

  Bricolage et construction

  S’occuper des animaux

  Aide dans une ferme

  Baby-sitting et jeux créatifs

  Cuisine/repas pour la famille

  Aide à la maison

  Entretien général
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  Centres d’intérêt

  

  Végétarien ou végan

  

  Dev. personnel

  

  Dessin et peinture

  

  Livres

  

  Soin des plantes

  

  Jardinage

  

  Animaux

  

  Nature

  

  Camping

  

  Activités en plein air
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  Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

  We are from a mixed Swiss/Kiwi/Uk ancestory but all born here in Aotearoa New Zealand.
  We can teach you gardening skills, some DIY, help you understand the Kiwi culture and generally have a fun and interesting exchange together.
  We wish for our children (ages 8-14 years) to meet people from diverse backgrounds and be given opportunities to learn from many different 'teachers'.

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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

  Tasks: planting trees, creating garden beds, helping with house cleaning, weeding, pizza oven building - all sorts!

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  Langues

  Langues parlées
  Anglais: Courant

  Cet hôte propose un échange linguistique
  If you can speak Schweizerdeutsch or German - awesome! We would love our kids to learn.
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  Hébergement

  You will have a room in our large house. Single bed, fold-out couch or possibly a futon are the bed options.
  
  You could also choose to camp in our garden if you prefer to be closer to nature.
  
  There is space to park your campervan.
  
  We are Vegetarian. We hope you will enjoy our vegetarian cuisine while you stay with us. We do eat dairy products and free range eggs.
  
  We try to eat wholefoods, organic where possible. If you are gluten-free we can try to accommodate this for dinners but please bring your own gluten free bread if you need bread.

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  Autres infos...

  10-15 minutes drive from central Whangārei - we can collect you at the central bus station if you arrive by public transport. We have a dog and two cats. We have a swimming pool. Locally there is the Hundertwasser Art Gallery, great beaches, the Quarry gardens and waterfalls as well as the stunningly beautiful Tutukākā coast famous for it's outstanding scuba diving and snorkelling experiences.

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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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  Possibilité d’accueillir les digital nomads

  Unlimited wi-fi but Wi-fi turns off around 11pm each night and re-connects around 7am each morning.

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  Espace pour garer des vans

  You can park under our tall carport but be aware - our driveway is very steep and winding and gravel. If your campervan is not powerful you might have trouble getting back up the driveway. Most 'normal' vehicles manage just fine.

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  Possibilité d'accueillir les animaux

  Female dogs are welcome.

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  Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

  Plus de 2

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  Mes animaux

  Nuku and Merckz

  2 x Cats - elderly but still sweet.
  

  2 x Sheep: Matterhorn and Pilatus

  Bruno

  Red border collie. Very smart, very fun and playful. Throw him a stick and he'll be your best friend forever!

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