Join an artistic family and help with our garden oasis in Hepburn, Australia

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  Description

  We are 2 artists / graphic designers with 2 boys (aged 16 and 21)... 16 year old still lives at home. 21 year old lives in Melbourne but home some weekends. We live less than 1.5 hours from Melbourne in idyllic Hepburn / Daylesford. We love our rural area for the creative community and the laid back country lifestyle. We have two cats, one is getting older and wants lots of attention, they are both smoochy. We also have 9 chickens who provide us lots of eggs!

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  Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

  Projets artistiques

  Jardinage

  Bricolage et construction

  Aide dans une ferme

  Cuisine/repas pour la famille

  Aide à la maison

  Entretien général
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  Centres d’intérêt

  

  Technologie

  

  Événements/vie sociale

  

  Dev. durable

  

  Animaux de compagnie

  

  Culture

  

  Dev. personnel

  

  Films et télé

  

  Musique

  

  Livres

  

  Art et design

  

  Photographie

  

  Jardinage

  

  Cuisine et alimentation

  

  Écriture

  

  Arts du spectacle

  

  Dessin et peinture

  

  Animaux

  

  Yoga / bien-être

  

  Nature

  

  Danse

  

  Plage
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  Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

  We run an art gallery in Hepburn that hosts many artistic events throughout the year. Everything from art classes and yoga to exhibitions and group shows, movie nights and events for our 3 annual festivals (Chillout in March, Words in Winter in August, Swiss Italian Fest in October). We love it when people like to get involved in our local community and offer many ways that you can do this.
  
  We will be sharing our home with you, we lead a busy lifestyle heading to Melbourne & Ballarat each week for work here and there. We invite people who are happy to pitch in and join us in the many and varied things we do and are also happy to be left to do some gardening or other tasks on their own sometimes too!

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  Aide

  The stay will be at our home in a spare room. We both work full time lecturing, mentoring and running the gallery and need lots of help around the place, especially in the garden. We have two properties to maintain. In return for 5 hrs of work per day we will provide accommodation & all meals and good conversation!
  We have a pool to swim in summer and cosy central heating in winter. Duties will include:
  
  - Oiling our deck / painting a fence
  - Help create our veg garden weeding
  - Mowing / brush cutting
  - Pruning trees
  - Potting plants
  - Weeding / Watering
  - Mulching / Composting
  - Helping with meal preperations
  - Light cleaning duties (vacuum, mopping)
  
  We have space for up to 2 people in a spare rooms in the main house with a queen size bed. We also have accommodation at the gallery in a caravan.

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  Langues

  Langues parlées
  Anglais: Courant

  Cet hôte propose un échange linguistique
  I would like to learn dutch (Morgan) and Kim has some very basic Norwegian from her exchange there when she was 16 years old.
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  Hébergement

  The stay will be at our home in a spare room in the main house. There is a queen size bed and seperate bathroom shared with our son. We both work full time lecturing, mentoring and running our gallery and need lots of help around the place. We have two properties to maintain. In return for 5 hrs of work per day we will provide accommodation & all meals and good conversation!
  
  We have a pool to swim in summer and cosy central heating in winter. At our second property there is a caravan available with a double bed. This has it's own facilities (kitchen) and a seperate bathroom with shower and large bath and toilet a few metres from the caravan.

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  Autres infos...

  Mixed diet. Veg ok. No Smoking Inside. Broadband Internet. Prefer 1 week stays, negotiable after first few days. Local store 20mins walk. Bikes available. Train & bus to Daylesford from Melb daily. Tourist area well know for natural mineral water, massage, bush walks.

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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

  Our internet is pretty good for a regional area with average download of around 25mbps.

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  Espace pour garer des vans

  We have places to park a van at both properties with power available if needed.

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  Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

  Plus de 2

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