Join a homeschooling family living in a beautiful hidden valley near the Motueka River in Tasman Bays, NZ

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  Description

  I live on a beautiful piece of land in a little hidden valley near the Motueka river in a place known as Ngatimoti. My two youngest daughters, Elva and Rose, spend several days a week with me and sometimes my teenage daughter, Kiwa, as well. I live simply, but quite socially with friends and neighbours often visiting or being visited. I live in a very cosy little cottage known as the Milking Shed. My two youngest daughters are homeschooled finding their own interests and playing their days away. We enjoy many different activities and interests including gardening, processing and preparing homemade food, making bread, preserving, fermented foods etc., wood-working, hand-made beehives, tree houses, building projects that support our lifestyle and living are ongoing and welcomed. We are interested in many things from arts and crafts, music, natural living, homesteading, playing, looking after the environment. People, the land and living sensitively is important to me. Current projects include establishing new gardens, building a wood workshop, top bar beehives, fretting up a little sailing boat called Blue and creating yurt space including a floor.
  
  We often spend days with the extended family on their land, planting trees, and helping in their garden and around their home. They live close by, less than half an hour drive away, have three more homeschooled kids aged between 9-17 years so together we make eight people, although we often have more people staying in either household, so we can be quite a crowd on any given day. There are always plenty of interesting tasks and project to do.

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  Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

  Projets artistiques

  Pratique d’une langue

  Aide avec des éco-projets

  Enseignement

  Jardinage

  Bricolage et construction

  Baby-sitting et jeux créatifs

  Cuisine/repas pour la famille

  Aide à la maison
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  Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

  We have a very unique home based natural living lifestyle, creating our own living spaces, making our own food, caring for the land in our own small way. We have many passions and interests underpinned by a typical Kiwi culture of openness, curiosity, friendliness and an attitude of giving things a go.

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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

  We have many and varied projects available that we would welcome assistance with, that include wood working and building (tiny workshops/houses, spoon and chair making, basket making with willow, hazelnuts or flax as well as other wood work projects), general gardening and tree work including grafting, transplanting, seed raising, harvesting, food processing, baking bread, making fermented foods, dehydrating, preserving. Working with bees, hand making new hives, hand making alternative hives. Wood-working skills and general crafts such as sewing, dress-making, macrame, knitting arts and crafts, weaving, painting would be appreciated. Music and also any skills that would be welcome by our children, would it be puppetry, music instruments, theatre etc. We are open to any skills you are offering that would fit with our family and lifestyle.

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  Langues parlées

  Anglais: Courant
  Italien: Débutant

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  Hébergement

  A self-contained, small, cosy cottage called Milking Shed with a wood stove. You are always welcome to join us in our general living space area. There is a separate bedroom next to the Milking Shed with its own access to the outdoors and our facilities. We also have some possible sites for staying in your van if that is your preference. There is also an internet connection. You would share food with us as part of our family.

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  Autres infos...

  Tasman Bays is known for the great outdoors mountains, river, beaches, national parks, trekking, hiking, kayaking etc. There is a little bit of everything from markets, music venues to very quiet swimming holes. There is no public transport but if you don't have your own there is people living on the land that you can catch a ride with to town quite often. Many places within biking distance and few bikes to be used.

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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

  Cet hôte a de la place pour les vans.

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  Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

  Deux

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