Help a family with a little gardening and enjoy backyard paradise in Simi Valley, USA

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  2025 

 Séjour min. souhaité : Au moins deux semaines

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  • Description

    Description

    We live one hour north of Los Angeles in a small town called Simi Valley on one acre, with many native plants, birds, and lizards. You can barely tell you're in the middle of a neighborhood because of the plants towering over the walls. It looks like a botanical garden with all the diversity. We also have an herb garden, and orange, lemon, and lime trees as well.
    We have two cats, Daisy and Snikers, who spend their days wandering the land outside. Snikers loves attention and will follow you asking for kisses. Daisy likes to watch you from afar It will take her longer to get used to you. We also have a smallish dog named Zuma who loves long walks.
    My husband Kurt and I are retired and like to travel, Kurt likes boogie boarding and tinkering with off-road vehicles, and I, Marlise enjoy gardening, making garden art, cooking, and crafting. Even though we live in a small town, we are surrounded by mountains with native american sites and lots of fun hiking trails and bike paths. We can drive you to a trailhead and pick you up. The train station is a little over a mile from our house, and the Amtrak Pacific Surfliner and Coast Starlight have departures going all over the LA and coast area. It's about $11 to get to Ventura. It's about 30 minutes drive from Universal Studios and 30 minutes drive to the beach. If you love the outdoors, gardening, and nature this is the place for you.

  • Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

    Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

    Projets artistiques
    Pratique d’une langue
    Jardinage
    Bricolage et construction
    S’occuper des animaux
    Cuisine/repas pour la famille
    Aide à la maison
  • Centres d’intérêt

    Centres d’intérêt

    Dev. durable
    Animaux de compagnie
    Films et télé
    Ferme
    Écriture
    Soin des plantes
    Photographie
    Arts du spectacle
    Musique
    Jardinage
    Cuisine et alimentation
    Menuiserie
    Livres
    Art et design
    Animaux
    Yoga / bien-être
    Nature
    Montagne
    Camping
    Plage
  • Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

    Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

    We grew up in Switzerland and talk to each other in Swiss German occasionally, and I have some Swiss-influenced dishes I like to make. I can teach you how to make bread, give you great tips in the kitchen, and we can do crafts together in the studio that's on the property. We also lived in Canada, this is where we met. Two Swiss met and fell in love in Canada: ) and now we live in California. We love to host and meet people from all over the world, we are open to all humans as long as they lead with love and show respect to the living creatures here. My husband is a good handyman so it's possible to learn many practical things and work with different tools. We love nature and gardening and botanicals and we love to travel

  • Aide

    Aide

    We need help in the yard, anything from weeding tall grass + unwanted weeds, trimming hedges, deadheading flowers, using a hand saw to cut seed pods on a tree, helping fix the irrigation, clearing footpaths. Each morning we usually will walk you through a couple jobs you'll do for the day and we help you and also do some work outside. We ask that you walk Zuma, the dog for a long walk each day (1 hour would be great). We like to cook and eat dinner together, so we ask that you help with getting a meal ready and cleaning up after dinner. Lunch and breakfast are done individually just make sure you clean up after yourself. Some light house cleaning like vacuuming, organizing etc. We love to have you doing work that you enjoy so we can talk about your interests and go from there! We love when workawayers play with Zuma and give her lots of attention : ) In the summer we like to work a couple of hours in the morning and then some in the evening when it is cooler and less sunny.

  • Langues

    Langues parlées
    Allemand: Courant
    Anglais: Courant

    Cet hôte propose un échange linguistique
    We speak German, Swiss German and English fluently and would love to teach you either language or learn yours.

  • Hébergement

    Hébergement

    Guest room with a bathroom across the hall for you to use while here. We will cook dinner together, food provided to you by us. we can accommodate any dietary needs except vegan

  • Autres infos...

    Autres infos...

    You may want your own car/transportation. There is a train station not too far from our house, 1 mile away. There is a bus station 15 min walk from the house, with routes going throughout the city and beyond. If you are someone who needs to get around town on your own a car is recommended.

  • 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

    We have good internet connections and space to work quietly on the computer, a computer is not provided.

  • Espace pour garer des vans

    Espace pour garer des vans

    On our property there is lots of room to park your RV. We can connect you with water and power.

  • Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

    Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

    Deux

N° de référence hôte : 691275453419

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