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Hi I'm Jay—I live in an Ecovillage in Central Coast NSW with my partner Cathie (who's Irish) and our two sons, 4 and 8 years old. I'm fluent in Spanish, and Cathie's fluent in Italian.
I'm a writer with a background in non-profit advocacy, Cathie's a singer with permaculture and natural building experience. We love gardening and playing music and parenting. We're a neurodivergent and queer-friendly family, we're honest and clear communicators.
We bought a normal suburban house right on the verge of the amazing local Ecovillage, in which we're very active members. Now we're renovating it with largely recycled materials—as well as scoping some cob building extension, installing a pool, and building a sauna — and we need some help :)
The Ecovillage is a thriving community of 200+ members nestled in the Narara Valley, with a private entrance to the majestic Strickland Forest, which is home Australia's oldest arboretum. We enjoy a shared dam for swims in epic forest surrounds, and a solar smart-grid powers our homes.
The homes themselves are amazing — all designed to amazing building standards using technologies like rammed earth, strawbale, passivehaus and earthship design. There's even a famous hobbit-house made with cob.
Our Ecovillage is fortunate enough to host Deep Ecology workshops with the pioneering nature champion John Seed — one of our members — and we're just 20 mins drive from spectacular beaches.
Workaway folks and wwoofers camp and stay in houses all round the place, so there's often groups of travellers building and learning as a step on their journeys around Australia. We're a fun community with music, storytelling and shared dinners. We use a cool system called sociocracy for shared decisions and volunteering — so if you're into social innovation it's a fascinating place.
Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado
Prática de idiomas
Ajuda em projetos ambientais
Jardinagem
Construção/faça você mesmo
Cuidar de crianças/atividades criativas
Ajuda a cuidar da casa
Manutenção geral
Interesses
Livros
Desenho e pintura
Naturaleza
Praia
Dança
Trabalho beneficente
Eventos e social
Cultura
Filmes e TV
Sustentabilidade
Política/justiça social
LGBTQ
Faça você mesmo
Música
Jardinagem
Culinária e comida
Idiomas
Artes performáticas
Velejar/navegar
Esportes aquáticos
Ciclismo
Objetivos de sustentabilidade da ONU que este anfitrião quer atingir
Oportunidades de intercâmbio cultural e aprendizado
I've mentioned our Ecovillage in the first response — it's an amazing place that's home to some incredible people — so many unique opportunities to participate in a unique culture with a spirit of collaboration and care. Also to share your culture in meaningful ways with well-travelled, curious folk who love to listen and learn.
We have talks and events, workshops and music. Wednesday night is a DJ — 'dancing in the dark' in our village hall, plus there's yoga, forest walks, swimming and more.
Ajuda
Mostly help as we renovate our house inside and out. We'll be laying flooring, painting, building a deck around our pool, building a sauna, converting a studio room to a standalone apartment, and building some cob feature walls.
Depending on when you arrive, we'll also have some gardening tasks — and of course the Ecovillage is on the doorstep to explore involvement in amazing builds and a very active community garden.
You'll be doing tasks with us both, but mostly me (Jay) on most jobs. I'm learning as I go so you won't get a masterclass, but you'll have access to some very cool and qualified people who help us with design, planning and trades.
Sometimes you might help care for our sons, the youngest is 4 years old. This might be preparing some food, or taking a walk through the village, or dropping at school or daycare, or playing games, that kind of thing.
Idiomas
Idiomas
Espanhol: Fluente
Italiano: IntermediárioEste anfitrião oferece intercâmbio de idiomas
We miss speaking Spanish and Italian! We love our kids hearing us speak with people, and joining in. We're both good conversationalists in any language :)
Acomodação
Choose from either a lovely, freshly renovated downstairs 1BR apartment, or a campsite in the heart of the Ecovillage (and possibly with other wwoofers in the village). In the apartment you'll have your own kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, and a shared laundry.
In the apartment your windows look out on a pool (we're installing it in a few weeks) and over the green hills of the Ecovillage, with a short path and 20 second walk to arrive.
We're happy to share meals sometimes, and we'd love if you sometimes cooked for us (if you like cooking). We're flexible on food, but we're very busy with kids and work and village volunteering so we're not able to provide meals every day, or even most days. It'd be more a social thing to invite you for dinner sometimes. But the Ecovillage has big dinners every month — delicious!
If you were camping, you'd be using shared bathroom and shared mudbrick camp kitchen — which has a firepit and great vibes, just near the dam.
Algo mais...
We have a golden retriever dog named Champ. He's an older dog, enormously charming and gentle, no aggression at all. His first language is Spanish (long story!).
Mais alguns detalhes
Acesso à internet
Acesso à internet limitado
Temos mascotes
Somos fumantes
Pode hospedar famílias
Pode hospedar nômades digitais
I work remotely too.
Espaço para estacionar campervans
In a big campervan, we'll find you a spot in the heart of the Ecovillage!
Pode aceitar animais
Just no dogs inside on the freshly renovated flooring, otherwise all welcome. Our dog is very mellow.
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