Come be part of our group project in Montjoi, France

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  Descrição

  Come be part of our Workaway group project this April!
  We're also looking for someone who wants to come in the first week of May, preferably from May 1 - 10th
  
  
  We're having a bunch of workaway volunteers over this April to help us get the château ready for summer season, which starts in May. Mostly working outside, pruning trees, gardening, getting the pool ready, etc. Wanna be a part of the team this April? Feel free to message us!
  
  
  
  
  About us:
  
  We are Malin and Michiel, a German/Dutch couple living in France, with our 2 sons, our dog, our cats, 50 chickens, a gang of ducks, a bunny and some quails.
  
  Malin is a stay at home mother and florist. Michiel mostly focuses on maintenance and DIY projects. Together we run a chateau that is rented out to tourists in the summer season. The rest of the year we try to do some homestead type stuff, running a vegetable garden,herb/tea garden, and some poultry for self sustenance.
  Hope you like eggs!
  
  We are interested in preserving the old European heritage, self-sufficient farm life, etc. We try to find a healthy balance to integrate a natural lifestyle into the modern age. We have many interests, we are artistic folks, into floristry, herbology, crafts, traditional lifestyles, self-sufficiency, history, the arts; drawing, painting, sculpting, writing, music, filmmaking, etc. But we mostly do whatever needs to be done. Circumstances and priorities decide our activities for the day.
  
  Oh, and we eat meat.
  
  We noticed the strong presence of vegans and vegetarians on this platform, so we figured it's best to address this issue on our profile, to avoid unpleasant surprises for those who come to visit us. We don't expect you to join us in our lifestyle choices, but it's good to know that we might be killing our own roosters/ducks on our property, during your stay. Living with animals means you have to take care of them, and that includes avoiding incest. Our solution to that is to eat all the males, so we're left with the females who produce our daily eggs. Introduce a new male every year to produce offspring, and you've got yourself an incest-free little homestead that produces enough animal protein to live off of.
  
  Having lived a vegan organic wholefoods lifestyle for years ( and ending up with a severe B12 defficiency), we are understanding of, and try to be accommodating to people who don't eat meat, but we are not going to stop eating meat for you, so the strict militant totalitarian vegan extremists who don't want to be around us meat-eating savages best look elsewhere ;)

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  Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado

  Projetos artísticos

  Ajuda em projetos ambientais

  Jardinagem

  Construção/faça você mesmo

  Cuidar de animais

  Ajuda em fazenda

  Cuidar de crianças/atividades criativas

  Criar/cozinhar refeições caseiras

  Ajuda a cuidar da casa

  Manutenção geral
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  Oportunidades de intercâmbio cultural e aprendizado

  You can expect to learn some basics in homesteading, gardening, herbology, basic construction, renovation, DIY, maintenance chores, and the basics on how to take care of a place like this.
  
  As for languages you can learn here: we speak fluent Dutch, German and English, our French is imperfect.
  We welcome French people, who can help us develop our french language skills, especially by talking French over the dinner table, to expose our son more to the language.
  
  Aside from the practical activities that you could learn from, depending on your interests, you might learn something from our conversations about anything from chickens and plants to history and philosophy, from ecological sustainability and self-sufficiency to politics and spirituality, and anything else that might come up. We are always interested to learn from your unique perspective, especially if you have spent some time looking into things that we don't know much about! Knowledge is power, and we love to empower ourselves and others with the treasures and insights we've come across on our respective journeys.
  
  We value truth and honesty more than political correctness. We enjoy good conversations. If alternative perspectives make you uncomfortable, you'd probably want to look elsewhere. We very much enjoy the company of independent thinkers who critically look at the world and come to their own conclusions to make up their own minds.
  
  We look forward to getting to know you and spending some quality time together :)

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  Ajuda

  We can use some helping hands with all types of stuff, from general maintenance, gardening, homesteading, DIY stuff, to helping us out with the household.
  
  In winter we focus more on DIY stuff, general maintenance, and self-sufficiency.
  In the summer we focus more on running the chateau for our summertime guests.
  
  Depending on our schedule, and your skills and preferences, you can either help Michiel get some things done or help out Malin with the household while she focuses mainly on our newborn baby son ( born january 2024 )
  Since the birth of our second son this year we can use a bit more help with the basic family household; play with / watch over our oldest son (4), help with the cooking, the dishes, the laundry, etc.
  
  We are also happy to host folks who want to help Michiel with his more physically demanding jobs, DIY projects, etc.

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  Idiomas

  Idiomas
  Alemão: Fluente
  Inglês: Fluente
  Holandês: Fluente
  Francês: Intermediário

  Este anfitrião oferece intercâmbio de idiomas
  We speak fluent Dutch, German and English. Our French is imperfect, and we'd be happy to learn more. Michiel also has some rusty basics in Latin and ancient Greek.
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  Acomodação

  You'll be staying in one of our guesthouses, where you'll have a kitchen and bathroom to yourself ( or share it with other volunteers ). You'll get your own room with a bed in it. You'll get 3 meals a day. You'll make your own breakfast, we have lunch and dinner together. We eat separately on Sundays.

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  Algo mais...

  The ideal situation for us is if you can arrive and leave on a Tuesday.
  We'll come and pick you up / drop you off at the nearby train station.
  
  We're a bit in the middle of nowhere, so you can't hop on a bus or go shopping here.
  The nearest village has a small village shop at 3km, the nearest supermarket is 20km.
  
  It's a beautiful area to go for a walk, feel free to take the dog along if you enjoy his company.

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  Mais alguns detalhes

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    Acesso à internet

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    Acesso à internet limitado

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    Temos mascotes

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    Somos fumantes

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    Pode hospedar famílias

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  Pode hospedar nômades digitais

  Este anfitrião indicou que adora hospedar nômades digitais.

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  Espaço para estacionar campervans

  Este anfitrião pode fornecer espaço para vans.

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  Pode aceitar animais

  Este anfitrião está aberto a aceitar viajantes com animais de estimação.

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  Quantos Workawayers pode acomodar?

  Mais de 2

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  Horas previstas

  depends - changes all the time, max 25hrs

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