Help with a family permaculture project in Malmsbury, Australia

Detalhes

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  Descrição

  We are an outgoing family of four: two adults (Mum, Dad) and two children (Ethan, eighteen years old and Rafaela, eleven years old). My husband is an academic, and I am a school teacher. We are passionate about permaculture, social justice issues and ecological living. We love meeting new people, and just enjoying each others' company and having a good time.
  
  We live in Malmsbury, which is a rural area that is one hour exactly from the Melbourne CBD by train (the train station is a five minute walk from our house). Malmsbury is a combination of farmland and native forest, and there are kangaroos and other animals in the area.
  
  We breed chickens and ducks and always have a permaculture project or two on the go. A lot of our meals come from the garden and we are passionate about gardening, cooking and good food.
  
  We have hosted many people in the past, and enjoy meeting new people.
  
  We generally ask for help in exchange for meals and board in our home. Guests have a private room in our home. The home itself is large, modern and comfortable.
  
  We are in the process of developing our property and need help with this. We usually ask for around 14 hours of help per week. We share cooking and house cleaning on top of that. Helpers are welcome to join with all aspects of our life, including outings to swimming holes and farmers markets, and parties at friends houses.
  
  Helpers are provided with all meals and snacks. Breakfast and lunch are self-service, with a shared evening meal.
  
  If helpers wish to be more independent, we also have a large block with a caravan and a studio on it, and we are happy to negotiate far fewer work hours for people who want to exchange a few hours a week for accomodation only or similar.
  
  We try to run an eco-conscious home, so helpers who are interested in this kind of lifestyle tend to be a good fit.
  
  Couples and families are welcome by arrangement.
  
  Enjoy your travels!
  
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  Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado

  Trabalho beneficente

  Prática de idiomas

  Ajuda em projetos ambientais

  Jardinagem

  Construção/faça você mesmo

  Ajuda em fazenda

  Criar/cozinhar refeições caseiras

  Ajuda a cuidar da casa

  Manutenção geral
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  Interesses

  

  Política/justiça social

  

  Sustentabilidade

  

  Fazenda

  

  Trabalho beneficente

  

  Escrever

  

  Idiomas

  

  Música

  

  História

  

  Jardinagem

  

  Carpintaria

  

  Culinária e comida

  

  Faça você mesmo

  

  Livros

  

  Animais

  

  Naturaleza

  

  Yoga/bem-estar

  

  Caminhada

  

  Atividades ao ar livre
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  Oportunidades de intercâmbio cultural e aprendizado

  Travellers are welcome to participate in all aspects of family life. We have shared meals, go for walks, visit farmers markets, go swimming in local water holes and check out local wildlife.
  Our family raises chickens and ducks and grows organic food. Travellers will primarily learn about ducks, chickens and quail, and by the end of their stay will have an extremely good understanding of how to work with these animals.
  
  We have several references on the website Helpx. Travellers can check out what others have said about us there.

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  Projetos que envolvem crianças

  Este projeto pode envolver crianças. Para mais informações, veja aqui nossas diretrizes e dicas.

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  Ajuda

  Travellers are asked to help with a wide range of tasks, and we usually try to balance the less exciting housework with more stimulating gardening, eco activities (like kombucha and jam making) and animal care.

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  Idiomas

  Idiomas
  Inglês: Fluente
  Chinês (mandarim): Intermediário

  Este anfitrião oferece intercâmbio de idiomas
  I want to improve my Mandarin Chinese
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  Acomodação

  Accommodation is a private room in our house, which is large, modern and comfortable.

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  Algo mais...

  We are near lots of great towns. These are towns that were built during the 1860s gold rush. There is a lot to see and do, and good local transport systems. We have a lot of friends in the area who are doing interesting farming, building and eco activities, and we are always getting involved in these.
  
  Helpers will have no trouble visiting the nearby towns of Castlemaine, Daylesford and Bendigo (amongst others). It is also only a one hour train trip to downtown Melbourne either by car or train, and the train is a ten minute walk from our house.

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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

  We are open to hosting digital nomads.

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  Espaço para estacionar campervans

  We can definitely host people with campervans etc.

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  Pode aceitar animais

  We have chickens, so any pets would have to be chc

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  Quantos Workawayers pode acomodar?

  2

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  Meus animais / animais de estimação

  

  Nacho (5 anos)

  Nacho is a friendly medium sized dog

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