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Junte-se hoje à comunidade Workaway para ter acesso a experiências únicas de voluntariado e hospedagem gratuita, com mais de 50.000 oportunidades em todo o mundo.
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Hi, we are Francois, Kate, Mateo and Max. Five years ago we built a Straw bale home, on a very special piece of land in the Waipara gorge. The home was made with as much recycled, low or no carbon foot print materials.
We have mostly finished earth building, but would love help from people in our land restoration. We are planting food forest gardens, permercultura gardens and saving a special piece of native bush from evasive weeds.
We have a big love of earthen homes and would like to share some of our experiences and knowledge with people who are interested.
Workawayers staying need to have there own car.
We are just to remote, and like independent guests. -
Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado
Ajuda em projetos ambientais
Jardinagem geral
Projetos DIY criativos
Cuidar de animais
Ajuda em fazenda
Criar/cozinhar refeições caseiras
Ajuda a cuidar da casa
Manutenção geral
Cuidar de casas e pets
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Interesses
Mascotes
Eventos e social
Sustentabilidade
Filmes e TV
Fazenda
Trabalho beneficente
Música
Cuidar de plantas
Livros
Culinária e comida
Carpintaria
Jardinagem
Faça você mesmo
Arte e design
Animais
Esportes aquáticos
Praia
Yoga/bem-estar
Naturaleza
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Oportunidades de intercâmbio cultural e aprendizado
I believe we have a lot to share, and visitors could learn a wide range of skills.
Range of Earth building skills, garden planning, planting, forgaging, and preserving the produce,
We have sheep, chickens and ducks
So learning to care for these lovelies.
Weaving with flax and willow, if of interest to you. -
Ajuda
We are looking for strong, fit, energetic people, with a real interest in growing food, and regeneration of land.
Help with cooking local/wild food meals, Preserving wild foods.
Helping with the farm animals.
And possibly some earth building? -
Idiomas
Inglês: Fluente
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Acomodação
We have a sweet small hut/cottage, at the gorge made from straw bale.
It has its own composting toilet, and almost finished shower /kitchen block too.
I would love to share cooking meals, I am a cook by trade and sharing great food is important to us.
We cook from the garden and paddock, organic or wild food mostly. -
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Waipara is a beautiful region with lots to see and do, we love to get to the coast for free diving, and coastal foraging. Head to the hills for a tramp, or sample some delicious wines from down the valley.
From our home, it's a short walk down the hill to the white gorge.
It's a very special place and totally worth a visit. -
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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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Quantos Workawayers pode acomodar?
2
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Meus animais / animais de estimação
Bean
Gus
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We had some interesting chats, and his knowledge with engineering was very interesting.
Recommend to other host.
Even though my English isn’t perfect, she always listened carefully and made me feel comfortable, so we were able to talk about so many different things. Every moment we shared was genuinely happy.
Waking up to the morning sunlight in her … read more
Making good use of materials, and seeing seeing how best to tackle jobs. Very considerate young men!
They fixed a number of small tricky wood jobs, and also got some planting done.
We would totally … read more
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We had some interesting chats, and his knowledge with engineering was very interesting.
Recommend to other host.
Even though my English isn’t perfect, she always listened carefully and made me feel comfortable, so we were able to talk about so many different things. Every moment we shared was genuinely happy.
Waking up to the morning sunlight in her … read more
Making good use of materials, and seeing seeing how best to tackle jobs. Very considerate young men!
They fixed a number of small tricky wood jobs, and also got some planting done.
We would totally … read more
They showed a lot of interest in earth building, and wanted to explore as many different skills as I could offer!
They completed all their work to a high standard, and could be left to work independently after being shown process.
They ended up completely finishing a small earth … read more
Such a beautiful and loving family, I enjoyed my time with them so much :)
Usually, I spent the whole day with them and helped with different kinds of tasks.
Spending time with them was very enriching - interesting and very chill people that enjoy to share their place, … read more
We had many good times together and achieved lots of jobs.
She offen just saw a task and without asking did the job.
She has a big heart and we wish her all the best in her journeys.
X best
Kate
Very keen on the earthen building side of things, and very helpful with many varying jobs we have here.
We did a range of different tasks, mainly helping Kate out with her … read more
She was keen to learn and loved the animals around home.
Amazing duck herder!! And fencher.
She loved exploring the river, and was always polite and kind.
I wish her all the best in the future
Xx Kate
Always keen to give anything a go, very polite and just a lovely human.
We worked on a small earth cabin, and his work was always to a high standard.
I have no hesitation in recommending him highly to any other host.
We wish you all the best in your studies and … read more
Both very driven with wanting to learn as much new earthern building knowledge as possible.
Coming from an architectual background was very handy for us, as they have designed a new little cabin which we are soon to build.
Giamarco is great in the kitchen whipping up tasty pasta dishes, and … read more
Since the beginning we really felt at home and welcomed from all the family and … read more
Both very driven with wanting to learn as much new earthern building knowledge as possible.
Coming from an architectual background was very handy for us, as they have designed a new little cabin which we are soon to build.
Giamarco is great in the kitchen whipping up tasty pasta dishes, and … read more
Since the beginning we really felt at home and welcomed from all the family and … read more
Such a pleasure to host and live with, always helpful in the kitchen making yummy dishes.
So great with all the animals, especially Gus our dog ( think he is still missing them)!
We will always welcome you too back here.
And wish you all the best with your travels.
Xx
Cami was a really hard worker, and cooked us a traditional dish from her home! Richard is a great communicator, with many interesting stories to tell.
We wish them all the best in their travels. Thanks Kate
Crazy times but very happy to have gone through this with Jen.
I wish her all the best for the remaining time in NZ, and can't recommend … read more
Whilst I was staying, the work was focused on the external walls which included prepping the walls by filling in holes, attaching appropriate mesh and applying earth plaster. I also helped with day to day chores with the animals and around … read more
Can't recommend enough.
Hopefully we will meet again soon.
First workaway guests and a great experience. Thankyou
