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Hurray ! you are reading our profile to see if we are compatible. We’re pleased!
My family and my family’s friends are from all over. My mom is from Scotland, my nieces from India, my brother-in-law from Australia, my partner’s family is Swedish, and my friends are from South Africa, Japan, Mexico, and Brasil and Columbia.
We have valued the opportunity to learn about so many places just through our family, and friends. We continue to appreciate the opportunities to learn about other cultures through Workaway, as well as welcome folks from various places in the United States.
We have space for two different people or a couple and another different person right now. Could this be YOU? There is so much to learn! And plenty of time to relax!
Can you weed? wield a broom? or plant a seed? or feed a duck or a fish? Can you sort things? or paint a sign? Or organize a closet? Or do something we don’t know we need but you know how to do it?
We are excited to welcome you. We love folks who are cheerful, positive, outgoing, interested in learning about living sustainably and doing what you can to slow the climate catastrophe! And the mess we are in.
Additionally, we love showing off the area around us and showing our guests a good time.
Recent fun activities our guests enjoyed in this past month included attending a traveling photography exhibition of John Lennon photos, a classical guitar concert, a visit to a puppetry museum, a visit to a guitar maker’s studio, touring the local old courthouse, luncheon with neighbors, stargazing, hiking to the nearby river, and watching films together. Plus evening conversations !
Our Permaculture Paradise has been a steady project over 30 years, our participation in the annual National Solar Homes Tour for over 25 years. The land for the intentional community we live in was bought in 1975, we moved here in 1987.
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We have been with WorkAway for three years now and have many years of hosting through another popular platform.
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We have helped people aspiring to serve in the PEACE CORPS and we are a “soft-landing” for folks after serving in PEACE CORPS and other similar situations. Our place is relaxing and we are chill.
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We continue to work on being the future we aspire to live in.
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Our 4 basic requirements are non-negotiable:
We prefer guests who are non-smokers/non-vapers, and e who are Covid vaccinated and boosted, have health insurance that covers you while you are here, and are LGBTQ plus friendly and safe.
We are waiting for you.
Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado
Projetos artísticos
Prática de idiomas
Ajuda em projetos ambientais
Companhia para idosos
Jardinagem
Construção/faça você mesmo
Cuidar de animais
Ajuda em fazenda
Criar/cozinhar refeições caseiras
Ajuda a cuidar da casa
Manutenção geral
Ajuda com computadores/internet
Interesses
Sustentabilidade
LGBTQ
Eventos e social
Música
Idiomas
Jardinagem
Yoga/bem-estar
Velejar/navegar
Naturaleza
Objetivos de sustentabilidade da ONU que este anfitrião quer atingir
Oportunidades de intercâmbio cultural e aprendizado
We live in a thriving intentional community, a solar energy mecca, with a budding medicinal plant sanctuary, hiking trails, a flowing river, bicycles, canoes & kayaks, a 3-acre pond stocked with Bream and Bass, another intentional community across the road, and our immediate neighborhood is filled with a collection of the finest humans!
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Learning opportunities include: homesteading, Medicinal plant cultivation, making herbal medicine, solar electric design, solar systems installation, applied permaculture principles, duck and geese care, Tilapia care in Solar Algae Aquaculture Tanks, how this Intentional Community operates, construction skills, wiring skills, self-illumination/dismantling of white privilege towards an end to racism, how nonreligious, liberal Quakers worship, fruit tree pruning and care and harvesting, woodworking, ukulele lessons, harmonica lessons, uvulalating lessons, Tai chi practice, yoga practice, paddling a canoe or kayak, fishing, random bursts of whistling or singing!, using an electric chain saw, cooking with a solar oven and/or on a wood stove, modified consensus process, how to throw an off-grid weekend outdoor party for 200 people, goat keeping, a house concert you might perform in, and great conversations about so many of life’s persistent challenges.
Ajuda
Many guests like to practice English with us. Fun!!
We’re mostly outside gardening and that works for having conversations and practicing, if desired.
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We spend our days feeding, weeding, mulching & harvesting our veggies, fruits and medicinal plants, processing medicinal plants into plant medicines, installing various solar (PV) applications for ourselves and designing PV systems for others.
I sing with the Huntsville Feminist Chorus. You are welcome to attend a rehearsal, or even a performance.
Currently, we’re watering and weeding and transplanting. Beltane has just passed and summer solstice is fast approaching. We’d welcome you to help and learn along with us.
Alabama will never be the same for you.
Idiomas
Idiomas
Inglês: Fluente
Espanhol: Intermediário
Sign language (American): Iniciante
Hebrew: Iniciante
Japonês: InicianteEste anfitrião oferece intercâmbio de idiomas
We’re both intermediate level Spanish/ español proficient. We are good to practice English or Spanish with you. I (Sara) am also keen to learn sign language and also polish up my very rusty Hebrew. I am interested in Japanese culture.
Acomodação
Accommodations:
1) Private entrance apartment; a large room with queen bed, woodstove, air conditioning, fan, sink, swinging sofa, table & chairs, tiny fridge, attached greenhouse.
2) Small Room in our home with double bed, desk, chair, lamp, shelves, drawers, air conditioner, electrical outlet. Big solar windows.
Both of the above share bath/shower and both share our composting & flush toilets with us.
3) Private camper with bed, sink, and adjacent composting toilet.
4) Several places to tent camp with nearby composting toilet .
5) One location to hook up with nearby composting toilet.
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Food: We provide good wholesome food. 3 a day, occasionally one is shared family style. The others are self-prepared.
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Why we do this:
We love hosting travelers, it’s like traveling ourselves because we get to meet you and hear your stories
We have a passion for helping others live sustainably, moving into the future, in an affirmably just, multicultural society. Plus, it’s just plain fun.
Stuff nearby you can do:
Locust Fork River (class 1-4) with canoe & kayak Races in February and March, Rock climbing/Palisades Park, see the cranes at their winter stopover, eagles, too, the neighborhood Mardi Gras homegrown silliness parade, our annual Kids Day on the River in June, our annual National Solar Homes Tour in October, Farmers Market, local Botanical Garden, Covered Bridges, local theatre, Free Friday Foreign Film monthly series.
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A little farther away and yet still in Alabama …
Legacy Museum, National Peace & Justice Museum, Civil Rights Museum, Art Museums in B’ham & H’ville, Horseback riding at Oak Mountain State Park, Dauphin Island in the Mobile Bay.
You can use one of our bicycles to get around. It’s also entirely likely to get a ride with one of us to town.
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Acesso à internet
Acesso à internet limitado
Temos mascotes
Somos fumantes
Pode hospedar famílias
Pode hospedar nômades digitais
Very good WiFi. We use Zoom frequently.
Espaço para estacionar campervans
The space is near our workshop and our home. There are lots of tall trees. The composting toilet looks out into the woods.
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She jumped into whatever we were doing with enthusiasm and when she needed further clarification, she asked for it.
She helped with our waterfowl, our Tilapia fish and pet care. She weeded and paid… read more
Daniela cared for the animals (Tilapia, ducks, geese, dog), cared for the plants here (tomatoes, Shiitakes, medicinal herbs), did a LOT of… read more
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She jumped into whatever we were doing with enthusiasm and when she needed further clarification, she asked for it.
She helped with our waterfowl, our Tilapia fish and pet care. She weeded and paid… read more
Daniela cared for the animals (Tilapia, ducks, geese, dog), cared for the plants here (tomatoes, Shiitakes, medicinal herbs), did a LOT of… read more
Sara and Daryl were so kind and welcoming during my stay. Throughout my time with their community I was welcomed with open arms and given many opportunities to learn about gardening, solar power, and intentional communities. I also got to see a bit of the solar home tour which was such a great… read more
Sarah assisted in tidying up the gardens ( putting some beds to rest for winter, harvesting, digging, and… read more
Thank you so much for the past two months!
I love you guys, and I am very happy to have you as a part of my life.
I also like the people at Common Ground and this place.
I'm so golad to see guys.
Although Japan and this place are very far from each other
I forgot about that and just enjoyed myself.
I thought of this house as… read more
