The Mud Manor

Hello! Ciao! We are Resi and Vince. We moved to our 12 acres paradise in 2016 and we have welcomed plenty of helpers to help us make our dream a reality!

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Our journey started in 2013, when we packed up our home in North Wales and travelled to Australia, New Zealand and Italy, mostly working for accommodation. We have learnt a huge wealth of information, visited amazing places and made great forever friends. We have now decided to give something back to the helpers community.

Resi, 50s, is Italian but lived for over 20years in the UK before moving to Australia, thanks to Vince, 40s, who is Australian and together we have settled in North East Victoria, in a lovely town called Beechworth.

Our home is a 12 acres lifestyle block and started as an empty canvas. Over the years, we have planted over 400 trees, a fruit orchard, improved fencing, created a veggie patch and other improvements.

What’s to do on your day off? Beechworth is a gold mining town with heaps and heaps of history and character. Google it and look for the 'Explore Beechworth', there are plenty of videos to inspire you. During winter we are about 2hrs drive to the ski slopes of Falls Creek and Mount Hotham (note, there are a few charges to access the ski fields - ask us about it!) Bushwalking and camping abounds and there are lots of free camping places to go and explore. We are also in a prime wine making area, cycle tracks abound and if micro brewing interests you, every local town has at least one micro-brewery!

What we expect? Exchange is for 21hrs work in exchange for all week food and lodging. We will provide all the food you need for all the time you are staying with us and a comfy place to sleep (including bedding! we get asked this a lot!) and fair use of the washing machine - this is Australia and water is at a premium! We welcome helpers in our home and we hope you will enjoy the home experience, we do expect for helpers to help out with running the house; this could be cooking dinner or cleaning after dinner, normal stuff you would be doing at home and a welcome guest would help out with. We do eat meat, however during summer time is mostly vegetarian, with some yummy bacon or something! If you are vegetarian or vegan, let’s chat - that is not an issue - but we will need to do some extra planning! Resi used to be vegan and we also like to eat vegetarian, so it’s not a problem. This also applies to any other dietary requirements within reason. And if you enjoy cooking, we most definitely will like to hear from you!