Trickle Hill

Trickle Hill is a Hobby farm in the middle of the bush.
We have dogs, chickens and horses (3), and both are home most days- we work here !

We always have a lot of project on the go, so work for our helpers is mostly either maintenance (gardening, weeding, woodchopping/splitting/ stacking) or more complicated things like building, helping prepare areas for the next project, working on the next project, (which may be anything) or something completely different. We have a fb page with recent things happening here.

You will learn a LOT of new skills.
We take a personal approach- and like talking about your life, and what we have learned living ours- we eat together, and chat, about life, ideas etc.
If you are confused on what you want , with study, or life- we somehow seem to help people. Not sure how- but we get that as messages a lot from our former helpers :-)
But- We also have our plans and own things going, so work can be on your own, with your travel partner, or with us.

Trickle Hill / Cockatoo is about 50 km from Melbourne CBD, in one of the most beautiful areas of Australia *( and we have travelled quite a bit of it!)
We are 1 hour by car, 1.5 hr by PT from Flinders station, 15 minutes from one of the largest national parks, 30 minutes from the yarra valley with all its wineries, and we are very close to the Puffing billy- one of Australias most fun steam trains!!!
(but it is fun at home too :-) )

because of the work you need workable english(!) ( or Dutch)

We expect you to have appropriate insurance, and generally don't plan more then 2 weeks ahead (things can move really fast here, or extremely slow... :-) Please don’t apply for more than immediate to 2 week ahead stays- we will not know if we can host you. We are Dutchies, moved to Oz in '07, and after half a year of travelling, we found this wonderful property. We are working from/at home, doing "nothing" but working our butts off. Fencing, building, growing, surviving natural elements, and taking care of our animals (3 HORSES,DOGS, chooks, (pigs), guinea fowl, indoor BIRDS- we all had to learn it in the past years, and are still learning. As there wasn't much here, and our plans are big (and growing in number every day) we can always use, and appreciate help of enthusiastic people with initiative who want to share a bit of our life. Aukje: sculptor, Art teacher, ( ceramics and bronze, steel, cement, resin) permaculture designer, horse rider, mum, Arthur: everything!!! originally an industrial designer turned engineer turned farmer turned wise man who is good at giving life advice ( and Aukje rolls her eyes here :-) ) horse rider, wood craftsman, builder of everything, etc etc. We have 3 kids but by now they are old (?!) 26,23 and 20- so hardly home anymore. Our life seems to have become more chaotic because of it. LGBTI + and alegence is the norm here. So is neuro divergence . AUKJE is happy to teach some CLAY/ CERAMICS work to people who are helpful. Can teach (some) sewing, gardening, permaculture, painting, horse care, chainsaw, welding, homeopathy, ARTHUR can teach chainsaw, building, carpentry, metalwork , welding, car-maintainance, designing, etc etc... We both are visual and creative thinkers, but also very practical. We work hard, and make long days. We think out of the box, We have lots of life experience, and are happy to share our thoughts.