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Help in the Gardens of a Country House Spring & Summer 2025

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The experience

I have ongoing gardening work to be done - a large garden some of it is overgrown with ivy and we need to clear this and bring the woods back to life planting new trees. It's an environmentally clean project, I want to avoid herbicides and let nature reseed old ferns and bluebells on a clear woodland floor. I need your help to cut grass overgrowth, ivy weeds and grass with me and a small team. Outdoor work needs Hard working person with energy!

What you offer

30 hours of help per week

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

Painting & Decorating: Help with painting or decorating the property facilities.

Building & Repairing: Help with a wide range of repairs or building.

What you get

2 days off per week

Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

Free Hiking Tours: We’ll take you on excursions and hikes around town. For free!

Bikes at your disposal: You can use our bikes any time you want.

Pick Up: We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.

Surfboards: You can use our surfboards as much as you want.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Fast Internet Access: High-speed internet for you to work remotely

Requirements

Beginner English or Intermediate French

Over 22 years old

Only hosts solo volunteers (doesn’t accept couples or partners)

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

We will be as a team,working every day early outside to do physical and sometimes heavy work. The daily duties will change, often spontaneously and you may be asked to help in other areas of property maintenance. Nothing will be asked of you that the owner cannot do themselves. Light maintenance such as painting walls , cutting crass, lifting guest luggage if needed. Please be flexible and adaptable.

Please dont apply if you require fixed repetitive work routine with no variety of tasks. If the weather or demands from our guests change we need you to be happy to drop what you are doing and help.

Activities & Shift

Each day we will get up have breakfast around 8am and help about 5 hours per day ending your shift with a lunch. Its informal and relaxed and a great team vibe. We want to have fun and get a sense of achievement. We wont work outside in very bad weather. If it is raining we can go inside and paint walls or do DIY. There is always something to do here! We can also accommodate a later start in the day, but we do appreciate people contributing full energy. The accommodation offered is a private room with 3 meals a day.

Rules

No smoking inside the house. No drugs and if your are looking for a big social scene its important to tell you in advance this is NOT a backpackers party house. This is a rural location with limited transport links to the nearest town. A bicycle ride that could take over an hour to the city.

If that's not a lifestyle for you PLEASE dont apply.

There will usually be one other worldpacker only onsite working with the cleaning team, our full time staff are local ladies and a mature team employees over the age of 40yrs. If you want to meet gangs of other young backpackers please dont apply, please look for hostels or pubs. This wont be a good fit for you.

Worldpackers applying will need to know it's a physically demanding job so only people suited to physical lifting and digging should apply.