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Petite Farm

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The experience

We are a French family having settled on a small rural property. We have hundreds of projects... and a 3-year-old toddler. We are looking for hosts able to help with random tasks: house cleaning, garden maintenance, kid entertainment, decoration, building, cooking... it varies with seasons and needs.
Most importantly, we are willing to have you feel part of the family, know more about you and your culture.

What you offer

20 hours of help per week

Cleaning: Help clean the kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms and common areas.

Kitchen Hand: Help prepare, finish and serve meals.

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

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

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.

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.

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 Beginner French

Between 18 and 40 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 would love to have hosts able to help for random tasks in and around the house, that we can adjust to your skills: building furniture, organising the inside, maintaining and creating gardens, planting trees, house cleaning, cooking, entertain kid...
We are willing to have you feeling part of the family, share meals and other fun activities if you wish.
We are looking are hosting guest for a minimum 3 weeks to have time to learn from each others and complete projects together. We will accept couples only if we have big project planned so please don't be offended if we decline because of that.
Please note, we live 3.5h north of Auckland. We can pick you up from Whangarei town
that you can reach with AirNewZealand (domestic flights) or by bus (Intercity).

Activities & Shift

Activities vary with the projects list, weather and priorities but we will always make sure you are comfortable with the tasks.
Both of us are working full time from home on weekdays (and our toddler goes to day care) so during the day you might be on your own to run tasks or just do whatever you want. Because of that we think it is better to work with your during the weekend and keep your 2 days off during the week. We are usually available to work and share activities with you in the evening and on the weekend.

Rules

As with all families, we have house rules. Maybe as a French family, it is possible we have different rules than you might be used to. But we don't think we are too weird ;)

Foundation is about respect and communication.
An important moment for us is around meal time, from cooking to washing dishes, which is shared with everyone at home, so we expect you to be happy to be involved in that.

You will have your own bedroom, bathroom and toilet. That will be your little private place. Naturally, you will be in charge of keeping it clean.

We don't go to town every day, that means we carefully plan our groceries and other appointments to minimise driving.

Please note, we are running on rainwater, so we will ask you to be conscious of water use, mainly around showers.