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🌲🌱Volunteer on a peaceful smallholding next to a UNESCO Forest

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The experience

🌱Looking for self-sufficient volunteers on our rural homestead with 3 hectares of land and 30 animals. Help with gardening, basic maintenance, and animal care, while living immersed in nature. Initiative and hands-on involvement are essential for a meaningful experience 🌲

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

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

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

Animal Care: Help look after and take care of animals.

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.

Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.

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.

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

Dedicated Workspace: Specific space for you to work remotely

Requirements

Intermediate English or Intermediate French

Over 22 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

Homestay help needed, on isolated smallholding in France

Activities & Shift

Activities:
As mentioned, volunteers will help with a variety of seasonal farm tasks, including:

🌱De-weeding and general garden/farm maintenance

🛠Painting, repairing fences, and other minor construction projects

🐾Walking the dog and caring for animals

🐔🐴Cleaning the hen house/stables and other animal care tasks

🌻Watering plants, clearing branches, and outdoor upkeep

Shifts & Work Pace:

I give volunteers the freedom to work at their own pace and manage their tasks independently.

While there is no strict “clock-in” time, I expect volunteers to be active during reasonable daytime hours.

Being self-motivated and proactive is essential.

Volunteers who like to lie in jnyil noon, or avoid work, are not a good fit for this placement.

Rules

1. Be proactive and responsible

2. Respect the home and farm
-Treat the house, land, equipment and animals with care.
-Keep your space and common areas clean.
-Follow instructions for animal safety/ care and farm tasks.

3. Respect privacy and boundaries

4. Work schedule & commitment
-Be reliable and punctual for agreed hours or tasks.
-Seasonal work can be physical and outdoors, so be prepared.

5. Health & safety
-Use tools and equipment responsibly.
-Wear appropriate clothing and footwear for outdoor work (we can lend you things!)

6. Community & communication
-Communicate openly if something isn’t clear or if issues arise.
-Be courteous, friendly, and respectful.

7. Not suitable for party-seekers or freeloaders
it's a lovely vacation spot, but things also need doing round here!
-Volunteers should enjoy nature, animals, and meaningful work/exchanges — not just free food, bills & accommodation, (well you an enjoy that too, but a little help in return is cool!)