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The experience

My wife (Kylie) and I (Richard) are looking for our next guests/helpers to assist us with the day-to-day running of our home, but mainly helping with repair and maintenance work on our organic dairy farm located near the township of Waihi with several beaches close by, the closest being less than 10 minutes away which is an awesome surfing beach although we don’t surf ourselves.

What you offer

15 hours of help per week

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

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

Farming: Plant crops, sow seeds and help in outside tasks.

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.

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

Intermediate English

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

Some housework, like dusting and vacuuming
Lawn maintenance
Gardening
Fence repairs
Repairing water pipes
Weed removal
Help with the feeding of calves from the 1st of August
Working with cows and older calves
Use of petrol and battery-powered tools
Pruning of trees
General help on the farm

Activities & Shift

Every day living and helping on the farm brings different challenges and tasks but all start with the same basic routine. We take pride in what we do, work hard and enjoy having fun while working but do so in a safe and enjoyable manner and environment. Richard is an avid hunter so there may come an opportunity to go along on a hunter or help with pest control if you wanted to.
Things we are looking for within our helpers are people who are willing to work and learn what we do. We are very passionate about our work lifestyle and everything we do. Also, people who enjoy the great outdoors and working with nature and animals. People with a sense of humour who like/love animals and are comfortable with dogs as we own two dogs that sleep inside at night, all our previous guests have fallen in love with our dog and also our cows and calves.
Things we have to offer are a fun and safe work environment. Warm and comfortable accommodation. Your own private downstairs room with a comfortable queen-sized bed with access to your own shower and toilet facilities also located downstairs. The use of the upstairs area which includes another shower and a separate toilet. Kitchen and dining areas. You will also be welcome to use our TV upstairs but will also have your own TV in your room to enjoy that has a device plugged in so you can cast from your phone to it but also connect to the internet to watch the likes of YouTube. We do have fishing gear should you want to try and catch yourself some fish. You will be required to have your own transport as we live away from town and there is no public transport available. We are also flexible about you picking up paid work off our farm provided the required hours needed to be worked here are fulfilled.

Rules

Be respectful, polite and eager to work alongside one or both of us.