🍎🌿 Help Prepare a Beautiful English Garden
The experience
Enjoy the English countryside while helping care for a beautiful garden and orchard. Assist with pruning fruit trees, trimming hedges, and preparing the garden for spring alongside friendly hosts who will guide you throughout the experience. A perfect opportunity to learn gardening skills, enjoy nature, and experience peaceful rural life in England. 🌳🌸✨
What you offer
25 hours of help per week
Gardening:
Help grow plants and cultivate gardens
Farming:
Plant crops, sow seeds and help in outside tasks.
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 Tours:
We’ll take you on tours and rides around town. For free!
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.
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 Fluent French
Between 18 and 40 years old
Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers
What's not included
Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa
Program Details
We will be available and work with you depending on our workload. I teach Pilates on Monday and Friday mornings so won't be with you. Matt may be around depending on is work, he is a builder.
Activities & Shift
Cutting and pruning fruit trees. Moving prunings to a trailer or the bonfire. Clearing garden beds and putting muck on them. Hacking back hedges and building a bonfire.
Rules
We expect 5 hours a day work for all meals and lodgings. You will be asked to be reasonable and flexible with us as we have a busy family life. No Smoking