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Create beauty. Tranquil setting. Northland sun, New Zealand.

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The experience

Close to beaches, kauri forest, walks, waterfall, Paihia and Cape Reinga, we offer a minimum 2 week stay of 4 hrs daily help 5 days a week. All meals supplied but never vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian or gluten free. Private room. Free Wifi, weights-gym, concept 2 rower, petanque piste, laundry, TV, library, etc. Help in house, orchard, flower & vege gardens: building, pruning, preserving, jam making etc. Experience not required. We will teach.

What you offer

20 hours of help per week

Kitchen Hand: Help prepare, finish and serve meals.

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.

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

Basic Internet Access: Basic speed internet for you to work remotely

Requirements

Intermediate English

Between 19 and 32 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 pick you up from local bus stop or airport and return you to same. We will also drive you to tour bus pick up points if wishing to do any of the larger local tours, for example - Cape Reinga and ninety mile beach.

Activities & Shift

Help is required each morning Monday to Friday four hours a day. Afternoons and weekends are free time. Bob, a former three sport National Champion can coach those who wish in their free time in our heavy duty weight training gym and/or our Concept 2 Indoor Rower and/or on our full size international petanque piste. There are many other games and pastimes also available. Help is usually from 9am until 1pm, then lunch. The rest of each day is free time and weekends are free time. But we do stay reasonably flexible.

Rules

Showers are limited to five minutes duration and one shower a day - due to water supply. Helpers are expected to help with dishes and table clearing after dinner each night. In this and all other matters we regard you as family and you will be treated as such at all times.