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Family home in lavender fields of Provence - Gardening & Maintain

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The experience

A family of 3 are renovating a beautiful house in Provence.

40 mins from idyllic Aix-en-Provence & 2kms from a lovely village with restaurants, boulangeries & supermarkets.

The accomm is a gite with 2 ensuite bedrooms, kitchen, garden & parking.

For the spring we are looking for help with the gardening as everything starts growing after the winter months. This is a job requiring manual labour and experience.

We hope to hear from you
Amy


What you offer

20 hours of help per week

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

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens


What you get

3 days off per week

Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.

Bikes at your disposal: You can use our bikes any time you want.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

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


Requirements

Intermediate English

Over 25 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers


What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa


Program Details

We are looking for assistance both outside the house in the spring.

Maintenance of the garden and grounds. We have an area of well kept lawn in front of the house and an olive grove in the grounds.
There will be jobs like:
Trimming shrubs & fir trees.
Strimming borders
Trimming olive trees
Weeding flower beds and driveways
Clearing leaves

This is a tranquil property in the countryside surrounded by fields.

We provide bikes to get to the village. It’s 2km down a safe cycle path.

We really would like someone with some experience maintaining or having a garden.

We are always very flexible on when you would like to work your hours and don’t expect any weekend working.

Please let us know what aspects of the roles you feel you are best suited to and why so we can get the mix of volunteers right for you and us.

Many thanks


Activities & Shift

Working time is very flexible to suit your plans.


Rules

We have 2 positions on the site currently. One for gardening and maintenance and another for housekeeping and cooking. We are happy if a couple has someone suited to each role, just let us know when you respond please.