Join our home with rescue animals, kids, garden and enjoy the best wine in Lonsheim, Germany

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  Description

  We are a family of 5 (42, 37, 11, 5, 0) plus 3 dogs. We live on a small farm in a beautiful wine area in mid Germany.
  
  On the farm we run a micro farm animal rescue and currently have chickens and sheep. My husband works from home in IT and we are both running side businesses (food truck and yoga, which is on hold until November).
  
  Food is very important to us, we are vegetarians and love to cook and eat! If you love kids and all sorts of animals, you speak English, enjoy nature, are respectful, responsible, down to earth, passionate and caring, keep reading!

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Help with Eco Projects

  Gardening

  DIY and building projects

  Animal Care

  Farmstay help

  Babysitting and creative play

  Help around the house

  General Maintenance
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  Interests

  

  Vegetarian or vegan

  

  Sustainability

  

  Pets

  

  Farming

  

  Plant care

  

  Gardening

  

  Drawing & painting

  

  Books

  

  Cooking & food

  

  Animals

  

  Yoga / Wellness

  

  Outdoor activities

  

  Nature

  

  Dancing

  

  Hiking
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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  You love nature? You love the outdoors? Or even wine? You can find all this here on our doorstep. We live in a tiny village but the bigger cities are only minutes away! Frankfurt is about 50 minutes, Mainz about 20 minutes, Heidelberg, Mannheim, Kaiserslautern are all reachable within 30-40 minutes. The train station is 5 minutes away as well as shopping, doctors etc.
  
  the area „Pfälzer Wald“ is also reachable by car. France is only 2 hours away, Netherlands and Austria about 4 hours.
  
  We are living our dream and work hard for it and would love someone who can help us with it!
  
  What can we learn from you? What are your values and passions? What skills do you bring? What can we learn from you about your culture? What can we do to make this experience as enjoyable and rewarding for you as possible? How can we help you with your mission?
  
  We are very excited to meet you and show you our little piece of earth.

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  Au Pair Help

  Further details can be found here

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  Projects involving children

  This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.

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  Help

  We are looking for help around the house, with the animals and the garden. There is plenty of projects in the pipeline that we would love to start but currently there simply is no time or manpower! Maybe you have special skills to help with one of them!
  
  A couple of projects I would like to do:
  - build raised garden beds and plant a shit load of veggies
  - clean up around the house and garden
  - build a fence for our sheep (plan is ready to go)
  - build a barefoot path
  - build bee hotel
  - plant a chicken garden and some chicken shelters
  - clean all windows of the house
  - 2026 we want to build a wooden deck and pool
  - 2026 we want to build a paddock paradise
  - build a garden house from old windows
  
  Some things are small, some not so much, but with a baby and two more kids everything is hard to do by myself! I will always help if I can. I workawayed myself and had one really unfair experience so im very aware and considerate about fair exchange!

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  English: Fluent

  This host offers a language exchange
  We are happy to help improve your German skills and would love for you to help the kids with their English!
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  Accommodation

  You will have your own room with own entrance and own balcony. You can use a bathroom that is for guests so not used much but it is beautiful and has a walk in rainfall shower with the possibility to sit down! However, the bathroom is on the other side of the house so you will need to walk there. (All inside)
  
  We built everything in our house ourselves so we ask you to be very respectful with it.

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  What else ...

  The main things to know before coming here are:
  - you must eat vegetarian while staying with us
  - you must have a love for animals that are not your regular pets
  - have experience with children if you want to spend time with them to craft, play, hang out
  - have a great personality and be openminded
  - be creative and/or a green thumb would be super cool!

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  A little more information

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    Internet access

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    Limited internet access

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    We have pets

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    We are smokers

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    Can host families

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  Space for parking camper vans

  We have space for your camper and can provide electricity.

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  Can possibly accept pets

  We have 3 dogs but are happy to discuss if you have a dog yourself.

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  Two

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  My animals / pets

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