Host Profile
My Property
Business Type
Farming methods
Short Property Description
We have a family home in Melbourne and a farm property 2.5 hours from Melbourne.
Our city home is a federation style house with a large garden and lots of flowers. It is a short tram ride on the 48 or 109 tram from Southern cross Station, Melbourne, to our home.
Our farm property is in Dhurringile and fulfils a life long dream to own a farm with plenty of land to plant trees and grow things sustainably. Two hours drive from Melbourne or a two hour train ride from Southern Cross Station with horses, chooks and a veggie gardens. We also have a small flower farm and cut flower business.
This winter and spring, we are looking for people to help us plant trees in Dhurringile. We are aiming to create more tree cover on our property for both habitat for wildlife and shelter for our horses. You can expect a family atmosphere with hearty meals and company while we all work together.
Organic/Biological methods we use
Our city home is over a hundred years old and has a large flower garden. Wwoofers stay with us there when we come down together for the flower markets. Work there involves caring for the garden and the house.
Most of our work is at our farm property in Dhurringile.We bought our farm property in 2017. Part of the property is dedicated to a Trust for Nature reserve and the rest is being revegetated and cared for sustainably. We have horses, chooks, a bee hive and a large flower and veggie gardens. We incorporate some permaculture practices, our gardens are all no dig and our farm tools are mainly electric (not diesel).
We farm seasonally and guests can expect to be thrown into the rhythm of whichever season they find themselves in, be it the slow pace of Winter with farm and revegetation maintenance, tree planting, fence building, wood fires and warm stews, Spring, with its mad garden rush, long, lush grass everywhere and swallows leaving their nests, Summers’ cool early morning and long hot day, tomatoes coming out of our ears and a profusion of flowers being prepared for our markets, or Autumn, with endless food preserving, making tomato sauce and preparing the garden for the season to come.
The Stay
Can Accommodate
Preferred length of Stay
3-7 days, 1-2 weeks, Longer stays by negotiation
Accommodation
In Our Home, Separate Building
Other options
Non-Smoking, Children allowed by arrangement
Meal Procedures
Eat together, Share most meals, Share cooking, Food provided, cook your own
Languages spoken
English, Arabic, bit of French
Diets we cater for
Mixed meals, some meat, some vegetarian, Fish based meals, Vegetarian meals, BYO Special diet foods please
Why I became a WWOOF Host
We became Wwoof hosts because we believe in the process of exchanging knowledge, work and culture. We are interested in people who are like minded in wanting to provide a healthy, sustainable environment for humans, animals and plants.
