Louisa Taylor

Business Type

Small/Non-commercial farm

Farming methods

Permaculture

Short Property Description

We have 43 acres just 20 minutes from Bundaberg and 30 minutes from the coast. We practice permaculture and are in the early days of establishing our property – there’s only so many hours in the day and we need helping hands!

We are fully off grid and therefore independent with power (large solar and battery system) and water.  We have composting toilets and live in a tiny Queenslander that we relocated a couple of years ago.
We are a vegetarian couple and will provide healthy vegetarian meals. If woofers would like to eat meat, they will have to purchase and cook it themselves. Dinner is a shared meal cooked by the host but breakfast and lunch are self prepared (in our kitchen with food provided by us).

We provide a comfortable caravan with a queen size bed.  If friends require separate beds, this may be able to be arranged (subject to stay duration and timing).  Visitors will use the bathroom at the house, which is very close.  We have Starlink internet in the house and basic mobile service (Telstra) in the caravan.
We have geese, ducks, chickens and dogs so woofers need to be confident with these animals. We also have cows but woofers will not be doing any cattle work.

Primary work will be building vegetable gardens, mulching and fertilising the orchard, cleaning up gardens and swales, assisting with small construction jobs, animal husbandry, building chicken coops and planting natives for regenerative work. There will be no machinery use, this is done by the property owner.

We are a married couple in our 50’s and welcome people from all backgrounds.  We are very LGBTI+ friendly.

No drugs, no smoking.  Moderate alcohol use is ok.

Organic/Biological methods we use

Mostly manual work  in building the gardens.  We have tractors for the big work, if needed.

In the summer we need slash / mow a lot but this is only done by the property owners.