Host Profile
My Property
Business Type
Farming methods
Short Property Description
FNQ Blooms is a Tropical flower farm and Vanilla farm with 10 acres of tropical flowers and two shade houses of vanilla vine.
We plant and new flower plantings every year between September and February. We harvest flowers every Thursday and Friday. Vanilla is hand pollinated between October and January and maintain thought out the year.
We love meeting new Travelers and have had many over the years which have become part of our family. We welcome our woofers to participate in social events like BBQS, meals with friends to be included in our everyday life. We also welcome all our travelers to cook meals from their home country as well as showing them how to cook true Aussie meals.
If you have any special talents, we love to know about them.
Our meals are usually cooked together. We are meat eaters, but all so love vegetarian meals, everyone cooks together to create some fantastic meals.
Travelers are welcome to come shopping for weekly grocery’.
We do prefer that travelers stay a minimum of 2 weeks. This amount of time is needed for travelers to settle into our family and learn about the jobs to be done.
We ask woofer workers to work for 5 to 6 hours a day, 5 days a week. Work starts around 6.30 or 7.30 in the morning and finishes about 1 to 2 in the afternoon with 40 mins breakfast break at 9 or 10 am. The work is constant with that of Farm hand Duties.
We will all so do a bit of florist work as well no skills needed as I will show you. Look us up on all socials!
WWOOF wrote an article about us in Grass Roots Magazine #284 Aug-Sep 2024 – read it here
Organic/Biological methods we use
Our practices to becoming a sustainable farm is we look after our soil and it will look after our plants. Our soil is a sandy granite soil with little holding compacity of water or fertilizer and little life in it. To be able to farm this land with a crop that needs a lot of both water and fertilizer we looked towards the organic matter in the soil to build on what we had we add a by product from the sugar mill called mill mud and fly ash this give the soil a bit of holding compacity we add micro organisms and feed them with fish humus and the leaf and grass matter from the plants.
My Details
The Stay
Can Accommodate
Preferred length of Stay
Accommodation
In Our Home, BYO Accommodation
Other options
Non-Smoking, No Smoking Inside, Children allowed by arrangement
Meal Procedures
Languages spoken
Diets we cater for
Mixed meals, some meat, some vegetarian
Work and Study Remotely here
Work and Study Remotely here by arrangement
Why I became a WWOOF Host
I love meeting new people and learning about different countries. It is all so a chance for me to learn a new language and culture from all over the world. And learn new skills from our travelers.
