Host Profile
My Property
Business Type
Farming methods
Short Property Description
We live 45 km from Perth, 20mn walking distance from the Chidlow Post Office,the bus stop, forests & lake Leschenaultia. In the last 20 + years, we have developed our hobby farm: built a solar-passive straw-bale home, established an extensive garden as well as grown three children, home-schooled with the help of WWOOFers!!! They are now young adults, two of which still live at home.
With our daughters, we grow vegetables, flowers, herbs & fruit trees. We have 3 cows and a calf, 6 goats, 2 sheep, lots of chickens, an old pony, 4 bee hives & lots of visiting birds.
Work includes general hobby-farming activities such as gardening, and maintenance jobs, with occasionally some more skillful work such as rock wall building, shelter building or else, checking bees/ extracting honey etc…
Accommodation is in annex for 1 – 2 non-smoking WWOOFers. We cook only vegetarian meals, mostly organic, shared with the family, although we can accommodate vegan and gluten free diets.
We also speak French at home, we love playing traditional folk music, classical or old 60’s songs, singing, bush-walking, we’re also interested in art & craft, travel, health, spirituality and philosophy, fun, and good food.
Most hot days, we’ll end at the lake for a cool down swim!
Organic/Biological methods we use
We use a mixture of Permaculture, Regenerative agriculture and our own concoction of ideas, which comes from our French family of horticulturists. Our daughter Ana has done extensive reading from all types of agriculture, and she is the main gardener here, producing all the vegetables we eat and more.
We experiment with food forest, letting the garden self-seed, leftovers goes to the goats or cows or chickens… we do hot compost using all of our animals manure and garden left overs.
My Details
The Stay
Can Accommodate
Preferred length of Stay
3-7 days, 1-2 weeks, Longer stays by negotiation
Accommodation
Other options
Non-Smoking, Children allowed by arrangement
Meal Procedures
Languages spoken
Diets we cater for
Vegetarian meals, Vegetarian only, Vegan meals, Gluten free meals, BYO Special diet foods please
Work and Study Remotely here
Work and Study Remotely here by arrangement
Why I became a WWOOF Host
We have been hosts for almost twenty years. When we bought our property:a cleared pasture, we knew we could not transform it into our dream hobby farm without the help of WWOOFers! So we became members, and over the years, we hosted over 120 wwoofers of all ages and origins. Originally, we had met woofers at a friend’s place and saw the interaction they had with children and how enriching the exchange was. We realized how true the saying is : “a stranger is a friend you haven’t met yet”…
Now it is different, our farm is established, we are 20 years older, and we need help for general maintenance, gardening etc mostly but we still have building projects on the go.. We need truly willing workers, who are ready to become part of the family for the time of their stay or more,!
