Emmanuelle Daw

Host Profile

    My Property

    Business Type

    Small/Non-commercial farm

    Farming methods

    Organic

    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

    Name

    Emmanuelle Daw

    Partners Name

    John Daw

    Gender

    Family

    The Stay

    Can Accommodate

    2 WWOOFers

    Preferred length of Stay

    3-7 days, 1-2 weeks, Longer stays by negotiation

    Accommodation

    Separate Building

    Other options

    Non-Smoking, Children allowed by arrangement

    Meal Procedures

    Eat together

    Languages spoken

    English, French

    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,!

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