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Assist a retired couple around our property with trails and fields in Salem, Missouri USA

Availability

  2024 

 Min stay requested: 1 month or more

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  • Description

    Description

    We are a retired couple living in Missouri with our four amazing dogs, looking for help on our private homestead. We can offer housing and food, some of which is picked straight from our garden and goes right to our table. We are mostly interested in someone helping with our organic garden, but there’s a lot of variety in our days. *We do not sell produce, we just use every bit of what we harvest.
    We have two homes (attached) on 190 acres with a 5 acre lake and several little ponds. Our property is loaded with trails, fields and wooded areas. We have a 40 x 70 garden and have put in a small pumpkin patch by the lake. We have a barn with 6 alpacas and a donkey and a chicken coup with 10 chickens. Some of the fun activities on our property are hunting for berries, mushrooms and wild medicinal plants that we can dry and use in tinctures, salves or soaps. With all that we harvest from the garden or find in the woods I either can it or dehydrate or freeze dry it.

  • Types of help and learning opportunities

    Types of help and learning opportunities

    Gardening
    Animal Care
    Farmstay help
    Creating/ Cooking family meals
    Help around the house
  • UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

    UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

    UN goals
    No poverty
    Zero hunger
    Good health and well-being
    Quality education
    Gender equality
    Clean water and sanitation
    Affordable and clean energy
    Decent work and economic growth
    Industries, innovation and infrastructure
    Reduce inequality
    Sustainable cities and communities
    Responsible consumption and production
    Climate action
    Life below water
    Life on land
    Peace, justice and strong institutions
    Partnerships for the goals
  • Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    You can learn about livestock, gardening and how to live off the land. I am a certified aromatherapist, sound therapist (tibetan and crystal bowls) and a crystal healer. I would be happy to share my knowledge with others.

  • Help

    Help

    We need help with the garden and weeding and cutting paths through the woods. Help with mowing and edging. Also need help feeding the animals and cleaning the barn and chicken coup. Fun tasks are hunting for berries and making jam. Hunting for mushrooms and cooking them or making tinctures or freeze dying, depending on the type. Last year we harvested over 40 pounds of Chanterelles and were able to make beer (at a local distillery). I also make healing salves from plants I find on the property and include some of the many essential oils I have.
    We are pretty laid back and easy to work with. Newly retired and in our early 60’s, we still work hard but we also value having fun experiences too.

  • Languages spoken

    English: Fluent

  • Accommodation

    Accommodation

    The house we are offering has two levels. We are providing the lower level for your use. It has two bedrooms and two baths, a full kitchen with a family room and internet TV. This lower level has a walkout to a patio, where you’ll most likely see Alpacas through the window every morning. This house has been newly renovated.

  • What else ...

    What else ...

    We live in the Ozark Mountains in Missouri and have a lot of rivers around us providing a lot of great float trips and hikes. We have canoes and kayaks and 4x4’s for your use.

  • A little more information

    A little more information

    • Internet access

    • Limited internet access

      Limited internet access

    • We have pets

    • We are smokers

    • Can host families

  • How many Workawayers can stay?

    How many Workawayers can stay?

    More than two

  • ...

    Hours expected

    Different every day. The most would be 5 hours and other days it would be none. For example putting in the garden would be a full day but once we are done, take a few days off

Host ref number: 943263639524

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