Otago/Southern South Is, South Island
Queenstown, Dunedin, Invercargill, Wanaka
AC & PJ
Activities: Vineyard. Training vines, erecting nets, picking and pruning.
Comments: Alexandra nearest town. Queentown nearest airport (1 hr). Cottage and two rooms.
Hobbies: Bridge viticulture, music.
A R & R F
Activities: Sheep, cattle & some crops. New outdoor piggery. Forestry. General farm work. Farm experience/background essential.
Comments: No children in our family. Home has games room and large garden. Very busy farm. Must be prepared to join in for lots of laughs. Own transport preferable. Good English must spoken & understood. Gay friendly.
Hobbies: Cooking, sport, music & theatre.
G&C M
Activities: Beef & Sheep farm with stud cattle. Stock work, farm maintenance, some gardening, along with enjoying our children.
Comments: Christian family, we’d appreciate that you respect our Christian values, eg sleeping arrangements. 6 children primary – secondary school aged. Stay in lounge cum bedroom off main living area with double bed & shared facilities; restful view from home. Pick up from bus in Balclutha 20 min, Owaka 10 min. Bottom Bus passes daily (Summer) /weekly (winter). Beaches, bushwalks and wildlife close by. Drivers license useful but not essential.
Hobbies: Church activities, family time, meeting people, reading.
C&V M
Activities: Mainly sheep also grain, deer, horse riding – dressage and gardens. Help on farm and some gardening.
Comments: 1 daughter away from home. 1 hour to Te Anau, 1 hour Invercargill, 30 mins Gore. Can collect from Lumsden.
Hobbies: Dressage competition and growing peonies.
J & M S
Activities: Sheep, beef and deer farm plus farmstay. Workers will help us run the farmstay as well as farm chores. Some sheep work, firewood , organic veg and flower gardening. Also housework, cleaning and bedmaking and some food preparation.
Comments: 10 min from Curio bay and 20 min drive to Cathedral caves and other Catlins attractions. Accommodation is a sleep out close to the home. Invercargill is 80 km. Bottom bus and Catlins Coaster daily, drivers license a benefit.
Hobbies: family, farming, Lions club, community groups eg rural woman, church. Gardening, music, painting, cooking.
K&N H
Activities: Small Native Plant nursery. Help with, reforesting a block of land in Natives and planting seedlings.
Comments: Couple with 3 children. Property on Signal Hill overlooks Dunedin and near mountain biking tracks and walking tracks that link to the hills around the city. Stay in a heated caravan parked in a private site away from the house. Nearest bus stop 25 min walk down the hill.
Hobbies: Tramping and the outdoors. Native plants.
F B
Activities: 2000 sheep and some beef cattle. Supplemental feed and many varieties of trees grown on farm. Feed sheep and cattle, draft sheep and other stock work, prune trees, paint gates and plant trees.
Comments: I live alone.
Hobbies: sheepdog trialling.
P&D T
Activities: Not a farm, motor camp. Helping with the camp, gardens & around the house. Busy over summer months, 7 day business.
Comments: Middle aged couple with teenage working son. Busy household from morning until late evening. Visitors have own room and share bathroom. Near two parks in rural atmosphere on the edge of Invercargill. Can pick up visitors from the city if required.
SR & ND
Activities: Rural-based tourism company with adjacent farmyard. Activities would include anything from gardening, property maintenance to feeding and caring for farm animals.
Comments: We are a young NZ couple with no children. We are outgoing, have travelled widely and love meeting new people. Nearby fishing, hunting and spectacular scenery. On the main highway, halfway between Queenstown and Milford Sound.
K F & R M
Activities: Accommodation lodge with tame farm animals for guests. Helping clean the lodge, gardening (vege & flowers), some landscaping, childcare. Situated in the mountains there are bush walks that our visitors love. Trout fishing in the rivers.
Comments: Preschool twins and young school age child. Usually stay in housebus with 2 comfortable beds, a pot belly fire & beautiful views. Between Wanaka & Haast and pick up from bus in Makarora.
Hobbies: History of our Waitaha ancestors, gardening & fishing.
R&G M
Activities: Sheep farm with small beef and goat herds plus waterfowl & 2 emus. Help with shearing, drenching, tailing, fencing, tractor driving, weed control, pest control, planting native trees & general farm. Sustainable land management with protected natural areas
Comments: Couple, adult children generally away from home. Visitors considered a part of the family. Own room & shared bathroom. Happy to accommodate vegetarians. Involved with NZ Conservation Volunteer Trust. Close to Waituna Lagoon and the Catlins, Invercargill 25 min.
Hobbies: Orienteering, tramping, ski-ing, conservation, Ducks Unlimited.
A&K S
Activities: Dairy farm 500cows. Weed control, gardening, painting, milking, feeding animals, firewood, cooking and housework.
Comments: Teenage son lives with us in a large family home with lovely views and laidback lifestyle. Sometimes have B&B guests staying. Visitors have choice of rooms. Pick up from Mosgiel 5 km. Dunedin 20 min. Close to river, bush walks, golf course.
Hobbies: Tramping, boating, travel, meeting people, skiing, rugby, socialising and crafts.
G&A K
Activities: Radiata plantation and landscaped garden. Mostly gardening. Also clearing bush, pruning, thinning & sawmilling.
Comments: No children at home. Native bush, river with swimming holes on one boundary. Visitors have own bedroom and bathroom. Near Moeraki Boulders, Blue and Yellow eyed Penguins, historic Oamaru precinct, limestone formations and bush walking. Pick up from nearest town: Oamaru 20 min.
Hobbies: Music, gardening, overseas travel & sailing.
C&G K
Activities: Sheep farm, 2200 sheep. Sheep work (lambing, shearing, drafting and crutching), domestics, general duties, vegetable garden, tractor work, fencing, general tidying and trees.
Comments: 3 young children. Own room with double bed. Closest town is Nightcaps (a mining town). 25 min to Winton/Mossburn. 50 min to Invercargill. 20 min to Otautau.
S&B P
Activities: Wool Carding, extensive orchard, miniature horse stud (breeding, care, showing), sheep work. Assorted animals.
Comments: Couple with 4 bedroom house, lovely walks and views. Horse riding, spinning, knitting, walking (wild deer), nearby is gold panning and gold era history. Beach 1½ hr, snow fields 2 hr, s from the. rail trail 40 min. Pick up from Roxburgh (closest town). Cold & snow in winter, hot in summer.
Hobbies: Vintage tractors, miniature horses, pottering in garden, weaving, cooking & company.
J H & A S
Activities: Extensive flower, vegetable and fruit garden + greenhouses. Engineering workshop. Assistance sought with general garden and property maintenance.
Comments: Visitors stay in own self contained one bedroomed cottage. Swimming pool, bicycles & BBQ1 ½ - 2 hr drive from Queenstown, Wanaka, Dunedin and Invercargill. 7 day shop 10-15minutes walk.
Hobbies: Gardening, cooking, reading and Jaguar car restoration.
B&A G
Activities: Merino and cattle. General help with stock and farm duties, including fencing, painting, gardening.
Comments: On state highway 6 halfway between Omarama & Wanaka. Buses stop at gate or collect from Tarras. 35 min from Wanaka. Self contained accommodation in separate cottage, meals supplied.
Hobbies: Skiing, boating, golf, hunting, shooting & fishing.
N&K S
Activities: Developing sheep & beef breeding unit, converting to organics. Help with gardening, housework, painting/decorating (if experienced), gorse management, firewood gathering plus day to day activities.
Comments: No children. Gluten free diet, but can supply normal food.
Hobbies: Alternative remedies (eg:Bowen, homeopathy), art, ambulance volunteer, fishing, travel, herbs and cooking.
JP & AW
Activities: Sheep & beef farm & a small backpackers. Farm & stock work, painting & cleaning backpackers depending on time of year.
Comments: Two children at home. Room of your own at the backpackers. On the Southern Scenic Route, Invercargill 50 min & Slope Point 5 min. 10 min to Curio Bay, Pick up from Invercargill if required.
Hobbies: Fishing, hunting, bushwalks, social drinks, BBQ's.
A&V D
Activities: Sheep & cattle high country farm. Drafting, drenching, fencing, crutching, spraying, gardening, wood splitting, painting & general farm, gardening & home duties. 4 full time staff.
Comments: Stay in comfortable quarters 50m from home. 3 children primary to teenage. Fishing/kayaking river on property. Nearest town Gore 40 min, Invercargill & Queenstown 90 min.
Hobbies: Running, walking, cycling, hunting, fishing & gardening.
R&Y K
Activities: Dairying, help in big garden, generally helping out.
Comments: Children left home. Visitors stay in a big sleep-out. Great hunting area 3 Km from Otautau.
Hobbies: Boating & fishing
M&K S
Activities: Sheep stud farm with some bulls, heifers, poultry, pigs and livestock veterinary practice. Help with fencing, stock feeding, stock treatments, gardening, firewood, landscape gardening, possibly assisting with veterinary callouts, and cooking the odd meal
Comments: We have two boys (toddler & primary school). Invercargill 15 km, Catlins 40 km. Stewart Island Ferry less than 30 min. Visitors have their own room with a shared bathroom. Relaxed lifestyle, not vegetarian - eat most foods, and drink moderately. We go to local rugby & soccer. Can pick up from bus and rides to town with staff possible.
Hobbies: Soccer, swimming & work!
H&R V
Activities: Dairy farm - 270 cows. Includes milking, stock work, farm maintenance and house/garden work depending on skills.
Comments: Young married couple with no children. 15kms from Invercargill – can pick up from there. Visitors have their own room in our home. We speak German and some French and Dutch.
Hobbies: Dog agility and obedience.
E&C A
Activities: We have chooks, sheep and a pony. Help with gardening, maybe a bit of fire wood stacking etc.
Comments: Would suit a tramping type - live on the edge of Mt Aspiring National Park with variety of tramping tracks around (the best in NZ i think! ). Emily is a stay at home mother to two well behaved young children. Chris works full time as a DOC ranger. We have a spare room for accommodation. 40 mins from Wanaka and travel in 2 times a week.
Hobbies: Fun with the kids, camping, walking, multi sports, running, biking, hunting (mainly wild venison), skiing & kayaking.
M&H K
Activities: Dairy farm (280 Jersey cows), new 36 bale cowshed. Milking if keen, gardening, firewood, motorbike work & tractor work if experienced. Work to suit skills. Developing new farm (established 2008).
Comments: 2 children, one boarding school during week. New large, well heated room (double & single bed, can add for children), exclusive adjoining bathroom (toilet/shower/large spa bath). Hill farm near Catins forest. Collect from Tokanui 10 min or Invercargill 45 min. Dunedin 2 hr, Curio bay & petrified forest 40 min, Ashers lignite mine 20min.
Hobbies: Children first, cooking, gardening and flying (private pilot).
B&D S
Activities: Sheep farm. Feeding animals, wood, painting, home help, gardens, helping with hay, cleaning hen house etc.
Comments: We run a farm stay also which is busy in Jan-April. 5 min to Edendale where we can collect you from the bus. Outdoor hut available if inside beds have paying guests.
Hobbies: D.S. enjoys fishing and claybird shooting; B.S. cooking, floral art, gardening, knitting.
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