Brookton (on A Farm), Western Australia

About this house sitting position in Brookton (on a farm)

Sorry if you have been contacted recently - BUT

We had a couple booked have had to pull out due to ill health, so we need to find a replacement for the whole of June and July 2017.

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This is not a paid position, and your own vehicle/transport is recommended.
Accommodation is a granny flat, (a van can be pulled along side), with bathroom and toilet, a new fridge and stove, R.C. Air Con and a washing machine - about 100 metres from the main house.

The menagerie consists of:
An emu, 4 caged rescue birds, various poultry, 2 dogs, 1 cat, 1 kangaroo as well as some orphaned lambs now onto a "Lamb Bar" bucket where 5 can be fed at the same time.
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Once in the swing of it, this takes about an hour and a half morning and night.
We live 120 mile east of Perth on a wheat and sheep farm which borders the Yenyenning Lakes system. We are 20 mile from Brookton - as for fruit and veggies, there is an IGA store, a butcher and a deli in town. I go to town once a week and can get an order for you, or you can come with me - I volunteer at the local school and am usually away for around 4 hours.
We have a bountiful Lemon tree, some home grown vegies and a variety of herbs, hoping to prepare beds now for winter vegies. I try to continually add to the garden to
increase the amount and variety of plants grown.
There are several interesting "touristy" spots to visit, such as: Wave Rock, about 2 and half hours East of us and on the way there, just before the town of Corrigin, is the "Dog Cemetery", a rather unique idea for people to put there precious pets to rest and quite popular.
There used to be an Emu and an Alpaca farm people could visit, in that area too, but I am not sure if it is still open to the public.
Pingelly, about a 40 minute drive South of, us has an observatory for gazing at the stars.
Dryandra is between Pingelly and Narrogin and has a native animal refuge and breeding programme going.
York is an historic town ship, one of the first settled out of the Perth area in the early days - it has a motor museum and special market days - lots of very old buildings. Northam (to the North of us) and Narrogin to the South are both just over an hour drive and are much bigger centres.
About a half hour North of our farm is County Peak from which you can have a 360 degree view of the surrounding farm lands and lakes - very pretty. We also have a small lake on our property stocked with bream - nice eating!!!

Kind regards - Glennis Mills. Read more...