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We're a middle-aged couple with kids who bought a previously unmaintained old farm in the summer of 2023. We are working to help the property realize its potential. Current and future projects include: maintaining the orchard, clearing and maintaining the forested areas, preparing gardens, taking down old structures, fixing structures and building new ones, animal husbandry (only chickens now, but eventually adding pigs, sheep and possibly other animals).
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Melvin is a sometime professional musician with a PhD in musicology who has done a great deal of traveling, speaks multiple languages, and enjoys discussing and teaching what he knows. He also once worked as a chef and loves to cook. Kari enjoys fermenting food, making her own mayonnaise, caring for her daughter Elsie, and is very interested in natural, non-medicalized birthing.
We would welcome the opportunity to share what we know, while learning from our guests.
Projects involving children
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Help
We bought an old farm in O'Connor Township, about a 35 min. drive SW of Thunder Bay in 2023. It had not been maintained for many years before we bought it, so there's a lot to do to fix it up and more fully realize its potential: clearing, chopping and stacking wood, caring for and picking fruit from the orchard, taking down old shelters and building new ones, gardening, etc.
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Accommodation
Presently, tenting or staying in a small camper are possible.
What else ...
Campfire with a beautiful view, hiking on local trails, visiting local waterfalls, Lake Superior, and Thunder Bay, playing music, hunting (in season), fishing... Having a vehicle would be preferable, but borrowing a bike would be possible, as well as car rides when convenient or necessary.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week
