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Hello from Haven!

UPDATE Nov 14: We are sealed in, more or less, with a woodstove going and the interior plaster drying nicely.

CURRENT TASKS: Tile floors, Painting with natural paint, carpentry tasks, plumbing.

Here at the Haven acre in 2023, we are reno-ing our small cabin into a slightly larger hempcrete and stickframe build this summer. If you're interested in building skills please do reach out! From beginner to advanced skill levels, we welcome you. There will also be some opportunities to participate in gardening and cooking. Perhaps you will even inspire some projects of your own!

Haven is a part of a queer and trans friendly Land Co-operative that is located just outside Nelson in beautiful southern BC, in traditional Sinixt territory. The land is home to an array of diverse and interesting folk including LGBTQ+ and polyamorous members. Haven is nestled in the heart of the community and is home to Em, DaMo, and Tencza (9).

I (Em) am a food activist, passionate about the local foodshed and creating resilient food systems. Some of my endeavours include permaculture gardening and food forestry for both food and medicine, fermenting everything, animal slaughter and butchery, wildcrafting and herbalism. I hope to raise animals here again one day, and have kept bees, chickens, and pigs at different times.

Damo is a jack of all trades. They are a trained chef and have skills in carpentry, timber framing, stonework, and many other practical pursuits. Creatively they are inspired by photography and can often be seen following their lens.

Tencza is a curious light-being who is sure to befriend you. She is often working alongside us (and you!), following her own creative ideas :) Her enthusiasm is contagious.

We live in community on 88 acres of mostly forested land, a rural wild mountainscape and are off-grid on microhydro. Bird Creek (Chiweha Sk'kaka) provides us clean, fresh water and reliable power. Being off-grid allows us to more intimately understand how we consume power in our lives and has led us to a simple and ecological way of using electricity.

There are Other workaway hosts on our co-operative too:
Troy and Jason
Eric and Lauren
Michael
Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje
Ayuda en proyectos ecológicos
Jardinería
Construcción y bricolaje
Cocinar para toda la familia
Mantenimiento general
Objetivos de sostenibilidad de las NU que intenta conseguir este anfitrión
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¿Que es esto?
Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje
We provide an experience to our volunteers. Offgrid, minimalist living in a rural-wild setting. We are a gender & lifestyle positive community, open to diversity and approaching this life with a down-to-earth realism, grounded in how things actually work (and don't) and evolving from there :) If this is an experience you are interested in, please join us!

What can you learn from a stay here? (Please let us know if you have specific interests)

Fermenting/food preservarion
Planting, maintaining and harvesting a garden
Chainsaw use and maintenance
Carpentry and general tool use and maintenance
Plant identification/herbalism/wildcrafting
Primitive skills such as hide tanning
And the list goes on.
Proyectos con niños
En este proyecto podría haber niños. Para obtener más información, consulta nuestras directrices y consejos aquí.
Ayuda
This year we're expanding a little cabin into a comfortably small family home for 3! From foundations to stickframe, to hempcrete, to electrical and plumbing and all the finishing details, I invite you to join us in the journey of housing ourselves.

Relevant skills
- use of power and hand tools
-willingness to learn
-following directions accurately

Non-Reno related tasks:
Firewood
Land projects and maintenance
Gardens -planting, weeding, harvesting, processing
Idiomas hablados
Francés: Fluido
Ruso: Fluido
Alojamiento
Rustic! There is a small studio/bedroom type space (which will also be food storage), as well as space for camping. The main house is under construction this summer, so we'll be glamping full on. We use humanure bucket toilets and live mostly outside :) However, you will be extremely well fed! Eat 'til your fullest potential!

Internet is limited, but available.
Algo más...
Lots of local hiking, beautiful rivers and lakes to swim in, great biking on rails to trails, or downhill mountain biking, rock climbing, ski touring and Whitewater ski hill. A bus into the eclectic town of Nelson stops at the bottom of our hill.
Un poco más de información
- Acceso a Internet
- Acceso a Internet limitado
- Tenemos animales
- Somos fumadores
- Puede alojar familias
Espacio para aparcar autocaravanas
Campervan Yes! Motorhome no.
Podría aceptar mascotas
Well behaved dogs, under owner control at all times :)
¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?
Más de dos
Horas esperadas
5 days, 25 hrs/week