Immersive family farm experience in Victoria, Vancouver Island, Canada

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  Descrição

  May 2024 Update: we are looking for mature, responsible, attentive folk for May, June, July and August. For the right fit, we can offer a long stay that could include significant house and farm-sitting responsibilities while we are on short vacations.
  
  Join us and be wrapped in the warm care of a homesteading family for 2-3 weeks (or more if its a good fit!), with healthy home-cooked meals, locally-harvested teas and foods, snuggles with cuddly pets, sports ad board games, and good sleeps in a unique retrofitted 1970s bus overlooking the forest. Our farmstay is best described as a truly immersive experience and is suited to a single person who want to experience the day to day realities of living in relationship to the land and participating in family life, focused on the values of deep ecology, Indigenous wisdom and reconciliation, decolonization, magic, seasonal living, and imagining into a beautiful and safe world for future generations.
  
  We live on 3 acres of mixed crop fields, woods, ponds, fruit trees, gardens-in-the-making and a lovely skyline. This is the fourth property we have hosted helpers on, and it’s our favorite way of 'staying home' while connecting to the world. We grow hemp in the fields and food in the garden using permaculture and regenerative land practices. We also have a sweet dog, a cat, and from time to time some different farm animals.
  
  We love hosting as it brings different cultures, worldviews, languages, art, cooking and friendships into our lives when we have stopped travelling in favor of a localized land-based life.
  
  Important: When you message us, please share a little bit about how you resonate with our profile. We do not respond to messages that only say your name and when you want to come. For best results let us know:
  - Your interest in spending safe and quality time with children
  - Your interest in participating in family and household life
  - Your ability to work and learn with a good attitude
  - How you will take efforts to prevent bringing contagious viruses into our family home, particularly in the travel days leading up to coming here (we interact with Elders and vulnerable populations who we do our best to keep safe).

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  Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado

  Projetos artísticos

  Prática de idiomas

  Ajuda em projetos ambientais

  Ensino

  Jardinagem

  Construção/faça você mesmo

  Cuidar de animais

  Ajuda em fazenda

  Cuidar de crianças/atividades criativas

  Criar/cozinhar refeições caseiras

  Ajuda a cuidar da casa

  Manutenção geral

  Ajuda com computadores/internet
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  Oportunidades de intercâmbio cultural e aprendizado

  Our family is mixed indigenous and european descent. Staying with us you'll learn about indigenous resurgence, Canada's colonial history and the current work of reconciliation, and being a good visitor in relationship to the land you are on. You'll also have the opportunity to learn about permaculture, organic gardening and hemp farming. We are an alternative family who focuses our energy away from mainstream culture and values, and towards a life-sustaining society that promotes collective liberation, diversity, inclusivity, resilience, holistic health practices, and deconstructing the patriarchal, white supremacist extractive capitalist systems of oppression that impact us all. We do this through compassionate inquiry and a trauma-informed approach.
  
  We are the #83 bus route and can lend a bike. We also offer to take you on adventures such as forest walks, town trips, and beach trips. Nearby you’ll find parks and trails, the world-famous Butchart Gardens, ocean access with kayak and paddle board rentals, coffee shops, thrift stores and more.

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  Projetos que envolvem crianças

  Este projeto pode envolver crianças. Para mais informações, veja aqui nossas diretrizes e dicas.

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  Ajuda

  Typically, we ask for help with routine garden, farm, and homestead tasks. These can include shoveling dirt, compost and wood chips, weeding the fields and pulling invasive plants from the woodlands, trail and path maintenance, plant care (pest checking, fertilizing etc.), fence maintaining, general yard care, and seasonal household chores. Lots of shovel work.
  Inside the kitchen is a constant work zone and we usually ask for daily contributions to kitchen help.
  Up to 20-30% of hours may be household cleaning projects, and sometimes we may ask you to do random once a season chores like cleaning a vehicle, doing a freezer inventory and so on.
  Our kids, age 9 and 12, also appreciate if you spend some time with them sharing your skills and passions or engaging in one of their favourite activities such as art, music, basketball, soccer, Uno, chess, lego or boardgames.
  Basically, you’ll be involved in every aspect of running a family homestead! And in everything we ask you to do, we usually share a teaching or two about WHY as it relates to permaculture, regenerative and restorative land stewardship, and inter-species relationships!
  If you are an artist or healer we can discuss reducing hours of homestead work in exchange for your skills.

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  Idiomas

  Idiomas
  Inglês: Fluente
  Espanhol: Fluente
  Francês: Fluente

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  Este anfitrião indicou que tem interesse em compartilhar seu idioma ou em aprender um novo.
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  Acomodação

  Your “room” is a small retro Mercedes bus with access to bathroom, kitchen and living room in family house a few meters away.
  We offer healthy whole foods (minimal packaged or ready-made items), and ask you to purchase any special items we don’t normally supply. We eat minimal wheat & dairy, and try and only eat sustainable and ethically raised/harvested animal products.
  We have some water challenges and provide instructions on saving water, including limiting showers to five minutes once a day.

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  Algo mais...

  We can pick you up from most locations in Greater Victoria including ferry terminals and airports.
  We prefer to receive new folk on Thursdays or fridays.
  
  Our place is best suited for people who truly want an immersive west coast family farm experience. We expect workawayers to be resourceful, independent, mature, healthy, courteous, and adaptable. We generally do NOT like to host people who want to spend all the free time in their rooms or online, or people who do not have an ethic of reciprocity and responsibility.
  
  We offer references to those seeking jobs in Canada and worldwide and have provided reference letters and reference phone calls to many of our helpers.
  
  *ABSOLUTELY no tolerance for cigarettes/vaping/commercial tobacco.

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    Acesso à internet

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    Acesso à internet limitado

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    Temos mascotes

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    Somos fumantes

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    Pode hospedar famílias

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  Pode hospedar nômades digitais

  Let us know personal work requirements and we can determine together if it’s a good fit (e.g hours, required bandwidth, space set up etc).

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  Pode aceitar animais

  Pets must be clean, de-flead and de-wormed, and be safe with children and other pets. We have a dominant dog.

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  Quantos Workawayers pode acomodar?

  1

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  Horas previstas

  Maximum 5 hours a day, 5 days a week

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