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Host rating
70 %
Last replied
5 Apr 2024
Reply rate
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Description
Our farm is a gorgeous community property on Salt Spring Island, 18 acres with various families and residents.
Your main host is Freyja the owner, and various other community members.
This hobby farm has extensive apple orchards and we are working on establishing a permaculture food forest system here by planting a wide variety of fruit and nut trees, bushes, shrubs and berries with herbs and vegetable gardens interspersed. Some of the first trees we planted are coming to fruition, but it is a life long project!
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Creating/ Cooking family meals
General Maintenance
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Learn about gardening, orchard management, grafting, pruning, community building, building skills etc
Help
Spring is here! And with it lots of work.
Shoveling compost, preparing garden beds, starting seedlings, spring cleanup, planting shrubs and trees, fixing fences, is among the first spring tasks.
Trade is 25 hours/week for accommodation with meals.
Most of the tasks are quite physical, so please be prepared to use your muscles!
No dogs please.
This season we are hoping for longer term work traders to have less turnover. We will want to do a trial to make sure that it is a good fit, but are encouraging stays of a month or more.
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
French: Fluent
Spanish: Intermediate
Accommodation
We offer a few small cozy cabins and a camperized school bus with a wood stove. As well as access to shared house with kitchen/bathroom/living room/wifi etc.
We also have a swimming pond for those hot summer days, and a sauna for the cold ones!
What else ...
There are extensive hiking and running trails closeby, and we are biking distance from the ocean. in the Summer it is great to swim in our pond or nearby lake or the ocean. Salt Spring Island has a vibrant community with lots of events, dances, parties, potlucks, ceremonies, markets etc.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
We have good internet across parts of the farm including work trader accommodation spaces.
Space for parking camper vans
We have several RV spots with power and water, outdoor shower and outhouses
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
5 hours a day, 5 days a week
Feedback (13)
It is very interesting how they have organized each place for a purpose. it's a peace of heaven on the earth!
When we arrived it was after Freya and David's wedding, so we didn't get to meet them, maybe someday in the future!
Even so, we loved meeting other residents and other helpers.
Skye and Nicolas:… read more
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It is very interesting how they have organized each place for a purpose. it's a peace of heaven on the earth!
When we arrived it was after Freya and David's wedding, so we didn't get to meet them, maybe someday in the future!
Even so, we loved meeting other residents and other helpers.
Skye and Nicolas:… read more
To be honest, when I first arrived at the farm, I didn’t feel 100% comfortable. I appreciate that I arrived at an… read more
Also the community there is really lovely and warm-hearted and there was a nice cultural exchange especially at the evening dinners together.
Would always come back :)
Flow, the manager of the Farm, has a lot of expertise about plants, herbals, gardening and farm activities. It was so interesting… read more
She integrated into the family quickly and easefully, worked self-directed and responsibly, and created yummy meals and treats as well!
freyja, david, and shaeanna are all radiant, and they want help and share ... they are good people :)
there is a community on this farm, who embrace you as… read more
And Freija,Sheanna,David and the beautiful community around make you feel just how you are.
We did apple work.Apple picking during the season,apple pressing with Paul a amazing guy and working in the garden or helping building a sauna.Was… read more
