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NEW UPDATE: Happy New Year! We are tucked in with a blanket of snow and planning for next year's adventures!
Live on a small farm in rural British Columbia. We have sheep, cows, horses, dogs and a cat, and the farm is still growing. We are 30 minutes from the closest centre with services, boutique shopping and a regional airport.
Having a drivers license is a must to allow you the freedom to explore the Cariboo Chilcotin. The area offers an abundance of outdoor activities from hiking and photography, to driving tours and camping.
If you are a highly social person who loves the city and night life this is not the place for you; but if you are looking to learn about Canadian culture and enjoy the serenity of nature we look forward to welcoming you to our home.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Language practice
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Interests
Sustainability
Pets
Farming
Gardening
Nature
Cooking & food
Books
Animals
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
You will benefit from this exchange by learning Canadian small farm customs. I welcome the opportunity for visitors to practice their English, learn how to grow and preserve food, learn about foods in our culture for treats or healing and learn livestock husbandry. This exchange offers a rural farm experience. I would love to learn new languages, new skills, cultural cooking and about your life.
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
Here are some ideas of what I am up to depending on the season:
Yard help raking lawns, splitting & cutting firewood, cleaning gutters & chimneys, fire smarting
Animal Care - feeding & watering, shearing, trimming feet, lambing, grooming livestock, milking
Fencing - putting up rails, installing & maintaining electric fences, building right of ways
Gardening - planting, weeding, pruning, watering, harvesting, preserving
House help - shopping, meal preparation, light cleaning, room renovations
Winter preparation - garden harvest, food preservation, livestock butchering, hunting & gathering
Languages
Languages spoken
English: FluentThis host offers a language exchange
This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
You can contact them directly for more information.
Accommodation
You will have your own room and a shared bathroom with shared living space and kitchen in our home. As part of the cultural exchange you will be treated as family.
What else ...
Life is very independent and centres around the farm and rural outdoor life - you must enjoy quiet outdoors.
All of our meat and some of our produce is harvested naturally. In the fall we are butchering lambs, hunting and processing meat, making sausage, drying herbs & berries, etc to put away food for the year. In the spring, the sheep are lambing and cows calving so I am usually very close to home to watch over the new babies.
We enjoy meeting people who are comfortable working independently or as a team, who are interested in different cultures/languages, are good with hunting and natural food harvesting and enjoy pets and livestock.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
I welcome digital nomads with the caution that I am on satellite internet which can be weather temperamental. Town has good wifi in a pinch and is a 30 minute drive.
Space for parking camper vans
I can accommodate any size vehicle.
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
My animals / pets
Amelia
Amelia loves scratches and massages. She is certain that is the only reason for your visit.
Rhoda
Rhoda is our matriarch. A quiet serious lady unless you have horse cookie treats.
Mabel
Mabel is a sweet girl who tries to raise all the babies. She likes quiet attention and good food.
Waltzing Matilda
"Tillie" is our hand raised replacement Milk cow. She will have her first baby is 2026.
Annie
Annie is our family Milk cow. She raises cute babies and fills the fridge with milk, cream, cheese and butter!
Sheep - too many to name
We have mostly South African Dorpers and everyone gets a name. The sheep love horse cookies, scratches and always food.
Athena
Athena and Mage are sisters learning from the school of Ariel. Athena loves to run and have ear scratches.
Mage
Mage is a young lady learning to be a livestock guardian. Still a puppy she is bouncy and always excited for love.
Ariel
Ariel is our head livestock guardian dog. She loves belly rubs and hanging with her sheep.
Sasha
Sasha is our senior Arabian mare. She loves gentle snuggles and lots of brushing.
Serenade
Serenade is our Anglo Arabian mare. A lovely lady who adores cookies and attention.
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The farm is quite far away from town, so it is quiet and the landscape is beautiful (we would often spend hours just looking out the window, drinking coffee and… read more
Thanks for your help and tales of adventures we were blessed to share… read more
Thanks for everything Thomas! I hope the rest of your travels went well and we would welcome you back anytime you are in Canada. Take… read more
It was the best place to stay for some weeks and enjoy the nature, the awesome landscape of BC and meet probably the best people in my trip in Canada. Feed the animals, make fences or thinking about the best way to build your hay shed… read more
An amazing artist and willing participant on any farm project, Jusef learned with enthusiasm and laughed with us lots. He is very nice and respectful, everyone who visited the farm enjoyed meeting Jusef and he was always willing to tackle any crazy idea or project we… read more
They have super sweet dogs which always took care of us while we were feeding the horses and sheep. Mark did explained every job to us and explained even why you have to do it this way - we learned a lot - thank you :)
We renovated the room where the Workawayers will stay… read more
Frégan was not afraid to tackle any new activity or adventure and was an immense help with many things on the farm from building a new greenhouse and daily chores, to learning to butcher livestock and plough snow. We enjoyed learning about France and the French culture… read more
Lucas and Hauke also clean up well :wink: Incredibly polite and able to adapt to various social situations they are a pleasure to spend time with.
I… read more
