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Host rating
100 %
Last replied
5 Aug 2023
Feedback
8
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Description
We are a young Christian family with five kids, looking for help on our grass fed only dairy farm. We live 10 minutes from Salmon Arm, a beautiful town with a lake and lots of outdoor activities. We grow a big garden and try to put up most of our own food for the year. We raise pigs, turkeys, chickens and sheep as side ventures, as milking 60 mixed breed dairy cows is our main venture. We butcher all our own meat and raise all our animals on organic principles. We live in a large farmhouse.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
General Maintenance
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Here we are always learning and trying to become more self-sufficient. we are not your typical dairy farm, as we process all our own milk and sell directly to the consumer. We strive for high quality products not high quantity.
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
We have a wide range of farm and household duties depending of interest and skill level. Depending on the time of year we have moving irrigation pipes out in the fields, rotating animals through different pastures, helping with tractor work, yard maintenance, seeding weeding and harvesting garden produce, building repairs and farm equipment maintenance. Daily chores are milking the cows and feeding new born calves bottles, feeding chickens and collecting eggs, feeding pigs, sheep, turkeys.
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Accommodation
We live in a large farmhouse with an extra bedroom down stairs. we eat as a family as much as possible and are simple eaters (meat and potatoes kind of family) The house overlooks the farm
What else ...
We require a good work ethic and sense of humor. We are willing to train if you have no experience as long as you are willing to try. We would prefer at least a month commitment but are flexible. We also have kids and ask that guests don't smoke or drink while staying in our home (although drinking water is acceptable). We have lakes and mountains nearby which provide lots of activities. We have limited internet but lots of fresh air.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Hours expected
25hours a week
Feedback (5)
I spent 3 weeks on the farm. From the first moment I felt welcome. It is a dairy farm and they produce their own products ( cheese, milk, quark, yoghurt). There are always work on a farm. I was helping milking, feeding calves, fixing the… read more
Thanks
They are very friendly and helpful people and the family & the workers at the farm are all fun and a young crew.
So many interesting and exciting things happened during my stay - newborn calfs & piglets, chasing cows over the pastures and other fun things. Work was 6 days a week and every day different. I… read more
Feedback
I spent 3 weeks on the farm. From the first moment I felt welcome. It is a dairy farm and they produce their own products ( cheese, milk, quark, yoghurt). There are always work on a farm. I was helping milking, feeding calves, fixing the… read more
Thanks
They are very friendly and helpful people and the family & the workers at the farm are all fun and a young crew.
So many interesting and exciting things happened during my stay - newborn calfs & piglets, chasing cows over the pastures and other fun things. Work was 6 days a week and every day different. I… read more
I stayed here for 5 weeks and enjoyed the stay. Paul and Micah are two very nice and friendly people and the babys are just adorable. I felt welcome, just after I arrived! I came just the day the cows went out into pasture, which isn't usually for milk cows, but that's nice. Also the farm is very animal friendly.
All… read more
We had a wonderful time with you, and you were such a big help, always willing. We are now harvesting the garden you helped plant. Thank you
