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Description
Our homestead overlooks a lake on the south shore of Nova Scotia. Our land adjoins a 200 acre old growth forest with kilometres of walking trails. We have 4 children, a family milk cow, 26 chickens, a few ducks, pigs, bees and barn cats! We enjoy growing and storing our own food, foraging, hiking, swimming and being outside.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
General Maintenance
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We hope to show you the land here as well as surrounding our place. We have a lovely community and enjoy community projects and helping out neighbours. We would love to share knowledge on seed collecting, stratification, storing and starting different types of edible plant seeds and native plants. Also, how to identify and propagate plants from cuttings-hardwood, softwood and root cuttings. How to turn one plant into many! Happy to share what we have learned about keeping animals as well!
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
During the course of your stay, we would like help with the following project and possibly others!
Composting
Planting projects
Watering
Mulching
Prepping beds
Packing plant orders
Tending to the animals (if interested)
Household chores
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Accommodation
We will provide fresh milk, eggs and fresh bread each week! We may provide meals otherwise, we will provide a $50 food stipend (per person/per week).
Our accommodation is a self contained 2 storey house (which sleeps up to 5 (2 single beds, 1 double bed and 1 pull out couch)! It is large (1600sqft)! 2 bedrooms, full kitchen, 2 spacious living areas (with woodstove if it's chilly!), an outdoor shower and a composting outhouse.
What else ...
There is a beautiful lake for swimming across the road (3 min walk). 20km of walking trails through the old growth forest (connected to our property). We have bikes available to to use-we are on a dirt road with a great bike path nearby. We have stand up paddle boards to use on the lake!
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Feedback (3)
What a lovely and welcoming family.
Our children felt so close right from the very beginning and enjoyed every moment together (lots of outdoor adventures and farm animals to cuddle - felt like paradise for our girls).
...and we adults… read more
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What a lovely and welcoming family.
Our children felt so close right from the very beginning and enjoyed every moment together (lots of outdoor adventures and farm animals to cuddle - felt like paradise for our girls).
...and we adults… read more
