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We're looking for folks that might want to come work, play and learn with us up on the land this coming growing season. We'd like to offer a place to stay, food, knowledge, and a top notch holistic atmosphere in exchange for help with our many projects.
Projects that we need help with include: maple sugaring, planting fruit trees and berry bushes, working in the veggie garden, inoculating mushroom logs, drying herbs and making herbal medicine, fermenting food and other food alchemy, making trails in the forest, chopping wood, creating art in the landscape, helping put on educational retreats, keeping things tidy and in good order, building projects, and more.
Knowledge and skills we have to share include: gardening, making maple syrup, planting trees, deep ecology, making medicine, yoga and meditation, delicious food creation, tree climbing, how to work smoothly in the material world, planning and organizational awareness, living authentically, being at peace, communicating clearly, and loving life wholeheartedly.
We're flexible about the terms. Come and participate in this exchange for a weekend, a couple months, or the whole season. We're looking for people to come from March or April onward. Ideally our 'volunteers' would be able to be up here 4 or 5 days a week working on the land for about 4 to 5 hours a day. We're a non-profit community farm growing produce for our friends and family. We're practicing being self sufficient and living on the land in ways that are healthy and rewarding beyond the conventional understanding of what it means to make a living. We find ways to live a balanced lifestyle; working hard and being attentive to material world obligations, while also taking good amounts of time to nourish our body and mind by eating well, doing meditation and yoga practice, and spending lots of time in nature listening and learning.
We're looking for folks that are: self motivated, good-natured, hard working, relatively healthy, enthusiastic about life and learning, and appreciative of nature.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Farmstay help
General Maintenance
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Knowledge and skills we have to share include: gardening, making maple syrup, planting trees, deep ecology, making medicine, yoga and meditation, delicious food creation, tree climbing, how to work smoothly in the material world, time and money awareness, living authentically, being at peace, communicating clearly, and loving life wholeheartedly.
Help
Projects that we need help with include: maple sugaring, planting fruit trees and berry bushes, working in the veggie garden, inoculating mushroom logs, drying herbs and making herbal medicine, fermenting food and other food alchemy, making trails in the forest, chopping wood, creating art in the landscape, helping put on some meditation retreats, keeping things tidy and in good order, building projects, and more.
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Spanish: Intermediate
French: Intermediate
Portuguese: Intermediate
Chinese (Mandarin): BeginnerThis host offers a language exchange
Learning a language is like doing a jigsaw puzzle of a million pieces with a picture that keeps changing. It's like getting lost in a foreign city without a map. It's like playing tennis without a ball, like being an ant in a field of grasshoppers. It's being an acrobat with a broken leg, an actor without a script, a carpenter without a saw, a storyteller without a middle or an end. But then gradually it¹s like being out in the early morning with the mists lifting. It¹s like a chink of light under a door, like finding the glove you were looking for, catching the train you thought you were going to miss, getting an unlooked-for present, exchanging a smile. And then one day it's like riding a bicycle very fast downhill.
Accommodation
Tenting in the forest. A bit rustic, but ever so invigorating.
Food we have in abundance and it's our greatest pleasure to share. We grow much of our own food and prepare it in simple and healthy ways, often vegetarian but not exclusively. Some people often end up taking lead roles in the kitchen, but help is welcomed and encouraged. We share most meals together, but there's always food available to snack on and no one will go hungry, that's for sure.
What else ...
We're about an hour and a half north of Toronto ~ just up Airport Rd on the way towards Collingwood ~ lots of nature spots around and the odd city adventure ~ though not as much city time with covid happening right now ~
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
Internet connection all across the globe. Dangerously distracting, yet marvelously enlightening! We do the best we can to strike a balance within these ever changing times.
Space for parking camper vans
We can accommodate a moderate sized van or trailer
Can possibly accept pets
We prefer quiet dogs, like Cavalier King Charles Spaniels, Italian Greyhounds, Chinese Cresteds, Boston Terriers, Japanese Chins and Shiba Inus
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week
Feedback (18)
The work is a fair amount and there is lots of opportunity and time to relax. There are always people coming and going… read more
Only thing I can say is WOW. It was beautiful, it was divine, enlightening, loving and caring, blissful and enriching.
Damn roller coaster man.
I initially was supposed to spend just two weeks on the land, as I had other plans in mind,… read more
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The work is a fair amount and there is lots of opportunity and time to relax. There are always people coming and going… read more
Only thing I can say is WOW. It was beautiful, it was divine, enlightening, loving and caring, blissful and enriching.
Damn roller coaster man.
I initially was supposed to spend just two weeks on the land, as I had other plans in mind,… read more
Unprompted they'll be asking how they can help more ~ without needing to tell them anything they're finding ways to make the space more beautiful ~ such hard workers ~ but also so friendly and kind ~ so easy going… read more
I like… read more
It's been a pleasure to be part of the community for 3 weeks, time flied and we have so many memories now !
This was our first workaway and an excellent one. We felt welcomed and loved during our stay, we learned so much about plants, nature and carpentry. For every beginner, you will… read more
I only stayed a week but I would have liked to have stayed longer!!! what an enriching week!!! it was a superb experience.
Our tasks consisted of building a cabin, gardening, weeding.
The community welcomed and integrated me very easily. They are very… read more
Thanks for coming out and giving us a hand with the house… read more
Chaque personne ici dégage quelque chose de beau et… read more
