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I am an elder living on four acres in the Cowichan Valley, BC Canada. My husband and I need some extra help due to our age and my mobility handicap. We have a rain forest trail that ends on our property along Oliver Creek and it takes you 12 minutes to walk to downtown Lake Cowichan coming out at Country Grocer. We are a one hour drive from the cities of Victoria, Nanaimo or Port Renfrew. Duncan is 20 minutes away. There are bike and hiking trails, and within walking distance to swim in the river or lake, or tube down the Cowichan River. The accommodations are a tent, a holiday trailer or a pump house. Our extended family members come to visit and some live with us in our farm house when not working away. We are Vipassana meditators and another meditator lives in a rental cabin on the property. We are only 25 minutes away from a place where we take silent retreats, and help to serve.
We have a fenced garden with fruit trees that I need help with. We have a small mill that saws up logs. We need help to build a wood shed and to fill it for winter fire wood. We like to keep the grounds free as much as possible from invasive plants like broom, black berries, and daphne. We recently built a solar shed that needs siding completed. We have a fellow meditator who lives in Myanmar and stores his belongings on the property and comes to visit once a year. We wish to build a hoop house to grow food in and have more garden areas developed. The property has a salmon bearing stream. Elk and Bear come by weekly. There are cougar in the area. We hear Frogs in the spring, Eagles and Owls year round. There are wild fruit trees and bushes we harvest as well as herbs like Nettles and St Johns wort. Being in the middle of the south end of Vancouver Island we have very little snow or freezing weather. It is a green countryside most of the year.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Language practice
Help with Eco Projects
Elderly Companionship
Teaching
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Interests
Vegetarian or vegan
Self development
Farming
Plant care
Cooking & food
Gardening
DIY & crafts
Outdoor activities
Nature
Hiking
Beach
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We can offer cultural exchange of language, food, nature study, herbalism, gardening, hiking, ocean swimming, visiting area nature sites, cities, meditation, some arts and crafts. We hope to learn about different cultures, languages, food practices, healthy living, with kindness and compassion.
Projects involving children
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Help
Gardening, carpentry, yard work, wood gathering, and general land and house maintenance. We speak some Ukrainian/Russian, French and Norwegian. We have vegetarian meals. We offer sharing our skills as a carpenter, running a wood mill, gardening, canning, freezing, drying food, gathering wild foods and growing herbs. We are a retired Waldorf School teacher and a Maintenance Supervisor. We have developed a tofu business that we sold which is still operational.
Languages
Languages spoken
French: Fluent
Norwegian: Fluent
Russian: Beginner
Ukrainian: BeginnerThis 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
Very simple basic tenting with bedding. A holiday trailer with water and heat, bedding, electricity and an outdoor toilet and indoor potty chair. We share our home for internet, laundry, bathroom and kitchen. There is also an upstairs loft in the pump house with a downstairs entrance, and table small fridge, water, electricity, heat and internet.
What else ...
There is a local bus that takes you from Downtown
Lake Cowichan to Victoria, Duncan, and allows you to catch further transportation to Vancouver, Seattle, Tofino, Courtney/Comox, and Nanaimo cities. There are bike trails. You can rent a tube and tube down the Cowichan River with a bus that brings you back. You can attend or volunteer at the Dhamma Modana Meditation centre. We live a quiet meditative lifestyle with no drugs or alcohol. We ask that visitors are mindful, kind, compassionate and respect community living.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
We have internet but it is at times slow due to being in a rural area.
Space for parking camper vans
We have ample parking, near water and electricity, and in the town there are amenities for dumping, re-fueling, water, and plugging in if electric. The land is like a park with trees, creek, meadows, garden and wild forest.
Can possibly accept pets
As we have a senior handicapped cat any pets would have to respect the cats space and get along with it.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
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