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Description
Our farm is a gorgeous community farm property on Salt Spring Island, 18 acres with various families and residents.
Your main host will be Freyja, the owner, along with Joy, our garden manager, and various other community members. When you reach out, you’ll be connecting with our coordinators, Kyla and/or Jodi.
This hobby farm has extensive apple orchards and we are working on establishing a permaculture food forest system here by planting a wide variety of fruit and nut trees, bushes, shrubs and berries with herbs and vegetable gardens interspersed. We now have an abundance of berries, and some of the first trees we planted are coming to fruition, yet it is a life long project!
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Creating/ Cooking family meals
General Maintenance
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Learn about gardening, orchard management, food processing, community building, building skills etc
Help
Spring is in full swing!
We’re currently busy pruning fruit trees, prepping garden beds, starting seeds indoors, and building a brand-new greenhouse.
Upcoming projects include setting up a hydroponic growing system, upgrading our deer fencing, and planting more fruit trees and berry bushes.
We also welcome help with building projects—whether you have experience or are eager to learn!
The work trade is 25 hours per week and includes basic food staples and access to farm-grown produce. Most of the work is quite physical, so please come ready to put those muscles to use!
Please note: we’re unable to accommodate dogs at this time.
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
French: Fluent
Spanish: Intermediate
Accommodation
We offer a few small cozy cabins and a camperized school bus with a wood stove. As well as access to a shared farm kitchen in the house, composting outhouses, warm outdoor shower, and laundry. For the summer we also have a gigantic luxury lotus tent.
We also have a swimming pond for those hot summer days, and a sauna for the cold ones in the fall!
What else ...
There are extensive hiking and running trails closeby, and we are biking distance from the ocean. in the Summer it is great to swim in our pond or nearby lake or the ocean. Salt Spring Island has a vibrant community with lots of events, dances, parties, potlucks, ceremonies, markets etc.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
We have good internet across parts of the farm including work trader accommodation spaces.
Space for parking camper vans
We have several RV spots with power and water, outdoor shower and outhouses
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Feedback (13)
It is very interesting how they have organized each place for a purpose. it's a peace of heaven on the earth!
When we arrived it was after Freya and David's wedding, so we didn't get to meet them, maybe someday in the future!
Even so, we loved meeting other residents and other helpers.
Skye and Nicolas:… read more
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It is very interesting how they have organized each place for a purpose. it's a peace of heaven on the earth!
When we arrived it was after Freya and David's wedding, so we didn't get to meet them, maybe someday in the future!
Even so, we loved meeting other residents and other helpers.
Skye and Nicolas:… read more
To be honest, when I first arrived at the farm, I didn’t feel 100% comfortable. I appreciate that I arrived at an… read more
Also the community there is really lovely and warm-hearted and there was a nice cultural exchange especially at the evening dinners together.
Would always come back :)
Flow, the manager of the Farm, has a lot of expertise about plants, herbals, gardening and farm activities. It was so interesting… read more
She integrated into the family quickly and easefully, worked self-directed and responsibly, and created yummy meals and treats as well!
freyja, david, and shaeanna are all radiant, and they want help and share ... they are good people :)
there is a community on this farm, who embrace you as… read more
And Freija,Sheanna,David and the beautiful community around make you feel just how you are.
We did apple work.Apple picking during the season,apple pressing with Paul a amazing guy and working in the garden or helping building a sauna.Was… read more
