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Our farm is a gorgeous community property on Salt Spring Island, 18 acres with various families and residents.
Your main host is Freyja, her partner David, and her daughter Shaeanna (11)
The 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. Some of the first trees we planted are coming to fruition, but it is a life long project!
Gardening
DIY and building projects
General Maintenance
Farmstay help
Help with Eco Projects
Animal Care
Learn about gardening, orchard management, grafting, pruning, community building, building skills etc.
We are just getting ready for the big apple harvest including cider pressing and drying apples.
We will also clear up the baby food forest and plant some new trees and berry bushes.
It would be great to have a couple or two close friends to keep each other company and share the bus and are able to stay longer through the summer.
A reliable, self-sufficient individual would work too.
Trade is 25 hours/week for accommodation with meals, or 15 hours/week for accommodation only.
Most of the tasks are quite physical, so please be prepared to use your muscles!
No dogs please.
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
French: Fluent
Spanish: Intermediate
Camperized school bus with wood stove, access to shared house with kitchen/bathroom/living room/wifi etc. small cozy cabin.
We also have a swimming pond for those hot summer days, and a sauna for the cold ones!
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.
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
More than two
Maximum 5 hours a day, 5 days a week
