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Hello and welcome!
We are a family of five (45, 45, 21, 9 and 7) living on a small, off-grid homestead farm in the remote and stunning Kispiox Valley in northern BC. Our home is a cozy wooden house at the Kispiox River, surrounded by wilderness and abundant wildlife.
Originally from Switzerland, we moved to Canada eight years ago and have fully embraced the beauty and challenges of this lifestyle.
Our days are filled with various projects and activities:
*Managing firewood and logs
*Tending to our expansive 1000+ m² garden
*`Weeding
*Harvesting and processing our produce
*Building a small guest cabin and sauna
*Caring for animals and cleaning the chicken coop
*Homeschooling our adventurous children, Jaro and Zora
*Cooking on a wood stove and maintaining our home
*Renovating and repairing machinery
*Forest tasks
*Making hay
We stay connected to the world through satellite internet and solar panels. We see friends and neighbours regularly. Our farm is home to two big, friendly dogs, chickens, cats and pigs during summer. We also gather wild foods and fish.
In your free time, enjoy activities such as:
Fishing, hiking, swimming, and boating on the river, river hiking, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, wildlife watching, sitting around a campfire under a starry sky.
We invite individuals and families to join us. We offer a bedroom with two single beds, and in the summer, you can pitch your tent or set up your own wilderness camp. Our farm is near HWY 37, leading to Yukon and Alaska.
Joining us means not only helping out but also learning about farming, agriculture, soil and natural resource management, food processing, English and German.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Teaching
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Babysitting and creative play
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Interests
Movies & TV
Culture
Sustainability
Self development
Farming
Art & design
Gardening
Music
Plant care
Sailing / Boating
Beach
Dancing
Winter sports
Outdoor activities
Nature
Mountain
Hiking
Camping
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We live in a beautiful and remote wilderness setting and like to share that place with others.
As a half-nomadic family, with profound travel experience, we appreciate the exchange with people from around the world. We love to learn from others and make new friends.
We can teach you all that we know about gardening, carpentry, edible plants, wood tasks and so on.
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
We can need help in all fields. All is important here. gardening, plumbing, logging, carpentry, teaching us and our kids whatever skills you have, cooking good and healthy food (one of the most important tasks here ;-) , making and teaching music and art, , agroforestry and permaculture, sew pillows, curtains, and clothes.
*Help with firewood and logs
*Tending to our expansive 1000+ m² garden
*`Weeding
*Harvesting and processing our produce
*Building a small guest cabin and sauna
*Caring for animals and cleaning the chicken coop
*Homeschooling our adventurous children, Jaro and Zora
*Cooking on a wood stove and maintaining our home
*DIY and repairing machinery
*Forest tasks
*Making hay
Languages
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
Spanish: Intermediate
French: IntermediateThis 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
We offer a cozy guest room in our house, with two single beds, which means we can accommodate one to two persons at a time. In summer, there is also the option to put a tent in a nice corner of our property.
We share our bathroom with workawayers.
What else ...
There is a rough road going to our place. We can pick you up in the next town if necessary but appreciate it if you come by car, at least to our parking lot before the rough trail section starts. If you stay longer than 3 weeks, we also can pick you up in Smithers. In winter, we are only accessible via snowmobile.
We live remote and in a natural setting that requires good physical and mental health conditions.
In the winter months, we have limited electricity because we're hooked up to solar panels.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Space for parking camper vans
This host can provide space for campervans.
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
