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Experience life with foodies in Yukon, Canada

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  • Description

    Description

    Hello and Welcome!

    We are a family of three looking for some help around our home and a language exchange starting October 1. We are on the bus route in the city centre, and we’d love to welcome someone to experience everyday family life and explore this amazing place we are blessed to call home.

    The help we are looking for is with our family home and everyday family life; we are not asking Workawayers to assist with our business.

    We are Erik (37), Amber (46), and Grace (8). We love hiking, canoeing, camping, fishing, hunting, smoking meat, pottery, gardening, and wildcrafting (foraging for wild plants) — basically enjoying the Yukon lifestyle.

    We camp and canoe regularly, and with a little help around the house, we have more time to share these experiences and help you explore this beautiful place.

    Helping around our home

    Most of the help is with everyday household and family tasks, including:

    Meal preparation and helping with meals Cleaning up after meals and general household cleaning Bringing in firewood Gardening and yard work Snow shovelling in the winter Reading stories and spending some time with Grace Language exchange and sharing our cultures and interests

    For safety reasons, we don't ask anyone to cook independently unless they have professional cooking experience, but we are very happy to have help with food preparation and the kitchen.

    We appreciate positive, independent people who enjoy being part of a family and are open to new experiences. We are excited to meet people from different places, hear their stories and ideas, and share our own Yukon lifestyle with them.

    We look forward to welcoming you into our home!

  • Types of help and learning opportunities

    Types of help and learning opportunities

    Language practice
    Teaching
    Light gardening
    Babysitting and creative play
    Help around the house
    Light maintenance
    Help with Computers/ Internet
  • Interests

    Interests

    Self development
    Gardening
    Cooking & food
    Carpentry
    Yoga / Wellness
    Winter sports
    Nature
    Hiking
    Cycling
    Camping
    Beach
  • Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Culture: We like to do as many things ourselves as possible from hunting, fishing, growing our food to canning pickles, baking bread, butchering our animals, fixing vehicles & bicycles, hiking, collecting wild plants, carpentry, mushroom picking and dont forget garage saling.... :)

  • Projects involving children

    Projects involving children

    This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.

  • Help

    Help

    Daily help includes: watering, the garden, household cleaning(dishes & sweeping), cooking and various projects such as painting. We are grateful if you are independent, we are flexible with the hours you help.. you can help either in the AM or PM and you can usually choose to help all day 1 day and then have the next day off etc. observant.. do the animals need food and water, find the milk in the fridge ;), is the garden dry, you to notice these things .

    Having a good work ethic and a positive attitude are greatly appreciated. We will give you many options of tasks based on your skill set... you can certainly tell me you would prefer to do task A instead of take B.

    It has been mentioned that we don't give much direction. There is truth in this. I will ask you, " what are you good at?"
    I don't micro-manage or look over your shoulder constantly to make sure you are doing it correctly....we hope that you are self reliant and will ask for clarification if needed.

  • Languages

    Languages spoken
    English: Fluent
    Spanish: Beginner
    French: Beginner

    This 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

    Accommodation

    You will be provided with a great variety of healthy food, including home raised chicken and wild game(moose). You will make your own breakfast , lunch is usually left overs (from the night before)and dinners tend to be a big production with lots of variety...Cooking & eating is a huge passion of ours so we are always trying new things.
    Cooking and dinner clean up are not included as part of work hours unless you are making large quantities for the freezer or helping to host a party. If you do not have professional cooking experience we may not ask you to cook for food safety reasons .

    Weekly Dinner menu example
    1) Moose chilli with red and yellow peppers, grilled zucchini and jalapeno corn bread & salad
    2) Rice & Bean Burritos, with guacamole, salsa fresca & spicy slaw
    3) Organic Roasted Chicken, garden potatoes & carrots, with green salad
    4) Ukrainian Beet Borscht soup with bread and salad
    5) Chicken Curry w/ Rice
    6) Quiche- mushroom, blue cheese( and ham?)
    7) Lasagna ( moose or vegetarian) & Greek salad

    We will try accommodate your meal preferences as we know good food is comforting .


    We have some bicycles and a canoe that you can use to ride you must lock up the bikes and are asked to fix them of you break them.

    We ask that you write down ( keep track of how many hours you work each week on a sheet) and we do ask for emergency contact information, and passport #( information which can be shredded upon departure).
    We are very scent sensitive and ask you to please not bring scented soaps and perfume.

  • What else ...

    What else ...

    There is amazing hiking , fishing and biking spots all around and we would be happy to tour you around IF we have time. If you do not have a car and want to go somewhere like Alaska or kluane, you could offer to pay for gas and I will do my best to drive you.


    We like to listen to folk and world music, there is a pottery wheel for you to try out, there are tons of things to do near by including traditional sweats, games, trivia nights, pubs, mountain biking, wildlife preserve and hotsprings.

  • A little more information

    A little more information

    • Internet access

    • Limited internet access

      Limited internet access

    • We have pets

    • We are smokers

    • Can host families

  • Can host digital nomads

    Can host digital nomads

    We can host digital Nomads, the internet speed is excellent.

  • Space for parking camper vans

    Space for parking camper vans

    We do not have so much room for people to be bringing campervan unfortunately

  • Can possibly accept pets

    Can possibly accept pets

    Well behaved pets considered..we do have 2 cats.

  • How many Workawayers can stay?

    How many Workawayers can stay?

    More than two

  • My animals / pets

    My animals / pets

    Little

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