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Hello!
We are a young family looking for help building our small homestead, assistance caring for our baby, and enjoying daily life together on beautiful Manitoulin Island.
We live on a waterfront property close to swimming spots, a local town, and hiking trails.
Before settling down, we travelled around the world (Europe, Southeast Asia, Australia, United States, Canada) and participated in Workaway as volunteers. It was a great way to meet locals and travel frugally. Now we offer our home as a destination. We value peacefulness and aim to live an enjoyable life filled with hard work, laughter, and relaxation.
We love living here as there is both the peacefulness of the country and lots of fun things to do. Festivals, gourmet restaurants, hiking, swimming, art tours, cycling, farmers markets, kayaking & canoeing: there is something for everyone! We are good friends with our neighbours: Manitoulin Permaculture. We often hold potlucks at our home and have friends and family to visit.
If this sounds appealing, please send us a message! We love getting to know new people and we are happy to create a schedule and tasks that suit each individual.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Babysitting and creative play
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Interests
Events & social
Pets
Self development
Movies & TV
Farming
Plant care
Music
Books
Gardening
Cooking & food
Carpentry
Yoga / Wellness
Nature
Fitness
Camping
Winter sports
Dancing
Outdoor activities
Water sports
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We live a wholesome life, filled with healthy food, hands in the dirt, fresh air, and sunshine. We love to talk philosophy and challenge each other to think critically about the world we are creating together. We are trained in Permaculture and endeavor to apply these principles to our relationship with the land. We are learning how to raise a child and empower this new life to blossom. We also both have university degrees and degrees in the Skilled Trades (carpentry and mechanics). We love to teach what we know and also to learn from others!
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
Right now we are in the deep of winter on our homestead. However, there are always projects to do:
- Gardens: Soon we will start the seeds for our 2025 Gardens! We have some vegetables in a nearby greenhouse that need water every week.
- Landscaping: In the winter months, we often do forest management by trimming low branches through our forest and taking down standing dead trees. Then we drag out all the branches and chop them up for fires and other landscaping.
- Child care: We have a small child (about one and a half year old) and we would love help to care for her. She is well-tempered and a joy to be around. Help to feed her meals, play with her, and teach her about the world would be very helpful.
- Household: Of course, there are the regular tasks of cleaning the house that we all participate in. We love to eat delicious, whole food, so much time is spent in the kitchen. We make our own bread, yogurt, sauerkraut, and sprouts. We make each meal from scratch. We have interest in making homemade pasta. We have no food restrictions but we are happy to accommodate those who do. Breakfast and lunch are for each person to do as they wish and we aim to eat dinner all together each night. We often have friends or family over for dinner.
- Building/Renovations: This winter we will have a variety of projects to do inside. We have cabinet doors to build, walls to be insulated, drywall to hang and mud. We own a lot of hand tools and power tools. We are happy to teach/train how to use those and would love help with our renovations. There are tasks for experienced people and in-experienced.
- Auto-mechanics: We do the majority of our own vehicle maintenance. With a truck, SUV, ATV, and motorcycle, there is plenty to do. Help or learn!
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
French: Beginner
Accommodation
In the winter, visitors will stay in the house with us. You will have your own bedroom.
We will share a bathroom and kitchen and living space. We have laundry facilities. There is a wood-fired sauna nearby
What else ...
Our local town has most things: a library with computer and internet, grocery stores, hardware stores, gift shops, cafe, farmers market, drug store, dentist, hospital, LCBO/Beer store, etc.
We go to town often and we are happy to give you a lift.
If you are coming with your own vehicle, we have plenty of parking too.
We have a pretty awesome sound system, vinyl record collection, and smart TV. We enjoy these things during the day, and tend to have quiet evenings and nights so that our wee baby can sleep well.
We enjoying having a drink with dinner but don't drink in excess. We are fairly tolerant of others and also work together to create systems that work for everyone. We aim to live and let live as long as peoples choices do not harm or limit the freedoms of others.
We hope to go to a few festivals in the summer and would be happy for you to come along!
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Space for parking camper vans
We have a large driveway and a few areas where a campervan could be parked. We have lots of trees to provide shade. If needed we could run power (electricity) to the camper as well.
Can possibly accept pets
We are willing to accept workawayers with pets as long as they are good with kids and cats. We are also close to a busy road.
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
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He played with our daughter a lot and loved our two cats. He made some very good pizza.
We were happy to have him come to stay and we wish him the best for the future!!
Even though I stayed only 2 weeks I learned a lot!
Monica and Ryan are so kind and always there when you need them.
Thank you so much for everything!
It was definitely the most interesting and memorable experience for us, because before that the longest stay with one host was one month.
We arrived in August and stayed until the end of October. Monica kindly met us in Espanyola and drove us to her house, because we… read more
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He played with our daughter a lot and loved our two cats. He made some very good pizza.
We were happy to have him come to stay and we wish him the best for the future!!
Even though I stayed only 2 weeks I learned a lot!
Monica and Ryan are so kind and always there when you need them.
Thank you so much for everything!
It was definitely the most interesting and memorable experience for us, because before that the longest stay with one host was one month.
We arrived in August and stayed until the end of October. Monica kindly met us in Espanyola and drove us to her house, because we… read more
You are very kind and happy to share your daily life with other people.
I really enjoyed being with your daughter, she is an adorable little girl. I also thank you for introducing me to your friends thanks to your fantastic dinners and for… read more
