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29 Aug 2024
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Description
We have an 80 acre hobby farm with cash crops of soybeans and hay. We also have vegetable and flower gardens for our own use. My husband Chris and I have recently retired. Our children have recently moved out but continue to visit often. We are about 25 minutes from downtown Ottawa and about 10 minutes from the city limits and access to buses.
If you would like to come help us we can provide private accommodation and food for volunteering 5 hours a day, 5 days a week. We have an above ground pool to cool off on the hot days.
Work would include working in the gardens and grounds, helping with the stacking hay in barn, clean up in the out buildings, house cleaning and cooking.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Gardening
Farmstay help
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Help
Being a working farm there is no end to the possible jobs. We have a large garden to be tended to. There is hay to be brought into the barn and stacked. Wood to be split and stacked.
Lawns to be mowed and trimmed, barns to be repaired and organized. Work in the house, cleaning and cooking.
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Accommodation
Our home has two large private rooms available with there own bath room.
We would love to accept couples traveling together sharing a room.
There is games room and patio at back of house with view of the farm fields.
What else ...
Ottawa is the capital of Canada. The city is situated along the Ontario side of the Ottawa River, opposite Gatineau, Quebec. The metropolitan population of Ottawa is 1.1 million and is the fourth largest city in Canada.
Unique as a North American capital, the city is bilingual. English is the first language of a majority of the population, but French is the first language of a significant number. Staff in most downtown stores and restaurants speak both well and, in general, bilingualism is common.
The city is probably best known as the nation's capital but has become one of the fastest growing cities in North America owing to low crime, low unemployment, and the high-tech business sector.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
There is a desk in private room. High Speed unlimited wifi is available.
Space for parking camper vans
There is plenty of space and options for parking a campervan on the farm.
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Feedback (7)
were very hard workers, starting early each morning. We managed to get all our overgrown gardens
weeded and we spent a great deal of time lifting flower corms to prepare for winter storage.
One day was very long and hot bringing in hay and couldn't have got… read more
hardworking. They worked on a variety of tasks around the house. However the help with gardening (a.k.a. lots of weeding), painting the horse jumps and cooking was most appreciated . They also helped bring hay in and stack it in the barn.
They… read more
Jennifer and Bronwynn cook wonderful vegan food which we enjoyed every evening together.
You sleep in a lovely, modern and clean room with your own bathroom. The family… read more
We had different tasks like weeding, painting the horse jumps, cleaning the house, watering and we helped also with the hay to stack it in the barn.
On the weekends we visit Ottawa and the family helps you with planning your trips.
We enjoyed every evening dinnertogether… read more
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were very hard workers, starting early each morning. We managed to get all our overgrown gardens
weeded and we spent a great deal of time lifting flower corms to prepare for winter storage.
One day was very long and hot bringing in hay and couldn't have got… read more
hardworking. They worked on a variety of tasks around the house. However the help with gardening (a.k.a. lots of weeding), painting the horse jumps and cooking was most appreciated . They also helped bring hay in and stack it in the barn.
They… read more
Jennifer and Bronwynn cook wonderful vegan food which we enjoyed every evening together.
You sleep in a lovely, modern and clean room with your own bathroom. The family… read more
We had different tasks like weeding, painting the horse jumps, cleaning the house, watering and we helped also with the hay to stack it in the barn.
On the weekends we visit Ottawa and the family helps you with planning your trips.
We enjoyed every evening dinnertogether… read more
Sebastien spoke very good English when he arrived, and was easy to understand. As our family of 4 spoke little to no… read more
variety of chores around the farm and in the house.
There are many gardens on the property and they spent a lot of time weeding. They
also helped picking strawberries, cooking, cleaning the house and polishing some family
silver.
They were interested in exploring Ottawa and… read more
Eder enjoyed being able to go out for runs and biking.
It was lovely to meet Eder and hear about life in his home town in Spain.
The work was not hard but diversed : from helping in the house, to gardening and grooming the horses.
We had amazing dinner and lunches from the greens' garden. My room and bathroom were more than just comfy. The family also helped… read more
There was quite a variety of chores on the farm and she did them all with enthusiasm. She worked extremely hard.
She was very knowledgeable of horses and did some training, exercising and grooming almost every evening.
We have many gardens on the property and… read more
It was an excellent stay and we really enjoyed our time there. It was our first Workaway experience. The whole family is very kind and we had fun working with them.
The tasks varied and weren't very hard. The whole property is awesome and perfectly for walks.
The room they offered us is… read more
Their property and their house are really beautiful and your room with own bathroom is more then comfortable!
they gave us the feeling of being home, what we really appreciate.
In the summer it's probably even more fun, when you can help with the work on the field.
all in all you get awesome food… read more
