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Hello Dear:
We are Manijeh and Jim, two semi retired professionals who love meeting new people and sharing the beauty of British Columbia with our guests. Our farm is a peaceful, safe space filled with love, kindness, and harmony. Surrounded by stunning mountain views, a river, and wooded hillsides, it’s the perfect place to connect with nature. Wake up early to watch the sunrise, listen to birds singing at 4 AM in June, and enjoy the serenity of farm life.
We’re on a mission to eliminate fossil fuels from our daily lives and are renovating our buildings for very low energy use. We’re also working on landscaping and other projects, but we have more work than we can handle on our own. That’s where you come in!
We’re looking for:
We strive for a relaxed work style. We promote problem solving, self-direction, and cooperative work. Our goal is to have concise direction followed by an engaged atmosphere in which we work towards a common goal. We are looking for help with
1) Skilled laborers, vegetable gardeners, normal landscaping upkeep, mowing, weeding, bicycles repair, a pond outlet, carpentry, gardening, digging, fencing, planting, bush clearing, food preservation, build some Kiwi trellises, painting, carpenters, carpenter.
2) Independent, creative, and hardworking individuals with a strong work ethic.
3) People who enjoy working hard and playing hard, and who want to experience the beauty of BC.
Our Values:
1) Absolutely no smoking.
2) Safety in all forms.
3) Independence, hard work.
4) Open communication and a positive attitude.
5) A joyful spirit—sing, dance, banter, socialize, and be curious!
What we offer:
1) A safe, peaceful, and loving space to live and work.
2) Flexible work hours: 25 hours per week (e.g., 5 hours/day for 5 days or 8 hours/day for 3 days). You’ll have plenty of time to explore BC’s beauty!
3) Independence in your work—we supervise tasks, not your time or body. We trust you to manage your responsibilities creatively and responsibly. No micromanaging here!
4) A clean place to live and all basic ingredients for cooking. We enjoy healthy, home-cooked meals and welcome vegetarians, though we are not a vegetarian household.
5) Offer local information: lots of local information about places go, mountains to clime, and activity to explore, public dance and social activity to join and enjoy, island to explore, places to camp, extra.
6) Accessibility: we are very accessible to cafes, and restaurants' and other city vibes in 40 minute walk from were we live. We are close to BC transit that connect us to main Vancouver transit including buses, sky train and sea-bus.
7) We can offer you a bicycle for your personal use
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What we love to see:
If you’re a capable, creative, and responsible individual who loves working hard and enjoying life, we’d love to hear from you! Come experience the beauty of BC while contributing to our sustainable farm and home. If you are interested in being a jack or Jill of all trades and are interested in extended stay, this is the place for you. We strive for "Do it yourself" as a way of self-empowerment and creative expression.
We do what we can to provide a workable social space in which to learn and share knowledge about low impact construction and organic farming.Singing, dancing, banter, hard work, curiosity, and all the emotions that make us human—whether you’re happy, sad, or reflective.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Farmstay help
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Work is hard, Work is easy. Always you have the opportunity to learn about your self and expand your skill set. There are 2 pianos for you to play if you would like. We like to invite Workawayers on trips or activities we are organizing or attending such as folk dancing, hiking, biking & potlucks. We use our heated shop for construction, maintenance & art projects. Tools we have include: table saw, panel saw, chop saws, band saw, sanders, drill press, most hand tools, tig welder etc. We are a good place for skilled crafts-persons to extend their skills & practice their art, we are NOT a good place for people with no Shop skills to learn the basics.
Possible skills to learn:
Sewing
Hand tool proficiency (hammer, pliers, clippers)
Weeding
Manual Labor
Fence installation
Irrigation work
Canning/Pickling
Plastering/Masonry work
Bicycling
Bicycle maintenance
Help
We are a retired couple working to live simply. There is lots and lots of potential work to be done. We are a residence, farm with a number of pilot projects geared towards eliminating fossil fuels from our daily lives . At the moment, the main jobs are:
Ongoing project: Renovation of the house exterior to improve weather resistance and provide a major energy consumption reduction. Looking for exterior painter.
Medium term projects (1-2 yrs)
COMPLETED PROJECTS!: Insulating our living & work space with the intention of reducing energy necessary for heat/cool by 80%. This involves adding an eyebrow to our two story house, adding 3-5 inches of foam board to the exterior of our building, replacing the windows with triple pane low e glass and skinning the exterior with cement board strips. During 2017 we have achieved this on our 2500 sq ft work-space. Now to install the mini-split heat pump.
CURRENT Short Term Projects:
clearing blackberries of creek riparian zone
Grounds keeping, designing landscaping plans
repairing tools & equipment
DISASSEMBLING OBSOLETE INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONIC EQIPMENT, for recycling.
Long Term Projects:
converting barn to volunteer residence
30kw solar array with storage
Dreams:
plant apples/cherries on hillside, make Apple tree seedlings from our 90yr old dying apple tree.
develop a vegetable/egg vending machine kiosk for our road.
Style: We strive for a relaxed work style. We promote problem solving, self-direction, and cooperative work. Our goal is to have concise direction followed by an engaged atmosphere in which we work towards a common goal. We are looking for help for all aspects of farming: tractor work, carpentry, gardening, digging, fencing, planting, bush clearing, irrigation, food preservation, weeding, cooking, sleeping etc... If you are interested in being a jack or Jill of all trades and are interested in extended stay, this is the place for you. We strive for DIY as a way of self-empowerment and creative expression.
What a volunteer day looks like: wake up and cook breakfast. Workawayers must be able to prepare their dinners on their own. Most weeks we have a meal for all residents in the main kitchen. We provide the basic raw staples, e.g., whole grains, vegetables from garden or freezer, beans, flour for bread,homemade yogurt & simple cheese, commercial cheese, PB. You maintain your own kitchen, including buying whatever extras you desire. You are responsible for cleaning up after yourself. Volunteering starts around 8:30 and we work until we get hungry for lunch - 12:20 or so. After lunch we do a bit more work or take a break during the hottest hours of the day. Workawayers are required to do at least 5 hours of help a day. After that we have dinner and you are free to do as you like.
We do what we can to provide a workable social space in which to learn and share knowledge about low impact construction and organic farming.
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Persian (Farsi): Fluent
Accommodation
Rooms in our house.
What else ...
Our farm is a 30 minute round trip drive to the Vancouver bus/train system (Carvolth exchange). We are 2 hours from YVR by bus and 45 minutes to 1.5 hours by car (each way). Downtown Vancouver is about 1.5 hours by public transit. We have bikes for volunteers to use.
Use Google map to plan a trip from YVR to Carvolth.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
We have starlink,
Space for parking camper vans
We have lots of space. yes, we can find a place for you to part and if you want live in your camper van.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Feedback (9)
They like to have their own privacy so you will have yours too.
Manijeh took us few times with her to visit Vancouver and Fort Langley and it was made with so much… read more
They are really nice person, with a big heart.
The work they ask for, is really chill, and we can work whenever we want.
I had my own room with his own bathroom, in an incredible house.
They are open to nice and deep discussions, which was always good moments.
The house is 1h30 from Vancouver downtown… read more
Manijeh and Jim are people with the kindest and biggest hearts. People who talk to you, understand you and give you a home that feels like family. It was my first Workaway experience, so I was very nervous at first, concerend at second, but after the first few days it was all blown away. They have a lot of knowledge - a lot to… read more
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They like to have their own privacy so you will have yours too.
Manijeh took us few times with her to visit Vancouver and Fort Langley and it was made with so much… read more
They are really nice person, with a big heart.
The work they ask for, is really chill, and we can work whenever we want.
I had my own room with his own bathroom, in an incredible house.
They are open to nice and deep discussions, which was always good moments.
The house is 1h30 from Vancouver downtown… read more
Manijeh and Jim are people with the kindest and biggest hearts. People who talk to you, understand you and give you a home that feels like family. It was my first Workaway experience, so I was very nervous at first, concerend at second, but after the first few days it was all blown away. They have a lot of knowledge - a lot to… read more
I have only been there for two weeks but I was treated like family and they would do so much to support and help me. Manijeh and Jim are both so lovely and generous people! They have so much knowledge and wisdom to share - not only about work and the skills you need for that… read more
During my stay, I had the opportunity to do some gardening and painting in several rooms of the house. Manijeh always explains exactly what needs to be done, you can easily ask questions and she doesn't hesitate to ask your opinion on certain… read more
We helped around the garden, painted different rooms and helped out with many other smaller tasks in and around the house. I enjoyed working with manijeh and Jim a lot. Besides the deep talks… read more
It was my first workaway place and I couldn't have dreamed better! The whole family was extraordinarily hospitable, respectful, lovely.
The accommodation are very confortable and, the setting and the vieuw on the mountains are just amazing!!!
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Manijeh and Jim are excellent hosts and cared so much about us from the first day on! They are very hardworking, smart, social and loving personalities and a strong couple! We spent one month with this amazing family and it never gets boring! You learn a lot about garlic and gardening. I don't have enough words to explain how great… read more
I really appreciated that I could made my own time shedule. I also could do lot of different jobs.
I can only recommend Jim and his family as a Workaway host!
Thanks for everthing and maybe see you again :-)
