Help produce food for the local community in Washington State, USA

Availability

  2024 

 Min stay requested: at least 2 weeks

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  • Description

    Description

    Our mission is to help our neighbors produce food locally and feed as many people as well as possible. We have 105 acres with a house and a barn. Our special interests are forest maintenance, gardening, sheep, goats and cheesemaking. We use composting toilets and livestock to enrich our soil. We use renewable solar and micro hydro energy.

    We host family style in our house (2 bedrooms, 2 bath, shared kitchen, etc.), share meals, and work with our volunteers on a variety of farm projects. We are especially interested in those with some practical farming experience or an interest in establishing a farm of their own. Children are welcome, but no pets.

    Two week minimum stay, longer stays negotiated after we get to know each other.

    Animals are part of our soil fertility here. We eat pork, goat, lamb, beef, and chicken, plus occasional game. Vegetarians are not a good fit for us. We speak English, German and a little Spanish, and play Traditional Music.

  • Types of help and learning opportunities

    Types of help and learning opportunities

    Gardening
    DIY and building projects
    General Maintenance
    Farmstay help
    Animal Care
  • UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

    UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

    UN goals
    No poverty
    Zero hunger
    Good health and well-being
    Quality education
    Gender equality
    Clean water and sanitation
    Affordable and clean energy
    Decent work and economic growth
    Industries, innovation and infrastructure
    Reduce inequality
    Sustainable cities and communities
    Responsible consumption and production
    Climate action
    Life below water
    Life on land
    Peace, justice and strong institutions
    Partnerships for the goals
  • Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Depending on the season, guests will participate in raising the next generation of animals, walking the goats, sheep and donkeys for browsing in the woods, planting, harvesting and preserving garden produce, canning, milking, making goat cheese and butter, hauling hay, animal slaughter, fostering and harvesting the forest, bicycling in the Willapa Hills, and taking a day off here and there to visit the Pacific Ocean, etc.

  • Help

    Help

    The workload is seasonal, a steady source of variety and we try to match the tasks with the interests of our helpers. We want everyone to have a taste of what is so rewarding about subsistence farming and feeding yourself.

    Work consists of whatever needs to be done to maintain the health and happiness of the animals and the viability of the soil, plus keeping the attendant humans happy! This entails planting, weeding, harvesting, canning and drying, walking the goats in the woods to forage, milking, making cheese, maintaining trails to suppress fires, cutting and stacking firewood, cooking local foods, shearing sheep. All tasks are seasonal.

  • Languages

    Languages spoken
    German: Fluent
    English: Fluent
    Spanish: Intermediate

    This host offers a language exchange
    Spanish and German, and of course english

  • Accommodation

    Accommodation

    Bedroom in the main house, shared bathroom and kitchen. Cook your own breakfast (we provide supplies), we all share lunch and dinner.

    Sandy does most of the cooking, but we welcome your additions. Kids very welcome, but no pets.

    The bedrooms are in the main house, and sport a double bed, closet, etc.

  • What else ...

    What else ...

    We provide a variety of bicycles. By car we are 3 hours from either Portland or Seattle. It is possible to get to Raymond by bus, and we are 10 miles from there and could come get you.

  • 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 have 3 /sec, and can upgrade to 5. WIFI.

  • Space for parking camper vans

    Space for parking camper vans

    We can provide electricity and composting toilets.

  • How many Workawayers can stay?

    How many Workawayers can stay?

    More than two

  • ...

    Hours expected

    Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week

Host ref number: 874263675424

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