Profile information
Host rating
80 %
Last replied
24 Feb 2026
Reply rate
70.6 %
Usually responds within 2 days
Feedback
31
Email verified
Host offers payment
Badges (3)
Details
Description
☀️Hello workawayers!
We have a small herd of 14 milking cows that we raise on pasture during the season April to October. We are looking for someone who would help with feeding calves, cleaning the barn, milking cows and helping around the farm starting April 1st and staying until October. We would love to find someone who has experience milking cows.
*We can only accept NON SMOKING couples or singles. NO DRUGS
*We have working (but friendly!) livestock guardians and cats so can't accept pets.
IMPORTANT SKILLS
-Pay close attention to detail
- Fluent in english
-Have a good work ethic
-Experience in dairy, the food industry or a background in cheesemaking is an asset.
ACCOMMODATIONS
- a private RV is available for a single workawayer or married couple.
- a new loft suite is in the process of being finished, it will be finished later in the year.
ABOUT US
We are a family of 7 and are located in the beautiful Comox Valley on Vancouver Island. Our Certified Organic farm is 73 acres and we have devoted our lives to raising dairy cows on pasture to produce the highest quality milk that we process into grassfed butter in our creamery .
During the pasture season we raise heritage hogs on pasture and meat chickens. We also have a friendly great pyrenees dog who loves meeting new folks. We love sharing our passion for organic regenerative agriculture with travelers from around the world! Our goal is to provide a fun and interesting work environment to our volunteers in exchange for hard work.
LOCAL ACTIVITIES
- located on the One Spot trail system that leads to the Tsolum River/Courtenay
- 5 minutes from Coastal Black winery
- 10 minutes from Miracle Beach nature park, Mini Golf and sandy Saratoga beach.
- 15 minutes from Seal Bay nature park
- 20 minutes from Courtenay
- 25 minutes from Nymph Falls nature park, with amazing swimming and cliff jumping!
- 30 minutes from Elk Falls Provincial Park
- 40 minutes from Mount Washington, the the best mountain on the Island for hiking, snowboarding, skiing, and zipline.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
General Maintenance
Interests
Cooking & food
Animals
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Regenerative Agriculture
Mananagment Intensive Grazing
Organic Garden and Orchard
Holistic Management
Permaculture
Irrigation systems
Learn new languages and skills.Host offers payment in line with the minimum wage
This host offers accommodation and payment.
Help
- Milking cows
- Tending to the pigs and dairy cows
- Landscape maintenance mowing, such as brush cutting/weed whacking
- Homestead maintenance such as chopping/stacking firewood.
- Assisting with planting, weeding our home garden.
- Mulching/composting/weeding our home orchard.
- Building projects
- Other animal help
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Accommodation
Private RV
What else ...
LOCAL ACTIVITIES
- 5 minutes from a One Spot Trail system that leads to the Tsolum River
- 5 minutes from Coastal Black winery
- 10 minutes from Miracle Beach nature park, Mini Golf and sandy Saratoga beach.
- 15 minutes from Seal Bay nature park
- 25 minutes from Nymph Falls nature park, with amazing swimming and cliff jumping!
- 30 minutes from Elk Falls Provincial Park
- 40 minutes from Mount Washington, the the best mountain on the Island for hiking, snowboarding, skiing, and zipline.
We are located about a 10 minute car ride to the closest amenities and 20 minutes from Courtenay, a city of 30,000 people.
*️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️*️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️PLEASE NOTE WE DO NOT OFFER VISA INVITATION LETTERS*️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️*️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
*️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️*️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️WE DO NOT ACCEPT SMOKERS or PETS*️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Space for parking camper vans
This host can provide space for campervans.
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
My animals / pets
Guernsey Cows (2 years)
Chat with Workawayers who've visited this host
Feedback (19)
Photos
Chat with Workawayers who've visited this host
Feedback
These are extra optional ratings when members leave feedback. The average rating left for each option is displayed.
Accuracy of profile:
(5.0)
Cultural exchange:
(5.0)
Communication:
(5.0)
This was our first workaway experience and our first farm with animals and we couldn`t be happier to be there with this wonderful family.
We came here in October 2020, with the idea of spending one month but we anded up staying there for 7 months.
We had an amazing time in the farm, Kris and Britt are a young couple who love… read more
The Island experienced heavy (and unexpected) snow fall during the end of my stay which I was… read more
All the best for the future and thanks for having me.
In your brakes you will… read more
Brit and Kris are two very friendly people and try to provide you a good time at the farm! The work is quite rich in Variety so that you never get bored! Working schedule is also great and Brit and Kris stick zu the schedule so that you never Work more than 5 h a day.
Staying in… read more
Our tasks included weeding the orchard, planting seeds, watering trees, catching chickens, harvesting vegetables, sanding the beautiful log house, making soap and tooth… read more
