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Description
**Early Sept update: We are looking for an individual for fall work (gardens,outdoor projects, firewood etc) between about Oct 9th to 27th. **
We are Ewa and Ted and are on a small old farm property on the edge of the wilderness in Northern Nova Scotia. We garden, work the land, create art and are slowly working on improvements to the house, farm and land. We have much to offer as land stewards, active artists and builders. We love our little 25 acre piece of paradise and have renovated our 200 year old farmhouse, planted fruit trees and have more plans for our barn and outdoor spaces. You will love it here!
Ted has been a builder/carpenter for almost 40 years. His passion has always been vintage hand tools and he has restored many thousands of them. He is a committed veggie gardener, a grampa, a people lover, and can fix most anything.
Ewa is incredibly creative as a painter, a writer, a poet, a graphic designer, and a teacher of art. She loves her flower gardens, cats, people - supporting many in need with fundraisers, and is a great cook!
Both of us are very active in grassroots street outreach. -
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Help with Eco Projects
Light gardening
Creative DIY projects
Farmstay help
Light maintenance
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Interests
Beach
Hiking
Politics / Social justice
LGBTQ
Sustainability
Vegetarian or vegan
Farming
Charity work
Books
Gardening
Cooking & food
Art & design
Drawing & painting
Carpentry
Nature
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Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We are artists, organic gardeners, woodworkers, builders, activists, hobbyists and much more and have travelled quite a bit. We love good food and learning about people and cultures. We are 'people' persons and are very socially conscious and that matters to us...
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Help
Help with gardening, woods paths, fruit trees, landscaping, berries, minor repairs, firewood, and other small (mostly outdoor) projects around the barn and property. We usually have a carpentry project on the go but no experience is necessary to help out there! Some work would be independent with direction from us and other would be working alongside one or both of us.
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Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Polish: Fluent
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Accommodation
Depending on your needs and comfort level we will welcome you into our house. We have the space when we don't have friends visiting. We also have a small rustic 'apartment' with two large windows overlooking the property upstairs in our barn separate from the main house. It is very simple but homey and the other facilities (washroom, and kitchen) are fully available but only in the main house. We will provide food. Suppers would be planned together and the other meals may or may not be together depending on the day... We are good cooks and very open to other good cooks! We are vegetarian and love good, healthy, tasty food. We are open to meat eaters who are conscientious about what they eat.
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What else ...
The local community is great with theater, music, a farmers market and more. We are a 10 minute drive from there and go in a few times a week. We are also about 20 minutes from several great beaches...There are miles of forest to explore adjacent to our property. We are conscientious, respectful, caring, generous people and would expect our "workaways" to be the same. We want to be good stewards of our land and that which is adjacent to us and are very aware of being settlers on the traditional territory of Mi'kma'ki and the Mi'kmaq peoples.
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A little more information
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Internet access
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Limited internet access
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We have pets
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We are smokers
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Can host families
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Space for parking camper vans
Lots of space for a camper or vehicle and we would consider singles or a couple...
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Can possibly accept pets
A dog or cat.
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How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
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Upon arrival we were made to feel welcome and part of the family, especially playing with the baby Yoshi (the cutest orange cat 😺).
We shared cooking with them and had some delicious vegetarian meals made for us.
Our work was varied, anything from weeding the veg … read more
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Chat with Workawayers who've visited this host
Feedback
Upon arrival we were made to feel welcome and part of the family, especially playing with the baby Yoshi (the cutest orange cat 😺).
We shared cooking with them and had some delicious vegetarian meals made for us.
Our work was varied, anything from weeding the veg … read more
