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Join our home and experience our way of life in Victoria, Vancouver Island, Canada

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  2025 

 Estancia mínima:  Al menos 2 semanas

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  • Descripción

    Descripción

    Update: We are seeking help from late April onward in garden bed revitalization, compost management, transplanting, farm clean up, invasive species removal, crop care, and potential special projects depending on your skills.
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    Join us and be wrapped in the warm care of a wholesome family with healthy home-cooked meals, farm-grown teas and foods, snuggles with cuddly pets, sports and board games, and good sleeps in a unique retrofitted 1970s bus overlooking the forest. Our farmstay is best described as a truly immersive experience and is suited to 1 person who wants to experience the day to day realities of living in relationship to the land and participating in family life, focused on the values of deep ecology, Earth wisdom, reconciliation, decolonization, magic, seasonal living, and imagining into a beautiful and safe world for future generations.

    We live on 3 acres of mixed crop fields, woods, ponds, fruit trees, gardens-in-the-making and a lovely skyline. This is the fourth property we have hosted helpers on, and it’s our favorite way of 'staying home' while connecting to the world. We grow hemp in the fields and food in the garden using permaculture and regenerative land practices. We also have a sweet dog, a cat, and from time to time some different farm animals.

    Important: When you message us, please share a little bit about how you resonate with our profile. We do not respond to messages that only say your name and when you want to come. For best results let us know:
    - Your interest in spending safe and quality time with a family
    - Your willingness to participate in all types of work related to homesteading (indoor and outdoor)
    - Your ability to work and learn with a good attitude
    - How you will take efforts to prevent bringing contagious viruses into our family home, particularly in the travel days leading up to coming here (we interact with Elders and vulnerable populations who we do our best to keep safe).

  • Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje

    Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje

    Proyectos artísticos
    Práctica de idiomas
    Ayuda en proyectos ecológicos
    Enseñanza
    Jardinería
    Construcción y bricolaje
    Cuidado de animales
    Ayuda en una granja
    Cuidado de niños y juegos creativos
    Cocinar para toda la familia
    Ayuda doméstica
    Mantenimiento general
    Ayuda informática
  • Intereses

    Intereses

    Sostenibilidad
    Autodesarrollo
    Política / justicia social
    Mascotas
    Música
    Escritura
    Dibujo y pintura
    Cocina y alimentación
    Libros
    Naturaleza
    Fitness
    Acampada
    Baile
    Playa
    Senderismo
  • Objetivos de sostenibilidad de las NU que intenta conseguir este anfitrión

    Objetivos de sostenibilidad de las NU que intenta conseguir este anfitrión

    Objetivos de las NU
    Fin de la pobreza
    Hambre cero
    Salud y bienestar
    Educación de calidad
    Igualdad de género
    Agua limpia y saneamiento
    Energía asequible y no contaminante
    Trabajo decente y crecimiento económico
    Industria, innovación e infraestructura
    Reducción de las desigualdades
    Ciudades y comunidades sostenibles
    Producción y consumo responsables
    Acción por el clima
    Vida submarina
    Vida de ecosistemas terrestres
    Paz, justicia e instituciones sólidas
    Alianzas para lograr los objetivos
  • Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje

    Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje

    Our family is mixed European and Indigenous ancestry. Staying with us you'll learn about Canada's colonial history and the current work of reconciliation, and being a good visitor in relationship to the land you are on. You'll also have the opportunity to learn about permaculture, organic gardening and hemp farming. We are an alternative family who focuses our energy away from mainstream culture and values, and towards a life-sustaining society that promotes collective liberation, diversity, inclusivity, resilience, holistic health practices, and deconstructing the patriarchal, white supremacist extractive capitalist systems of oppression that impact us all. We do this through a gentle and trauma-informed approach.

    We are the #83 bus route and can lend a bike. We also offer to take you on adventures such as forest walks, town trips, and beach trips. Nearby you’ll find parks and trails, the world-famous Butchart Gardens, ocean access with kayak and paddle board rentals, coffee shops, thrift stores and more.

  • Proyectos con niños

    Proyectos con niños

    En este proyecto podría haber niños. Para obtener más información, consulta nuestras directrices y consejos aquí.

  • Ayuda

    Ayuda

    Typically, we ask for help with basic routine garden, farm, and homestead tasks. These can include shoveling dirt, compost and wood chips, weeding the fields and pulling invasive plants from the woodlands, trail and path maintenance, plant care (pest checking, fertilizing etc.), fence maintaining, general yard care, and seasonal household chores. Lots of shovel work.
    Inside the kitchen is a constant work zone and we ask for daily contributions to kitchen help.
    Up to 20-30% of hours may be household projects (cleaning, painting, organizing), and sometimes we may ask you to do random once a season chores like cleaning a vehicle, doing a freezer inventory and so on.
    Our kids, age 10 and 13, also appreciate if you spend some time with them sharing your skills and passions or engaging in one of their favourite activities such as art, music, basketball, soccer, Uno, chess, lego or boardgames.
    Basically, you’ll be involved in every aspect of running a family homestead!
    If you are an artist or healer we can discuss reducing hours of homestead work in exchange for your skills.
    Special skills/projects we would prioritize for someone who is experienced:
    - Bicycle maintenance
    - Outbuilding renovations
    - Indoor painting
    - Fence building/maintenance

  • Idiomas

    Idiomas hablados
    Inglés: Fluido
    Francés: Intermedio
    Español: Principiante

    Este anfitrión ofrece intercambio de idiomas
    Este anfitrión ha indicado que está interesado en compartir su idioma o aprender otro.
    Ponte en contacto con él para obtener más información.

  • Alojamiento

    Alojamiento

    Your “room” is a rustic 1970s Mercedes bus with access to bathroom, kitchen and living room in family house a few meters away. We offer healthy whole foods (minimal packaged or ready-made items), and ask you to purchase any special items we don’t normally supply.
    We have some water challenges and provide instructions on saving water, including limiting showers to five minutes once a day.

  • Algo más...

    Algo más...

    We can pick you up from most locations in Greater Victoria including ferry terminals and airports.
    We prefer to receive new folk on Thursdays or fridays.

    Our place is best suited for people who truly want an immersive west coast family farm experience. We expect workawayers to be self-aware, resourceful, independent, mature, healthy, courteous, and adaptable. We generally do NOT like to host people who want to spend all the free time in their rooms or online, or people who do not have an ethic of reciprocity and responsibility.

    We offer references to those seeking jobs in Canada and worldwide and have provided reference letters and reference phone calls to many of our helpers.

    *ABSOLUTELY no tolerance for cigarettes/vaping/commercial tobacco.

  • Un poco más de información

    Un poco más de información

    • Acceso a Internet

    • Acceso a Internet limitado

      Acceso a Internet limitado

    • Tenemos animales

    • Somos fumadores

    • Puede alojar familias

  • Puede acoger a nómadas digitales

    Puede acoger a nómadas digitales

    Let us know your personal work requirements and we can determine together if it’s a good fit (e.g hours, space needs etc.)

  • Podría aceptar mascotas

    Podría aceptar mascotas

    Pets must be clean, de-flead and de-wormed, and be safe with children and other pets. We have a dominant dog.

  • ¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?

    ¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?

    Uno

Número de referencia de anfitrión: 269138193598

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