Help us with some outdoor projects in Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island, Canada

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  • Última actividad: 10 dic 2023

DISPONIBILIDAD

  2024 

 Estancia mínima:  Sin mínimo

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  • Descripción

    Descripción

    We are a family of four living on an acreage in the beautiful Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island, Canada. We love spending time outside in the natural world and strive to live a life of balance, mindfulness, and sustainability. We have a large garden where we grow organic fruit, vegetables, and medicinal herbs. We are in the end stages of a renovation on our home where we have created a natural building addition with clay walls, floors, and clay plasters. Pat has done all the work himself and is a natural building by trade, with a focus on building masonry heaters and rock stoves. He also has many years experience working with Youth in different settings. Sadie offers weekly yoga classes and offers a Sacred Chant Circle at a nearby Yurt. She also works in Duncan at the local recreation centre. She spends lots of time in the garden, growing, harvesting, and preserving foods and making herbal medicines. We have two boys, 11 and 14, who are very active and love to spending time playing soccer and basketball, practicing parkour and freerunning, sword battling, reading, playing Magic the Gathering and many other activities.

    We live close to the Cowichan River and Holt Creek Park and spend lots of time in the summer relaxing and swimming in the river. We live a 15 minute walk from Alderlea Farm Cafe, a biodynamic farm & cafe, a 10 minute bike ride from Glenora Store and Zanatta vineyard. We live in a rural area, yet are only a 10 minute drive or 25 minute bike ride from downtown Duncan. In the town of Duncan, there are many great places to visit, including the library, recreation centre, pool, and Farmer's Market on Saturdays.

  • Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje

    Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje

    Jardinería
    Construcción y bricolaje
    Cuidado de niños y juegos creativos
    Mantenimiento general
    Ayuda en proyectos ecológicos
    Ayuda doméstica
  • 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

    We are excited to meet people from around the world and share this beautiful part of the world with you. We live in an area that has many amazing hiking trails, beaches, rivers, and mountains to explore. In the summer, we spend many afternoons at the river. You are always welcome to come with us on our different adventures, whether they be to the river, the forest, musical gatherings and potlucks, trips to town. We live in an amazing community filled with musicians, organic farmers, alternative health practitioners, dance facilitators, and more. We love to introduce people to this amazing community and help it to grow more vast. While you are here, we invite you to become part of the family and join us in our activities.

    Pat has a wealth of knowledge about natural building techniques, fire making, and other aspects of sustainable living. He is always happy to share and talk about what he knows and loves.
    Pat plays guitar and our sons play drums and enjoying jamming together. If you like to play music, they would love to make music together with you.

    Sadie has been gardening for many years and loves to can and preserve the harvest and share these skills with others. She has also studied medicinal herbs and makes many of the families own herbal teas, tinctures, oils, and salves. There are opportunities to participate in these processes if you are interested.

    We also do some wildcrafting of plants. As a family, we have a lot of knowledge of the local habitat, local animals, and local plants and some of their medicinal and traditional uses. We love to share what we know and explore with others.

    We have both done some traveling and lived abroad and found these experiences to be very rich and important parts of our lives. We love to learn about different cultures and meet people from around the world and this is something we really want to share with our children. We are excited to host people, not only to share our culture and beautiful community, but also to learn from different people, about where they come from and their culture and traditions and languages.

  • Proyectos con niños

    Proyectos con niños

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

  • Ayuda

    Ayuda

    We always appreciate help in our large garden. This can include many different things depending on the year; preparing garden beds, weeding, planting, harvesting & preserving, mowing, and general garden and yard maintenance. There may also be some building projects around the land that need assistance, as well as general yard maintenance. We also like to learn what your interests and skills are and see how those can fit into the vision for this land.

  • Idiomas hablados

    Inglés: Fluido
    Japonés: Fluido
    Norwegian: Fluido

  • Alojamiento

    Alojamiento

    You will stay in a large room in the addition of our house that is still in progress. This beautiful clay room offers a expansive view of the fields from the window seat - a wonderful place to sit and read, meditate or relax. There is a double bed in the room. The shared bathroom is in the main part of the house and offers a shower and bath.

    We will provide accommodation and 3 meals a day plus snacks as part of the work exchange of 4-5 hours/week. We like to prepare simple, nutritious, whole food meals that include meat and vegetarian options.

  • Algo más...

    Algo más...

    We have a basketball net, badminton net, and mini soccer field on the land. There are two hammocks here at our place for relaxing in during the day or evening. The sky is beautiful and open so this is a wonderful place to watch the stars and the moon at night. We also have a fire pit, and a rocket wood fired barbeque (made by Pat).
    We also have a beautiful acreage behind our house which is a great place to go walking through fields and forests.

    We have a bike available here for people to use so they can explore on their own - biking into town, to the local cafe and corner store, and to the river and other trails. There is a great aquatic centre in Duncan, a recreation centre, library and shops and restaurants and cafes. We will be willing to drive you into town when it fits in with our schedule.

    You are also welcome to join us in different activities and outings we are doing while you are visiting.

  • 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

  • ¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?

    ¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?

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    Horas esperadas

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

Número de referencia de anfitrión: 311622525613

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