Join at our home and land while sharing our simple life in Hope, Canada

Detalles

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  Descripción

  I am in need of help to prepare our property for sale. After trying unsuccessfully to build a sustainable small scale farm we are now too old to continue and need to sell out, downsize, move on and let someone younger take over.
  
  My partner and I are both 75 now and we do need some help with maintaining the property. Until a few years ago I could work like a Clydesdale but, not so slowly, my ability to maintain the basic operations has declined. This last period of time has been very hard on us and we have retired the farm because it is too much for us.
  
  We live on the unceded land of the Sto:lo people, part of the great Salish Nation.
  
  I would also like to mention,just to be clear, that although everybody checks off the LGTBQ friendly box as a matter of procedure, members of the LGTBQ community will truly find themselves welcome here with friendship and respect. We do not ask nor speculate on a person's situation or preferences. If they feel a desire to tell us or discuss with us we are comfortable with that but we allow everyone their personal space.

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  Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje

  Compañía para ancianos

  Jardinería

  Construcción y bricolaje

  Ayuda en una granja

  Cocinar para toda la familia

  Ayuda doméstica

  Mantenimiento general
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  Intereses

  

  Tecnología

  

  Política / justicia social

  

  Sostenibilidad

  

  Mascotas

  

  Cultura

  

  Autodesarrollo

  

  Películas y televisión

  

  Agricultura

  

  Cuidado de plantas

  

  Música

  

  Historia

  

  Bricolaje y manualidades

  

  Libros

  

  Jardinería

  

  Cocina y alimentación

  

  Escritura

  

  Artes escénicas

  

  Animales

  

  Ciclismo

  

  Senderismo

  

  Actividades al aire libre

  

  Deportes acuáticos

  

  Yoga / bienestar

  

  Montaña

  

  Deportes de invierno

  

  Naturaleza

  

  Acampada
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  ¿Que es esto?
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  Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje

  I have years of experience and a lot of knowledge to share regarding living a very simple life, in harmony with my surroundings. When I was 21 I built a small cabin out of all salvaged material, including the nails and only using a hammer, a saw, a square and a crowbar for tools. I had no electricity, so no power tools and that year I even cut my firewood by hand because I did not have a chainsaw. That little cabin is still standing after more than 50 years. The total cost of building was $15.
  
  I have renovated a number of homes and taught numerous volunteers building skills as we built shops and storage on the property.
  
  We have had over 250 volunteers from 29 countries stay with us and have had many rich experiences and made a lot of friends in the process.
  
  If a person is looking to improve their English language skills, I can be extremely helpful and enjoy doing it. I love the English language. My parents both had careers in print media and proper grammar, reading skills and vocabulary building were part of everyday home life. I started writing poetry when I was 15 and have continued to write poetry, music and small stories throughout my life and have studied the art of writing as well.

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  Ayuda

  We are now overloaded with just maintaining the property and trying to get the place looking decent again. We need help now, just maintaining the property, weeding, cleanup, repairs to buildings and other general tasks.
  
  Right now we are trying to dig out and recover from a devastating time for us because of situations surrounding the pandemic and other issues related to health. The person we need now will be helping me with general homestead projects, especially at this time cleaning up and organizing the property.
  
  I am consolidating the homestead to something more manageable for myself as I adjust to the aging process.

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  Idiomas hablados

  Inglés: Fluido
  Español: Principiante
  Japonés: Principiante

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  Alojamiento

  We have a small, but very comfortable little hut on the hillside overlooking one of our gardens. It has heat, is well insulated but it has no wifi access. Helpers can come down to the house to use the wifi for basic tasks on the internet. It is about 50 metres from the house where bathing, toilet and cooking facilities are available.

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  Algo más...

  We literally live on the edge of the wilderness. There are about a half a dozen homes in our general vicinity but for the most part our place is totally private and very quiet. Other than our few neighbours, all of whom live on fairly large properties, ours being 4+ hectares, we back onto wilderness in every direction but west where the town of Hope is. We are about 2 hours from Vancouver and we are happy to allow volunteers to use weekends to travel to the city if they like and even arrange the help so that they can take a few days to visit the city. There are tons of hiking opportunities. Volunteers have often woken up to see deer grazing right outside of their door.

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  Un poco más de información

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    Acceso a Internet

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    Acceso a Internet limitado

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    Tenemos animales

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    Somos fumadores

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    Puede alojar familias

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  Espacio para aparcar autocaravanas

  Este anfitrión puede proporcionar un sitio para autocaravanas.

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  Podría aceptar mascotas

  We can manage a well trained small to medium dog or a cat or something small like that. We will need to discuss each case individually.

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  ¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?

  Dos

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  Mis animales / mascotas

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