Join our family home and explore the nature in Lake Cowichan, Canada

Detalles

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  Descripción

  I am an elder living on four acres in the Cowichan Valley, BC Canada. My husband and I need some extra help due to our age and my mobility handicap. We have a rain forest trail that ends on our property along Oliver Creek and it takes you 12 minutes to walk to downtown Lake Cowichan coming out at Country Grocer. We are a one hour drive from the cities of Victoria, Nanaimo or Port Renfrew. Duncan is 20 minutes away. There are bike and hiking trails, and within walking distance to swim in the river or lake, or tube down the Cowichan River. The accommodations are a tent, a holiday trailer or a pump house. Our extended family members come to visit and some live with us in our farm house when not working away. We are Vipassana meditators and another meditator lives in a rental cabin on the property. We are only 25 minutes away from a place where we take silent retreats, and help to serve.
  We have a fenced garden with fruit trees that I need help with. We have a small mill that saws up logs. We need help to build a wood shed and to fill it for winter fire wood. We like to keep the grounds free as much as possible from invasive plants like broom, black berries, and daphne. We recently built a solar shed that needs siding completed. We have a fellow meditator who lives in Myanmar and stores his belongings on the property and comes to visit once a year. We wish to build a hoop house to grow food in and have more garden areas developed. The property has a salmon bearing stream. Elk and Bear come by weekly. There are cougar in the area. We hear Frogs in the spring, Eagles and Owls year round. There are wild fruit trees and bushes we harvest as well as herbs like Nettles and St Johns wort. Being in the middle of the south end of Vancouver Island we have very little snow or freezing weather. It is a green countryside most of the year.

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  Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje

  Proyectos artísticos

  Práctica de idiomas

  Ayuda en proyectos ecológicos

  Compañía para ancianos

  Enseñanza

  Jardinería

  Construcción y bricolaje
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  Intereses

  

  Vegetariano o vegano

  

  Autodesarrollo

  

  Agricultura

  

  Cuidado de plantas

  

  Cocina y alimentación

  

  Jardinería

  

  Bricolaje y manualidades

  

  Actividades al aire libre

  

  Naturaleza

  

  Senderismo

  

  Playa
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  Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje

  We can offer cultural exchange of language, food, nature study, herbalism, gardening, hiking, ocean swimming, visiting area nature sites, cities, meditation, some arts and crafts. We hope to learn about different cultures, languages, food practices, healthy living, with kindness and compassion.

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  Proyectos con niños

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

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  Ayuda

  Gardening, carpentry, yard work, wood gathering, and general land and house maintenance. We speak some Ukrainian/Russian, French and Norwegian. We have vegetarian meals. We offer sharing our skills as a carpenter, running a wood mill, gardening, canning, freezing, drying food, gathering wild foods and growing herbs. We are a retired Waldorf School teacher and a Maintenance Supervisor. We have developed a tofu business that we sold which is still operational.

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  Idiomas

  Idiomas hablados
  Francés: Fluido
  Norwegian: Fluido
  Ruso: Principiante
  Ukrainian: Principiante

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  Alojamiento

  Very simple basic tenting with bedding. A holiday trailer with water and heat, bedding, electricity and an outdoor toilet and indoor potty chair. We share our home for internet, laundry, bathroom and kitchen. There is also an upstairs loft in the pump house with a downstairs entrance, and table small fridge, water, electricity, heat and internet.

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  Algo más...

  There is a local bus that takes you from Downtown
  Lake Cowichan to Victoria, Duncan, and allows you to catch further transportation to Vancouver, Seattle, Tofino, Courtney/Comox, and Nanaimo cities. There are bike trails. You can rent a tube and tube down the Cowichan River with a bus that brings you back. You can attend or volunteer at the Dhamma Modana Meditation centre. We live a quiet meditative lifestyle with no drugs or alcohol. We ask that visitors are mindful, kind, compassionate and respect community living.

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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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  Puede acoger a nómadas digitales

  We have internet but it is at times slow due to being in a rural area.

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  Espacio para aparcar autocaravanas

  We have ample parking, near water and electricity, and in the town there are amenities for dumping, re-fueling, water, and plugging in if electric. The land is like a park with trees, creek, meadows, garden and wild forest.

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  Podría aceptar mascotas

  As we have a senior handicapped cat any pets would have to respect the cats space and get along with it.

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  ¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?

  Más de dos

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