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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).
Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre
Projets artistiques
Pratique d’une langue
Aide avec des éco-projets
Enseignement
Jardinage
Bricolage et construction
S’occuper des animaux
Aide dans une ferme
Baby-sitting et jeux créatifs
Cuisine/repas pour la famille
Aide à la maison
Entretien général
Aide informatique/internet
Centres d’intérêt
Dev. durable
Dev. personnel
Politique/justice sociale
Animaux de compagnie
Musique
Écriture
Dessin et peinture
Cuisine et alimentation
Livres
Nature
Fitness
Camping
Danse
Plage
Randonnée
Objectifs de développement durable de l’ONU que cet hôte essaie d'atteindre
Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre
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.
Projets impliquant des enfants
Ce projet peut impliquer des enfants. Pour en savoir plus, consultez nos directives et conseils ici.
Aide
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
Langues
Langues parlées
Anglais: Courant
Français: Intermédiaire
Espagnol: DébutantCet hôte propose un échange linguistique
Cet hôte a indiqué qu’il souhaitait faire partager sa propre langue ou en apprendre une nouvelle.
Contactez-le pour en savoir plus.
Hébergement
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.
Autres infos...
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.
Informations complémentaires
Accès Internet
Accès Internet limité
Nous avons des animaux
Nous sommes fumeurs
Familles bienvenues
Possibilité d’accueillir les digital nomads
Let us know your personal work requirements and we can determine together if it’s a good fit (e.g hours, space needs etc.)
Possibilité d'accueillir les animaux
Pets must be clean, de-flead and de-wormed, and be safe with children and other pets. We have a dominant dog.
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This family's home is very warm, open, creative and dynamic and they all are very knowledgeable people striving to live a good in harmony… read more
It was a joy and a blessing to Jodie came to us when she did. It’s hard to find trustworthy capable people to care for a farm, especially at harvest time. Jodie took everything in stride, she harvested raspberries, beans cucumbers and more and preserved them in various… read more
It was a bit special, in the sense that out of the three weeks I stayed there, I was on my own for two weeks, looking after their house, garden and animals.
So I was mostly in contact with Kirsten, who is a very caring, aware and inspiring person. I'm delighted to… read more
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This family's home is very warm, open, creative and dynamic and they all are very knowledgeable people striving to live a good in harmony… read more
It was a joy and a blessing to Jodie came to us when she did. It’s hard to find trustworthy capable people to care for a farm, especially at harvest time. Jodie took everything in stride, she harvested raspberries, beans cucumbers and more and preserved them in various… read more
It was a bit special, in the sense that out of the three weeks I stayed there, I was on my own for two weeks, looking after their house, garden and animals.
So I was mostly in contact with Kirsten, who is a very caring, aware and inspiring person. I'm delighted to… read more
Monica is a respectful, easy going, friendly, steady person. She helped with gardening, household chores, and… read more
Kirsten is a fantastic communicator, so I was always clear on what task I was doing and my… read more
We helped the most of our time in the garden with weeding, planting tomatos, cucumbers and collecting medical herbs. But we worked also in the forest or build a fence for the lama. There were all such nice experiences and challenges we definitely liked!
Since… read more
Kirsten and Blake are very mindful people who value attentiveness, general awareness, and open communication. They are constantly creating an inspiring life for… read more
The kids Nahko and Asher are so cool and easy to be around. Asher taught me how to play chess haha! They’re smart and like to do a lot of things , so connecting with them is fun. Blake and Kirsten love to share thoughts and have… read more
She did every task with a good attitude, asking for… read more
Blake and Kirsten are very attentive and well organized, they give you information about the organization of the week, the planning day-by-day, precise… read more
Not sure where to start exactly, maybe with the youngest member of the house. SWEEPY! (don't know if I'm spelling her name correctly). Sweepy is the sweetest dog. She's full of energy and excitement, if you are having a bad day and come across her,… read more
WOW. when they say "immersive" they mean it, and its a great thing! I was looking for an immersive experience, with lots of learning, childcare experience, farming, and lots of outdoor time. That is exactly what I got, but with SO much more.
Staying with this family was such a balm to… read more
I have learnt a lot about how much effort it is to take care of the farm, and kids too! Bit about permaculture system and indegineous situation in Canada, reciprocity, communication. I enjoyed harvesting the gifts from garden, playing with the… read more
I t was a blast! I learned a lot and worked a lot. My stay literally had everything you could think of.
Tasty tasty food, mystery birds, Lego spaceships, brotherly battles and brotherly love,
scorching sunshine, hail, riverside adventures, bug attacks, cow births and so much… read more
Between the two of them they: mulched garlic, built new garden beds, cleaned the chicken coop, prepped early spring garden beds and seeds, deep cleaned various indoor and… read more
First, the place is amazing! A huge farm with eagles, salmon, deers (and we suspect bears...) just around!! There is a river and a forest around! Fields are quiet, relax and beautiful place from the first to the… read more
The farm is part of a beautiful environment, very peaceful. You can ear and see birds coming for food in the garden, you enjoy the sunset from the deck, everywhere is greens and yellows and reds - I was there in October. I forgot to mention the river and its… read more
It was my first workaway experience and I couldn't have chosen a better one. I felt like home and family from the beginning (well, obviously you need few days to adapt but, you know!). I did work a lot in the garden and learned a lot of things about permaculture and different… read more
