Kenyan-Canadian family starting our homesteading journey on Hornby Island, Canada

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  Description

  Blended Canadian-Kenyan family starting our homestead on gorgeous Hornby Island, BC - a summer destination with wonderful beaches, amazing mountain biking trails, and astounding local artistic talent (from visual to performing).
  
  Melanda - host "mom", Swiss-Canadian born in BC, lived and worked abroad, good cook, good planner, fun and caring.
  Iggy - host "dad", Kenyan and new Canadian immigrant, seniors' care aide and still learning building skills. From a small subsistence farming village and absolutely loves to grow food!
  Mike - our son, 22 years old, a budding chef and all 'round nice guy.

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  Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

  Pratique d’une langue

  Aide avec des éco-projets

  Jardinage

  Bricolage et construction

  Entretien général

  Aide informatique/internet
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  Centres d’intérêt

  

  Politique/justice sociale

  

  Événements/vie sociale

  

  Dev. durable

  

  Animaux de compagnie

  

  Culture

  

  Dev. personnel

  

  Bénévolat

  

  Livres

  

  Jardinage

  

  Langues

  

  Écriture

  

  Animaux

  

  Fitness

  

  Nature

  

  Danse

  

  Plage

  

  Cyclisme
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  Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

  Our household includes native speakers of several African languages and skilled cooks familiar with several cuisines. We are active in the wider community and there are amazing opportunities to take in extraordinary musical and art shows and performances, and to join in community dances.
  
  Iggy teaches AfroDance fitness classes, and our guests would be welcome to join classes we offer for free. These are super fun high energy fitness classes set to modern and classic African tunes.

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  Projets impliquant des enfants

  Ce projet peut impliquer des enfants. Pour en savoir plus, consultez nos directives et conseils ici.

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  Aide

  We would love to host friendly folks with basic skills related to clearing land, planting and tending food gardens, and building/renovating. Summer 2026, we particularly would like to have an outdoor enclosure built onto one of our trailers, some digging of veggie gardens and building of raised beds. Iggy, Mike and local friends with building skills will pitch in as well and we'll have some of our community's famous " work parties" to do blasts of clearing and digging. If our workawayer stays through all of summer and harvest season, we'd love to do some canning and preserving with you too!

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  Langues

  Langues parlées
  Anglais: Courant
  Swahili (Kiswahili): Courant
  Français: Débutant

  Cet 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.
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  Hébergement

  A one bedroom trailer with own kitchen and shower, and adjacent shared outhouse. Meals are with the family in our house, where you can also access laundry facilities.

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  Autres infos...

  There is a free community bus during summer months that goes all around the island, and the entire island is easily accessed by bike. We have spare bikes workawayers can use.
  
  We are omnivores and easygoing... it would be challenging for us to host people with very restrictive dietary needs.

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  Informations complémentaires

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    Accès Internet

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    Accès Internet limité

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    Nous avons des animaux

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    Nous sommes fumeurs

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    Familles bienvenues

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  Espace pour garer des vans

  We could potentially hook up someone's own camper or motorhome instead of them staying in our trailer, this would be fine!

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  Possibilité d'accueillir les animaux

  Small well behaved dogs that like other dogs. No cats or large dogs.

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  Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

  Un

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  Mes animaux

  

  Sukari (means Sugar in Swahili)

  Sweet friendly small rescue dog from Mexico.

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