Help our family tame a neglected piece of land in Kakabeka Falls, ON, Canada

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  Description

  We're a middle-aged couple with kids who bought a previously unmaintained old farm in the summer of 2023. We are working to help the property realize its potential. Current and future projects include: maintaining the orchard, clearing and maintaining the forested areas, preparing gardens, taking down old structures, fixing structures and building new ones, animal husbandry (only chickens now, but eventually adding pigs, sheep and possibly other animals).

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  Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

  Aide avec des éco-projets

  Jardinage

  Bricolage et construction

  S’occuper des animaux

  Aide dans une ferme

  Cuisine/repas pour la famille

  Aide à la maison

  Entretien général
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  Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

  Melvin is a sometime professional musician with a PhD in musicology who has done a great deal of traveling, speaks multiple languages, and enjoys discussing and teaching what he knows. He also once worked as a chef and loves to cook. Kari enjoys fermenting food, making her own mayonnaise, caring for her daughter Elsie, and is very interested in natural, non-medicalized birthing.
  
  We would welcome the opportunity to share what we know, while learning from our guests.

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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 bought an old farm in O'Connor Township, about a 35 min. drive SW of Thunder Bay in 2023. It had not been maintained for many years before we bought it, so there's a lot to do to fix it up and more fully realize its potential: clearing, chopping and stacking wood, caring for and picking fruit from the orchard, taking down old shelters and building new ones, gardening, etc.

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  Langues parlées

  Anglais: Courant

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  Hébergement

  Presently, tenting or staying in a small camper are possible.

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  Autres infos...

  Campfire with a beautiful view, hiking on local trails, visiting local waterfalls, Lake Superior, and Thunder Bay, playing music, hunting (in season), fishing... Having a vehicle would be preferable, but borrowing a bike would be possible, as well as car rides when convenient or necessary.

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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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  Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

  Plus de 2

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  Nombre d'heures attendues

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