Besoin d'un peu d'aide avec les animaux, Ontario, Canada

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  • Activité récente: 28 mars 2024

Disponibilité

  2024 

 Séjour min. souhaité : Au moins une semaine

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  • Description

    Description

    A small family hobby farm in rural Canada run by an older gay couple and Mother/in-law. Looking for a farmhand to help with chores and animal care. Only 2 hours away from Ottawa (Canada's capital.) Most guests stay 2-4 weeks, we encourage a guest to help for awhile and then are happy to see them go off on adventures exploring parts of Canada, using our farm as a basecamp to return to if they like.

  • Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

    Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

    Compagnie pour pers. âgée
    Jardinage
    Bricolage et construction
    S’occuper des animaux
    Aide dans une ferme
    Cuisine/repas pour la famille
    Aide à la maison
    Entretien général
  • Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

    Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

    Animal husbandry the old fashioned way. We are a small hobby farm and all our animals have names and get attention and care as household pets would. So you must like, and want to work with barn animals. If you are interested in nature, and small scale farming, and livestock care working independently at odd jobs, Usual lambing season is Feb/Mar @ 15 lambs being born that most guests treasure memories of.
    Farm life in the vast rural areas of Ontario Canada; where we work hard but still enjoy the hot-tub under the stars before bed and the fresh pure air of our 187 acre farm. Our farmhouse is from 1802. We live a very relaxed life where we prefer to be easy-going. Keeping extremely clean house is not as important on a farm, or when you can be out in the garden watching some wild swans that landed on the lake.

  • Aide

    Aide

    We have a family run hobby farm with sheep, pigs, chicken, goats & turkeys. We are approaching 60 now and find the more physical side of farm life more difficult. We have had farmhands for room/board before and it worked well. They worked @5hrs doing daily farm chores or special projects they preferred (a stone walled garden; new chicken coop etc.) and we fed and housed them. Lots of times they would 'compact' their work hours so they had 4-5 days off at a time to go travel. Our farm is centrally located in between Montreal-Toronto-Ottawa triangle of Canada.
    Must enjoy farm animals, getting dirty and hard physical work. Typical chores include mucking out stalls; helping with births, bailing hay, cutting firewood, bush clearing, barn repairs, landscaping, basic meal prep., vegetable crop gardening/weeding/harvesting/planting, handyman, farmhand; or really whatever practical skills you have we probably need done! Or if you have skills at carpentry, auto mechanics, plumbing, building, fixing -we can always find something needs doing.

  • Langues parlées

    Anglais: Courant

  • Hébergement

    Hébergement

    We have a large guest room you will have to yourself with your own private bathroom in a very large very old farmhouse. But still modern kitchen, cable tv, high speed internet. It is a queen size bed so we would also consider hosting a couple. We are foodies who experiment a lot, make & grow everything and love to learn about other culture's food preparation. We do a lot of our own preserves/canning/pickling/wine making and of course home grown fruit & vegetable growing.
    If you are working while staying here we will provide food for 3 meals a day; we are comfortable with folks just helping themselves when hungry rather than set sit-down formal meals. Since we raise our own meat; a strict vegetarian would most likely not be suitable here.
    We have an in-law suite separate area where my 77 yr old Mother-In-Law moved into with her own bedroom/bathroom/sitting room/den downstairs.

  • Autres infos...

    Autres infos...

    We have 2 dogs and 2 cats in the farmhouse so you must like pets and not be allergic. Also its important to us that any travelers be open minded and pro LGBT+ We are not a religious household. We are open minded and easy going; love to meet new people and learn from them as much as we like to teach. We have travelled extensively ourselves in our 20's before settling down to a slow paced, quiet farm life. We stick close to home now since the animals need care everyday, and chores don't stop. Possibly if things work well we might be able to go away for a week while you take responsibility for the farm (with a paid stipend) ( Getting away is a freedom we don't get to enjoy now.)
    But we are especially happy to have someone that wants to get out themselves and learn & explore this part of Canada, or take nature walks in our forest. On our property we have deer, black bears, owls, beaver, coyotes, etc.
    We do travel to the city of Kingston regularly so pickup/drop offs are easy from the train station or airport. There is also a $50 flat-rate MegaBUS from Toronto Airport that drops off right near our farm for anyone coming from Toronto.

  • Informations complémentaires

    Informations complémentaires

    • Accès Internet

    • Accès Internet limité

      Accès Internet limité

    • Nous avons des animaux

    • Nous sommes fumeurs

    • Familles bienvenues

  • Possibilité d’accueillir les digital nomads

    Possibilité d’accueillir les digital nomads

    Our internet connection is good considering we are in rural Canada. Not sure what this nomad actually is; but happy to have someone pursue their own interests while staying here and working with us on our farm.

  • Espace pour garer des vans

    Espace pour garer des vans

    As we have a very large farm with a lots of space. We also have a private 25 acre lake and our own forests.

  • Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

    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

N° de référence hôte : 494353474235

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