Horse Care and Farm Help needed, ...near Ottawa, Canada

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  • Activité récente: 19 mars 2024

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  2024 

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  • Description

    Description

    Help with our home and hobby Farm, build horse fencing, fix a barn and do some housekeeping near Ottawa, Canada

    Hello Workawayers -


    I work full time at a university in the city and we have a hobby farm an hours commute from work. Travel isn't in the cards for us right now, so we'd like the world to visit us. My last child at home is 16 years old, and an older daughter, her husband and my grandchildren are also on the farm. We live in a small house on an 8 acre hobby farm just outside a village east of Canada’s capital city - Ottawa. We enjoy the many festivals, shopping & entertainment the large city has to offer and cool off at Calypso Water Park.

    On our farm there are:
    • 1 Norwegian fjord horse who needs an intermediate or better rider (and I have neither time nor talent!)
    • 4 miniature horses - 2 trained for driving
    • indoor and barn cats
    • 4 dogs
    • a dozen chickens


    The teens are determined, accepting and enjoyable, and are welcoming to visitors. We have hosted high school students through exchange programs for years and have enjoyed learning about little pieces of Germany, France, Austria, the Netherlands, Australia, Switzerland, Norway, Belgium, Mexico, Japan and China through the workawayers and students who joined our family.

    My family is more than happy to help you practice English!

    You can catch a ride into Ottawa on my way to work in the morning and be a tourist until a ride home with me at the end of my day.

    University students looking for a place for themselves and a horse are welcome to contact me.

  • Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

    Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

    Jardinage
    Bricolage et construction
    S’occuper des animaux
    Aide dans une ferme
    Cuisine/repas pour la famille
    Aide à la maison
    Entretien général
    Aide informatique/internet
  • Objectifs de développement durable de l’ONU que cet hôte essaie d'atteindre

    Objectifs de développement durable de l’ONU que cet hôte essaie d'atteindre

    Objectifs de l’ONU
    Pas de pauvreté
    Faim «zéro»
    Bonne santé et bien-être
    Éducation de qualité
    Égalité entre les sexes
    Eau propre et assainissement
    Énergie propre et d'un coût abordable
    Travail décent et croissance économique
    Industrie, innovation et infrastructure
    Inégalités réduites
    Villes et communautés durables
    Consommation et production responsables
    Mesures relatives à la lutte contre les changements climatiques
    Vie aquatique
    Vie terrestre
    Paix, justice et institutions efficaces
    Partenariats pour la réalisation des objectifs
  • Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

    Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

    We are a normal, busy family who like sharing our home and our country with others.

  • Projets impliquant des enfants

    Projets impliquant des enfants

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

  • Aide

    Aide

    With work, farm and family there are never enough hours in the day so there are several short term and larger projects available in the barn and the yard.
    Timings are very flexible. We will provide room and board. Food is simple and plentiful, summer shopping is frequently local markets but convenience foods do occur.

    Sharing (or taking over) meal prep is appreciated.

    The ever changing list:
    house work (always)
    Painting- just walls, not pictures
    barn work
    Brushing miniature horses and fjord horse (fluffy lawn ornaments)
    Intermediate riders to exercise fjord horse
    tidy flowerbeds (summer)
    Shovel snow on paths (winter)
    Mending
    Laundry
    Drain tiles at the barn
    Moving the electrical and water in the barn
    Securing the barn tin (at the top of a ladder)
    ...anything you can suggest?

    My teens enjoy card games, board games and hanging out. The chance to meet people from other cultures is an important part of "life education".

    Short term stays are welcome since we have several smaller projects.

  • Langues parlées

    Anglais: Courant

  • Hébergement

    Hébergement

    We have space for 1, possibly 2 people:

    - there is a basement bedroom with a twin bed is away from the bustle of the house. The bedroom on the main floor with two single beds is often taken over by an exchange student September to June.

    We're a little old fashioned about opposite sex (or same-sex couples) as roommates, so we can provide separate rooms for couples who aren't married.

    - wifi is available, please don't do large downloads

    Pick up in Ottawa at the airport, train or bus can be arranged depending upon my schedule of the day.

  • Autres infos...

    Autres infos...

    We are a Roman Catholic family and practice our faith in our lives, including Mass attendance and daily prayer. You don't have to join us, but you need to respect our faith as we will respect you. If you'd like to attend your own faith, we'll assist in getting you where you need to be.

    Two of us require a gluten free diet, so we can provide gluten free and do healthy meals.

    We eat meat, we raise our own chickens for meat, we are not vegetarians.

    No smoking anything, and absolutely no drugs, our neighbour is a (very nice) police officer. (Safe neighbourhood!)

  • 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 rural internet is a little difficult but you are welcome to bring your laptop and job with you. Most of what we’d ask of you can be worked around times you are already scheduled for online jobs.

  • Espace pour garer des vans

    Espace pour garer des vans

    Water and electricity are available at the front of the barn and a free city septic dump just a few kms away. I am comfortable hosting more than one person if you are bringing home with you.

  • Possibilité d'accueillir les animaux

    Possibilité d'accueillir les animaux

    Completely depending upon the pets. We have quite a few ourselves and health and safety of all people and animals is very important.

  • Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

    Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

    Un

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    Nombre d'heures attendues

    3-5 / day (max 25 hrs)

N° de référence hôte : 898959352526

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