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Help with self-sufficiency on a farmstead near Ottawa, Canada

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  2025 

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  • Description

    Description

    Homesteading. We have a full little farm so that we can design a life we want & produce more than half of our food. We share knowledge and experiences. We work hard and eat well.

    Looking for hard working, self-motivated and flexible, curious helpers who love to learn while getting dirty.
    Tasks include:
    -Animal Care
    -Gardening & planting
    -Piling Firewood
    -Re-roofing a rabbit house and a chicken coop (4-6ft high)
    -General maintenance & construction
    -Log Cabin finishing
    note: Everyone helps with food prep & kitchen clean-up *as part of living together*
    Most people leave confident to make sourdough bread :)

    Open to 10 day stays if you have experience (with farming or building)
    Ideal time commitment is 3 weeks - 1 month.
    Longer stays for Farmstead Internships are available (to those with a focus on gardening or building).

    We are in our 8th year of farming!!
    Former travellers who set roots - into a beautiful 18 acres of land, with animals, a creative farmhouse, nestled by a little river, and 50 mins. to Ottawa Canada.

    About us:
    Brandie is the Queen B. She lives this space, crafting, building permaculture garden's, preserving food, strolling with the animals. She works from home & cares for many.
    Elmir works over full time hours so is not always available for farm duties. He is very passionate about all projects future and present. He is skilled at and enjoys streamlining processes.
    Éamon (17) is busy with highschool & home on weekends. He is a very caring, enthusiastic, and engaged human that we love dearly.
    Zion (23) is married and lives an hour away. He is a kind fun human with great ingenuity and resourcefulness. He was the main motivator to get this farm + we are grateful.

    This space will be used for gatherings. Agricultural education through oldschool farm experience, stargazing, art classes, prenatal education, weekend picnics, nature / farm classes, creating traditional gourmet food and farm fresh goodies.

    Bring a headlight.

    You are responsible for your own health and wellbeing. :)
    Visitors please have your own medical insurance since farm life has risks.

    How to get here: There is no public transit from Ottawa to our farm. Some people find creative ways to get to us. If you would rather ask us for a lift, $20 covers the cost of gas + we can usually find a mutual moment to do this trip.

  • Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

    Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

    Projets artistiques
    Pratique d’une langue
    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
  • 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 host in a community style. Our experiences run deep from our travels and guests can expect to be made part of the family. We can lead you to both city tourist sites (Ottawa) and country life of our area. Brandie and the boys are bilingual French / English but we speak English at home. We often have people over. There are strong creative juices to soak in and lots of crafts to try. Never boring - the days go by so fast.

  • Aide

    Aide

    5 hours of help a day plus we expect that you fit into our family / community living daily rhythms (meal prep + clean up + sweeping floors is for everyone..) .

    We can not offer a very specific predictable work schedule as the days vary.
    We appreciate independence and self motivation mixed with group brainstorming.

    On our to do list / some are season and resource dependent
    -Log cabin construction
    -Building barn doors
    -Farm fencing
    -Organic gardening using permaculture concepts
    -Housework / cleaning
    -Prepping Firewood
    -Food preservation (fermentation, canning, meat smoking, butter churning..)
    -Cheese making
    -Adding a basement bathroom
    -Animal care (yes, this includes cleaning up after them)
    -Bread baking every couple of days
    -Yard clean-up and maintenance
    -Art on the property
    -Mini horse groundwork and natural horsemanship training
    -Deck construction
    -Set up to establishing a forest mushroom garden next year

    ... let us know what you would like to contribute while you are here :)

  • Langues

    Langues parlées
    Anglais: Courant
    Serbo-Croatian: Courant
    Français: Intermédiaire
    Espagnol: 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.

  • Hébergement

    Hébergement

    Comfortable room with a real bed in the house or camping outside - your choice.
    Meditation / yoga space.
    With a house full of foodies - meals are homemade / family style collective efforts (mostly farm to table).
    We are adaptable to dietary needs.
    We eat our own farm raised meats (no pork) and many of our meals are vegetarian.
    Cook for us and with us!

  • Autres infos...

    Autres infos...

    Our home is under an hour from downtown Ottawa. We may go to the city a couple times a week. We can pick our guests up form Aylmer Quebec or Ottawa as there is no public transit here ($20 helps with gas). At the farm, expect a slower life pace that somehow is always in motion. Let some time slide while enjoying breakfast, petting a donkey, resting in the tree house, visiting a nearby beach on the Ottawa River.. We can hike Gatineau Park, visit other farms..

  • 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

    We are self employed and work from home too :)

  • Espace pour garer des vans

    Espace pour garer des vans

    Cet hôte a de la place pour les vans.

  • Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

    Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

    Plus de 2

N° de référence hôte : 927899571519

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