Family homestead in the remote Kootenays, Canada

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  Descrição

  We are a family of 4 living on a small farm in the beautiful Kootenays in British Columbia, Canada, with a dog, cat, goats and chickens as well as fruit and vegetable gardens. We also have a pond for swimming and a wood-fired sauna :-)

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  Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado

  Jardinagem

  Construção/faça você mesmo

  Cuidar de animais

  Ajuda em fazenda

  Criar/cozinhar refeições caseiras

  Ajuda a cuidar da casa

  Manutenção geral
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  Oportunidades de intercâmbio cultural e aprendizado

  We are a dual-language family (German & English). We'd be happy to involve you in animal care or log building projects. We can introduce you to vegetable gardening and food preservation methods. If you bring children, they would be welcome to join our Nature School (provide we have extra spaces). We have also recently started making our own cheese, cream, yogurt and butter from raw goat milk, which we'd be happy to share with you.

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  Projetos que envolvem crianças

  Este projeto pode envolver crianças. Para mais informações, veja aqui nossas diretrizes e dicas.

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  Ajuda

  We are a young family on a large homestead with even larger plans, but limited time and resources :-).
  So we are looking for an individual, couple or even another small family who would be interested in helping with seasonal farm work, such as setting up electric fencing, harvesting fruits/vegetables, canning/preserving, tending to goats/chickens, making firewood, pruning fruit trees, planting, weeding or a myriad of other farm-related tasks etc.
  We love eating, but not cooking and often forget to make dinner plans when we're busy outside. So if you love to cook and you want to take that on as one of your responsibilities, we'd be super grateful.
  If you're bringing children, they are welcome to play with ours, of course.
  Our goal is to grow all of our own fruits and vegetables for the year, as well as all meat and dairy products for our family. It's a lofty goal, but we're slowly but surely working towards it. :-)
  In the spring, we would also welcome some help with simple carpentry (putting in flooring, siding etc.) as well as constructing a log home.
  Please note we are simply a homestead and not a commercial farm. As such your labour would be in exchange for room and board.

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  Idiomas

  Idiomas
  Alemão: Fluente
  Inglês: Fluente
  Espanhol: Iniciante
  Francês: Iniciante

  Este anfitrião oferece intercâmbio de idiomas
  We are a bilingual family (English and German) with a basic knowledge of Spanish and French, and we would love to host someone who would either like to learn English/German or who could help teach our children introductory Spanish/French or even another language.
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  Acomodação

  We have a small rustic guest house for you to stay in with a queen size bed, wood stove, propane cooker, limited solar electricity and an outhouse. There is a second mattress that can be placed on the floor or in the loft to accommodate children. You'd have access to a small fridge and some freezer space near the main house.
  Cold water is pumped into a rain barrel from the pond and can be used for showering, hand-washing and dishes. We usually place black solar bags on the roof for warm water. Or you can share our solar outdoor shower near the main house. Alternatively, you can swim in the pond and use the wood-fired sauna.
  Drinking water is filtered through a Berkey filtration system.
  
  Internet is available via Starlink near the main house. If you require reliable, regular internet access, we'll have to find you a workspace near the house as the internet won't work as far away as the guest cabin.
  
  Once temperatures drop below freezing, running water is not available. Water can be filled into buckets and heated on the stove for a sponge bath or for cooking. For showers you are welcome to use our tiny RV shower in the house or join us on a weekly trip to the hotsprings.

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  Algo mais...

  We are surrounded by natural beauty and it is very quiet here with Lower Arrow Lake on one side and the Valkyr Range of the Selkirk Mountains on the other.
  We are very remote without public transportation.
  Our area has lots of hot springs, hiking trails, hunting and fishing options, snowshoe and cross-country tails, an alpine ski hill, heliskiing, lots of ATV options, skating rink, movie theatre and more (you'll need your own vehicle to access all of those).
  The nearest grocery store is 1 hour away by car (limited public transportation), and the next city is a 2 hour drive away.

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  Mais alguns detalhes

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    Acesso à internet

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    Acesso à internet limitado

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    Temos mascotes

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    Somos fumantes

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    Pode hospedar famílias

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  Pode hospedar nômades digitais

  We have Starlink, which can be accessed near our house and you'd be welcome to use it. It provides fast and reliable Internet.

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  Espaço para estacionar campervans

  There is no public transportation in our area. However, you are welcome to bring your own vehicle, including a motorhome or RV. We may be able to hook up power and a water pump, but there is no septic/greywater system.

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