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Join our home and experience our way of life in Victoria, Vancouver Island, Canada

Disponibilidade

  2025 

 Hospedagem min. solicitada: mínimo 2 semanas

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Detalhes

  • Descrição

    Descrição

    Update: We are seeking help from late April onward in garden bed revitalization, compost management, transplanting, farm clean up, invasive species removal, crop care, and potential special projects depending on your skills.
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    Join us and be wrapped in the warm care of a wholesome family with healthy home-cooked meals, farm-grown teas and foods, snuggles with cuddly pets, sports and board games, and good sleeps in a unique retrofitted 1970s bus overlooking the forest. Our farmstay is best described as a truly immersive experience and is suited to 1 person who wants to experience the day to day realities of living in relationship to the land and participating in family life, focused on the values of deep ecology, Earth wisdom, reconciliation, decolonization, magic, seasonal living, and imagining into a beautiful and safe world for future generations.

    We live on 3 acres of mixed crop fields, woods, ponds, fruit trees, gardens-in-the-making and a lovely skyline. This is the fourth property we have hosted helpers on, and it’s our favorite way of 'staying home' while connecting to the world. We grow hemp in the fields and food in the garden using permaculture and regenerative land practices. We also have a sweet dog, a cat, and from time to time some different farm animals.

    Important: When you message us, please share a little bit about how you resonate with our profile. We do not respond to messages that only say your name and when you want to come. For best results let us know:
    - Your interest in spending safe and quality time with a family
    - Your willingness to participate in all types of work related to homesteading (indoor and outdoor)
    - Your ability to work and learn with a good attitude
    - How you will take efforts to prevent bringing contagious viruses into our family home, particularly in the travel days leading up to coming here (we interact with Elders and vulnerable populations who we do our best to keep safe).

  • Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado

    Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado

    Projetos artísticos
    Prática de idiomas
    Ajuda em projetos ambientais
    Ensino
    Jardinagem
    Construção/faça você mesmo
    Cuidar de animais
    Ajuda em fazenda
    Cuidar de crianças/atividades criativas
    Criar/cozinhar refeições caseiras
    Ajuda a cuidar da casa
    Manutenção geral
    Ajuda com computadores/internet
  • Interesses

    Interesses

    Sustentabilidade
    Autodesenvolvimento
    Política/justiça social
    Mascotes
    Música
    Escrever
    Desenho e pintura
    Culinária e comida
    Livros
    Naturaleza
    Fitness
    Camping
    Dança
    Praia
    Caminhada
  • Objetivos de sustentabilidade da ONU que este anfitrião quer atingir

    Objetivos de sustentabilidade da ONU que este anfitrião quer atingir

    Objetivos da ONU
    Erradicar a pobreza
    Erradicar a fome
    Saúde de qualidade
    Educação de qualidade
    Igualdade de género
    Água potável e saneamento
    Energias renováveis e acessíveis
    Trabalho digno e crescimento económico
    Indústria, inovação e infraestruturas
    Reduzir as desigualdades
    Cidades e comunidades sustentáveis
    Produção e consumo sustentáveis
    Ação climática
    Proteger a vida marinha
    Proteger a vida terrestre
    Paz, justiça et instituições eficazes
    Parcerias para a implementação dos objetivos
  • Oportunidades de intercâmbio cultural e aprendizado

    Oportunidades de intercâmbio cultural e aprendizado

    Our family is mixed European and Indigenous ancestry. Staying with us you'll learn about Canada's colonial history and the current work of reconciliation, and being a good visitor in relationship to the land you are on. You'll also have the opportunity to learn about permaculture, organic gardening and hemp farming. We are an alternative family who focuses our energy away from mainstream culture and values, and towards a life-sustaining society that promotes collective liberation, diversity, inclusivity, resilience, holistic health practices, and deconstructing the patriarchal, white supremacist extractive capitalist systems of oppression that impact us all. We do this through a gentle and trauma-informed approach.

    We are the #83 bus route and can lend a bike. We also offer to take you on adventures such as forest walks, town trips, and beach trips. Nearby you’ll find parks and trails, the world-famous Butchart Gardens, ocean access with kayak and paddle board rentals, coffee shops, thrift stores and more.

  • Projetos que envolvem crianças

    Projetos que envolvem crianças

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

  • Ajuda

    Ajuda

    Typically, we ask for help with basic routine garden, farm, and homestead tasks. These can include shoveling dirt, compost and wood chips, weeding the fields and pulling invasive plants from the woodlands, trail and path maintenance, plant care (pest checking, fertilizing etc.), fence maintaining, general yard care, and seasonal household chores. Lots of shovel work.
    Inside the kitchen is a constant work zone and we ask for daily contributions to kitchen help.
    Up to 20-30% of hours may be household projects (cleaning, painting, organizing), and sometimes we may ask you to do random once a season chores like cleaning a vehicle, doing a freezer inventory and so on.
    Our kids, age 10 and 13, also appreciate if you spend some time with them sharing your skills and passions or engaging in one of their favourite activities such as art, music, basketball, soccer, Uno, chess, lego or boardgames.
    Basically, you’ll be involved in every aspect of running a family homestead!
    If you are an artist or healer we can discuss reducing hours of homestead work in exchange for your skills.
    Special skills/projects we would prioritize for someone who is experienced:
    - Bicycle maintenance
    - Outbuilding renovations
    - Indoor painting
    - Fence building/maintenance

  • Idiomas

    Idiomas
    Inglês: Fluente
    Francês: Intermediário
    Espanhol: Iniciante

    Este anfitrião oferece intercâmbio de idiomas
    Este anfitrião indicou que tem interesse em compartilhar seu idioma ou em aprender um novo.
    Entre em contato com ele para obter mais informações.

  • Acomodação

    Acomodação

    Your “room” is a rustic 1970s Mercedes bus with access to bathroom, kitchen and living room in family house a few meters away. We offer healthy whole foods (minimal packaged or ready-made items), and ask you to purchase any special items we don’t normally supply.
    We have some water challenges and provide instructions on saving water, including limiting showers to five minutes once a day.

  • Algo mais...

    Algo mais...

    We can pick you up from most locations in Greater Victoria including ferry terminals and airports.
    We prefer to receive new folk on Thursdays or fridays.

    Our place is best suited for people who truly want an immersive west coast family farm experience. We expect workawayers to be self-aware, resourceful, independent, mature, healthy, courteous, and adaptable. We generally do NOT like to host people who want to spend all the free time in their rooms or online, or people who do not have an ethic of reciprocity and responsibility.

    We offer references to those seeking jobs in Canada and worldwide and have provided reference letters and reference phone calls to many of our helpers.

    *ABSOLUTELY no tolerance for cigarettes/vaping/commercial tobacco.

  • Mais alguns detalhes

    Mais alguns detalhes

    • Acesso à internet

    • Acesso à internet limitado

      Acesso à internet limitado

    • Temos mascotes

    • Somos fumantes

    • Pode hospedar famílias

  • Pode hospedar nômades digitais

    Pode hospedar nômades digitais

    Let us know your personal work requirements and we can determine together if it’s a good fit (e.g hours, space needs etc.)

  • Pode aceitar animais

    Pode aceitar animais

    Pets must be clean, de-flead and de-wormed, and be safe with children and other pets. We have a dominant dog.

  • Quantos Workawayers pode acomodar?

    Quantos Workawayers pode acomodar?

    1

Nº de ref. de anfitrião: 269138193598

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