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Help around our family farm and learn ecological agriculture while exploring Bridgetown, Nova Scotia, Canada

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  2024 

 Hospedagem min. solicitada: mínimo 1 semana

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Detalhes

  • Descrição

    Descrição

    We are a family with a 70 acre farm in Annapolis Valley. We moved to Nova Scotia 10 years ago and have been trying to bring the 200 year old farmstead back to life. Our goal is to create a balanced environment with happy plants and animals and produce foods with no inputs from outside the farm -- still a work in progress! We have been growing a small herd of Guernsey cows who are the lynch pin of our homestead, turning sunshine into calories for everyone. When we started this adventure, we had three home schooled kids who helped on the farm. Two are now in University and only home in the summer. We also have two Andalusian horses, two wonderful English Shepherd farm dogs and the usual suspects of farm animals, and a growing food forest and gardens.

    We rotational graze the cows and share milk with the calves who live with their mothers in the fields. We use the horses to reclaim abandoned pastureland and add diversity to the forest. We are steadily increasing our food forest to capture more sunlight through trees and edible plants. Everything we produce is consumed and recycled back into the farm.

    The horses are also my partners in my journey studying French Classical Dressage through Philippe Karl's instructor's course with the Ecole de Légèreté.

    Our farm is in a beautiful valley, and we are a laid back family looking for some more hands to help out as our children move on. We have learned a lot about sustainable agriculture and would love to pass on what we have learned while meeting and learning from new people.

  • Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado

    Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado

    Ajuda em projetos ambientais
    Jardinagem
    Construção/faça você mesmo
    Cuidar de animais
    Ajuda em fazenda
    Criar/cozinhar refeições caseiras
    Ajuda a cuidar da casa
  • 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

    Helpers would have the opportunity to learn about:
    managing a grassfed dairy herd and how to milk and manage the milk
    Traditional cheesemaking
    rotational grazing techniques in practice
    composting and manure management and uses
    permaculture gardens
    historic food preparation, cooking, and storage

    Helpers could take riding lessons and ride the horses depending on ability and could bring their own horse.

  • Ajuda

    Ajuda

    We need help with a diverse range of farm activities:

    tending/planting/weeding the gardens
    planting trees and bushes
    clearing out the winter's compost/manure from inside the barn out to the trees and gardens
    moving fences to rotate the cows through the pastures
    managing the milk and/or making cheese and butter
    getting calves used to people
    help with preparing meals and managing household duties
    carpentry projects
    feeding the animals -- Cow/pig/chicken/horse/rabbit
    making haystacks
    building rock walls

  • Idiomas

    Inglês: Fluente
    Irish: Iniciante

  • Acomodação

    Acomodação

    We have a camper trailer with a large deck situated somewhat away from the house, accessible to the driveway and the rest of the farm. It has a queen bed, a bunk room, and a pull out living space with a couch and table. It is older, but large and in ok condition.

    We will have plenty of real farm food -- all our own farm grown meat, milk, eggs etc and whatever is growing in the gardens. We eat breakfast and supper as a family most days, and visitors would be welcome at our table and/or can cook for themselves in the camper kitchen.

  • Algo mais...

    Algo mais...

    Annapolis Valley is a lovely area with many opportunities to experience nature, the Bay of Fundy, the Annapolis River, hiking and the historic local towns and areas. We have a car which could be borrowed some.

    We have so many projects on the go, but we strongly believe harder does not mean it is better and enjoy the challenge of finding the easiest solution to a problem by following nature. We would like to begin passing on what our farm is teaching us and are looking for a helper excited by the interconnectedness of the whole environment.

  • Mais alguns detalhes

    Mais alguns detalhes

    • Acesso à internet

    • Acesso à internet limitado

      Acesso à internet limitado

    • Temos mascotes

    • Somos fumantes

    • Pode hospedar famílias

  • Espaço para estacionar campervans

    Espaço para estacionar campervans

    Este anfitrião pode fornecer espaço para vans.

  • Pode aceitar animais

    Pode aceitar animais

    Este anfitrião está aberto a aceitar viajantes com animais de estimação.

  • Quantos Workawayers pode acomodar?

    Quantos Workawayers pode acomodar?

    Mais de 2

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    Horas previstas

    Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week

Nº de ref. de anfitrião: 321437195885

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