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Help around our hobby farm near Vancouver, Canada

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  2025 

 Hospedagem min. solicitada: mínimo 2 semanas

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Detalhes

  • Descrição

    Descrição

    My husband and I are a professional couple and we own a small hobby farm (2 acres) in a suburb of Vancouver BC.

    It is a private homestead.

    We live in a beautiful area, close to trails for hiking, biking, rivers, etc.

    We have a small barn, with 5 stalls and attached paddocks and currently have 3 well behaved geldings living with us

    We are both entrepreneurs and both work from home primarily online via Zoom so will be around a lot but many times tucked away in our home offices.

    We also have one small pug. We have no 2 legged children. We primarily welcome help with farm, animal, property care for both the equine area and residence, and seasonal projects. Some tasks will be consistent for each placement and others will depend on the season and what we need help with.

    Please read the description of our workaway before you apply, as it can include Saturday and Sundays I like to be transparent as possible. But since the help varies I’m happy to answer any questions you may have in advance :).

    While you don’t need to be a horse expert, you MUST have some previous horse experience that includes basic handling (catching, haltering, leading, etc) to Workawayer as there is a lot of tasks to be done in and around them and your safety is paramount. 3 of my horses are retired from riding, and one is in restart, so there is no riding offered in this placement.

  • Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado

    Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado

    Jardinagem
    Construção/faça você mesmo
    Cuidar de animais
    Ajuda em fazenda
    Ajuda a cuidar da casa
    Manutenção geral
  • 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

    The Vancouver area is absolutely stunning with many outdoor and cultural activities. Not to mention the mountains, ocean and beaches

    Where we live specifically we are near mountains close to rivers, lakes, hiking trails, bicycle riding trails etc. It's a great opportunity to improve your English skills, and we also love to learn other languages and if you feel like sharing some of your traditions with us - from meals to rituals, we'd LOVE to learn.

    For those who would like a bit of company or guided tour we will be happy to take you to some of our favorite spots when we aren’t working.

    How I work with my horses is relationship first, training second. I do not use aversives, and take a whole horse approach, that includes considering all aspects of their well-being in their training. Spiritual. Emotional. Energetic. And Physical.

  • Ajuda

    Ajuda

    **Quick Edit for 2025 - For this spring placement we are looking for someone to help us with beautifying the property mainly - helping with painting, a few chores around the yard, and a little bit of horse care**

    This placement will require help on Sunday mornings, and then the other 3 days are up to you what days you want to help. The placement is a combination of property/facility, horse care and seasonal projects, most of it outside.

    Sundays will always include (but not limited to) cleaning out stalls and paddocks,. Weekdays those are usually already covered, but if our barn manager is not available in the week, you may be asked to cover those days as well, Depending on how fast you work it takes between 90 minutes to 2 hours to do the stalls, leaving time for the other projects the rest of the day. There are random horse chores in the week as well such as safety checks, cleaning water buckets, picking manure from the fields, filling hay feeders, and keeping the outbuildings clean etc.

    During the spring months there will be a lot of yard and spring cleanup and maintenance getting the property ready for the summer months, and in the fall a lot of raking and leaf collection. And we do have a lot of ad hoc projects that come up whether for the animals or the property.

    We are flexible on how you want to work your time - ie -if you prefer to do longer days to have more full days off, etc as long as the animals are taken care of on the days they need, and the rest of the tasks get done. We don't expect or want you to work more than the 25 hours a week, we want you to enjoy your time in our lovely city too!. We just ask for good communication, and since some of the tasks may be weather dependent that you take that into account too when scheduling.

    Because we both work from home, occasionally there may be business activities or client events here at the farm. However none of the Workaway tasks we need help with in this listing are related to either business.

  • Idiomas

    Idiomas
    Inglês: Fluente
    Francês: 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

    You will have a private bedroom in our house that's on the complete opposite side of the house from our bedrooms there's a full bathroom with a deep bathtub& shower right across from it, so you have privacy.

    We usually cook dinner every night, which you are welcome to join us for, and for breakfast and lunch we tend to just grab and go and you'd be able to simply help yourself from the fridge to whatever you want.

    We have 2 living rooms, that both have sliding doors to close them off if you need a private space that’s not a bedroom to decompress

    We have a beautiful swim pond, an onsite gym with cardio equipment, free weights, a weight rack, TRX and other sundry equipment that you are free to use, we also an in-home theatre where we do like to watch movies.

    We don’t expect you to prepare meals for us or do general housework, but we do ask you to clean up after yourself in the kitchen, bathroom and other common areas that you use.

    If you would like to share your cuisine by cooking a meal, we certainly won’t say no. We are very adventurous and love to try new foods and will happily shop for the ingredients you need

  • Algo mais...

    Algo mais...

    We have bicycles that you are welcome to borrow if you want to hit the trails. We are very close to a series of dykes that you can bicycle or walk with breathtaking views of the mountains and other horse farms.

    We are a short car ride away from parks, rivers, hiking trails and lakes

    We unfortunately are not on a public transit route. Uber is available. The main transit hub stations are a short UBER ride away connecting you to shopping, restaurants, the beach, ocean and more are both short Uber rides away.

    In the summer we love to hit the lake on our boat and if you're here during that time you'll be welcome to join us.

    Also as mentioned there is no horse riding available here in my farm, but if you do want to spend some time in the saddle there are a few excellent riding centers in the area all within walking or biking distance.

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    • Pode hospedar famílias

  • Pode hospedar nômades digitais

    Pode hospedar nômades digitais

    We have a fully functioning high speed internet. There’s even a hub out in the barn.

  • Quantos Workawayers pode acomodar?

    Quantos Workawayers pode acomodar?

    1

Nº de ref. de anfitrião: 349137853393

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