Join at our home and land while sharing our simple life in Hope, Canada

Detalhes

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  Descrição

  I am in need of help to prepare our property for sale. After trying unsuccessfully to build a sustainable small scale farm we are now too old to continue and need to sell out, downsize, move on and let someone younger take over.
  
  My partner and I are both 75 now and we do need some help with maintaining the property. Until a few years ago I could work like a Clydesdale but, not so slowly, my ability to maintain the basic operations has declined. This last period of time has been very hard on us and we have retired the farm because it is too much for us.
  
  We live on the unceded land of the Sto:lo people, part of the great Salish Nation.
  
  I would also like to mention,just to be clear, that although everybody checks off the LGTBQ friendly box as a matter of procedure, members of the LGTBQ community will truly find themselves welcome here with friendship and respect. We do not ask nor speculate on a person's situation or preferences. If they feel a desire to tell us or discuss with us we are comfortable with that but we allow everyone their personal space.

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  Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado

  Companhia para idosos

  Jardinagem

  Construção/faça você mesmo

  Ajuda em fazenda

  Criar/cozinhar refeições caseiras

  Ajuda a cuidar da casa

  Manutenção geral
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  Interesses

  

  Tecnologia

  

  Política/justiça social

  

  Sustentabilidade

  

  Mascotes

  

  Cultura

  

  Autodesenvolvimento

  

  Filmes e TV

  

  Fazenda

  

  Cuidar de plantas

  

  Música

  

  História

  

  Faça você mesmo

  

  Livros

  

  Jardinagem

  

  Culinária e comida

  

  Escrever

  

  Artes performáticas

  

  Animais

  

  Ciclismo

  

  Caminhada

  

  Atividades ao ar livre

  

  Esportes aquáticos

  

  Yoga/bem-estar

  

  Montanhas

  

  Esportes de inverno

  

  Naturaleza

  

  Camping
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  Objetivos de sustentabilidade da ONU que este anfitrião quer atingir

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  O que é isso?
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  Oportunidades de intercâmbio cultural e aprendizado

  I have years of experience and a lot of knowledge to share regarding living a very simple life, in harmony with my surroundings. When I was 21 I built a small cabin out of all salvaged material, including the nails and only using a hammer, a saw, a square and a crowbar for tools. I had no electricity, so no power tools and that year I even cut my firewood by hand because I did not have a chainsaw. That little cabin is still standing after more than 50 years. The total cost of building was $15.
  
  I have renovated a number of homes and taught numerous volunteers building skills as we built shops and storage on the property.
  
  We have had over 250 volunteers from 29 countries stay with us and have had many rich experiences and made a lot of friends in the process.
  
  If a person is looking to improve their English language skills, I can be extremely helpful and enjoy doing it. I love the English language. My parents both had careers in print media and proper grammar, reading skills and vocabulary building were part of everyday home life. I started writing poetry when I was 15 and have continued to write poetry, music and small stories throughout my life and have studied the art of writing as well.

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  Ajuda

  We are now overloaded with just maintaining the property and trying to get the place looking decent again. We need help now, just maintaining the property, weeding, cleanup, repairs to buildings and other general tasks.
  
  Right now we are trying to dig out and recover from a devastating time for us because of situations surrounding the pandemic and other issues related to health. The person we need now will be helping me with general homestead projects, especially at this time cleaning up and organizing the property.
  
  I am consolidating the homestead to something more manageable for myself as I adjust to the aging process.

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  Idiomas

  Inglês: Fluente
  Espanhol: Iniciante
  Japonês: Iniciante

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  Acomodação

  We have a small, but very comfortable little hut on the hillside overlooking one of our gardens. It has heat, is well insulated but it has no wifi access. Helpers can come down to the house to use the wifi for basic tasks on the internet. It is about 50 metres from the house where bathing, toilet and cooking facilities are available.

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  Algo mais...

  We literally live on the edge of the wilderness. There are about a half a dozen homes in our general vicinity but for the most part our place is totally private and very quiet. Other than our few neighbours, all of whom live on fairly large properties, ours being 4+ hectares, we back onto wilderness in every direction but west where the town of Hope is. We are about 2 hours from Vancouver and we are happy to allow volunteers to use weekends to travel to the city if they like and even arrange the help so that they can take a few days to visit the city. There are tons of hiking opportunities. Volunteers have often woken up to see deer grazing right outside of their door.

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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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  Espaço para estacionar campervans

  Este anfitrião pode fornecer espaço para vans.

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  Pode aceitar animais

  We can manage a well trained small to medium dog or a cat or something small like that. We will need to discuss each case individually.

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  Quantos Workawayers pode acomodar?

  2

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