Help Creating A Little Paradise on Vancouver Island, BC, Canada

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  Descrição

  Hey folks!
  
  Summer is here! We hope to ramp up some summer projects with a couple of Workaway's these next few months. We're excited to be expanding our food forrest which we're currently fencing in with a deer fence, we also have some firewood harvesting and expanding walking trails on the horizon.
  
  We are setting up a not for profit on the farm as we will be playing host to a forest school for kids age 6-15. We hope to have a number of parents from the program also coming out to help in these next months.
  
  US AND THE LAND:
  
  Our little family is on 50 acres in the Comox Valley of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Black Creek is tucked between crystal clear streams, mountain lakes, wildflower meadows and beautiful white sand beaches - it's a quiet little paradise in the North end of the Comox Valley.
  
  Here we, Christina (40) and John (39), live with our family, Julianna (6) and our son Finn (2 years). We also share the land with dear friends Leslie (47) Dom (40) Emily (30) and Hartley (29)
  
  On the land we have a budding food forest, a small regenerative flower farm, 10 acres of pasture, 40 acres of forrest, a few farm animals like chickens and goats and 3 dogs.
  
  This area is spectacularly beautiful and we are well located to access all of it:
  
  Saratoga Beach - epic white sand beach (5 mins), Oyster River - many spots for walks and plunges (5-10 mins), Salmon Point - a gorgeous Ocean-side 5km well maintained path (5 min), Nymph Falls - epic waterfalls and swimming holes (20 mins), Comox Lake - beautiful for walking, hiking and swimming (30 mins), Cumberland - super fun little town with great restaurants, the best ice cream and right beside epic mountain biking and hiking (25 mins), Mount Washington - alpine meadow hiking and camping (25 mins), and so much more!
  
  LENGTH OF STAY:
  
  Given that many of our Workaways have asked to prolong their stays with us we'd like a minimum of a 3-4 week commitment and would welcome a longer stay. There's a lot to do in this valley and we'll gladly try and help you make the most of your stay.
  
  FOOD:
  
  We will provide kitchen staples and a weekly allowance for groceries. Either you can take a car and hit the local grocery which is a 5 minute drive or you can give a list to us and we can do the shop. When time allows we'd love to share meals together (this is more of a summer vs winter thing)
  
  TRANSPORT:
  You can take the ferries and arrive at a bus stop that is a 5 minute drive from our house. There is infrequent public transit that can take you to town that is about a 10 minute bike ride away. We have 5 bikes and a truck available for occasional use. You can tag along for grocery shop runs into town and borrow a vehicle once in a while to go to the mountain, beaches etc and you're welcome to tag along with us when we go.

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  Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado

  Prática de idiomas

  Jardinagem

  Construção/faça você mesmo

  Ajuda em fazenda

  Cuidar de crianças/atividades criativas

  Criar/cozinhar refeições caseiras

  Ajuda a cuidar da casa

  Manutenção geral
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  Interesses

  

  Cultura

  

  Vida na estrada

  

  Autodesenvolvimento

  

  Filmes e TV

  

  Fazenda

  

  Faça você mesmo

  

  Cuidar de plantas

  

  Música

  

  Jardinagem

  

  Idiomas

  

  Fotografia

  

  Desenho e pintura

  

  Astronomia

  

  Carpintaria

  

  Culinária e comida

  

  Livros

  

  Arte e design

  

  Animais

  

  Esportes aquáticos

  

  Atividades ao ar livre

  

  Caminhada

  

  Ciclismo

  

  Dança

  

  Montanhas

  

  Yoga/bem-estar

  

  Naturaleza

  

  Fitness

  

  Camping

  

  Praia

  

  Esportes de aventura
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  Objetivos de sustentabilidade da ONU que este anfitrião quer atingir

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  Oportunidades de intercâmbio cultural e aprendizado

  Getting back to the land!
  
  Connecting with nature.
  
  Connection with the wisdom of traditional cultures; we sometimes play host to sweats and ceremony.
  
  We have a network of very cool folks in this neighbourhood that you can connect with.
  
  We have a great outdoor gym and lots of fun lawn games and do workouts a couple times a week.
  
  We love to cook together and share meals outside.
  
  We have access to amazing outdoor activities: Stand Up paddle boarding, mountain biking, fishing, hiking. Stunning beach 5 minutes away, a beautiful riverside park that you can walk to, alpine meadows, lakes and hiking are a 25 minute drive. 4 funky little towns with lots to explore a 25 min drive away.

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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

  This would be a 5 hrs/day position. You would be living either in the barn described below or in a beautiful canvas tent with mattress and hammock that is near the geo dome described below and the outdoor kitchen and shower.
  
  Chores:
  
  We've got a number of daily and weekly tasks that we'd like support with such as caring for animals, watering gardens and lawn care
  
  
  Projects:
  
  We have an abundance of garden and landscaping maintenance each year that doesn't require skill so much as willingness to learn and move quickly and efficiently.
  
  We're thrilled anytime we can play host to a builder.
  
  Next up? a sauna? Jungle gym? Pizza oven?
  
  
  Meal Prep:
  We've hosted a chef before and loved it. Cooking for big groups to eat all together, filling up the freezer and processing foods from the gardens are all super valuable for us.
  
  Childminding:
  
  Starting May 1st we'd be very grateful for daily playtime with our kids, age 7 and 2 years.
  
  So what does this look like?
  
  Creating some structured activities whether it's play, art, language or learning for our daughter. Any Spanish language experience would be great as our daughter is learning Spanish as we live in Mexico half of the year.
  
  Julianna loves to be physical, adores active playtime and creativity whether with art, imagination games or exploring outdoors. J is in day care 2 days a week so help for us here would look like excited and enthusiastic engagement, following her lead with make believe and imagination, getting on the bikes and going for a bike ride, playing on the trampoline, making forts, learning basic math, abc's, Spanish practice, art time etc.
  
  With our son, the big help would be attentive and engaged babysitting. Stroller rides around the farm, safe playtime and engagement via books, new sensory experiences
  
  A few things we've learned from hosting the last couple years:
  - We love duos or couples!
  - We happily match efforts you make in trying to make your stay with us meaningful, meaning that we notice when you show up on time, and work hard.

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  Idiomas

  Idiomas
  Inglês: Fluente
  Espanhol: Iniciante

  Este anfitrião oferece intercâmbio de idiomas
  We are actively working on Spanish!
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  Acomodação

  We have 3 areas available for work aways to stay.
  
  1. The Barn: is a fully furnished and newly renovated gathering space with living room, bathroom, kitchen and bedroom. This is a space we use for hosting retreat groups but when there are no groups occupying the space we want to open it up to Work-Away.
  
  2. The glamping bell tents: We recently constructed a new 22 foot diameter geodesic dome and 2 adjacent canvas bell tents that are set up for retreat guests and Workaways. Adjacent is a (beautiful) composting toilet (made by a french furniture making workaway!), hot outdoor shower and camp kitchen (complete with stove, oven, fridge and coffee set up)
  3. RV site: If you have a trailer, camper-van or small RV we have a fully serviced, 30 amp site with septic hookup adjacent to the flower farm.

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  Algo mais...

  We share the land 4 other wonderful people. Between us there's a lot of fun things we can connect you with – we've got a good bit of experience on the island and can direct you towards many sorts of adventures.

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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 installed StarLink internet so our uptime and speed is looking good!

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  Espaço para estacionar campervans

  We have a beautiful, fully serviced 30amp RV plug and sani connection site that is perfect for campervans and small rvs

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  Quantos Workawayers pode acomodar?

  Mais de 2

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  Meus animais / animais de estimação

  The Miniature Goats and Chickens

  Sonic

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  Lily

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