Made with Love urban farm stay in Dënéndeh Kanata Kanada Canada

Vibrant PERMACULTURE collaborative & artisan food company est.1999. Enjoy shared eco life in a mature, temperate urban forest along the wildlife wetlands @ McArthur Island Park, in Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc, Secwepemcúl'ecw, Dënéndeh
(Kamloops BC, Canada). Live in a shared teepee bedroom or mixed dorm room. Practice home and garden maintenance and eco cleaning in a farm stay collective guest house. Learn about eco business, interdependent community life dynamics, whole food cooking, nutritional healing, urban homesteading, wild foraging, permaculture, food forest agroecology, value added grocery products, organic harvest, food preservation & resource recovery.


We host tourists who are visiting Canada. You must have a VALID visa to visit Canada or already be here, now. We DO NOT write letters of invitation for people we have never met. If you have a travel, work or study visa, please apply for the specific travel dates when you plan to arrive and check in, so you can book your spot to come and stay. Your first 30 days, we ask a minimum donation €15 per day, to confirm your spot with us and invest green in good earth, organic farms & help our eco project grow.


New volunteers help with basic cleaning, pool, garden, maintenance, harvest, preservation and online business as the seasons progress. If you love it here, work hard and fit beautifully in our collaborative community you may earn a "full ride" needs based scholarship for 6-12 month 150 hr culinary permaculture certification. We may be willing to help you apply for permanent residency or develop your own micro business partnership if you would like to continue with us, after you have come to stay and we have had the chance to get to really know you as the awesome generous human being you are!


Are you a fixologist, musician or audio/video engineer? Do you have beautiful handwriting for labels or artistic skills for decorating - the goodies box - with cones, sprigs & botanicals? Do you make jam, gather, hunt, fish, sweep, eco clean, climb trees, pick fruit & berries, chef, eco build, mend or repair? This little piece of the spiral is interdependent, self-directed & entrepreneurial in focus with each of our core peeps taking turns leading & following as we regreen this desert grassland flow & equilibrium. Immerse yourself in organic wonder & faerie food forest fun!


Experience authentic "Kanata" - rivers, lakes, mountains, rock climbing, skiing, paddle sports - immersed in big nature. Skate park, long board, downhill bike, 2 ski hills, running trails, disc golf, nature trail, white sand river beach. Watch eagle, owl, duck, beaver, marmot, Canadian geese, lynx, deer, heron, chipmunk, racoons, bear, cougar, turtle, snake and hawk. Perhaps the last heritage farm in the city center, we are the original Huxley farmstead. Sleep in a kintsugi repaired teepee, (a traditional canvas tent nomadic home on this continent "turtle island" for millennia) dorm room or a main house king bedroom for couples. First come, first dibs. Clothing optional pool patio & hot tub. Chill in the sunshine, practice barefoot grounding, active meditation or naked yoga, hike, trampoline, share music jams, board games, movie nights. Wild & whimsical this bohemian waterfront oasis in these desert grasslands will wow you!


Collaborative visitors are a vital part of this sphere; we each focus on contributing 3-6 hrs per day, 25 hrs per week, self directed, work hours between 11 am and 5pm with simple chores (clean, weed, fix, harvest, process, maintain) in our home kitchen, collective guest house & forest gardens to keep everything five star clean, organized & running smoothly. Our focus on traditional skills is a steep learning curve; we prefer those who want to be here for longer terms, with skills to share, who are keen to participate & be an active part of a four season urban agriculture project. Newbies start with a commitment to a 30 day volunteer stay or a 150hr culinary permaculture internship with certification. If you are unsure of your fit or timeline, PLEASE be respectful & try us first. Book a week on airbnb & see if we are all you imagine, before you commit to a worldpackers contract. Thank-you.


As a culinary experience, our primary focus is shared farm to table whole foods, incorporating local / organic / wild indigenous veggies, fruit, meat & fish, bone-broth soups, farm fresh eggs, grass fed dairy, homemade sourdough sprouted grain breads, sprouts, fermentations, faerie salad, fresh juicing, smoothies & rescued groceries from food recovery with table service platters for each to choose from; we are plant-based, ETHICALLY OMNIVOROUS and DO NOT cater to alternative diets.


Now processing goosefoot, mints, sun roots, goldenrod with other botanicals & assembling goodies boxes for mail orders on etsy's earthmarket. Current projects: deep cleaning, maintenance, pool & garden clean up, prune, root new fruit trees, sew patches in the teepee, co-create potting shed, weaving willow for baskets and fencing. We grow native indigenous & wild settler botanicals; harvest fruit and berries, dry & rub herbs, craft teas, spice blends, botanical soda, preserve, ferment, freeze, clean guest rooms, change beds, do laundry, mud the cob house, digging a walapini & root cellar & make twice daily Michelin star-worthy whole food feasts to WOW international guests.


Daily work here is maintenance - the laying on of hands - it's how we get more love in the world. Kahlil Gibran says "Work is Love made visible." We work hard, play hard, nourish one another in conscious shared community care, grow interdependent deep green roots & love doing it. In sustainability, we fix, reuse, recycle, repurpose, kinsugi repair & remake everything. Nearly every object in this life is a gift, upcycled, handmade or someone else's refuse. We walk gently, barefoot upon the earth, be the change we wish to see in our world, invest ethically & live life differently outside the box. Our shared eco life is a choice to be of service, an obligation, a practice of reverence, extending in loving kindness to all life. Being present in each NOW moment as an active daily meditation. "Love is the will to extend oneself, for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth" - M Scott Peck. We celebrate diversity, rainbows & shiny happy humans from around the globe.


We invite cool kats who fit this puzzle seamlessly to apply for an eco business apprenticeship (with needs based annual scholarship) & earn 12 month culinary permaculture, 2, 3 or 4 year eco business certification papers (private mentoring with guided self led learning about your passions: food forest gardens, wild culinary design, farm to table, value added agricultural products, online marketing, photography, farm stay guest house management, eco cleaning & body care, recycled building, ethnobotany). Certification details your personal responsibility, accountability in flow & the skill sets you develop with us based on the realization of your own entrepreneurial vision statement.


Building momentum, we see co-creation with those who film, hunt/fish/butcher, landscape, rock or twig build, farm to table chef or market garden farmers and offer land based micro business profit shares for entrepreneurial apprentices who want to ground in and grow something real together. Choose us because you love what we have built in the world, can imagine cool things you would like to contribute & want to become an integral piece of a bigger complex puzzle, authentically made with love. We LOVE mad trade skills, mellow permies, natural eco builders, arborists, healers, yogis, body workers, personal trainers (injury recovery). Are you a budding film maker or social media guru? We have camera / audio equipment for virtual sharing so if you dig photo, video, or livestream, bring your skills, ideas, equipment and let's grow more open source content for online learning.


We challenge ourselves & all collaborative visitors to honor and practice:

“The Four Agreements
1. Be impeccable with your word. [tell the truth - do what i say i will do]
2. Don’t take anything personally. [not my circus - not my monkeys]
3. Don’t make assumptions. [be curious - ask questions - share feelings]
4. Always do your best. [my best is enough & is different in each moment]
Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom.


Colin & Alexandra are contagiously enthusiastic, perfectly imperfect, fallible humans, respectfully growing deep to realize home together on this land. We are LGBTQ2SPN+ allies. We practice the four agreements, compassionate communication (NVC), radical intimacy, being yoga, active meditation & teach only Love. Ask for what you want. Tell people your needs. Share your feelings & All is well. Know the universe is conspiring to shower us all in joy and abundance. Please use the word AWESOME in your reply to tell us why you love it!


House Rules, Guidelines and Intentions:
Welcome to our Urban Forest Retreat!

A few things to make sure we're your kind of stay:

PLEASE Do NOT expect brand new shiny luxury. Made with Love invests in an authentic upcycled experience of good green earth.

The Vibe:

We’re a well-loved, old farmhouse, rough around the edges and full of character with overgrown permaculture gardens of fresh fruit, high above the wildlife wetlands - think abundance - homey, full of stories & fallen leaves, NOT pristine hotel polish. All built from old, ancient, reused and reclaimed materials, woven through the natural environment with kintsugi care and a whole lot of hands. If you need everything new, immaculate and predictable, we might not be your fit—but if you dig earthy, unique, creative spaces, you’ll feel right at home.

For Everyone’s Comfort & Safety:

All guests are comfortable with natural nudity. Clothing-optional zones: Pool, hot tub and hidden gardens. When minors are visiting, the whole property dynamic is family-friendly.

Our space is adult-oriented, NOT "baby-proof" or suitable for children, infants or pets who must be well supervised at all times.

We’ve got climbing, jumping, adventure, wildlife, pollinators, natural alkaline, mineralized, copper crystal pool, hot tub and steep waterfront cliffs. You’re free to explore, but responsible for your own well-being (uneven paths, sharp tools, bugs, heights, dug holes etc.).

On Substances & Scents:

Chill space: Occasional alcohol, natural real cannabis (flower, leaf, bud edibles, vape or smoke outside or hot tub) or sacred plant medicine is cool — be mindful & ask those around you.

ZERO TOLERANCE: No commercial tobacco smokers or nicotine vapers, No use of commercial cigarettes, nicotine vapes, scented or synthetic THC/DMT products (no pens, dabs, shatter etc.)

PLEASE DO NOT smoke or vape on the road, in your vehicle or around the property. If you like to indulge, please leave these substances at home, come to us scent-free and make your time with us a chemical free detox on this beautiful clean pristine barefoot grounding land of Secwepemcúl'ecw.

We’re scent-sensitive! Please skip the fresheners, perfumes/colognes during your stay. If you smell like smoke, fragrance, scent or chemicals as above, you will be asked to leave. Personal medicines, essential oils, natural beauty products are cool. Ask us why?

House Flow:

Quiet hours: 10 PM–8 AM. Wi-Fi and shared spaces are open 8 AM–10 PM. Wireless in the great room may not be accessible in bedrooms. Screen-free Sundays: Wi-Fi’s off—great day to unwind, read, or explore!

Thank you for respecting this wild & whimsical shared eco-life —if you are a playful peaceful engaged human being, we’re excited to host you! Questions? Just ask.

ASSUMPTION OF RISKS: In consideration of being permitted as a guest at Made with Love Urban Farm:
(i) I (we) agree to assume all risks surrounding our activities; and
(ii) I (we) release and forever discharge the community and property owners, from any and all liability for any manner of loss, damage, or injury, that may be sustained.

Booking this guest stay through worldpackers is acceptance of these risks.