Discover farming on Beautiful Vancouver Island Canada!!

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The experience


Want to learn livestock farming and general farm live? Join us, we accept travellers who has a positive attitude and is ready to help and learn!
Food is provided, cooking duties are shared and are not included as part of work duties .

We get a-lot of interest so for your application TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY we ask for an introduction video with your application. We feel at video gives us a good sense of who you are before the video call


What you offer

30 hours of help per week

Farming: Plant crops, sow seeds and help in outside tasks.

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

Building & Repairing: Help with a wide range of repairs or building.


What you get

2 days off per week

Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.

Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

Bikes at your disposal: You can use our bikes any time you want.

Pick Up: We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Fast Internet Access: High-speed internet for you to work remotely


Requirements

Intermediate English

Between 20 and 70 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

Mandatory volunteer introduction video


What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa


Program Details

Each day there will be set tasks for that day. Chickens, Sheep, Fish Ponds and help with packing spices and catnip, opening the small farm stand, and general yard work.


Activities & Shift

Spring 2025. We are looking for 3 people 2-6 weeks to help in the spring with spring clean up and help packing spices with us. Summer 2025 one - two people for one week 5 hrs a day depending on how much we get done. We are on one of the top destinations in the world so there are many things to do close to us.

The help is mainly physical work, including helping with the animals, feeding, cleaning stalls and fixing things., care of the farm stand, animals, cooking, help with seasonal cleaning, general fun farm stuff.


We are open to all ages, experiences, and different lengths of stays. We get a-lot of interested so for your application to be taken seriously we ask for an introduction video with your application. We feel a video gives us a good sense of who you are before we both make time for a video call. Many Travellers have these in this in their profile, we accept links to videos on YT as well.


Rules

*Our Volunteers must NOT smoke or vape, including marijuana.

*Social drinks are accepted at your OWN expense. You will be considerate towards others at all times and participate in daily routines such as keeping everything tidy, meal preps, and maintaining main areas such as kitchen, bathroom, chicken coup, sheep barn, and all living and entertaining areas clean daily.

*We provide a variety of amazing food, vegetarian dishes, as well as lamb and chicken from our farm.