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Feeling Spontaneous? It is the first days summer at Starry Lake Dark Sky Oasis! Lots of improvement projects goung on all the time! Loads of cleaning! Waterfront tidy up, clearing trails, gardening etc.
We try to find jobs to suit your talents Solo & Team work- lots fun, you'll be included in family life. We'll mostly be at Starry Lake with maybe a visit to Toronto. There will be work time and free time to explore and relax.
22 hours of help per week
Painting & Decorating: Help with painting or decorating the property facilities.
Cleaning: Help clean the kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms and common areas.
Building & Repairing: Help with a wide range of repairs or building.
Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens
2 days off per week
Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.
Tent: You will sleep in a tent at a camping site.
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.
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.
Basic Internet Access: Basic speed internet for you to work remotely
Intermediate English
Over 18 years old
Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers
Travel insurance
Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa
We have officially taken on too many projects! We have a busy family home in downtown Toronto that needs loads of reaping, organizing, and refining, AND a 200 acre Eco Retreat property 3hrs out of the city in gorgeous Canadian Wilderness called Starry Lake Dark Sky Oasis that is in constant development- physically and in the visionary sense.
It is spring so time to lean into a tonne of outdoor projects at Starry Lake! I am hoping we can get a small team of willing helpers to head up there and go wild in the woods! Obviously if we have helpers we will try to make it fun and interesting for you and to see if we can have you doing projects that inspire you most. Some stuff is more "Labour" and other tasks are more artistic or engineering inclined (If you have building skiss that is a huge bonus! Or gardening skills, or even tech skills! ( Maybe you notice we don't have a web site yet? but we do have facebook where there are lots of pictures) The next few weeks will be more blanced towards Starry Lake but since we do have a city house too so some time will be in Toronto organizing and doing yard work and cleaning. Its the best of all worlda... experience the bustling city and utterly peaceful nature.
Stuff to know.there is no laundry facility at Starry Lake but we will get you to town so you can use the laundromat or we can wash clothes when we are in the city. Hand washing also works!
Internet at Starry Lake is not guranteed. When people are renting the house we won't have access. So olease understand we can't accomodate Needing to get you on the web... Not suitable if you need to work onljne Digital detox here we come. ;-)
While at Starry Lake accomodations vary depending who is there. You might stay at the main house if no guests are there, or in the heat if summer (July Aug Sept) one of our awesome glamping tents or regular tents. Summer is a fun glamping experience by the lake mostly.
When there are guests renting at Starry Lake we need to be ready to "flip" the place- meaning cleaning between renters so that it is shining and ready for our next visitors.
Other jobs may include clearing new spots on the waterfront for better swimming, cleaning to prepare for guests or cutting trails, working on the gardens, giving some energy and love to our wood chip compost hot water heater project (which is the coolest thing most people have never heard of) building platforms for future glamping sites, art projects like painting signs for trails etc.
There will be different jobs depending who is the leader. when James is the leader at Starry Lake youll do things like- finishing the interior of our glamping trailer walls, possibly setting up a new storage shed.. not difficult stuff but requiring a hammer and nails and good common sense.
If and when we are in Toronto City tasks will include general cleaning and organizing and lots of assistance in 'becoming more minimalist' which is somewhat comical since we ( I?) tend to collect projects and 'stuff for projects’. We need to toss lots of unused things, put in more systems, build some closets and create more order in this house so that it doesn’t feel like constant chaos. 😊
There is also a lot of outdoor yard work in Toronto and some straight-forward construction things.
Also, maybe you have skills making wordpress websites? Your tech skills might also be a dream come true since we really do have too many things on the list including building a starry lake website etc...
Something to know about us is that this home is a drug free space. If you are coming to Canada for the legal weed, we aren’t a good match. No problem with a glass of wine, beer or spirits in moderation, but the vibe here is much more ‘detox’ than ‘intox’. 😊
You will be staying with us in our home. There is no smoking in the house.
