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Heartfelt Homesteading, Garden Life, and Animal Care on the beautiful Island of Manitoulin, Canada

Disponibilidade

  2025 

 Hospedagem min. solicitada: mínimo 2 semanas

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  • Descrição

    Descrição

    🌿 Welcome to Our Magical Homestead on Manitoulin Island! 🌿

    Hi friends!
    We’re Tala and Dávid, and we warmly invite you to join us on our 100-acre organic farm and forest sanctuary on the beautiful and spacious Manitoulin Island.

    Our land is alive with abundance—fruit trees, a tranquil pond, vibrant wildlife, and a no-dig heirloom garden full of herbs, veggies, and flowers. We share our home with a gentle livestock guardian dog, 20 Easter-egg-laying chickens, a magical pair of peafowl, five hilarious Nigerian dwarf goats (who we milk), and recently, a herd of seven horses who pasture our 25-acre field.

    We’re on a journey toward self-sufficiency and holistic living—starting everything from seed, making our own compost, preserving food, saving seeds, and living in harmony with the land. Creativity, mindfulness, and connection are central to our daily rhythm.

    🌸 About Us

    Tala is passionate about dance, music, and sewing. She is currently studying Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy and Mayan Abdominal Massage, sees clients part-time, and runs a small Etsy shop.

    Dávid is a carpenter and builder who loves neuroscience, meditation, quantum physics, and creative design.

    We value balance—work, rest, and play—and we begin each day with meditation or movement. While you're not expected to follow a daily practice, you're encouraged to take time for reflection and self-connection.

    🌱 What You Can Learn Here

    Depending on the season and your stay, you might take part in:

    Seed starting, planting, weeding, harvesting
    No-dig gardening and permaculture principles
    Trellising, row-covering, seed saving, composting
    Canning and preserving food
    Chicken and goat care (including milking)
    Homesteading systems and eco-building
    Cooking nourishing meals
    Creative projects, art, and music
    Land stewardship and learning about local Indigenous culture

    There are lakes, beaches, and trails nearby to explore. Life here is peaceful, slow-paced, and deeply connected to nature.

    ✨ 2025 Update: Who We're Looking For

    This season, we are welcoming three types of visitors:

    1. Short-Term Housesitters (for the dates below):
    Help with light daily chores (animal care, watering, weeding) while we are away. In exchange, you’ll have a quiet stay in our cozy cabin, homegrown organic food, and the chance to connect with nature.

    2. Short-Term Visitors/Helpers (min. 2-week stay):
    For travelers looking to learn and contribute. Help a few hours a day in exchange for lodging, food, and hands-on experience with homesteading.

    3. Long-Term Helpers (Summer–Fall, or Winter Stay):
    Ideal for someone (or a couple) looking to live simply and connect deeply with our land and lifestyle. Fewer hours required each week to allow you time to pursue your own part time passions on the side. This option doesn't include all your food (however we still do provide basic pantry staples and garden veggies) but offers more independence, collaboration, and creative opportunity.

    🐐 What We’re Looking For

    Ideally some experience with gardening or animals, but not necessary
    Open-hearted, communicative, and reliable
    Comfortable being self-directed
    Vehicle access is helpful due to our rural location
    Willingness to engage in both the fun and the messy parts of homestead life

    Daily animal chores take about 45 minutes, shared among all of us. Gardening and project hours vary from 2–4 hours a few days a week, depending on the season.

    🗓️ House/Farm Sitting Dates for 2025:

    July 31 – August 4

    September 15 – 23

    December 14, 2025 – January 31, 2026

    We’re excited to connect with kindred spirits who are eager to learn, share, and enjoy this magical land with us.
    Thank you for reading, and we look forward to hearing from you!

    With warmth,
    Tala & Dávid 🌿

  • Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado

    Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado

    Ajuda em projetos ambientais
    Jardinagem
    Construção/faça você mesmo
    Cuidar de animais
    Ajuda em fazenda
    Criar/cozinhar refeições caseiras
    Ajuda a cuidar da casa
    Manutenção geral
    House sitting
  • Interesses

    Interesses

    Cultura
    Eventos e social
    Mascotes
    Sustentabilidade
    Autodesenvolvimento
    Fazenda
    Animais
    Carpintaria
    Desenho e pintura
    Fotografia
    Cuidar de plantas
    Música
    Faça você mesmo
    Jardinagem
    Culinária e comida
    Livros
    Atividades ao ar livre
    Fitness
    Montanhas
    Naturaleza
    Dança
    Yoga/bem-estar
  • Oportunidades de intercâmbio cultural e aprendizado

    Oportunidades de intercâmbio cultural e aprendizado

    An opportunity to slow down and experience a way of living that is connected to the land, nature and wholeistic living.

  • Projetos que envolvem crianças

    Projetos que envolvem crianças

    Este projeto pode envolver crianças. Para mais informações, veja aqui nossas diretrizes e dicas.

  • Ajuda

    Ajuda

    Helpers will experience and participate in all the steps of growing a garden: seeding and caring for seedlings in spring, bed preparation, transplanting, weeding, water, harvesting, etc.

    As well as food transformation: sourdough, fermentation, preserving, freezing... making sauerkraut, kimchi, pickles, tomato sauce, goat cheese, yogurt and soaps..

    Daily tasks include collecting eggs and milking goats.

    Depending on the skill set, we could use help with some building projects and general maintenance of the property.

  • Idiomas

    Idiomas
    Inglês: Fluente
    Francês: Intermediário
    Hungarian: Intermediário

    Este anfitrião oferece intercâmbio de idiomas
    We are actively studing Spanish but would also love to maintain our French :)

  • Acomodação

    Acomodação

    A private room in the house with a queen bed, or optional tenting anywhere on the property. We share a kitchen, and meals together while we are working.

  • Algo mais...

    Algo mais...

    It would be best if you have your own vehicle to explore the area as we are quite rural. There is lots to enjoy - beaches, waterfalls, canoeing, swimming, hiking trails and local markets.

    We have a solid two bars of cell service outside of the house, one solid bar with the phone in the window, but no reception inside of the house. The house itself does not have wifi, but we use hotspot to access the internet and it works just fine for our needs. If you dont have a data plan, ours is shareable. In summary, quite workable, but gives an opportunity to be mindful about technology and instead lean into grounding with nature. :)

  • Mais alguns detalhes

    Mais alguns detalhes

    • Acesso à internet

    • Acesso à internet limitado

      Acesso à internet limitado

    • Temos mascotes

    • Somos fumantes

    • Pode hospedar famílias

  • Espaço para estacionar campervans

    Espaço para estacionar campervans

    We've got lots of room for parking, many options/ special spots, as well as various locations and platforms for tents.

  • Pode aceitar animais

    Pode aceitar animais

    Possible if they get along with our dog and are gentle with chickens and goats.

  • Quantos Workawayers pode acomodar?

    Quantos Workawayers pode acomodar?

    Mais de 2

  • Meus animais / animais de estimação

    Meus animais / animais de estimação

Nº de ref. de anfitrião: 225114416111

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