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🌿 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
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
CulturaEventos e socialMascotesSustentabilidadeAutodesenvolvimentoFazendaAnimaisCarpintariaDesenho e pinturaFotografiaCuidar de plantasMúsicaFaça você mesmoJardinagemCulinária e comidaLivrosAtividades ao ar livreFitnessMontanhasNaturalezaDançaYoga/bem-estarOportunidades 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
Este projeto pode envolver crianças. Para mais informações, veja aqui nossas diretrizes e dicas.
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: IntermediárioEste anfitrião oferece intercâmbio de idiomas
We are actively studing Spanish but would also love to maintain our French :)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.
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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
Acesso à internet
Acesso à internet limitado
Temos mascotes
Somos fumantes
Pode hospedar famílias
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
Possible if they get along with our dog and are gentle with chickens and goats.
Quantos Workawayers pode acomodar?
Mais de 2
Meus animais / animais de estimação
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Chloé and Arthur
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Chloé and Arthur
The cultural exchange was a good way to gain insight in their daily life, homesteading and living in touch with nature. They shared a lot which was… read more