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🍁🌱 Farm Life Experience: Maple Syrup & Gardening on a Family Farm

The experience

We’re a family of four living on a 60-acre hobby farm 🍃. From late February to mid-April, we make maple syrup on a wood stove, and volunteers can help with boiling and canning, no experience needed, we’ll teach you 🍁. During the rest of the year, we care for the gardens, helping with soil prep, planting, weeding, harvesting, and winter preparation 🌱. We’d love to welcome you! ✨

What you offer

30 hours of help per week

Kitchen Hand: Help prepare, finish and serve meals.

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

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

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

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.

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.

Language lessons: Take free language classes at our place.

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 or Intermediate French

Between 20 and 80 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

Volunteers stay at our house, where the accommodation is provided 🏡. We can pick you up in Montreal or somewhere nearby. Work is about 5 days a week for around 6 hours, with some flexibility depending on the day. Tasks vary by season: maple-related work in winter 🍁 and gardening in summer 🌱. When you’re not working, we live like roommates—cooking for each other, sharing meals, and cleaning together. We like to treat volunteers like family, as if you were cousins.

Activities & Shift

A normal shift starts at about 9 am. We have a briefing for the day, to explain what is needed for the day, then we go out and spend 3 hours in the morning doing things like boiling maple syrup or tapping trees. Then we have 1 hour for lunch at the house, then 3 hours in the afternoon cleaning up and or finishing up the maple syrup.

Rules

We enjoy cooking dinner for each other and helping with the cleanup, just like a family. Our number one rule is to always take care of yourself, never put yourself in a situation where you feel unsafe. Beyond that, good communication is essential and highly valued.