🌾 Ranch Life Experience – Learn, Grow & Live Off the Land 🐄🌱

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The experience

Do you dream of experiencing the quiet yet busy life of the Ranch Way of Life?
Do you love being out in a remote area, surrounded by many animals and others who enjoy the life of the cowboy/cowgirl?
Would you love to have the cultural experience of how to grow your own food and live mostly off the land? We offer a quiet place in the country surrounded by many different farm animals.
And we look forward to teaching your our life and hosting you.

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What you offer

30 hours of help per week

Painting & Decorating: Help with painting or decorating the property facilities.

Animal Care: Help look after and take care of animals.

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

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

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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.

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

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Requirements

Beginner English

Over 18 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

Travel insurance

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What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

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Program Details

We offer the unique experience of sharing our knowledge of building a successful Ranch from the ground up. We have experience of direct marketing, advertising, promoting our services, and are continually learning ourselves how to thrive in the ever changing Ranch Business and are more than happy to share this knowledge with others who are passionate. We can offer food (we will purchase together and have meals both together and separately) and accommodations (in the summer would look like a 5th wheel holiday trailer close to the house with power, bathroom amenities are inside the house and laundry for your use), winter is your own room within the house. We welcome couples and have a beautiful Queen size bed in the room.
In the winter: can host one guest or one couple
In the summer we can host up to 4 guests/couples.
In trade for some hard but very rewarding and very enjoyable work around the farm. KD Ranch is a Ranch has been built from the ground up by a young passionate family, and we are constantly growing so there's so much to experience here!
Our kids help along side us, so enjoying the little joys of having kids around is a must. Our kids are 2 and 6 so enjoying the busting life they bring is important for our guest to know that we are an active busy household.

We are becoming more and more involved in taking in opportunities to showcase our horses and cattle and this is something you could also be a part of as well. We have local rodeos and events you could also attend. And sometimes in the winter we make a trip to the local indoor riding arena to ride and work with young horses.
Our little area has much to see and experience with a welcoming small town feel.
We are 25 min. to the nearest town, 15 to the nearest hamlet so you must enjoy being out in nature.

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Activities & Shift

Examples of the expected work in trade for the experience, accommodations, food and learning experience:
• Labour work: must be able to and willing to do physical work
• Assisting with calving and foaling
• Treatment and care for cattle, horses, chickens, pigs, dogs etc.
• Fencing
• Cleaning manure
• General farm clean up and maintenance
• Driving machinery (if not trained we are willing to train)
• Assisting with halter breaking and basic training of horses and cows
• Cooking, cleaning, and yard work
• Good and comfortable with children as our children will be working along side many jobs
• We believe in safety first, and will train in all the tasks and are often working along side, and always in the bigger ones.

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Rules

- We expect that helpers will commit to a minimum 2 weeks stay, but ideally a month or more, unless something really isn’t working. As we will put a lot of time into your training and we have your kids that don’t want to constantly see people come and go.
- We have kids so they are our number one and you must be okay with and love kids and be respectful. Kids are bubbly and happy humans and know that it will be a busy household so you must enjoy the busting life they bring.
- You must be respectful of us and other farm guests as well as all the animals
- You must be an animal lover.
- You must be open to learning and willing to help, and help in the weather conditions.
- You just come in with a go getter attitude.
- We require you to help clean up after you basic messes and we require you to help with the dishes and basic clean up outside of your hours as everyone eats so everyone cleans up. (If you’re helping cook for everyone that’s absolutely part of your hours).
- We expect you to use water wisely as we don’t have a well we haul all our water for the house.
- If we are busy you will be expected sometimes to heat up your own food, generally there’s leftovers and there’s always something in the house to eat.
- No smoking in the house or vehicles. No drugs or parties. We are a safe family home.
- We require you to communicate any concerns or what’s working or not and what your expectations are with us, as we don’t know if we don’t know.