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Volunteer on a horse ranch in rural canada!

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The experience

We live on 127 acres located on a large lake in rural BC surrounded by wilderness. Volunteers would help with day to day chores such as fencing, pasture cleanup of rocks and sticks, firewood, building projects, cleaning of horse paddocks, care of livestock, chainsawing and use of tools such as weedwhacking and mowing for those who have these skills, saddling and grooming horses for those with horse knowledge and other ranching chores.

What you offer

5 hours of help per day

Cleaning: Help clean the kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms and common areas.

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

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

What you get

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.

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.

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

Beginner English

Over 18 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

We have many different things needing to be done on the ranch and we work with you to ensure that the work you are doing, you are able to do. We are looking for volunteers that enjoy to work as a team with the others and are self motivated.

Activities & Shift

The activities change day to day, and month to month depending on the project that we are working on at the time. There is always rocks and sticks to be picked in the fields, pasture maintenance like weedwacking and mowing. Firewood to be collected. Horse paddocks to be cleaned. Fencing repairs/building. etc.

If you're interested in horses you are welcome to watch any lessons or clinics going on at the ranch. There may be some limited riding opportunity to those seriously interested and wanting to learn about western riding and horsemanship but we can't guarentee it at this time. The main focus on the ranch is training competitive Reined Cowhorses, teaching lessons and clinics. Most of the horses on the ranch are clients horses here for me personally to train and compete with, my own competition horses, and our older horses that are used for lessons, clinics and my kids horses. There is always lots of horses to groom and spend time with and lots of opportunity to observe and learn but due to limited horses that are not already booked for lessons ride time is not always possible.

Rules

No smoking, or illicet substances. Household chores are shared with all people in the house expected to pitch in, we do the majority of the cooking and ask that you help clean up the kitchen daily.