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🚜 Building, Maintenance & Canadian Country Life Experience! 🇨🇦

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The experience

If you're a country soul who loves wildlife, horses, dogs, and connecting with good people, this is the perfect spot for you! Our property includes 8 horses 🐴, 3 dogs 🐕, 2 guest cabins, a shower house, a huge garden, and a berry orchard. We offer a separate cabin for volunteers 🏡.

We are seeking someone with mechanical skills who can help with vehicle maintenance (cars, quads, bobcats, etc.) for a long-term position.

What you offer

30 hours of help per week

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.

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

What you get

1 day off per week

Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.

Team Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other people.

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.

Free Tours: We’ll take you on tours and rides around town. For free!

Free Hiking Tours: We’ll take you on excursions and hikes around town. For free!

Get free drinks or beverages.: Drink up! Get free and tasty drinks for yourself.

Free Events: Get free entrance for the best events in town.

Language lessons: Take free language classes at our place.

Permaculture Course: Take part in our Permaculture course for free.

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

Requirements

Beginner English

Over 18 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

Travel insurance

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

Hello! My name is Audrey, I own and operate this ranch, in Hudson Bay, Saskatchewan. I have many guests both in winter and summer and we offer wagon, sleigh, and trail rides with the horses. It's a great place if you enjoy meeting new people and if you love animals! You would work in exchange for meals, housing, many other amenities and a variety of learning opportunities. There is a lake within 15 minutes for fishing and hiking, and the local area for hunting. You may horse back ride, play with our lovable dogs, enjoy the outdoor hot tub and indoor sauna, and also have a chance to see the northern lights. In the evenings we play plenty of cards and board games which always makes for a good laugh, with also plenty of free time to chill out for some quiet rest and relaxation.
I will do my best for you to have fun here.

Activities & Shift

The average work day is 5 to 6 hours, 6 days a week. You would stay in a cabin with private rooms built for volunteers, and we try to have at least four helpers at all times. The chores include taking care of the animals which is priority, property maintenance and for this specific position there will be a focus on: fence fixing, wood working, maintenance of our tractors, quads, truck and cars. Regarding horse training we currently have a pair of four years old and two five years old to work with if you are experienced. A typical work day is meeting at 8AM for breakfast, going through our daily chores list, and tackling the day's work. We meet again at 12 for lunch, after which we clean up and break until 4PM, when we prepare for dinner and finish any odd jobs until 5-6PM. The evenings are free time.

Rules

You will have access to hot tubs, cars and quads but with permission
We expect you to respect our home, each other and all the animals and treat everyone with kindness
Smoking is permitted outside only
No food is permitted inside the volunteers cabins