Currently looking for Wwoofers for spring, summer and early fall, 2025.
We have five acres on north Galiano Island, on a ridge with many tall trees. Our garden is an open meadow in the forest, where rich, dark soil has washed down the slope. We have vegetables, a big raspberry crop, strawberries, golden plums and three apple trees, including a Gravenstein and a Cox Pippin. We have many perennials & vines as well as annuals. Our gardening methods are organic with compost and mulch with sea soil, compost, manure & seaweed, and wood chips at an abundant nearby source.
The garden requires a lot of attention, especially in the summer dry season; mulching, watering, weeding, picking veggies etc., gathering seaweed & wood mulch. We have also developed a circular stone garden and more raised beds/stonework/paths. We work on the garden starting early spring, through the summer and well into the fall. Our two adult kids will be on Galiano for parts of the summer. We are here pretty much fulltime for the spring, summer and fall.
Suzanne likes cooking & baking and is used to adapting menus for carnivores, vegetarians, vegans and like us, omnivores. Our philosophy is to put in three to four hours of work, depending on the weather, and then leisure time reading in the hammock or off to the beach for a late afternoon swim; Wwoofers of course are welcome to join us. Work/leisure time is always negotiable as to timing during the day.Please feel free to enquire about anything; we look forward to meeting you!
Suzanne & Art
Certifications: Not certified, but use organic methods, no chemicals or pesticides.
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Learning opportunities
Vegetable farming
Fruit or nut farming
Flower farming
Vegetable or fruit preservation
Host type
Self-sufficiency property
