We are both in our late 60s and early70s, early retirement from forest industry in order to enjoy off grid living on 40 acres (16 ha)and starting a trial permaculture small fruit orchard.
We now have a very nice u-pick berry orchard with, Haskap, Saskatoon berries, Sour Cherries, Josta berries, Aronia, Chokecherries, Seabuckthorn and Purple Raspberries among others
We live in a 32' yurt with a strawbale above ground basement. Our electricity is provided by solar and wind power. We live in an area of fairly extreme conditions, near minus 40 in winter and up to +35 in summer, frost occurs some years every month. A challange to grow anything with great success, but when living outside a box makes any challenge a welcome project, if it is not somewhat of a challenge, it is hardly worth doing.
This year's projects include planting some more haskap, area has already been prepared by pigs and will get a final rake over from our chickens. planting garden and greenhouses, one is a star dome, building a chord wood chicken hotel for our working laying hens, chipping/mulching small trees for our mulch that will be used for our row covers, starting another orchard area with a couple of loaned pigs using wooden pallets for containment, dismantling pallets for other projects including firewood for our rocket stoves.
Also on project list is converting a 15 ha wilderness on a small lake just 3.5 km east from us into a permaculture showcase.
Presently we have a converted school bus with cooking facility if inclined to do some of your own cooking, we can supply food, has a small propane camper fridge. We also have a small wall tent with wood stove for someone who wants to have a more rustic living quarters. A 28' long motorhome round out our wwoofer accommodations.
We have also 2 small ponds for garden, orchard and cooling off. This is a great place for someone who enjoys walking barefoot. For this coming season we require 2 wwoofers starting in the 1st week of April, wwoofing season ending with October. Hope to see you this spring.
We also heat with wood,so some cutting and chopping will be done now and then. Kayaks, paddleboards, 2 scooters and a huge wilderness is available for your recreation. we have 2 dogs, one 8 year old male and an 8 month old female.
2 huskies, down to 8 laying hens spending the summer in mobile chicken coops and 2 cats. Mobile chicken coop was finished by April wwoofer.
We will also use a Gypsy trailer for the farmers market where we sell our vegetables, fruit, jam, jelly and herbal balms and maybe some handcrafted items.
Will host a market in town when getting new wwoofers.
Hope to see some friendly and energetic wwoofers this coming season. Working hours are after breakfast which is 8 am, until as long as you like, 30 hours per week is what you may expect, longer if you desire, especially if it is a special desirable project.
Organic methods: No chemicals and no herbicides.
Certifications: We are not a commercial o system operation, growing mostly in a permacualture setting.
Current projects: Planting garden, orchard, permaculture with seabuckthorn, building chicken coop, have new bee colony.
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