Work/trade
Type: volunteer/work-trade position with room and board
Organization: Mossy Banks Farm
Website: http://mossybanks.ca
Location: Duncan, Cowichan Valley, Vancouver Island, British Columbia
I know of a wonderful opportunity opening up in the near future on an organic,
permaculture-based farm on Richards Trail in the Cowichan Valley: a work trade
arrangement – your work on the farm in exchange for room and board.
The farm has many things happening – vegetable gardens, a quarter acre food
forest recently established, and a three-quarter acre food forest to be planted
workshop style this coming
August. It is also home to sheep, ducks, chickens,
and turkeys year round, and seasonally raises meat birds, pigs, and turkeys.
Skills and experiences await to be discovered here by you, but already gained
experience always helps – especially in the areas of construction, animal
husbandry, vegetable gardens, wildcrafting, propagating plants, and more! There
may be room for you to earn personal income on the farm: you can start up a
rabbit operation, plant propagation business, wormery – the opportunities are
nearly endless! But space is limited. The owner is open to ideas and expansion.
Tucked away in a bend of Richards Trail, the farm is a beautiful paradise cut
off from view of the road by the second growth forest that surrounds it. With
17 acres of marshland, woods with all sorts of wild mushrooms growing
throughout the year, three acres of bluffs, and around seven acres of sheep
fields and gardens, there is lots to explore on this 37 acre property. The
Teafarm is a twenty minute walk down the road, Mount Richard is a wonderful
hiking ground, and all the beautiful homes and farmland along the roads in the
neighbourhood mean even more to explore off the property.
The farm is a fifteen-minute drive from downtown Duncan, and about forty
minutes from Nanaimo.
For more information, please check out the website at mossybanks.ca . If you’re interested in pursuing this
adventure, please email Jake at:
jakevanderwerf@mossybanks.ca
so we can get in touch and see if it is a good fit for all involved.
Thanks! And please do pass this information on to anyone you think may be
interested.
