CHILDCARE + HOME CARE POSITION AVAILABLE
THIS IS A POSITION ON AN ONGOING CONTRACT with a minimum of 2-4 year
commitment.
Position: Full Time Nanny/ Home-care on our BEAUTIFUL ORGANIC FARM, on
Salt Spring Island, B.C.
Organization: GOLDEN TREE FARM
Location: Salt Spring Island, BC, British Columbia, Canada
Job Begins Februray 15 2015
30 Hours a Week
Year Round with two (UNPAID) vacations up to 6 weeks a year
+$1500 month
+ a private, small, rustic, beautiful, off grid private cabin (propane
and wood are your responsibility) The cabin has a small functional
kicthen, wood stove, bedroom, bay window, hot running water (sink and
shower) and an outhouse. It has one solar panel for a minimal power
load.
+ full abundant seasonal board from our farm / garden
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We are Adam & Rebecca Gold and our two young sons Moe (3) and Elijah
(1). We acquired our farmland in 2009, and have been (happily) working
our butts off ever since. This is the second farm we have started, and
are still involved in stewarding our original project.
We are currently looking for a full time nanny/home care support
person. Please join us in raising our two beautiful, spirited and
strong children.
We are looking for a child-centric, caring, comfortable, patient,
organized & smart individual who is interested in coming to live on
our farm, help with our sons, and help with light house work such as
daily kitchen & livingroom cleanup, weekly laundry an bi-weekly meal
prep and help with the home landscape
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You must have a passion for children, as well as past experience
working intimately with children in some capacity.
You will have the opportunity to live & play on our increadiby
beautiful, functional organic farm. You will have private accomidation
but there is a yearly apprenticeship programme wher 4-5 people come
and live, work and learn from our family. Thus you will have the
opprotunity to make a peer community and share experiences on site. We
live on the bus route to town, so you can also engage easily with the
greater salt spring island community.
You will also have the opportunity to glean skills in rural
homesteading such as food preservation, wildcrafting, herbal medicine
making and animal care.
This poition is for someone who can commit to stay on for a minimum of
2 years and ideally up to 4 years. You will also gain skills in herb
harvest, food preservation and home landscaping
This position will be 30 hours a week.
Aprroximately 3 mornings of childcare, and four afternoons of indoor
and outdoor home support. Schedule to be determined, depending on our
seasonal needs.
You will be working intimately with our family on our farm. You will
have the increadible opportunity to explore our acerage, both
agricultural and woodland with our children daily!! As well as glean
skills from Rebecca, on the Social Art of Homemaking and Homesteading.
Two mornngs a week you will also be caring for one to two other
children who come to our farm for a regular play group.
Our home and landscape is very child-centric with lots of areas to
play and discover. Youw ill also have the regular opportunity to on
outing such as library, park and other alternative educational
activities.
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WHO WE ARE:
Rebecca has a degree in environmental agriculture, is a master
gardener, and has 14 years experience working in the “fields” of
organic agriculture, permaculture and rural homesteading. Every year
she works hard at growing and preserving huge amounts of scrumptious
food to share with her family and close friends. She adores growing
flowers and wild-crafting nettles. She makes herbal medicine and
practices kundalini yoga. She loves taking long walks and listening to
the bird sing. Lately her main passion is raising her babies.
Adam has a degree in business and creatively weaved his education and
his passion’s for rural homesteading and orcharding into a successful
and meaningful career. He also has a passion for Fungi, and seven
years ago this passion inspired him to create Salt Spring Exotic
Mushrooms, which grows and distills the highest quality medicinal
mushrooms. Besides riding on his tractor, his passions include
drinking gourds of yerba mate, brewing hard cider, jamming on guitar
and dancing around the living room to Ska music with his son’s.
Moe and Eli were both born on the farm, and have spent most everyday
living and breathing the good energy we cultivate here. Moe is three
years old. His main passions include cuddling his parents and baby
brother, trucks & trains of all colors and sizes, the sand box, riding
on the tractor with Papa and playing his drum. He is also a true
strawberry coinsurer.
Eli just turned one. He loves to eat, and nurse and eat some more. He
also really loves to watch his parents cook meals…there may be a theme
developing here, the next in a line of food aficionados’. As well, he
loves riding on his moms back in the sling, watching the farm and the
colors & sounds of the seasons.
We also share parcels of our land with other motivated people who are
agriculturally and spiritually oriented. You will have the opportunity
to work with and learn from them as well. There will be days when most
members of our small farm community work together on shared tasks.
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WHAT WE DO:
We steward a 30-acre Organic Family Farm located on St. Mary’s Lake,
on Salt Spring Island B.C. Over the past few years we have installed
an 8-acre orchard including European Pears, Asian Pears, Heritage and
Current Apples, Prune Plums, Japanese Plums, Figs, Cherries and
Persimmons. We have installed two acres of Blueberries.
We also grow medicinal mushrooms for distillation, including Reishi,
Maitake and Shiitake. We have pigs, chickens, goats and kitty cats.
Commercially we grow garlic, blueberries, raspberries, rhubarb,
loganberries and strawberries as well as specialty vegetables for our
farm stand and wholesale contracts.
We grow a large sustenance garden for ourselves, where we produce and
preserve much of our own food and seeds. We steward this special
property with its estuaries, forest patches and spiritual spaces.
We also share space on our farm with a commercial permaculture nursery
(Entelechi/Brandon Bauer http://www.permaculturebc.com)
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WHO YOU ARE:
• You must be childcentric, patient, careing, compassionate and communicative.
• Your values must align with Attachment Parenting Techniques and Non
Violent Communication.
• You must be physically strong.
• You must be self-motivated, open minded and kind.
• You must be capable fo living (comfortably but ) rustically in a
beautiful rural landscape
• We will only consider people who have previous experience in childcare!
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ARE YOU INTERESTED?
If you think this job would enrich your life, please contact us by
filling out and emailing the application below
Email your answers to:
rebeccasunshine5@gmail.com
We will contact you by December 15 if we are interested in a Skype /
phone interview.
Please be honest! We are forming a team and need a diversity of
passionate people.
APPLICATION QUESTIONS
Why are you interested in working with us?
What is your past experience in childcare?
DO you have any past experience living or working in a farm or in a
communal setting? If so what?
What are your goals for this placement?
What specific skills can you offer to our family?
What experience do you have that will help prepare you for living on
an island, in a close-knit community, where everyone is working and
living in close quarters in a rustic, outdoor setting?
How do you best communicate?
How are you best communicated with?
Do you perceive any challenges that will come up for you? If so what?
What is the most fun thing you’ve done in the last year?
Tell us about the most exciting thing you learned in the past year and
how you learned it.
State three interesting and unique things about yourself.
What is your favorite kind of music? / Is there any music you cannot stand?
What is your favorite thing to cook?
What is your astrological sign?
Are you on any medication?
Do you have any physical limitations?
Will you be leaving anyone significant behind to join our program?
Please list 2 work related references and 1 character references, with
both phone and email contacts.
(Note, if you are offered a placement we will ask for a general police
background check)
