An offer that might be right for you...

I got this email from a Friend of The Yarrow Ecovillage. It might appeal to one of our readers...

Greetings,

We are a quiet middle aged couple with a few cats and a friendly large dog who live on a very beautiful 10 acre farm near Creston BC. We also have ducks and will soon have chickens and have raised 3 heritage pigs and some rabbits too.

We just bought the farm last April and have done a ton of repairs and setting up infastructure...the idea is to be food self sufficient, to have enough and enough to share. and maybe turn into a business or two...we are very interested in aquaculture. Our land offers a lot of potential for young farmer want a bees who have some building and gardening skills so we are hoping along the way to meet up with such a couple. We realize we do not have enough time or energy to do it all alone.

For now we are just seeking folks who have some building skills or gardening skills and would love to have a working holiday. We would provide food and a place to lay their heads (though they could also camp on the land) in exchange for about 20 hr total of work per day. That leaves lots of time to go fishing in our rivers or just up the road at Kootenay or Duck lake...or borrowing our kayaks or biking or hiking or whatever they feel like.

So much more could be said..this place is so amazing...and we feel very blessed to be here and are willing to share its goodness..we have a list of projects for this upcoming year...microhydro, maybe a strawbale guest house, a green house or two...electric fencing around our old orchard...and on and on.

So if people want to come for a few weeks or months we can work around that...just send us an Email to connect and then hopefully we will meet one day soon. We are totally into the permaculture mind set....

Ellen and Mike

snowpeach (at) mail (big old dot) com