This is not a job posting. It’s also not a traditional accommodations posting.
I am seeking:
*2* people who have experience in - and passion for - working with animal fibre. You must also have some mechanical aptitude at a level where you can maintain and repair milling equipment. You will each receive 25% of fibre milling revenues. For the first 3 months, you would also have free housing (responsible for your own food), After that, if the arrangement is working out, you would pay $400/month for your room).
*1* person to be an animal keeper. Experience is not necessary - I can train you. However, a passion for animal care is necessary.
We provide: room & board and, after 6 months, 25% of the revenues that come from our own farm's fibre products.
You provide: 10 hours per week of help; so, you would probably want to get a 3/4 time job in town, because you are expected to contribute $400/month towards the household expenses.
These live-in opportunities provides a chance to go back to nature and live communally and *sustainably* in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia.
I would like to find 3 *non-smoking* individuals to be part of this. I’m a quiet, middle-aged guy who mostly keeps to himself, but I also love good conversation around the dinner table or the woodstove. Because I am seeking people for the long-term, it's important that we have some overlap in our worldview. I am about as far from "woke" ideology as you can get.
I have a pair of beautiful riverfront hobby farms, each with a large 4-bedroom house. There are 3 acres of wild blueberries, 6 acres of pasture, and about 8 acres of woods that provide more than enough firewood to heat both homes, using only sustainable harvesting. I have a small flock of free-range chickens.
Over the last decade, I have been raising fibre animals and developing a fibre business around them. I have 9 fibre animals at the moment, but I want to build the herd up to about 20 and to broaden the range of products we derive from the fibre. A small portion of my food comes from the property, and my vision is to increase that slowly and steadily every year.
Some of the new areas of activity that I want to undertake (after the first group long-term cohabitants are found) are:
-processing the fibre on-site, e.g., spinning and felting
-bee-keeping (which will also help pollinate the blueberry field)
-permaculture and biodynamics
-large vegetable and herb gardens
-farm store for the fibre products and blueberry products
-fishing the 1500 feet of river
-renewable energy to reduce our dependence on the grid
-art studio, as there are a lot of tourists here in the summer
-a yoga/meditation retreat / wellness centre (this would be further down the road)
I am open to the idea of you having your own studio / shop in one of the houses, if you have the talent and inventory to make a go of it. We'd have to sort out the financial arrangements for that.
Tell me all about yourself if you decide to message me about this. :-)
