Workaway at the Grey Ghost Farm

The Grey Ghost farm is ran by Amy and Mark. They raise sheep and grow vegetables the organic way. Depending on the season, they are looking for people helping them with some of the jobs at the farm from weeding, feeding the animals to cleaning around, helping them building shed... All this in exchange for food and shelter. This is basically what Workaway is.

We decide to stop in Williams Lake to check the visitor center and a short hike before heading to the farm 20 minutes away from the city where we meet Amy and Mark. Amy is working full time in the city in the tourism industry and taking care of the vegetables when at home while Mark takes care of the sheep, and the building in and around the farm.

Our first job is to clean up a side of the farm. They are planning to move one of the shed and we need to clear everything around it. We also help mark setup an electric fence around on of the neighbor's field so he can bring the sheep to moan the lawn the next day. It helps the neighbor and it's free food for the sheep so it's a win-win!

Michael, Mark's son comes to the farm on the 3rd day to work on the big hay shed which needs to be renovated/finished. That's where I spend the next 3 days helping them to build the shed while Petra takes care of giving water to the sheep, helping us from time to time with the shed and preparing dinner in the evening. She also learns about dehydrated food and uses Amy's machine to dehydrate some of our food so we can use it for back-country camping.

Did I mention about the food? It was delicious. They are actually hunting deer during Autumn and freezing it for the rest of the year. The deer steak were so yummy. And the vegetables, when coming from the garden, were tasty as well!

We learned a lot during our stay, from building and cooking to farming stuff like trip a sheep up to get him in position to get their hoof trimmed.

Amy also told us about a lot of things to do around such as Bella Coola and Barkerville. It was an amazing meeting and we are so thankful to Amy, Mark and Michael for showing us all this.