New for 2026, we will be offering agricultural residencies with a focus on providing a safe learning environment to the extended queer community. You won’t need a background in the arts for these stays, you just need a desire to spend more time immersed nature and a willingness to get your hands dirty.
Self guided creative residencies are still available to painters, photographers, sculptors, fibre artists, filmmakers, illustrators, writers and other creative folks in need of a connection to nature as part of their creative practice and/or process. In season agricultural learning will be offered to any interested creatives as an option to your stay.
Residencies
Applicants can request a block of time anywhere from 2 days to 12 weeks
Our rates have moved to a sliding scale
$20 to $60 per night per person / subject to availability
Please send applications a minimum 4 weeks prior to your desired stay. Applications are processed within a week of the submission date.
Fee Free Residencies
These residencies involve dedicated time on available work share projects around the land depending on the length of your stay and season.
These stays are offer to those staying 5 or more nights. You agree to exchange 1 hour minimum per night on one or more of the work share projects below. 5 nights = 5 hours
Work Share Projects
Leave it to Future Generations – Is an ongoing land rehabilitation project lead by Joey Bruni. Accompany him on a journey that explores the physical meaning of what we leave behind for future generations. We’ll both go out to a site in need of care and collect materials left behind for decades, much of which is recyclables, sometimes diamonds in the rough and other times upcyclable in creative ways. This project also comes with a flip side of restoring the sites with native plants that will thrive as part or the under story ecosystem.
Seasonal Firewood Collection – For those with chainsaws safety certificates and/or comfortable with heavy lifting, there are many opportunities to lend a hand with firewood collection and storage. Wood is our main heating source and used throughout syrup season in the sugar shack. We always appreciate extra hands with this work, work boots, steal toe, chaps, hardhat with visor are recommend. Chainsaw safety courses occasionally offered at Loyalist College in Bancroft, if this is of interest we’re happy to help facilitate.
Front Yard Glow Up – Perfect for folks interested in permaculture, this project will focus on transforming what is traditionally seen as a front lawn into a space useful to all beings. Traditional mono culture lawns are taxing on the environment, discourage biodiversity and often contribute unnecessary toxins and pollution to our surroundings. Lets explore the ways we can remake these often blank canvases into beautiful productive divers spaces using permaculture practises as our guide.
Resident Rooms
