Made with Love Urban Farm Stay

Join a vibrant permaculture community. Play with chickens, gather eggs, and pick fruit in the mature temperate faerie food forest. Watch eagles, turtles, blue herons, deer, lynx & beaver on the riverfront. Made with Love urban farm is a social enterprise, collective house, and eco artisan food company in Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc. Share farm-to-table feasts, soak in the mineralized alkaline hot tub and swim in the clothing-optional copper crystal pool (May-October), sunbathe on secluded riverfront acreage, along the wildlife wetlands across from the disc golf course, skatepark, and nature trail at McArthur Island Park in Brocklehurst, right in the City of Kamloops, BC Canada. Chill out and stay a while - our weekly/monthly rates are awesome!!!

Made with Love Urban Farm is a sustainable eco-community - everything here is a little bit different. We like our life as natural as we can get it, we clean with baking soda and vinegar, we use unscented natural laundry soap, and recycle, repair, reuse, or upcycle everything we can to keep garbage out of our landfills and consume as little as possible. Our food is made with lots of local, free-range, wild, and often organic meat with tons of organic vegetables. We love essential oils, flowers, and herbs, but avoid cigarettes, chemicals, vapes, synthetic perfumes & fragrances. Our urban organic food forest farm hosts international volunteers, permaculture interns, guests, and our founders, Colin and Alexandra on half a riverside acre in a suburban neighborhood with our flock of real Canadian climbing chickens free roaming our fruit tree gardens & a small dog named Bella running around to entertain you.

Walk out from the great room door to the awesome clothing-optional chill space on the brick patio with a copper crystal natural alkaline swimming pool and chlorine-free mineral hot tub. All entirely recycled, reclaimed, recovered, and repurposed, you'll find large tables for outdoor dining, BBQ, lounge chairs, and a naturalized English country garden surrounding the aqua-green alkaline pool. Ducks and deer play in the estuary below and the riverbank is filled with delicious blackcurrants and wild cherries, herbs, tomatoes, and squashes in season. There is a steep path down to the water for canoes, kayaks, and paddle boarders to access the main Thompson River in the spring season. In the main house, you'll find a great community room with tons of instruments and huge farm tables for family-style meals. As a collective we grow and share food, practice empathy, active meditation, whole being awareness, radical intimacy, being yoga, and compassionate communication (NV); we are eco-sustainable, liberal, open-minded, poly curious, and LGBTQ2S friendly. We are currently on the property for the summer season: Colin, Ryodai, Jakob, Marcel, Noah, Leni, Alexandra, and Linda.

Make your life so easy with whole food wellness - our pro meal plan is professional chef-catered brunch and dinner every day, shopping, and cooking all done for you! Fresh hand-picked botanical teas, French-press local organic coffee, home-grown salads, farm fresh eggs & fruit & berries from our food forest, local veggies, homemade soups, pasta, baking, herbal teas, juices, smoothies, sprouted and fermented foods, medicinal mushrooms, local organic, wild meats, and fish. Shared gourmet whole food brunch (10 am/noon on weekends and holidays) and farm table dinner (5-8 pm flextime) are served 'to families every day for the whole collection in the great room 'wireless cafe' and chill space in the main house. If you want to have a real warm authentic Canadian Homestay farm stay immersion experience - this is it! You are welcome to join us for shared farm-to-table meals - our gift to you in the community! Please acknowledge we DO NOT include the REAL COST of hand-crafted, artisanal, local organic, whole food in your room price. If you have enough to share and would like to contribute there is a donation jar in the great room. (Suggested donation of $20-60)  Kuk'stemc. Namaste. Blessings.

House Rules and Other Things to Note:
Clothing optional patio, natural swimming pool (April to October) & alkaline mineral hot tub. All guests are comfortable with natural nudity and prefer to swim and sunbathe naked.
Pool, hot tub, wireless and main house great room are available between 8 am - 10 pm daily.
We take one 24 hr wireless/screen-free day each week, currently Sunday - Monday.
NO synthetic chemical fragrance, commercial tobacco, cigarettes, smoking, smokers, or nicotine vapers, dabs, pens, shatter, chemical concentrate, distillate, etc. The occasional NATURAL cannabis plant, (vaporize or smoked) is okay outdoors, on the pool deck, or in the hot tub.
Mostly chemical, pharmaceutical & plastic-free environments. We clean with baking soda, vinegar, and essential oils; our bath products come from the health food store or are handmade.

We work hard to eliminate cycles of addiction here and be present in authentic wellness. Private use of daily medicinal plants, oil, extract, tinctures, CBD, herbs, homeopathy, and occasional edibles or sacred plant medicine ceremonies is awesome. Limited use of coffee, recreational cannabis, or alcohol, defined as 2-3x times per month or week is comfortable here for inner circle cohabitation, functional engagement, and collaborative success. If you like special drinks with meals, please bring a bottle of sparkling water or fruit juice, local wine, craft beer, or your favorite libations to share with the table.

Five Star Reviews for Made with Love Urban Farm:

'Alexandra and Colin are two of the most welcoming and gracious hosts I've ever met. I was in Kamloops working for CN for 2 weeks and had the best stay I've ever had on the road. Learning about eating healthy food and everyone sitting at the table with open conversation and enjoying each other's company was a treat. If you are staying in Kamloops, I highly recommend you stay at this amazing place.' - Scott, Hope, BC.

'Staying with Colin and Alexandra was like staying with a family you are already part of. They are such friendly and warm-hearted people who want you to enjoy your stay. The breakfast and dinner were more than delicious and listening to stories was very entertaining. Thanks!' - Paula, Meissen, Germany

'Colin and Alexandra were wonderful! I loved the dinner and breakfast. It was so nice to sit together and chat with everyone over a meal. - Amandeep, Calgary, Canada

'Great place to stay if you care for healthy food and lifestyle. Feel in need of a bit more positivity in your life. That's the place to go!' - Sebastian, Freital, Germany

'The whole family and also the other guests were so friendly and helpful. The meals are really 'made with love' and it was so good! Thanks also for the conversations and the permaculture lessons in the garden and the card game evening!' - Lea, Versam, Switzerland

'the most beautiful, welcoming, fun, and interesting spot... the most delicious home-cooked local produce dinner... the most amazing time - the perfect mix of relaxation and getting to know amazing people. Highly recommend this place, ...I would travel here as a destination!!!' - Amelia, Queensland, Australia

'A lovely space to relax. Warm and welcoming hosts, excellent breakfast, and mineral pool. A little oasis.
- Merran, Edmonton, Canada

'The host is kind and we had good communication with them. There are many things you can do in the place: fruit trees and chickens everywhere, and use the hot tub and swimming pool to relax. The host offered us dinner and breakfast, and we had a lot of talks and spent a great time together. - 涛, Shanghai, China

'This is a very special, hidden gem in the heat of Kamloops! Do not miss it! A farm in the city, complete with chickens, homegrown veggies, and country hospitality! The bed was cozy, the food was outstanding, and the hosts were charming and so interesting. One of the best experiences I have ever had!' - Margot, Vancouver, Canada

'Alexandra and Colin are very welcoming and warm hosts. Their urban farm, amazing food forest surrounding the property coupled with super tasty family dinners... anyone planning to stay in Kamloops should give this a try. This is an experience rather than just a place to stay!' - Sanjana, Dhaka, Bangladesh

A very nice place and super friendly people! Alexandra cooked us a perfect dinner And we had nice company at the dinner table. The swimming pool was super. And the treehouse magical!' - Mirjam And Bob, Haarlem, Netherlands

'What a pleasure! Colin and Alexandra’s place is a unique find! It’s a home that is full of love and community... They welcome you into their home... with the food and thought around the dinner table... wonderful!' - Paul, Humberston, United Kingdom

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