Coady's Cabana has been created by Matthew and Jane Coady. Matthew is a practising  Architect, and Jane a retired newspaper publisher and former City Councillor.Over the 15 years that they have been married and living on the property there have been constant changes. The gardens were started and enhanced, art was acquired, as were cats, dogs, chickens and horses... even people!

Jane and Matthew love creating a place for people to enjoy. Having two young adult off-spring has opened their eyes to the fun of having diverse people around, especially those with talents for music, song, gardening, cooking, yoga and good conversation.

Sometimes house guests sing for their supper, other times they put their backs into work! Everyone pitches in. Helper guests are often paid with a free Cabana stay. Anyone can apply!

Bert is our salvation! Our 'gentle giant' lives in the Studio suite on the ground floor of our house, and helps us keep the place shipshape. His main job though is helping Matthew bring his ideas to reality. There never seems to be any shortage of projects to work on!

Lucy and Sable are a mother and daughter combo, and fight like they are! They can usually be seen out on the prowl for field mice, and generally keep to themselves. 
They love teasing the magpies by going just inside the protected zone around their nests. It can get pretty raucous then! No photo of them, they hate cameras!!

Gorgeous George presided over 6 laying hens. He left us in July 2010, and mornings are just not the same without hearing good old George!
The chickens often wander the property, but only when they won't dig up tender young shoots!

This year was our first venture into raising day-old chicks. Starting with 30, we sold 25 as real youngsters, and now just have 5 lefft roaming the property! The should start to lay in early October.

Kharimha isn't often allowed out and about!
She is a 14-year old pure Arab mare. She is the gentlest horse around. Many people have experienced their first time on a horse on her back. She loves being fed apples, but carrots are her real favorite

Levi, the part Chow/SPCA special old man of the household will generally greet you with barks. It is his welcome. He greets us the same way! We are not sure that he sees or hears as well as he did. 

A  woofer is a member of the WWOOF organization (World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms) - or better known as a Willing Worker On Organic Farms! Room and board is traded for work time. We had our first woofers last year and really enjoyed getting to know them - we had a gal from England, a gal and a couple from Germany.
So far this year we have enjoyed having a French brother and sister, Isabel and Teddy, a young English gal, Emma,  Sandra a lovely German girl and a young Frenchman, Ghislain.