Carrie’s Ramblings

WWOOFing
Carrie posted in Uncategorized on May 18th, 2007

If you haven’t heard of this programme then it’s definitely an interesting one to check out. I’ve heard of some of my classmates doing it over the summer or taking a year or two off from school to go down into New Zealand and Australia to do some WWOOFing. WWOOFing stands for Willing Workers On Organic Farms or World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms and it is essentially a formal network of organic farms where you can go and stay and help out. You pay $40-$50 into the membership base and receive a book listing the WWOOFing opportunities in whatever country you’re visiting. Then it’s your responsibility to contact the farms and discuss your abilities and interests and where/how you can help out. In return for your labour you’re given free room and board (and you can imagine the eating is pretty good there). You can travel across a country just working on these farms and usually you only work a couple of hours a day or a couple of days a week and have the rest of the time to see the area and do some touring. I’ve heard some amazing stories and also some horror stories so you have to take the good with the bad. Anyway I met a number of people in the hostel who have been doing this all over Canada and the States and it’s a pretty interesting system so I thought I’d enlighten you. I’ve included a link for more information in my links category because for some reason it won’t let me add a link in my blog (that’s just my computer being…special).

Admin Edit: Linky! WWOOFing

Have a good 2-4 weekend everyone!