Global Farm-Trotter

MaryBeth Bonfiglio
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WWOOF [World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms]connects people interested in sustainable agriculture with farms around the globe.  You can travel around the world practicing sustainability in diverse ecosystems while exploring different cultures. Here is an opportunity to support organic farming worldwide and then bring new skills back home. Regardless of your reason or your age, if you are a city or country dweller, potential farmer or rooftop gardener, from Belize to Nepal, Denmark to Kazakhstan, there is a farm waiting for you.

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My friend

Submitted by Maya Lemberg on Fri, 11/07/2008 - 12:10.
So cool this is on RS. One of my friends is doing this as we speak. She took 6 months off and is traveling the world, one organic farm at a time. Working for 2 weeks, traveling for 2 weeks. She works for free and gets food and housing in return. They're currently working in Thailand and started in Western Europe, making their way down by bus. Totally incredible experience!

Right on

Submitted by Elizabeth Hart on Fri, 11/07/2008 - 12:21.

My WWOOF-ing experience was phenomenal, and I'm grateful for this post as I am often shocked at how few travelers are aware that the organization exists.

 Then again, while backpacking last year I also met folks who were "WWOOF-ing their way around the world" so to speak, needing to pay only for transportation costs from farm to farm.

 And for people living in the US, WWOOF-USA appears to have over 700 farms listings...these are likely the people who you meet selling their fruits and veg at your local farmer's market, and if you become a WWOOF member, you can arrange to volunteer for them for days, weeks, months at a time. They feed you! I think WWOOF is a damn good example of grassroots, low-cost, nature-based education...much needed, eh? 

Chiapas Highlands, November 2007 

WWOOF-USA 

 

 "Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night." - Rainer Maria Rilke

Farm here,farm now!

Submitted by vivifidal on Fri, 11/07/2008 - 14:54.
I find it silly and reactionarily condescending that resources of fuel and industry should be wasted on such an endeavor. So many in THIS country are hungry or malnourished due to overexposure to processed foods. Yes you being the great hope should rush out to far flung lands to uplift them w/ your superior agricultural skills, uh NOT! I think local WWOOFing should be a prerequisite to global. Travel and experiencing other cultures is wonderful but I believe the participants should earn their chops first rather than just let whoever can throw down some paper get onboard. I am so sick of the wastefulness of so many of these liberal fronts for the financial maintenance of overeducated without useful skill facilitators sucking off the teat of both the underclass and the guilt ridden overclass at the expense of the pragmatic yet pushed to the edge workers. Even such a noble endeavor as WWOOF could stand some improvement in these respects.

Cool Stuff

Submitted by Propaganda Anonymous on Fri, 11/07/2008 - 18:08.

Propaganda Anonymous

Glad you posted this Mary Beth I came close to WWOOFing out in Hawaii many years ago, but never did it Still think it is really cool though.

P.S. If ya'll have the time to read my interview with Michael Muhammad Knight on the main page. I think he is on to some cool stuff and that his thoughts add to our discussions here on the site.

Thank You

PRop!

Hear some wwoofers

Submitted by thehedolist on Mon, 02/09/2009 - 18:40.
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