Guide for First Time WWOOFers
Interesting in WWOOFing? I’ve written a guide to help you have a successful experience. The guide includes answers to the questions I get asked and information that hosts would like you to have. It will take you step-by-step through the process of planning, preparing, and living your WWOOFing adventure. The guide is $8.00 and an […]
WWOOFing Webinar for over 50s!
Live Q&A: WWOOFing Over 50 If you missed the Q&A, it was recorded. Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80lLMVGhZCM Have you heard about WWOOF but are wondering what it is? Are you over 50 and want to experience life on a farm? Learn new skills? Meet new people? Contribute to the organic farming movement? Join us! […]
Tending Nature Homestead
My thirty-eighth farm was Tending Nature Homestead in Basin, Montana. It is on a mountaintop at 6,200 feet overlooking the tiny town of Basin. A post will be coming soon!
Bluebird Forest Garden
My thirty-seventh farm is Bluebird Forest Garden up the hill from Orifino, Idaho. It’s literally a vegetable and forage garden in a forest. I’m here for two weeks with the heat and mosquitoes. Lots of good berries, vegetables, and seeds ready to harvest. A post will be coming soon.
Oak Song
My thirty-fifth farm was Oak Song outside of Eugene, Oregon. The Farm The farmers are June and her daughter Christina. They are originally from Southern California. Christina has always wanted to be a farmer. To prepare for that she studied resource management which had classes in farming, and she worked on farms for four years. […]
Weslie and Saul’s Vegan Garden
My thirty-fourth farm was Weslie and Saul’s Vegan Garden on Vashon Island, near Seattle. The Farm The farmers are Saul and Weslie. Saul is from New York and came to Seattle in 1977. He met Weslie at a food co-op in Seattle. Both of them are vegan. Saul has a business selling vegan supplements. Their […]
Maury Hill Farm
My thirty-third farm was Maury Hill Farm on Vashon Island, right next to my hometown of Seattle, Washington. The Farm The farmers are Holly and Harley. Harley grew up on a cattle ranch in South Dakota. His ancestors are Dutch and many Dutch immigrants settled in South Dakota, possibly because it’s flat and looks like […]
Gardenripe
My thirty-second farm was Gardenripe in Silverton, Oregon. The Farm The farmers are Bill and Janice Schiedler. The 137-acre property sits on a hillside in the Cascade foothills overlooking the Willamette Valley. Bill’s great-grandfather cleared the land in 1874 to start a farm. The property has been in the family for almost 150 years and […]
Terribly Happy
My thirty-first farm was Terribly Happy in Cottage Grove, Oregon. The Farm The farmers are Beth, whom I never met because she was off meeting her new grandchild, and Richard. Back in San Jose, Richard was a professor of geology and Beth taught middle school math and high school home economics. But they decided they […]
Myrtle Glen Farm
My thirtieth farm was Myrtle Glen Farm in Myrtle Point, Oregon. The Farm The farmers are Micha and Dan. Micha grew up in Woodinville, Washington, which is just on the other side of Lake Washington where I grew up. During her youth, she was on the Olympic track as a gymnast, but she […]