We’ve landed on the south island after a very smooth ferry crossing yesterday afternoon from Wellington to Picton. Today we’re heading west to the beautiful Golden Bay region where we will do two back-to-back wwoofings for a total of seven nights. These should be a bit more ‘light’ than the stint we did at Mara […]
I’ve gotten more clarity after day seven at Mara Whenua: Start from the way you want to schedule your time which for me is at most four hours of work on stuff that needs to be done, then work my way up to perhaps four hours of exercise, leaving four to eight hours for reading, […]
So, what was it really like WWOOFing? I thought I’d carry on a bit from Bruce’s previous post and outline for you all what our typical day looked like for the last week.
7:30 – 8:00 am: Wake up. Step outside to the nearest tree for a pee. Light the small gas cooker we had outside […]
This is our fifth day at Mara Whenua (MAY-ra FAY-new-a, roughly “permaculture” in Maori), a 400 acre farm in a secluded valley in the far north of New Zealand. After just a short chat on the phone with Yvonne (EVE-on; there is much more accenting of the first syllable of words here than in the […]
Several of you have recently asked me what the heck I was talking about when mentioning that we were preparing to go off on our first WWOOF assignment. WWOOF, according to the booklet we have, officially stands for World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms; but everyone else refers to it as Willing Workers on Organic […]