Nov 29, 2014 | News
Host Ann Eggleton of Little Mill Farm in Gwent recently organised a weekend of WWOOFing for four volunteers. Here are some extracts from their feedback. Ann (the Host): I was approached by WWOOF to consider a weekend when WWOOFers from within fifty miles of the farm...
Nov 29, 2014 | News
Over the last twelve months we have had several features about hosts or WWOOFers who have chosen to use the WWOOF network to connect with like-minded people at the local level. Given that this was very much where WWOOF started all those years ago it is something we...
Nov 29, 2014 | News
During October the fourth global WWOOF conference was held in Turkey. It was attended on WWOOF UK’s behalf by Scarlett Penn (left) our co-ordinator, and director Nim Kibbler (centre).Amanda Pearson (right) attended in her other capacity as administrator for FoWO. We...
Nov 29, 2014 | News
WWOOF UK is overseen by a Council of volunteer directors. Richard Hazell is Chair of the Council, a much-experienced WWOOFer and a solicitor. We asked him for his thoughts on being a director. In 1993 Sue Coppard was sued on behalf of WWOOF by a publisher for...
Nov 29, 2014 | News
We were particularly fortunate in having Simon Fairlie , who lives at Monkton Wyld, as our AGM’s keynote speaker. Simon is an author (Low Impact Development: Planning and People in a Sustainable Countryside and Meat: a Benign Extravagance.), founder and editor of The...