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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
