Welcome to the WWOOF UK classified ads section. The place to discover new job vacancies, courses, training, festivals and other exciting offerings. Do you have an event or opportunity you’d like to share here? If so, please email us: editor@wwoof.org.uk
Community Bunkhouse Build – Land Skills Hub, Dorset
Various build dates: starts 25th March until 18th August 2025
You are cordially invited to take part in the building of a bunk house, which will serve as accommodation for residential courses at the Land Skills Hub at Fivepenny Farm in Dorset. The Land Skills Hub will offer courses on all aspects of farming and homesteading, and serve as a hub and resource for activism on all fronts.
There are several stages to the build. Each will be run as instructional volunteering opportunities to learn various aspects of natural and low impact building.
Find out more about this project and how to join-in here.
Woodland courses – Small Woods
Herbs, History & Horses – a guide to low impact woodland restoration
24th April 2025
Cost: £125
Location: Ashford, Kent
Make a bendy hazel chair – one day course
26th April 2025
Cost: £100
Location: The Green Wood Centre, Telford
Land Skills Fair 2025
11th – 13th July
Ashcott, Somerset, TA7 9FA
The Land Skills Fair is a beautiful celebration of our movement; a coming-together of our diverse voices and an opportunity to keep proliferating connections in our networks. All of this bound together in the spirit of celebration, joy and communion with the land, and to the sounds of incredible music and in the presence of soul-enriching art.
Grounded in radical politics and practicality, there is space to share skills we’ve learned on the land as well as ways-of-being that we’ve learned from it.
There will be workshops and skill-shares covering farming, forestry, craft, natural building and activism. Alongside this will be spaces open for those discussions around how we build a more equitable society together.
For more information about the Land Skills Fair and to buy tickets, click here.
Part-time gardening and maintenance in exchange for beautiful very low cost rural accommodation near Hay-on-Wye
The cottage:
The furnished cottage stands in 1 acre of organic garden with use of solar swimming pool.
Includes:
One double bedroom, dining kitchen, shower room, use of small study.
Plus your own vegetable garden (and freezer for your produce!)
Rent is reduced to £335 pcm plus contribution to energy and other overheads of approx £100 pcm.
The work:
One day per week. Developing and maintaining the organic growing systems and eco-buildings on the site as a demonstration for participants on the weekend courses. Training available on site.
Ideal for a creative individual or couple looking for a secure base with part time job from which to launch their own career or WFH.
Responsibilities:
Ensuring organic garden, solar swimming pool and eco-buildings are well maintained and comply with H&S requirements for hosting visitors.
Success will be reflected in increased visitor numbers and satisfaction.
Qualifications:
Good communication skills, experience of practical maintenance and ability to do basic practical gardening and repair work.
Note from our new resident:
“I moved into one of the cottages 2 months ago and love the quiet, the clean air, birdsong, solar living, and sunrise from my window! I am preparing my garden, planting seeds and learning a lot about the perennials and fruit trees. Salads and spring greens are starting and soon the asparagus will be sprouting.”
Opportunity for an individual or couple who want to move from city to the country and are WFH or on flexible working!
More info and to get in touch click here.
Food Growing and Networks Officer – Capital Growth, London
Salary: FTE Officer grade at the starting level 1 – £39,608 pa gross for 2025/2026 (salary effective from 1st April 2025). Pro-rated salary for 28 hrs per week, 4-day worker, 0.8 WTE = £31,687 pa.
Hours: 28 hours per week / 4 days per week, for a fixed term until 31 August 2026.
Sustain are recruiting for a Food Growing and Networks Officer with an interest in food growing to join our Capital Growth team.
This role will be vital to the running of London’s largest network of community food gardens, managing a programme of workshops and events as well as engaging people in campaigns and activities. The role will also support the wider London programmes of Sustain, including our work on Sustainable Food Places and Good Food Local. Your varied range of tasks will include general administrative duties, project support, event planning and management, communications, data management and research.
Deadline for application: 8pm Monday 31st March 2025
More information about this job can be found here.
Training courses at Capital Growth
A variety of practical courses at various locations across the capital from the wonderful Capital Growth network.
Here’s a few to wet your appetite:
Growing for Wellbeing, Learn to grow your own Oyster mushrooms, Community Cook and Grow, Growing in small spaces….
For details on all courses, click here.
The Organic Growers Gathering 2025
22nd – 24th August
Hardwick Estate, Reading RG8 7RE
Organised by growers for growers. From small scale fruit, vegetable, herb and flower growers to land workers, crafters and purveyors of folk music. Whether you’re a master of the soil or a new entrant gaining experience seeding your ideas, there is something here for everyone.
We gather to network, skill share, build community, discover and learn. Expect lots of practical sessions, workshops, break out spaces for skill sharing and networking. As well as organic vegan food, live music, sauna and wellbeing space, with camping next to the river.
To find out more and to buy tickets, click here.
Spring Open Day – CAT (Centre for Alternative Technology) Machynlleth, Powys
Saturday 26th April
10am – 4pm
Join us for a FREE day of hands-on activities, workshops, and tours exploring green building, ecology, growing, and more!
We will also be welcoming input on CAT’s next five-year strategy.
For more information about this free event click here.
Courses at CAT:
Renewables for households: Solar PV
Rethinking household energy provision – explore the how to’s of solar PV for households.
Solar panels: where should you put them? How much power will you get? How much money will you save? What will your emission reduction look like? This one day course aims to answer these questions and more through a series of lectures and hands on sessions.
12th April 2025
Cost: £125 – includes tuition and buffet lunch
More info can be found here.
Eco-Refurbishment
Transform buildings into cosy, low impact, energy efficient homes.
Refurbishing our homes to make them more energy efficient is one of the key aspects of effective action on climate change. Learn from one of the UK’s leading experts in eco refurbishment and discover what key improvements you can make.
22nd – 25th April 2025
Course fees: £650
More info can be found here.
Lunchtime talks – FarmED, Oxfordshire
A New Approach to Farm Ownership – Wednesday, 26th March
Brendan and Alice Parsons from Rush Farm [see article in WWOOF news] will be talking to us all about being tenants of a community owned farm, as well as their biodynamic farming journey.
Species Reintroduction: It’s Not Just Beavers! – Thursday, 3rd April
Professor Karim Vahed will be sharing the tales of his career, and the many insects he has helped reintroduced back into the UK, such as the Large Blue Butterfly.
Organic Farming Around The World – Tuesday, 15th April
Sophie Gregory will be joining us to tell us about her travels around the world looking at organic farms and how they different all over the globe.
Getting Healthy in Toxic Times – Thursday, 24th April
Dr Jenny Goodman will be talking to us all about her new book ‘Getting Healthy in Toxic Times’, Jenny is passionate about the link between farming, good food, and our health.
Wonderful Woodworking – Tuesday, 13th May
Meet local craftsman, Joe Southeard, who discovered his love for carving and whittling during lockdown. Hear his story and learn more about this therapeutic craft.
Find out more about these lunchtime talks and how to book your place here.
Tiny home for sale
CocoRosie is a 20ft insulated shipping container on metal stilts (to create storage underneath). She is capped with a reclaimed classic wooden boat from the 1930’s! She’s been our tiny-home for 6 years and we’ve been improving her along the way, mostly in the last 2 years. She’d be perfect as a holiday rental or guest lodging, home office or tiny-house living.
Here’s a link to where we have listed CocoRosie on Ebay.
As we’d love for CocoRosie to have her forever home with folks within the WWOOF community, we’re open to price discussions with serious enquirants who arrange a viewing via email to: hamel.arthur@gmail.com
Many thanks.
SOIL – The World At Our Feet
Exhibition at Somerset House, London
Until 13th April 2025
‘This exhibition unites visionary artists and thinkers from around the world to explore the remarkable power and potential of soil. Through a range of artworks, artefacts and innovative approaches, visitors are invited to reconsider the crucial role soil plays in our planet’s health. The exhibition delivers a message of hope and urgency, encouraging a more sustainable, harmonious relationship with the Earth.’ [The Linnean Society]
For more information and to buy tickets, click here.
Head Grower – Meanwood Valley Urban Farm, West Yorkshire
Salary: £14 per hour, £21,392 per annum
Meanwood Valley Urban Farm is a charity established in 1980 to promote the health and wellbeing of people across Leeds and to provide education in agriculture, horticulture, and the natural environment.
Our one acre Market Garden operates a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) box scheme as well as providing education and skills development in food growing. We are seeking a Head Grower to manage all aspects of the Market Garden including line managing staff and providing them with ongoing training, implementing the year round fruit and vegetable growing schedule & volunteer program.
Deadline for applications: 6th April 2025
For more information about this position and how to apply, click here.
Garden Match Cards
I’ve been involved in permaculture only a few years and have prepared some game / garden planning cards as an educational resource designed around the concept of companion planting. The full deck includes 72 cards. 52 plant cards, 18 special cards (animals, insects, infrastructure) and keycards. Plant cards are colour coded to make up sets of companion plants.
Interested? You can find out more about the Garden Match Cards, buy or download a free sample here.
New Organic Entrepreneurs Programme – Soil Association
A pilot programme supporting new organic entrepreneurs to build sustainable businesses.
The Soil Association is looking to build the New Organic Entrepreneurs programme to scale at the end of 2025 or early 2026. This will be expanding from the seven month pilot being run between March and September 2025.
Find out more and register your interest in applying here.
Jekka’s Herb Days – Avon, Bristol
Jekka’s Herb Days will be run on themes to do with herbs and include talks and Jekka’s Herbetum tours by members of our team and Friends of Jekka’s. They will consist of two talks and two tours in the day with both theme and herb related stalls as well as food available.
Jekka will be sharing her award-winning knowledge of growing and looking after herbs and we will be offering our popular Herbetum tours and cover the culinary and medicinal usage of herbs.
For more information and tickets, click here.
ORFC in the Field at OrganicLea
4th – 5th April 2025
ORFC in the Field comes to the Lea Valley in London, for horticultural growing tips, fungi and ferments, and practical tips on careers and routes to market! We’re coming to the pioneering growers’ cooperative OrganicLea, which has built a hugely successful peri-urban growing business in the Lea Valley over more than two decades.
We’ll be gathering to explore a variety of unique practical skills from horticultural tips and combining fungi and ferments to what it means to make a successful growing project grounded in community and cooperative ownership.
Discover more about this course and to buy tickets here.
Can you get WWOOF UK into an event?
We’ve got some funky zines which open out and turn into a poster! They’re designed to help spread the word about WWOOF UK. If you’re going to an event maybe you’d like to take some zines along? They might be seen by people who’ve never heard of WWOOF and, thanks to you, they’ll discover options in life they never knew existed!!!
Just email us with the name and size of the event and an address where we can post the zines: info@wwoof.org.uk
Is there a noticeboard, allotment group board, local food café or other public space where you might be able to display one of our zine/posters? We can send you a digital copy of the zine via email for you to print out or we can send you some copies to put on display. Email us at: info@wwoof.org.uk and we’ll email the files / post copies to you.
Many thanks for your support.
