WWOOF

WWOOF.  No, we are not adopting a dog.  It stands for World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms.  As some of you know, we will be relocating ourselves up north to volunteer (for room and board) at a farm in the foothills of the Himalayas.  Our plan as of now will be going to the north from February 4 until mid-March.  Then we’ll be going south to Bangalore to work at a different farm until we leave in mid-April.

A bit about WWOOF.  This is an organization that operates in a number of countries across the world and the goal of it is to connect volunteers with farms they can work on.  The benefit of the farm is that they receive free labor and the opportunity to pass along their knowledge of organic farming.  The volunteers, in turn, receive free room and board in exchange for work on the farm.

There are about 75 different farms across India that take part in WWOOF and we narrowed our search down to about 10 based on location and farming practices.  The two that we chose are two of the ones that we were most excited about.  The farm in the Himalayas, while already possessing the awesome quality of being in the mountains, also tends a lot of fruit trees and beyond that we don’t know much about it, but the communication with the owners has been very positive and we’re both very excited for this change of pace.