WWOOF updates

Hi. We are all full for WWOOFers this summer. If you want to swing by for a day or two, we can possibly host you up until July 15, but we are undergoing some infrastructure changes and are not hosting anyone between July 16 and September 15.

A few more thoughts about WWOOFing-

- Don't be surprised if WWOOF farms don't want to talk on the phone to you at first. Email is easier for most of the farms we are linked with and it gives us an opportunity to screen out the creeps and the wingnuts without having to engage them personally. Yeah, the WWOOF network recommends calling but a whole lot of us will hold back on the phone calls 'til you meet the sniff test. And when you get fifteen to thirty requests a week (it's summer farm season!), there is simply not enough time to be sitting around on the phone answering the same questions over and over again when there's planting and harvesting and composting and south swells.


If you want to WWOOF, read the farm's profile (like really read it, most of your questions will be answered) and decide if you're interested. Then send a nice email with a little about you. If the farm is interested in you (or any WWOOFers, lots are full right now and busy as hell), they will write back. Following up with further bitchy emails or even worse, bitchier phone calls is not a good way to proceed... no matter how desperate you are to do something on your summer break. We will always write you back as a matter of courtesy and expect that you reciprocate that courtesy by not getting pissy if we don't have room for you or don't want to respond to the 35 questions you ask that are all answered on our profile.