Browsing All Posts filed under »urban wwoofing«

Urban Wwoofing turns 50!

April 8, 2011

0

Ok so thats one of those sneaky titles but what I’m on about is that the urban wwoofing group on CouchSurfing has just clicked over 50 members, hooray!! I only know a handful of them so it’s slowly spreading nicely through the CouchSurfing community and perhaps a few other streams too. If you haven’t sussed […]

Urban Woofing page update

December 1, 2010

0

As you may have noticed above, there is a little ‘updated’ word after the urban wwoofing page name above. Check it out, give me some feedback or get involved. enjoy.

Special package: Permaculture Diary 2011

August 25, 2010

1

I was very pleased to receive a little package yesterday. It’s the next permi diary; why on earth am getting a diary in August? Well this diary, now in its third year, is usually pretty special with a mixture of normal diary pages and then stories/ photos interspersed throughout. The diary was one of the […]

The Joys of the Cul-de-sac : Immersion #2

August 22, 2010

1

This post relates to these previous ones: Livelocal experiment : suburban immersion + A chilly taste of the ride out here.. : Immersion #1 Well, im certainly immersed that’s for sure. So immersed I haven’t been posting, perhaps you noticed . . After the flurry of activity finishing projects and collecting up all the things I was […]

Livelocal experiment : suburban immersion

July 28, 2010

1

My folks are heading to Sri Lanka for a month and for the first time we have a veggie garden which needs looking after.. It will be a bit different to my recent main stay “The Barn” – a creative artist warehouse near Alexandria south of Sydney town. Im going to take the oppurtunity for […]

Urban Residential Compost Loos

June 17, 2010

6

Earlier this year whilst staying at a wonderful urban wwoofing property in Melbourne I helped out with a re-design of a compost loo and helped flesh it out into complete composting system. I had recently re-read the poo-bible: The Humanure Handbook which – more recently – has been made wonderfully and freely available by its […]

Garden sharing.. + urban wwoofing interest growing

April 12, 2010

0

Just saw a little pic of me on the permaculture principles (PCP) site, I was aware that it was on a photo blog hosted there but just discovered it linked on the main page -nice. There has been growing interest in the Urban Wwoofing concept recently, im currently working on an article for the permi […]

{Sub}urban Wwoofing

October 23, 2009

2

These posts are firmly of the permi retrofit variety at the mo. This has got alot to do with my 10-day stay at my parents place up to today. I can get good food and a bed at my folks place I thought, so why not do a stint there and blitz some gardens. I […]

Urban Wwoofer seeks next homestay exchange

September 21, 2009

2

[Theres now a area on Urban Wwoofing here] Hi there, My names Dylan and im an Urban WWOOFER. WWOOF = Willing Workers On Organic Farms. WWOOFers usually barter labour for food and board on farms in rural areas. Whilst travelling by touring bicycle in Victoria recently, I started using the term “Urban Woofing” to communicate […]

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.