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… [Read more…]
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.
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… [Read more…]
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… [Read more…]
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… [Read more…]
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… [Read more…]
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… [Read more…]
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… [Read more…]
[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… [Read more…]
April 8, 2011
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