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A weeded bed
We weeded this bed, hard work! Then sowed some seeds of beetroot, spinach and chard.For anyone who doesn't know what Wwoofing is, it stands for World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms. Organic farmers advertise the opportunities on their farms, these can range from large farms to smallholdings. The organic produce can be a variety of things from meat, vegetables, fruit, dairy, nuts, wood. The organisation has been running since the 1970s.
Growing organically means growing without using insecticides, herbicides and artificial fertilisers, which have been used in conventional farming since the second world war. These chemicals have a number of disadvantages - they are made from oil, (a finite resource), they are poisonous and unhealthy to the foods, they damage the creatures which make the soil and the plants and the ecosystems - earthworms, bees, fungi and so on, and they degrade the topsoil, which takes thousands of years to make. So we wanted to learn about farming in an organic way, using organic methods of old and permaculture methods of new.
To arrange these opportunities you can join through wwoofing.com and read through all the blurbs and contact the hosts by telephone or email. We preferred to ring them to make it more personal and to get a small idea of the type of
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Weeding the bed. people. In exchange for working on the farm/smallholding the hosts provide accommodation and food plus obviously the experience to learn about organic growing and sustainability. We planned three Wwoofing adventures in three months, Ceridwen is our first stop then we travel to York and the Isle of Eday on the Orkney Islands later in the Spring.
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