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
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