Monday, August 26, 2013

Let the WWOOFING begin!

With Blake off with his friend, Evan and I left Gearhart and headed to our first wwoofing farm. If you haven't heard of wwoofing it stands for world wide organization of organic farming. Basically there are organic farms all over the world that are online and you can go work at them and they will house you and feed you. Some want you to be there for a minimum stay like 2 weeks and others have a come and go policy while others have full time positions. 

We are at Revolution Garden in Nehalem, OR. A smaller farm I'm told, there is an upper and lower farm and the upper is completely off the grid with solar panels and a river power generator powering 5 buildings. Pretty impressive! There is over 3 acres of farmable land and they rent out an awesome Japanese cabin on AirBnB that was built out of all found wood mainly drift wood. 

There are several hoop houses and rows of vegetables. They just harvested this morning a ton of onions, it's insane. They are drying in a hoop house and I believe they didn't even harvest them all yet. The rain started up and it was intense all day. 

So there are two long term volunteers, then two shorter term (month) volunteers, Ginger, Brian?, Ben?, and Evan and I. I believe Ginger and Ben? (can't remember some of the names sorry) own the property and Ben built all the structures which is nuts. Guess Ben is a master carpenter and he makes his living doing small kayaking classes where you actually build your own kayak in a week. We saw some today and they were amazing. Truly talented. 

Since it was raining we went to the tomato hoop house and most of us weeded while two pruned infected leaves. Was a nice time to get to know the other volunteers. Evan and I will be mainly working with Brian I think is his name (Ginger's bf) build a cob rocket stove if the weather permits, leveling an area and pouring a slab and making an outdoor kitchen, as well as some other projects. Just depends on weather and materials. 

They have compostable toilets, a Japanese tub, and solar heated showers. I'm full of questions. Hopefully some will get answered. Time will tell.

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