r/WWOOF

Hello! Im looking to volunteer on a farm. I have experience working with mixed livestock and horses, looking to know if anyone has advice for finding organic or mixed horticulture farms in South America (looking at opportunites in Chile, Argentina or Uruaguy - though im flexible!).

¡Hola! Busco hacer voluntariado en una granja. Tengo experiencia trabajando con ganado variado y caballos. me gustaria saber si alguien tiene algún consejo sobre cómo encontrar granjas de horticultura orgánica o mixta en Sudamérica (estoy considerando oportunidades en Chile, Argentina o Uruguay, ¡aunque soy flexible!).

Hi! My husband and I can’t afford to take several weeks off this year, but we’d still love to experience WWOOFing. We were wondering if you offer any weekend-only volunteering opportunities. We’d be happy to help out for a couple of days if that’s something you accept. Thanks!
Belgium 😊

I’m keen to go WWOOFing with my husband in August but he has a bad back and doesn’t want to work hard on his summer holiday. I could persuade him to do some light fun work though before we go and holiday somewhere.

Can anyway recommend a nice WWOOF place somewhere in Italy or Greece where the hosts are relaxed and open minded about mixed ability couples? I am happy to spend all day weeding but my husband would be better off in the farm shop or doing woodwork or other projects that don’t require bending..

I'm single and live with my parents. Always felt like it would be cool to try to WWOOF since someone on reddit told me about it a few years ago.

Do you think it is safe? Any suggestions on how to be safe about it?

I've worked at people's houses getting paid before like when I petsit, but I've never stayed unpaid on someone's property doing work for them while they are there.

I think it would be cool to learn farming techniques, be around cute animals and eat delicious farm fresh food. At the same time I'm a little nervous about it and don't want to have rose-colored glasses.

Does WWOOF even background check people? It sounds like at a lot of the locations you get pretty close to them even eating dinner together or living inside their own house. Some of them say they have poor phone reception as well.

P.S. I'm interested in doing it nearby to start rather than halfway across the world.

24f want to go wwoofing in europe ive seen a lot of horror stories but im gonna stick to reputable women/family farms, not go if i so much as dont like the look in their eye, and i dont really feel any guilt leaving things early if it feels unsafe or exploitative. My plan is make sure ive enough saved up for a flight home and to drag my ass to the airport on short notice, fam/friends not in a position to bail me out.

ive always really wanted to go travelling but thought there was no way i could and always really wanted to live off the land, ditto, so hearing about this was like christmas lol (though more i read more it definitely seems like a mixed bag)

half of me is like wtf am i thinking other half is like life has been weirder and its not like i cant come home plus can get a feel maybe staying in the country first couple of gos

p.s. longshot but anyone know of any 🍃 farms edit: should have mentioned my plan is basically have £1000 aside and stick to places i can cheaply fly home, would that be enough of an emergency fund? i plan to try it for a couple of weeks then keep going if its for me, take some goods to makers markets in my free time and only keep travelling as long as the emergency pot stays above that mark

Hey all just wanted to create a post to let other potential WWOOFers know that for Norway, they are really strict about non EU residents working due to visa issues.
Firstly it was really difficult finding hosts that would even entertain a conversation with me about staying. Upon finding any and getting accepted, WWOOF admins emailed me and the hosts to remind the having non EU residents is strictly discouraged.

Frankly it’s not really worth the risk (even though I really wanted to). It’s also a massive amount of trouble.

They kindly agreed to refund my membership fee.

Just a heads up! Even if you plan to only stay on a tourist visa it can be rather difficult

Hi!
I’m an 18-year-old student from Japan, studying English in Bournemouth from 10 August to 10 September.
I’m looking for a WWOOF host near Bournemouth who could welcome me on weekends during that time.
My parents have been organic farmers and WWOOF hosts in Japan for over 20 years, so I’ve grown up with WWOOF and would love to experience it in the UK too.
If you think I could visit your farm for a weekend, I’d love to hear from you!
Thank you!

Recently applied to a super popular (but a bit shabby) hostel in a small city in South Korea. It would be for 1 month, 20h/wk with several other volunteers at the same time.

100 5 star reviews and positive feedback when I privately messaged one past volunteer. This will be my first WP, I previously did WWOOF once and it was ok.

The host approved me within hours and only sent one word : "Good ;)"

I thought it was odd so I sent another message asking him to confirm if there were lockers for my laptop and professional camera... and he literally just said "ok" ?

I'm not sure if this is a red flag or a language barrier or something? Do you guys think I should still go for it?

Hello fellow WWOOF'ers, I'm looking to go WWOOFing for a while in the near future and I'm orienting myself on the WWOOF website. I saw that they have this monthly webinar, which I booked weeks up front in my agenda, only to find out a long-time friend is visiting my city soon on specifically this night. Have any of you guys attended this webinar and do you know if they provide some (essential?) information that is not provided elsewhere? Should I try to attend it next time? Of course I know there is plenty of information available online, on this subreddit to begin with. Thank you!

EDIT: Thanks for your answers! Here is the link: https://wwoof.net/events/wwoofing-101-june2026webinar/

What makes it more complicated is that it's not entirely clear where I can actually enter the webinar meeting.

Over the course of two separate, year long trips, I have done a lot of wwoofing in beautiful areas to save on travel costs.
I’ve wwoofd at over 35 different locations in 6 countries and would love to offer advice and answer questions to anyone who is wanting to wwoof but is hesitant (due to it not being widely popular or “sketchy” or whatever reason!)
I would love to encourage more people to wwoof as it really is an amazing way to gain a cultural experience, life/agricultural skills, meet many new types of people and live in amazing new places for as long as you wish to.
If anyone is is interested I can share my:
Packing list
Locations
(Learning)Experiences
The host/messaging/arranging process
…and general tips about traveling and wwoofing
etc.

If anyone has specific questions I would love to answer them!