#wwoofer

C’est quoi le WWOOF exactement? C’est une plateforme qui connecte des fermiers et des voyageurs étrangers qui veulent travailler en échange d’hébergement. Qu’est-ce que le wwoofing, phénomène très populaire en Estrie?

After that, I’m working on settling for a few days in SC to visit old friends and maybe get my sewing machine back from my ex. Maybe I’ll go for a hike, take my dog to our old dog park, get a motel room to get a good shower and maybe a shave. We will see! 

So I’ll be thinking about that for a few days and texting my friends down there to work out a plan (a.k.a. - how many days should I stay?) and then start emailing farms in New Mexico! I’m planning to stay in NM for only two or so weeks, so if I can’t find a farm out there, it won’t be the end of the world. I’ll just skip it and go straight from SC to the Grand Canyon and then maybe pick up an extra farm in Cali!

On Saturday, the twenty-third of January, we left Three Horse Farms (the tea place) and headed to Casa Goofy, in Tucson, Arizona. A twelve hour drive! The view as we left was unbelievable. The rolling hills of California make me feel as though I am in another country. I want to be lost here. After nearly seven hours of driving we arrived at a casino in Indio, California, we had a wonderful night of sleeping in their parking-lot. The next day we awoke around eight and arrived at Casa Goofy. This small property in the outskirts of a city was not much of a farm, and not at all what we expected. Everyone was extremely nice, but the conditions were not exactly what we considered livable, so we left. We drove all the way back to Three Horse Farms. The view was just as beautiful on the way home. We slept again in the casino parking-lot, and stopped at the Pyramid Lake for a nice lunch. We’ll be here until we can find a new car to buy (the rear suspension is about to snap in half). I have no complaints about being here.

it’s time to leave my nyc desk job for greener pastures. i want to learn to harvest grapes on a vineyard and make wine, to milk a goat and make cheese, to plant seeds and sow their fruits.