Has anyone ever joined WWOOF / NEWOOF?

[bigdaddy]

World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms, USA (WWOOF-USA) is part of a world-wide effort to link volunteers with organic farmers, promote an educational exchange, and build a global community conscious of ecological farming practices.

http://www.wwoofusa.org/

It's pretty much, you go and work on the farm and they let you live there, and they sometimes feed you. Most of them you don't get paid, which is BS, I mean $20 a week too much for these places? I know it's volunteering but I would need a little spending money, and I have student loans I need to pay off.

There is also NEWOOF which seems better (aka they give you money) because it's apprenticeship.

http://growingnewfarmers.org/main/for_new_farmers/north_east__workers_on_organic_farms/

So pretty much I'm wondering if anyone has ever joined these groups or another farming apprenticeship group or anything similar?

 

[Lindley]

No, but my dog keeps trying to convince me otherwise.

 

[LitmusDragon]

Was it this WWF?

 

[Jetfire]

^
That is great!

 

[bigdaddy]

I like how I can make a topic no one has a clue what I'm taking about but they can still have fun!

 

[trekkiedane]

I have never heard of it before but one of those links you supplied in the OP offers a list of (third party) articles that makes me think I might have done something like that had I been 20-30 years younger and still studying; sounds like a reasonably nice way to spend, say, a summer holiday.

Oh, and this: