On the Ground

Local meeting in Piedmont: how it went

Local meeting in Piedmont: how it went

As much as the relationship between host and WWOOFer remains at the heart of our association, from the beginning WWOOF Italy has also considered the relationships that are forged between host and host to be fundamental. It is the farmers themselves who emphasize that...

We plant hedges in Torrita di Siena

We plant hedges in Torrita di Siena

TO IMPROVE AGRICULTURAL YIELDS SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2026 FARM DAY AT TORRITA DI SIENA WE PLANT TWO HEDGES USING LOCAL WILD WOODY FLORA ►The worksite takes place on the Passerini farm at Padolecchie in Via del Porto near Torrita di...

Local meeting in Campania

Local meeting in Campania

WWOOF convivial day On June 22 we return to our friends at Rassecale (32 Perrotta Street, Mirabella Eclano (Av), to see each other and spend a day together. from 11 a.m. until sunset: genuine and underground market (whoever wants can participate ) chance to...

Ambrogio and Rosetta: at the center in Sicily, in the heart of WWOOF

Ambrogio and Rosetta: at the center in Sicily, in the heart of WWOOF

"An empathic relationship is established, and even if at first this does not happen then a miracle happens: I don't know what passes between our looks, between our words, between our gestures, but the encounter always brings beautiful things." This is how Rosetta, in...

Italea: a journey in search of roots

Italea: a journey in search of roots

"Cuttings": in Italian called "Talea", a practice by which a plant is allowed to propagate. By severing a part of it and replanting it, it can be given new life, growing new roots: just as happens with migration. From this peasant term takes its name the Italea...

We met in Moncalieri

We met in Moncalieri

We were about 20 people, including hosts, wwoofers as well as several children. R.A.M.’s warm welcome made us perfectly comfortable.

Project F’ORTI!: cultivating vegetable gardens and relationships

Project F’ORTI!: cultivating vegetable gardens and relationships

We gladly share this initiative conceived by the City of Florence and the Florence CR Foundation and led by the Rural Seeds Network and the Tuscan Horticultural Society. The F'ORTI! Project was created with the main objective of creating spaces for citizens to meet...

The WWOOF meeting in Sicily

The WWOOF meeting in Sicily

For some time now there has been a particular enthusiasm in Sicily when it comes to WWOOFing. In a land that has so much to offer agriculturally and humanly, it is a pleasure to note how the desire to participate and share one's knowledge and experience is growing:...

Mountain school in the Friulian Pre-Alps

Mountain school in the Friulian Pre-Alps

The University of Udine (UNIUD) launches the "Mountain School" project: the goal is to regenerate the Friulian Dolomites territory by boosting social and economic recovery and countering depopulation. Twelve residential courses open and free for all, including room...

Destination Shepherd: crowdfunding

Destination Shepherd: crowdfunding

Already in the past few weeks in this article we told you about Luca Pala and the initiative that the C.I.U.R.M.A. association is pursuing to save his company from expropriation followed by financial collapse. Luca was then with us at the assembly to tell us his...

WWOOF meeting in Parma and Seminasiepi second stage

WWOOF meeting in Parma and Seminasiepi second stage

WWOOF ITALIA LOCAL MEETING -with construction site SEMINASIEPI second stage- Thursday, March 14 at Az.Agr. by Enrico Bocchi , Boschi di Lupazzano, 53 Neviano degli Arduini (PR) A chance to meet again and get to know each other among members and those interested in...

Pergola 2024 – The school garden and the custody of Quarantine corn.

Pergola 2024 – The school garden and the custody of Quarantine corn.

An update letter from teacher Federica On the threshold of the resumption of work in the garden we receive from Federica Tempesti, a letter of thanks for the support that WWOOF Italy has recently renewed to the activities of the Pergola school garden. A more than...

Botanical Garden Thursdays

Botanical Garden Thursdays

The struggle for the emancipation of agriculture from the yoke of agribusiness interests that needs the widest sharing and participation. Fabio Taffetani invites us to participate in a series of events organized at the Botanical Garden “Selva di Gallignano” (AN).

Landscape care and community building

Landscape care and community building

Those of Pasubio are valleys and mountain communities that have many features in common; the terraced landscape for example. This video is about a series of events spread over the 5 municipalities on the theme of the Art of Dry Stone Construction and Terraced Landscapes.

A year of local meetings

A year of local meetings

Local meetings have always been the reservoir for WWOOF to draw on for new projects to bring to the assembly and seek to implement in the future. And they are also the times when it is possible to tell and share positive and less positive experiences, bring doubts, questions, proposals.

Changing the Field – Conference

Changing the Field – Conference

There is a dense network of rural realities, cooperatives, associations, solidarity economy experiences and trade unions that try to implement concrete alternatives to the food industrial complex, more or less explicitly challenging its logic of operation.

Re.Semina: fundraising campaign for flooded Romagna

Re.Semina: fundraising campaign for flooded Romagna

The emergency is not over. With the media hype extinguished, the need to rebuild an area, affected in its physicality as much as in its soul, remains unchanged. There are still so many realities that need a helping hand in order to get back on their feet: any help, from financial contribution to spreading this appeal, will be valuable.

Chronicle from an intergalactic by Genuine Clandestine

Chronicle from an intergalactic by Genuine Clandestine

Why do Genuino Clandestino’s territorial networks call their three-day late summer “intergalactic meeting”? GC was founded in 2010 as a campaign to freely process peasant products from communities struggling for self-determination and food sovereignty, but that strange adjective has older roots