Certainly, the main activity that WWOOF Italy carries out as an association is to create and foster relationships between hosts and WWOOFers. For years, however, it has been considered important to give more and more emphasis also to the relationships between hosts...
Our members
A WWOOFer Testimony for Reflection and Action
We share the letter sent to us by a WWOOFer, hoping that it may stimulate deep reflection on what we strive to do on a daily basis as staff and board of the association, but also as ordinary members, to enable everyone/and to have the most beautiful, healthy and...
Camp Contadino 2025 at Rassecale
The group Ri.Scosse is pleased to offer again this year the Farmer' s Camp at the farm The Rassecale in Mirabella Eclano (AV), between Irpinia and Sannio in the middle land, passage of caravans, explorers and merchants who came from the East to Rome. From August...
Let’s help the Fertile Wave get back on its feet.
We learn with sorrow what happened on the farm of our member Mattia (WWOOF profile: https://wwoof.it/it/host/15171): we can imagine the dismay to see years of work and passion for the land go up in smoke. This is the message they sent out on social media...
Seeds of biodiversity at Pergola school garden
It was an important day on April 3 at the "G. Binotti" comprehensive school in Pergola. A hundred people: from authorities to school leaders, from teachers to parents, ending of course with many children. The hubbub, the buzzing of the first bees, the pleasure of...
WWOOF as if for the first time
When we get to know well a reality, an association, a human environment, while familiarity offers us greater comfort in action and movement, our gaze tends to lose some of the freshness of our first encounters. Beginning with this reflection, Fabrizio Romagnoli, a...
My journey as a minor WWOOFer
My name is Luis Weber. I am 17 years old and I live in Berlin, Germany with my younger sister and my parents. Last summer I graduated from high school. Long before graduation, I knew that I wanted to spend a year abroad before starting university. At the beginning of...
Why WWOOFing
The Wwoof network was founded in 1971 and is now present in more than 132 countries around the world. It is a virtuous exchange between farmers and volunteers in which both “gain”.
Seminasiepi second stage
The initiative of the Working Group for Stewardship of Land Ecology, supported by WWOOF Italy. From Monday, November 18 to Sunday, November 24, all members are invited to Host member Enrico Bocchi's farm in Lupazzano near Neviano degli...
Plant a seed we will reap a Garden!
Beside the Earth a.p.s. needs your help in the implementation of the Sensory Garden “Oasis of Mills”!
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...
Agroforestry co-planning: a new course in San Lazzaro di Savena
WWOOF Italy is pleased to announce a new course on participatory design of agroforestry systems, in collaboration with AGROOF. Registration is open and will be held in San Lazzaro di Savena and online.
The “Il Rosmarino” farm in Marcon Needs You!
If we do not take urgent action , we risk facing very serious penalties that can jeopardize the continuation of any activity .
In particular we need to make new stables and new pens for horses , donkeys and goats .
Alba Verde
An irrigation system that can be implemented anywhere, even in the city and in spaces where there is no soil, and thus has great versatility.
Aurora and Luca in Abruzzo: puppies, milk and baby goats
On their way up north, Aurora and Luca stopped for a month in Abruzzo, at two different farms: at Francesca and Christopher's (Fattoria Rural Resilience) and at Salvatore and Rita's (La Capra Fenice). They are greeted by a real, unpretentious farming world: not only...
Hosting WWOOFer minors: a tale of an enriching experience
Every year several dozen girls and boys aged 16 to 18 participate in WWOOF Italy's Minors Project. Some of them are Italian and perhaps visit a farm near their country of residence, while others come from abroad to learn about rural life in Italy. For hosts to host...
Geraint soared on the wings of music
Geraint, member and friend of WWOOF Italia has left us
Aurora recounts her experience of WWOOFing
There are people who experience on themselves how WWOOF is not only a vacation, but also a way to change their lives. Aurora decided to tell about her experience!
Agripiola Lou Ports enjoys good press
Being a Host means offering an agricultural volunteer experience whose key words are sharing and training
WWOOFing in Sicily?
Aurora and Luca continue their journey, discovering the WWOOF realities of the peninsula and themselves: a month in each Italian region, starting in the South. Their van makes stops in Sicily, first in Modica at Damiano's and then in Campobello di Mazara at Alessandro...
