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Livestock conflict: wild predators.

Livestock conflict: wild predators.

✳️ Masterclass Two weekends of training with outstanding faculty in the classroom and at local businesses to learn: Predation ecology, prevention techniques and tools Animal husbandry, wild dogs, health interactions Conflict management experiences and methodologies...

Biodiversity of agro-pastoral systems

Biodiversity of agro-pastoral systems

✳️ Masterclass School of Shepherding Two weekends of training with outstanding faculty in the classroom and at local businesses to learn: Management and role of biodiversity; Characterization and management of natural pastures; Silvopastoralism; Prescribed fire...

Europe by train and wwoofing: discover DiscoverEU 2026!

Europe by train and wwoofing: discover DiscoverEU 2026!

Dear 18-year-old WWOOFers (and/or future WWOOFers!), There is an opportunity about to expire that seems tailor-made for those who love to travel slowly, sustainably and authentically. It's DiscoverEU, the European Union initiative that gives away rail passes to...

72 Hours for Biodiversity in Scandicci: the 2026 edition arrives!

72 Hours for Biodiversity in Scandicci: the 2026 edition arrives!

Discover, Learn, Participate After the great success of the past years, Scandicci (FI) returns to transform itself into the capital of agrobiodiversity. Also for 2026, the "72 Hours for Biodiversity" festival is confirmed as a must-attend event for those who want to...

Shared Work Days in Terra Pagana: Naturalistic Engineering in Action.

Shared Work Days in Terra Pagana: Naturalistic Engineering in Action.

Landslide Slope Restoration Dear members and friends of WWOOF Italy, we invite you to participate in an important series of shared work days at Terra Pagana, in Piano di Sorrento (NA), dedicated to the restoration of a landslide slope through Naturalistic Engineering...

Spring Sowing Campaign 2026

Spring Sowing Campaign 2026

🌱 Sowing the Future: From March 17 to 30, you can participate in the Campaign 🌻 Is there a more revolutionary gesture than putting a seed in the ground? Doing it together with hundreds of other people, guardians of biodiversity throughout Italy. Once again this year,...

Follow In Network! on March 19 at 7 p.m.

Follow In Network! on March 19 at 7 p.m.

📺 InRet! Live appointment with biodiversity returns What is happening in the world of rural seeds? What are the challenges for those growing diversity today? 🌾 We are happy to invite you to the next episode of InRete!, the video format curated by Rural Seeds Network...

Plants, Cinema and Resistance: Corto Botanico is back! 🌱

Plants, Cinema and Resistance: Corto Botanico is back! 🌱

Dear WWOOFers and Hosts, There is a new way to tell the story of our connection to the earth, and it is through the lens of a camera. We are happy to present the second edition of Corto Botanico, the film contest that challenges filmmakers and enthusiasts to create a...

The Rural Seeds Network News Letter

The Rural Seeds Network News Letter

Rural Seeds Network promotes dynamic and collective management of agricultural diversity.
For an agroecological transition of our agriculture.
To every soil its seed,
to every seed its soil!

Designing Complexity: 72h Permaculture Course in Alta Langa

Designing Complexity: 72h Permaculture Course in Alta Langa

We are happy to announce a deep and immersive training opportunity: a 72-hour Certified Permaculture Course (PDC) to be held June 8-22, 2026 in the heart of Piedmont organized in synergy between 3 entities cu 2 our Host members. The course will not just be theory, but...

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...

Horticultural plant seed storage and reproduction course

with Alice Pasin Saturday, March 21 from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at St. Michelele Circle For info: 3884827313 The course aims to broaden participants' knowledge on the topic of conservation and breeding of horticultural plant genetic lines. The topics covered, in...

Course for farmers on nutrition and feeding of cattle, sheep and goats

Course for farmers on nutrition and feeding of cattle, sheep and goats

With in-depth study of bovine On March 20, 2026, a course on the feeding and nutrition of sheep, goats and cattle, with an in-depth focus on the latter, will be held at Agriturismo Lou porti located in Borgata levata 14 A- Monterosso Grana by Dr. Elia Marabotto, a...

🪴 Cinema, Earth and Resistance: towards Botanical Short 2026!

🪴 Cinema, Earth and Resistance: towards Botanical Short 2026!

Dear WWOOFer and Host, there is a special invitation coming from the hills of Florence: the launch of the new edition of Corto Botanico! If you love independent cinema, good food and biodiversity, mark this date: Thursday, March 5, at the People's House in Settignano....

A new Popular Space for Collective Learning: welcome SPAC!

A new Popular Space for Collective Learning: welcome SPAC!

There is wonderful news coming from the countryside of Umbria, specifically from Ficulle: the crowdfunding campaign for the birth of SPAC! (Popular Space for Collective Learning). was successfully concluded, exceeding the target set. WWOOF Italy can only rejoice when...