The winery, oil mill and Poderi Borselli farm activities are now energy self-sufficient, welcome not only for oil and wine tastings, but also for guided tours of the facility and the two energy plants.
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A theatrical performance on WWOOF farms.
Good morning, I am Enrico Paschetta, a teacher from the province of Turin, and I am building a Jubilee project. The project consists of embarking on a journey by bicycle, from Turin to Rome, trying to meet small realities, schools, people, organizations, associations...
NGTs new GMOs.
On July 5, 2023, the European Commission adopted a legislative proposal to deregulate new GMOs, disguised behind the acronyms NGTs (New Genomic Techniques) in English, TEAs (Tecniche di Evoluzione Assistita) in Italian, to mislead citizens and farmers and inhibit their historic opposition toward genetic engineering applied to our food.
GMO Science: “In the U.S., transgenic corn strengthened the pest it was supposed to fight”
farmers are often uninformed about the long-term implications of using such hybrids
Mondeggi community meets with metropolitan city administrators
the co-design notice will start soon and will cover the entire estate, thus all the farmhouses and all the land, excluding the villa; the Metropolitan City has also expressed its willingness to ensure the continuity of the garrison and its activities until the end of the works
Gathering 2025 – The story
The beauty of WWOOF Italy Gatherings is not easy to tell, it must be experienced. It is an experience and an opportunity to create new relationships and share a little piece of the road together. Below we at least try to report a brief chronicle of the days spent...
Climate natural resources and capitalism
As early as 1972, scientists at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) on a commission from the Club of Rome sounded the alarm with “The Limits to Growth,” highlighting the risk of economic and environmental collapse if measures were not taken to limit unsustainable growth.
Self-Construction and Permaculture – Simple Earth Association
Terra Semplice is a social promotion association whose purpose is to spread, support and promote environmental sustainability, solidarity among people and community responsibility ethically traceable to permacultural systems
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...
We are looking for material for Calendar 2026!
Appeal to members! At this year's assembly in Fano, the need emerged to create again for 2026 a calendar about our association, modeled on those done until last year. Two themes were thought to be focused on: the protagonists of the association (WWOOFer, hosts, staff,...
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...
rent apartment in micro winery
Opportunity to rent an apartment in organic micro winery between hills of Bologna and Apennines of Modena. The offer includes the possibility of making a large vegetable garden and managing a small orchard, with a view to self-sufficiency, or small sale.Possible also...
Social Garden Manager
We are looking for a passionate, competent and motivated figure to join the Green Area to support and manage activities related to the social garden, helping to generate positive social and environmental impact.
Getting to know Rachel Carson
The extraordinary life of Rachel Carson (1907 – 1964), both intellectually and as a person, must be known. Sixty years after her death, the author of Silent Spring is rightly considered among the foremost figures of modern ecological thought.
The purpose of wild plants is not to feed us, but to propagate their seeds
History celebrates the battlefields where we meet our death, but does not speak of the ploughed fields where we thrive; it knows the names of the bastards of kings, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat. This is the path of human folly. Henri Fabre, entomologist and naturalist
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...
Project CHAlleNGE – here’s how the second year went
2024 was the second year of the CHAlleNGE - Call to Action of New Ecological Generations for Agroecological Change project. The solid planning that took place in the previous year laid the foundation for the success of this year's many activities. Let's see which...
Best Practices Project
Are you ready to share your experiences and contribute to the growth of the WWOOF community? Marcella da Cortona has launched an exciting initiative: a survey to map the good practices that drive our volunteer agriculture projects. A unique opportunity to let the...
Let’s stop the new GMOs! at risk even organic farms!
Let’s ask the organic certification bodies to do their job and stop certifying organic farms where they are experimenting with new GMOs!
Participates in activities with staff
Dear members, Pulling the sums of 2024, we were pleased to see the slow but steady increase in the soc@ of WWOOF Italy confirmed, as has been the case in recent years. The trust given by more and more people to WWOOF as an engine for a healthier and more harmonious...
