JN130-en-(Jeollanam-do)

✔️ Registered 2024

✔️ Host Gender Male

✔️ About us

In 2020, I returned to farming, and in 2022, I secured farmland to cultivate herbs. Through cooking, I encountered herbs and fell in love with their taste, aroma, and color, thinking, “Nothing could be better than this. Let’s live like this!”

As I develop my farm, I feel that herbs are responsible for my health, senses, and enjoyment. Moving to the countryside, I’ve started to deeply contemplate not only practical issues of living but also what constitutes healthy food and a healthy life. With a heart that wishes for everyone to be healthy and happy while coexisting closely with nature, I take on more responsibility in agriculture. I am still a novice farmer with much to learn, and I hope my farm can be a space for learning, experiencing, and sharing together.

Herbs, with their fragrance and usefulness to humans, are my main crops. I mix them with compatible vegetables like eggplants and tomatoes and gradually expand to growing various vegetables one by one. My goal is to create a farm with things to see, enjoy, and eat. I pursued further education at university to learn not only about herb cultivation but also how to utilize them. Currently, I juggle farm operations and studies. My interest in cooking has grown alongside herb cultivation, and I plan to continue learning.

I hope my favorite activities and hobbies merge into one, enriching my life further. With this mindset, I want to open myself, Gurye, and South Korea to the wider world.

✔️ Farming Experience since2020

✔️ Farm Type small farm

✔️ Main Crop Herbs, tomatoes, eggplants, and peperoncino

✔️ Farming Method

Cultivating crops based on the need, without the use of pesticides or fertilizers, and growing crops suitable for the climate and environmental conditions.

✔️ Organic Lifestyle

Minimizing the use of plastic bags and using a thermos

✔️ Family / Member

host’s friends and family

✔️ Animal

None

✔️ English

Very basic conversational English

✔️ Other Language

Books for French, Italian, and Portuguese.

✔️ Works

March – Seed sowing, drainage channel cleanup, preparing the greenhouse

April – Seed sowing, seedling transplantation, herb cutting propagation, greenhouse preparation, mulching

May – Seed sowing, seedling transplantation

June – Weed control, grass management, herb transplantation

July – Weed control, grass removal

August – Grass management

September – Seed sowing, herb harvesting

October – Seed sowing, herb cutting propagation, herb harvesting

November – Herb cutting propagation, herb harvesting, sharing seedlings, winter preparation

December – Herb harvesting, herb cutting propagation, greenhouse cleanup, farm cleanup, winter preparation

✔️ Working Hours

5 hours per day/one day off per week, subject to farm conditions

✔️ WWOOFing Season

unavailable January – February

✔️ Knowledge / Skills WWOOFers can learn

Herbs (cutting propagation, harvesting, usage, storage), using a grass trimmer, preparing furrows

✔️ Experiences WWOOFers can expect

Making potpourri and smudge sticks using herbs, herbal tea, herbal cooking

✔️ Preferred WWOOFer

Bright and lively impression

✔️ Message to WWOOFers

Healthy mindset

✔️ Type

Shared use of living room and bathroom with the host or farm staff

✔️ Room Sharing

Intended for single occupancy only

✔️ Internet Possible Wifi

✔️ Drink & Smoke

alcohol and smoking are allowed within reasonable limits to avoid any harm

✔️ Distance from house to farm

Within a 5-minute drive

✔️ Sharing a Meal

A WWOOFer eats one or two meals a day with host. And the rest, cook by yourself. (Ingredients provided)

✔️ Organic Ingredients Farm and Garden

Purchasing or harvesting organic ingredients.

✔️ Vegetarian Impossible

Vegan and vegetarian available

✔️ Preferred Length of Stay
Less than a week, flexible depending on the situation

✔️ Capacity 2 people

✔️ Accept Short Stay Yes

✔️ WWOOFers with Children(under 15 yrs) No

✔️ inor(16~18 yrs) No