GB117-en-(Gyeongsangbuk-do)

✔️ Registered 2024

✔️ Host Gender Male

✔️ About us

Our farm is operated by the families of the Shalom Community, aiming for an eco-naturalist approach. We produce rice, free-range eggs, lettuce, sweet potatoes, peppers, and butternut squash.

The host is a professor emeritus who retired this year after about 30 years as a professor of social welfare at a university, with a background in theology (M.Div) and social welfare (MSW, Ph.D). He was ordained as a minister by the Southern Baptist Convention in 1987 and has been the representative of the Shalom Community, which started about 10 years ago.

✔️ Farming Experience since 2010

✔️ Farm Type

The size of the farm, including the chicken farm, rice fields, fields, and greenhouses, is about 15,000 pyeong, which is a small-scale farm. We are starting experience farms, educational programs, and healing farms.

✔️ Main Crop

Free-range eggs, lettuce, rice, butternut squash, peppers, sweet potatoes, etc

✔️ Farming Method

Pesticide-free, fertilizer-free, use of natural remedies, herbal nutrients, utilization of indigenous microorganisms

✔️ Organic Lifestyle

Composting food waste, reducing the use of disposable items, utilizing natural eco-friendly soap, etc

✔️ Family / Member

The Shalom Community consists of 7 families with 15 adults and 16 children, and the adults are dedicated to agriculture, social welfare, and education

✔️ Animal

dog/cat/rabbit

✔️ English

Smooth communication

✔️ Other Language

Japanese, Russian

✔️ Works

Proceed according to the agricultural calendar

✔️ Working Hours

4~5 hours per day/ two days off per week, subject to farm conditions

✔️ WWOOFing Season

None

✔️ Knowledge / Skills WWOOFers can learn

Free-range poultry farming, sweet pumpkin cultivation, lettuce cultivation, etc.

✔️ Experiences WWOOFers can expect

Farm activities, construction, children’s education, Christian religious life, rural village life, various cultural experience activities, and travel opportunities

✔️ Preferred WWOOFer

Optimistic and proactive personality, enjoys socializing with people, open-minded and able to engage in discussions

✔️ Message to WWOOFers

Please treat children with care and respect.
If you have any concerns or difficulties, discuss them with the host immediately.
Unless there is a special reason, please participate in community meetings

✔️ Type ETC

✔️ Room Sharing

A WWOOFer can share a room with the same sex (but this will be requested in advance)

✔️ Internet Possible Wifi

✔️ Drink & Smoke Intermittent outdoor smoking and alcohol consumption allowed

✔️ 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

Primarily uses organic ingredients, but not always

✔️ Vegetarian Impossible

Vegan and vegetarian available

✔️ Preferred Length of Stay More than a month

✔️ Capacity 3 people

✔️ Accept Short Stay Yes

✔️ WWOOFers with Children(under 15 yrs) Yes

✔️ inor(16~18 yrs) Yes