GN128-en-(gyeongsangnam-do)

✔️ Registered 2024

✔️ Host Gender Female

✔️ About us

We perform about more than100 Madangguk shows, culture and arts education and international culture exchange program. To keep our food sovereignty, we do the organic rice farming.

There will be an art camp for youth and an opportunity for apprenticeship once a year.

✔️ Farming Experience Since 2009

✔️ Farm Type Non-profit or community

✔️ Main Crop Rice farming

✔️ Farming Method

Without any pesticides, we do rice farming by using the traditional Korean freshwater snail techniques. As the freshwater snails eat up the weeds selectively, they’ve been used as a natural pesticide for rice farming and we’ve used the techniques for 15 years.

✔️ Organic Lifestyle

We perform about more than100 Madangguk shows, culture and arts education and international culture exchange program. To keep our food sovereignty, we do the organic rice farming. There will be an art camp for youth and an opportunity for apprenticeship once a year.

✔️ Family / Member

Community members (36 adults and 4 children)

✔️ Animal

3 dogs and 4 cats

✔️ English

Fluent

✔️ Other Language

Japanese

✔️ Works

Jan-Feb : No work

Mar : Gardening, preparing farm works

Apr : Gardening, rice planting

May : Weeding the rice fields and the garden

June : Weeding the rice fields, harvesting at the garden

July : Weeding the garden, harvesting at the garden

Aug : Gardening

Sept : Harvesting the rice

Oct : Packaging and shipping the rice

Nov : Making half-dried persimmon

Dec : Packaging

✔️ Working Hours

25 Hours a week

✔️ WWOOFing Season Jan ~ Feb

✔️ Knowledge / Skills WWOOFers can learn

Learning Korean, Learning Korean traditional insruments (Pungmulnori)

✔️ Experiences WWOOFers can expect

Korean traditional performance (Madangguk), preparing meals for community

✔️ Preferred WWOOFer

One who has interests in Korean traditional art and community-based lifestyle

✔️ Message to WWOOFers

We would like share our experience to you and learn from each other.

✔️ Type

Seperated room

✔️ Room Sharing

–

✔️ Internet Possible Yes

✔️ Drink & Smoke No smoking / occasional drink

✔️ Distance from house to farm

Vegetable fields at 5 mins by walk / rice paddy fields at 10 mins by car

✔️ Sharing a Meal

1-2 meals provided and cook by yourself if needed

✔️ Organic Ingredients Farm and Garden

Mostly local oraganic ingredients

✔️ Vegetarian Impossible

Yes (vegeterian)

✔️ Preferred Length of Stay 1 weeks up to 3 months

✔️ Capacity 1

✔️ Accept Short Stay No

✔️ WWOOFers with Children(under 15 yrs) No

✔️ inor(16~18 yrs) Yes