GW121-en(Gangwon-do)

✔️ Registered 2022

✔️ Host Gender Female

✔️ About us

With a view encompassing Baekdudaegan Mountain Range, this is a community created for Buddhism more than 30 years ago. We cultivate wild vegetables and herbs with self-sufficiency to practice Mind and Farming harmony(禪農一致). It has abundant native wild vegetables, wild herbs, and wildflowers, so anyone can breathe clean nature and enjoy true healing.

The host is a bhikkhuni who performs spritual practice(Sādhanā) with doing farm work, and has been working hard to cultivate a farm in the Chulga Community for more than 20 years.

We are taking care of nature surrounding by the farm and performing the self spiritual practice at the same time with the values and benefits of nature. In addition, vegetables and herbs produced by labor are divided free of charge with visitors. We promote the other farms nearby rather than to gain the profits of our own community and it leads to the profits of local farmers, contributing to the regional economic development.

✔️ Farming Experience 1999

✔️ Farm Type Community that grows a self-sufficient garden

✔️ Main Crop Wild greens, Medicinal herbs, wild flowers

✔️ Farming Method

We do not use any chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, etc.

Instead, we use compost using EM fermentation as the main fertilizer to grow wild vegetables and herbs.

✔️ Organic Lifestyle

The eco-friendly life we think of is not just about ourselves, but about cherishing the value of all life as a priority value.

In addition, it is important to coexist with all the surrounding nature, so we do not collect a lot of herbs in nature, but harvest an appropriate amount, and practice a life of returning the rest to nature again.

✔️ Family / Member Four Buddhist nuns, two or three assistants

✔️ Animal 2 Cats

✔️ English Not Fluent, we will use translator

✔️ Other Language No

✔️ Works

March: Cleaning up the surroundings, pruning trees,

April: Collecting wild vegetables, cleaning up the surroundings, and weeding.

May: Collecting wild vegetables, cleaning up the surroundings, and weed.

June: Collecting wild vegetables, cleaning up the surroundings, and weeding.

July: Cleaning up the surroundings, lawn mowing, weeding.

August: Cleaning up the surroundings, lawn mowing, weeding.

September: Cleaning up the surroundings, harvesting omija, weeding

October: Buying wild grass fever, cleaning up the surroundings, and weeding.

November: Composting, cleaning up the surroundings.

✔️ Working Hours

5~6 hours a day, It can be different depending on the seasons and the farm situation

✔️ WWOOFing Season from December to February

✔️ Knowledge / Skills WWOOFers can learn

About wild green, medicinal herbs, and wild flowers

✔️ Experiences WWOOFers can expect

Temple experience, meditation, nature

✔️ Preferred WWOOFer

Working hard and diligent

✔️ Message to WWOOFers

As a fostering center, we hope the WWOOFers maintain the reverence and have an open mind to religion

✔️ Type Seperated room

✔️ Room Sharing

WWOOFer can be shared a room with same sex (but it will be asked in advanced)

✔️ Internet Wifi

✔️ Drink & Smoke NO

✔️ Distance from house to farm 5 minutes by walk

✔️ Sharing a Meal

Three meals together

✔️ Organic Ingredients

Eco friendly ingredients from the farm

✔️ Vegetarian Possible

✔️ Preferred Length of Stay under 1 week

✔️ Capacity 2 people

✔️ Accept Short Stay(~3 days) No

✔️ WWOOFers with Children(under 15 yrs) No

✔️ Accept Minor(16~18 yrs) No