JN132-en-(jeollanam-do)

✔️ Registered 2024

✔️ Host Gender Male

✔️ About us

Our goal is to help students find their own path and aim for more simple and modest life. In our village, there are educational facilities from elementary to high school, public library and the community center. People with similar values and ideas has gathered and created the town now and I served as a town chief.

We start our day with a meditation and a stroll along the sea shore. We farm and cook by ourselves to realize that the entire universe is inside a single grain of rice. We study and practice a life of silence with a focus on spirituality.

✔️ Farming Experience Since 2013

✔️ Farm Type Education farm

✔️ Main Crop

Rice farming / Vegetable farming (potatoes, corn, peppers, onions, garlic, perilla seeds)

✔️ Farming Method

Without any pesticides, we do rice farming by using the traditional Korean freshwater snail techniques.

✔️ Organic Lifestyle

We do not use air conditioners or heaters to save energy and minimize leftover for meals of 60 people. We practice a zero-waste lifestyle.

✔️ Family / Member

Community members (students, 80s seniors, village people)

✔️ Animal

7 dogs, 10 cats, 70 chickens

✔️ English

Basic

✔️ Other Language

Japanese – fluent

✔️ Works

Jan: No work

Feb: Planning for the year, pruning the trees, school starts

Mar: Planting vegetables like lettuce and potatoes, making a field for onion and garlic

Apr: Planting vegetables like chili pepper, corn, spring onion, taro / picking garlic stem

May: Harvesting garlic and onion, weeding, rice planting

June: Planting sweet potato’s stems and perilla seeds, harvesting potato and chili peppers

July: Harvesting sweet potato’s stems and corns

Aug: Weeding, planting chives and napa cabbage

Sept: Catching bugs, planting white radish

Oct: Harvesting perilla seeds, peanuts, taro, sweet potatoes, rice / planting a seeding of onion

Nov: Planting spinach, mulching onion and garlic fields with rice bran

Dec: Harvesting napa cabbage and radish / making Kimchi

✔️ Working Hours

25 hours a week

✔️ WWOOFing Season

Jan ~ Feb

✔️ Knowledge / Skills WWOOFers can learn

Rice farming, Kitchen garden farming, Taking care of children and youth

✔️ Experiences WWOOFers can expect

Cultural exchange with village people and studnets

✔️ Preferred WWOOFer

One with full of enthusiasm to learn new things

✔️ Message to WWOOFers

We are the community aged from 8 to 80s. I hope you to grow more mature from different generations with open-mindedness.

✔️ Type

Seperated room (may share with other same-gender WWOOFer)

✔️ Room Sharing

Shared bathroom and living room

✔️ Internet Possible Yes

✔️ Drink & Smoke Smoking outside / occasional drink

✔️ Distance from house to farm

5 mins by walk

✔️ Sharing a Meal

3 meals provided

✔️ Organic Ingredients Farm and Garden

Mostly local oraganic ingredients

✔️ Vegetarian Impossible

Yes (vegeterian)

✔️ Preferred Length of Stay 1 month

✔️ Capacity 4

✔️ Accept Short Stay Yes

✔️ WWOOFers with Children(under 15 yrs) Yes

✔️ inor(16~18 yrs) Yes