JN134-en-(jeollanam-do)

✔️ Registered 2024

✔️ Host Gender Female

✔️ About us

Our teahouse makes about 10 kinds of tea in large scale including 20,000 pyeong of tea fields and 1,000 pyeong of lotus fields with the eco-friendly farming and traditional handmade tea manufacturing methods. As the certified rural education farm, we provide the history and culture education program and the care farming for city dwellers.

As a local manager of Myungwon Tea Ceremony Culture Center, we have more than 100 members in the certification class. Also we gave a lecture about tea mediation for the local hospital and tea confectionery for the community welfare center.

✔️ Farming Experience 2000(Tea), 2007(Lotus), 2023(Apple mango)

✔️ Farm Type Education farm / Care farm

✔️ Main Crop

Aromatic and medicinal plants, teas (lotus) / Fruit farming(apple mango)

✔️ Farming Method

We practice the eco-friendly lifestyle like three R rules for recycling; reduce, reuse and recycle as possible. Also we gather the used paper and iceboxes and use them as packaging materials for the nationwide shipping of our products.

✔️ Organic Lifestyle

We got organic certification in 2007 to keep on the healthy diet and food culture.

✔️ Family / Member

Family(husband, daughter), trainee of tea or mango class

✔️ Animal

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✔️ English

Basic

✔️ Other Language

Japanese

✔️ Works

Dec-Feb : No work

Mar : Weeding, Helping works at the traditional teahouse & tour program

Apr : Weeding, Helping works at the traditional teahouse & tour program, tea manufacturing

May-June : Weeding,

July-Sept : Picking lotus flowers and leaves, harvesting mangos, helping works at the traditional teahouse & tour program

Oct-Nov : Helping works at the traditional teahouse & tour program

✔️ Working Hours

30 hours a week

✔️ WWOOFing Season

Dec-Feb

✔️ Knowledge / Skills WWOOFers can learn

Tea ceremony, Tea manufacturing, Tea mediation, Tradition food

✔️ Experiences WWOOFers can expect

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✔️ Preferred WWOOFer

20s – 40s women

✔️ Message to WWOOFers

My husband is in charge of cooking and I hope you to enjoy helping him sometimes.

✔️ Type

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

✔️ Room Sharing

–

✔️ Internet Possible Yes

✔️ Drink & Smoke No smoking / occasional drink

✔️ Distance from house to farm

Close to accomodation / 10 mins by car

✔️ Sharing a Meal

1-2 Meals provided and cook by yourself if needed

✔️ Organic Ingredients Farm and Garden

Self-sufficient / Mostly local oraganic ingredients

✔️ Vegetarian Impossible

Yes (vegeterian)

✔️ Preferred Length of Stay 2 weeks

✔️ Capacity 4

✔️ Accept Short Stay Yes only if it’s on a regular schedule

✔️ WWOOFers with Children(under 15 yrs) No

✔️ inor(16~18 yrs) No