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Well, I'm off to work on an organic farm
#9037788 - 10/06/08 03:06 PM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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wish me luck. i'm sure its gonna be a great time. i highly suggest www.wwoof.org to all you kids kicking around with nothing to do. Peace and Love Sleepy
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Re: Well, I'm off to work on an organic farm [Re: sleepy]
#9037793 - 10/06/08 03:08 PM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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Good stuff, wwoof is awesome. Take some pictures if you can
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Re: Well, I'm off to work on an organic farm [Re: sleepy]
#9037795 - 10/06/08 03:08 PM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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ARE YOU KIDDING ME??! I JUST got sent this link today by someone else and have been browsing the site ALLL DAY...
I even had the thought, "I feel like this might be THE WAY" got all excited and stuff, it's been on my mind, and all of a sudden I read about you getting into WWOOF too and going for it...
And yet I've never heard about this thing before - except that's TWICE today, within an hours span...
could it be 'the way??!'
OMG I'm sooo proud of you for just doing it! Will you be in the states still, or are you going abroad?
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Re: Well, I'm off to work on an organic farm [Re: MOTH]
#9037933 - 10/06/08 03:43 PM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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seems cool, but no pay = sux.
im on a race to die.
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Re: Well, I'm off to work on an organic farm [Re: sleepy]
#9038146 - 10/06/08 05:11 PM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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i'll be in Northern California harvesting walnuts for about a month, then i hope to hook up with a farm further south where they grow all year round, but i'm leaving my plans wide open, the way i like it. why not give it a shot if the time is right?
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Re: Well, I'm off to work on an organic farm [Re: sleepy]
#9039286 - 10/06/08 09:01 PM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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This kinda sounds like volunteering to be a slave. The only accomidations that are offered are clean and dry, says nothing about running water, no lice or scabbies, etc. Doesn't sound like they offer much compensation other than a free place to camp. Someone is selling the yields of this farm and making $$$, and they get free labor, fuck an a! If you can't own negros anymore, you can always get a hippie to work for free, just let them sleep in the barn and they are all good. Yea capitalism, it's green now!
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Re: Well, I'm off to work on an organic farm [Re: bonghulio]
#9039318 - 10/06/08 09:07 PM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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bonghulio said: This kinda sounds like volunteering to be a slave. The only accomidations that are offered are clean and dry, says nothing about running water, no lice or scabbies, etc. Doesn't sound like they offer much compensation other than a free place to camp. Someone is selling the yields of this farm and making $$$, and they get free labor, fuck an a! If you can't own negros anymore, you can always get a hippie to work for free, just let them sleep in the barn and they are all good. Yea capitalism, it's green now!
you're daft!
you pay to go to college, right? you pay to go to culinary school, right? you pay for books to learn from, right?
this is just another learning opportunity, and there are some farms that pay (some that pay damn well, but they are few and far between)
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Re: Well, I'm off to work on an organic farm [Re: demiu5]
#9039839 - 10/06/08 10:54 PM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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Yea, you pay to go to college, but it is an investment of sorts. This organic farming experience could be an opportunity to learn as well, which would make it an investment, but it just seems like someone is taking advantage of human labor. I have learned and continue to learn from every job that I have ever had, but I always get a paycheck which is what is required in this world/age. I imagine that this could be a good opportunity for some, I could see that it could be fun to live in this environment, for the social experience, and just the experience in general. I guess i'm just sayin that if it's good for you, then milk it for all it's worth, but it's shitty if someone is making a lot of $$$ while kicking back in some custom farmhouse with heat and a/c, and Hummers and shit, while you are living in refugee conditions and doing the work that makes the money. In America, everything is for sale, and labor is definately an asset for sale.
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Re: Well, I'm off to work on an organic farm [Re: bonghulio]
#9039933 - 10/06/08 11:14 PM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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ummmmmm, a lot of these people aren't making a killing. not to mention it costs more than you'd think to run a farm
also, these people aren't driving hummers or expensive vehicles. vans or trucks are generally required for transport of products (unless it's a market garden), and keep a few other even-shittier vehicles on farm to move stuff around. further consider many of these farms are off-the-grid, meaning no a/c and only solar/wind/methane energy if any at all
i see your argument, but until you've experienced it yourself, you've no ground to stand on. and don't be fooled into thinking that one has to have money to live in this country. i've met tons of people who are drifting around with little to no cash in their pockets, and have been doing so for years
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Re: Well, I'm off to work on an organic farm [Re: demiu5]
#9039985 - 10/06/08 11:27 PM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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Hm, if you wanted to do some organic farming, why not rent an acre of land and grow watermelons and stuff for the farmer's market? Same work, only, at the end of the day, you might actually put some money in your pocket.
I was looking at the WWOOF thing for a little while as a way of supporting myself while travelling, but then, I realized something. You work all day doing whatever these people need, then you go to sleep, wake up to do it all over again the next day. You don't exactly have the free time to go into town and experience the local life, and even if you did, you'd be miles away from the nearest town in most instances. This is a lot more glamorous than it sounds.
I don't know where you live, but you shouldn't have a hard time finding a retiree with a few hundred more acres than they know what to do with. Most of these people are more than happy to rent out an acre or two to an aspiring gardener, and if you pick the right crops, you can make a great living off that acre. My recommendation? Stay away from corn. It sells like hotcakes, but is far too space intensive. Tomatoes, watermelons, herbs, green beans are all crops that produce very well and don't take up much space, but fetch a high price at the market.
Trust me, at least give this some consideration before you go signing yourself into serfdom for some potato farmer in Romania.
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Re: Well, I'm off to work on an organic farm [Re: demiu5]
#9040080 - 10/06/08 11:51 PM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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demius said: ummmmmm, a lot of these people aren't making a killing. not to mention it costs more than you'd think to run a farm
shows what you know... I've just made my first billion this year!
actually with 4 successive bad years, I'm way the fuck in the red, seems some places are out of pocket in order to run
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Re: Well, I'm off to work on an organic farm [Re: sleepy]
#9040159 - 10/07/08 12:14 AM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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Friend of mine is doing this. I think she went through the site you posted. Anyway, she's in Hawaii now and fucking loves it. I thought too that she wouldn't have a life outside of farming, but it seems quite the opposite. She's having the time of her life. Some people just love that free life style.
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Edited by magikgrl (10/07/08 12:14 AM)
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Re: Well, I'm off to work on an organic farm [Re: Angered Roach]
#9040172 - 10/07/08 12:20 AM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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Angered Roach said: This is a lot more glamorous than it sounds.
While I haven't done it, to even mention the word glamorous while talking about WWOOF seems ridiculous.
I've considered it many times, and the first thing that pops in my mind is "Will all the hard work and personal inconveniences be worth it." It just seems like common sense that if you go into it thinking there is any sort of glamor at all then you're being foolish.
I've no doubt that these people are making far from a killing of their farm. Any learning experience or personal growth aside, at least you're volunteering to help out some more than likely good people. Plus you're saving money doing it (free room and board is saved money to anyone.)
Not to mention you can always leave whenever the fuck you want if you don't feel like it's working out.
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Re: Well, I'm off to work on an organic farm [Re: jewunit]
#9040246 - 10/07/08 12:40 AM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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Ack...that was a typo. Meant to say, "Not as glamorous as it sounds". Sorry...I just got my way through half a bottle of Jack.
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Re: Well, I'm off to work on an organic farm [Re: Angered Roach]
#9040252 - 10/07/08 12:42 AM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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My post had nothing to do with grammar and everything to do with using the word "glamor" at all in reference to volunteering at an organic farm.
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Re: Well, I'm off to work on an organic farm [Re: jewunit]
#9040270 - 10/07/08 12:50 AM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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Wow thats awesome! I'd really like to do something like this over the summer.
Living on a self sustaining farm is my dream.
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Re: Well, I'm off to work on an organic farm [Re: c0sm0nautt]
#9040905 - 10/07/08 07:19 AM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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the idea is to learn how to run a farm so you can go and start your own. most farms only work 4 hours in the morning and then the rest of the day you can explore, do whatever. so that girl in hawaii might be doing 20 hours of work a week, gets free room/board, and surfs the rest of the time.
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Re: Well, I'm off to work on an organic farm [Re: sleepy]
#9041020 - 10/07/08 08:19 AM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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I am going to do this in the Spring. After this semester. I'm stoked about it. Chea, Piomp.
I'll be going to Hawaii. Probably going to try to hop a trash barge out there to get there. Chea!
Maybe I'll see someone from here out there.
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Re: Well, I'm off to work on an organic farm [Re: Tri High]
#9041462 - 10/07/08 10:19 AM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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Dude, congratulations! Awesome decision! I plan on following this path myself, after this Winter. More power to ya! Good luck and good vibrations!
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Re: Well, I'm off to work on an organic farm [Re: Tri High]
#9041604 - 10/07/08 10:52 AM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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Tri High said: I am going to do this in the Spring. After this semester. I'm stoked about it. Chea, Piomp.
I'll be going to Hawaii. Probably going to try to hop a trash barge out there to get there. Chea!
Maybe I'll see someone from here out there.
how do you hop on a trash barge?
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Re: Well, I'm off to work on an organic farm [Re: sleepy]
#9041677 - 10/07/08 11:11 AM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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sleepy said: the idea is to learn how to run a farm so you can go and start your own. most farms only work 4 hours in the morning and then the rest of the day you can explore, do whatever. so that girl in hawaii might be doing 20 hours of work a week, gets free room/board, and surfs the rest of the time.
Wow... I'm really contemplating taking this spring semester off and doing this. I know our economy is crashing and a socioeconomic collapse will ensue, and farming skills will be a necessity. Hopefully I still have time.
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Re: Well, I'm off to work on an organic farm [Re: sleepy]
#9052632 - 10/09/08 09:13 AM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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well, due to a medical condition, i can't do this now. oh well.
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Re: Well, I'm off to work on an organic farm [Re: sleepy]
#9052958 - 10/09/08 10:53 AM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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what medical condition?
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Re: Well, I'm off to work on an organic farm [Re: sleepy]
#9053037 - 10/09/08 11:08 AM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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not sure, something in my neck. they get really tight and then my lips start going numb, i assume because the arteries are being constricted by the tight muscles and restricting blood flow. right now i'm getting by with benzos but thats a short term solution at best. i got acupuncture for my neck recently and she said smoking pot would mess it up, but i did it anyway, i wonder if thats whats caused it? maybe i should go back to the acupunctureist.
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Re: Well, I'm off to work on an organic farm [Re: sleepy]
#9053133 - 10/09/08 11:26 AM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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a lot of times when i smoke, my muscles (especially neck/back/shoulders) get really tight and achey
that sucks man. hopefully it's not too serious, you'll get fixed up, and be able to head out
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Re: Well, I'm off to work on an organic farm [Re: sleepy]
#9053283 - 10/09/08 12:01 PM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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thanks for the kind words, i hope it works out
Edited by sleepy (10/09/08 12:04 PM)
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