About WWOOF

About region

Masuria and the Masurian Lake District are known in Polish as Kraina Tysiąca Jezior and meaning "Land of a Thousand Lakes." These lakes were ground out of the land by glaciers during the Pleistocene ice age, when ice covered northeastern Europe.

About  WWOOF

WWOOF organisations links people who want to volunteer on organic farms or smallholdings with people who are looking for volunteer help.

What is WWOOF?

WWOOF provides a way for volunteers (WWOOFers) to learn about organic food, farming, and ways of life. In doing so it brings together people to share common human values and thinking. WWOOF also hopes to provide helping hands to its organic WWOOF hosts and allow WWOOFers to understand what it means to live organically. WWOOF is an exchange programme- volunteer help in exchange for food, accommodation and learning.

The Aims of WWOOF are:

To give first hand experience of organic or other ecologically-sound growing methods

To give experience of life in the countryside

To help the organic movement which is labour intensive and does not rely on artificial fertilisers, herbicides or pesticides

To give people a chance to meet, talk, learn and exchange views with others in the organic movement

To provide an opportunity to learn about life in the host country by living, and working together