WWOOF Takeaways
Through every up and down of my experience at Moon Valley, I am overall extremely grateful for the opportunity to WWOOF there. Getting to work outside with plants that I love for an entire summer was really inspiring and exciting, especially at such a large scale. Before calendula season hit, I felt a very positive balance in the workload; I was tired at the end of each day but also extremely satisfied with all that I had achieved.
All of that being said, there were definitely a few aspects of this experience that were not okay with me. I had heard many horror stories of WWOOFers getting used and exploited, and while nothing as terrible as those stories occurred for me, I still felt used during the calendula harvest
Reading Takeaways
Having a family emergency occur right in the middle of my WWOOF experience rearranged my entire summer, and also made me lose a lot of steam on this project. My mental health was all over the place, I needed to take care of myself and that made me fall majorly behind in my readings. However, it also opened the opportunity for me to connect more with the community at Moon Valley, for me to take part in group pesto-making, story telling, communal cooking and dinners, all of which
- overall Moon Valley thoughts
- overall WWOOF thoughts, would I again?
- overall experience thoughts
- reading – why didn’t it happen? + what happened instead
- journey to WAS