Archive for October, 2001

October 4, 2001 Categorized under News

October 2001

There’s a Wwoofer in the GardenI have been a Wwoof Host now for about 10 years and for me one of the most frustrating and often disappointing jobs I can get a Wwoofer to do is weed the garden. It is not so bad when your Wwoofer can speak good English and can understand what a weed is, but when they can hardly speak English at all, it sometimes can almost drive you around the bend. Well there I was one morning sitting on the back veranda with my cup of tea looking at the weeds in my vege garden and unlike most vege gardens, mine consisted of about 90% weeds and the other 10% were veges hiding in there somewhere. Even I could hardly see them. And so I was contemplating what would be the best approach to this job;

Open the gate and let the cows in.Do nothing at all and let the weeds grow bigger.

Let my good, keen Japanese Wwoofer have a go at it.

Poke a stick of dynamite in the middle and hope for the best.

Well, as I said, I was sitting there and all of a sudden the answer came to me…..read more