Wwoof in Australia

We are a French couple who have been in Australia for 3 months. We arrived in Sydney where and had booked a backpacker in the city for a week. When the three weeks were over, it was no trouble to find a room in the city in a house we shared with 3 other people.

Finding a job was easy too, so everything should have been fine, but we had a problem. Originally we came to Australia to have fantastic experiences and to improve our English. For the experiences, it was really interesting to discover Sydney as a beautiful place with a lot of things to see.

However, we worked a lot and we couldn’t really enjoy our life in Sydney and at the same time, we didn’t meet enough people to talk to and improve our English.

So we decided to leave an live another adventure, trying wwoofing.

Wwoofing (willing work on organic farms) is basically working for a family or a small business for accommodation and food.

Wwoofing gives you the chance to live a fantastic experience: it allows you to exchange intercultural with a new people and to share a real human experience, away from the commercial backpacking routes.

There is always a lot of work to do, and so we worked in gardening, cooking and animal caring.

Of course there are also some disadvantages to wwoofing: Firstly, you don't earn any money. Secondly, the experience is different for every farm you work at and unfortunately there are some black sheeps in the woofing community that use their woofers, but in the end you're alwyas free to leave.

In our experience everything went well, and we think this great experience should motivate other travellers to try it out.