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Commented on WWOOF - World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms
Blackanvil: You mean it? akcarlson at gee mail dot com Let's talk. (I'm not weird. Well, okay, not dangerous. Well, not like that, anyway.)...
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#9: In this case, FAA refers to the FISA Amendment Act. It's an acronym within an acronym; not unlike a hall of mirrors, or a Turducken....
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Is it me, or is one of the lampshades pretty obviously a Gatorade bottle with a sock around it?...
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if this thing streams from any computer on a network... Well, goodbye Charter cable....
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arkizzle / Moderator commented on JUSTICE Act: a bill to restore the Bill of Rights to America
"..all kinds to fill a freeway. ..all kinds of nuts to make a trail(mix)....
cosmicautumn commented on WWOOF - World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms
A friend of mine had a great experience doing this on a farm in Bretagne in France. She said she barely worked and got to see a part of the country she wouldn't have been able to see otherwise. Next time I go traveling I'm going to work some WWOOFing in....
janetcetera commented on WWOOF - World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms
I'm about to embark on a wwoof journey of my own in a few weeks. 6 months of farms from Cali to Mexico and back home to Vancouver. I'll be blogging all about it. (maybe I'll suggest the link when I get it up and running?) I'm the produce manager at an organic health food store in Vancouver, BC. I buy direct from many farmers especially in the summer months and I've met a lot of amazing people through that, wwoofers and farmers. As someone who is very interested in sustainable urban and rural agriculture this is the cheapest way...
bornonbord commented on WWOOF - World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms
@nolongeranon: Truth. Your experience will vary wildly from farm to farm. Some aren't even working farms - I was once at one where they just entertained Japanese tourists for an hour a day wrangling sheep. Also very interesting that they changed the title. It sounds more corporate now....
aimeew commented on WWOOF - World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms
My partner, dog and I did this through the North Island of New Zealand for 4/5 months earlier this year, and I heartily recommend it (despite being uber-urban, and not very hippy-happy, as it were). Met some truly awesome people, and it's the best way way I know of to get to know a country, and its people, in a relatively short space of time. Some were very rural, some lived in/near towns, or even the major cities. Funnily enough, it's so common here that just about everyone I've encountered has heard of it... But yes - read the descriptions...

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