This page is dedicated to all the WWOOFers that have helped us, and continue to help us realize a dream a long time in the planning. Your work and input has been invaluable to us.
Go in peace and with our love.
Andy and Dorothy
Viola ( Germany)- Watering a Michoacan pine sapling that she planted. To date we have planted over 150 trees and have started a mixed fruit orchard.
James (USA) - Taking care of and planting medicinal and culinary herbs.
Matthew (Canada) and Caoimhin (Ireland) - Risking life (their´s) and limbs (our trees) picking off ball moss.
Roma (France), Catherine (England), Izzy (England), Kip ( USA), and the Fence Itself ( Mexico) Planting a living fence along our boarder line. A most prickly business! It is now in it´s second season and is doing very well, thank you very much. Using a medium like a cactus or similar succulent to create boundary lines makes a lot of sense in an area such as ours that has very little wood and minimal rainfall.
Sean ( Canada) - Carpenter extradinaire! His only tools were a machete, hammer, screwdriver, hand saw and some screws! Oh yes, and some wood (loading pallets from the local tile store) and a lot of determination. Apparently, all one needs to make a fantastic table with two leaves.
Vio ( France) - Cobbing a small practice building we made during a workshop. Cobbing, for those of you not in the know, is a tightly guarded secret that is taught only to highly evolved French people with no fear of heights.
Humanure non-waste management system Part 1
In ancient vedic lore there are three things a person must be able to do, to live a healthy, holistic life. (1) Be able to construct your own home. (2) Be able to prepare your own food. (3) To understand the correct management and disposal of so called human waste. A thermophilic composting toilet is probably the most responsible way that we have found of dealing with this matter.
Humanure non-waste management system Part 2
James (again) Technically speaking part 1 is really just a collection device, this is where all the thermo action and good bug dances really takes place.
Tillman and Viola (Germany) Food is a very important part of our life, we like it good and plentiful! Saturdays are considered a baking day. If you can make bread the oven is all yours, if not...
Spiral garden It took nearly three months of work to get all the stones out and to prep the earth for this garden. But it was well worth the effort. We now have veggies every which way we turn. Of course they are all organic and planted according to all known planetary guidelines. We also seed save and will happily trade seeds for things we don´t have,-like more seeds and swiss army knives. Originally we tried to do the spiral clockwise, however for some reason it really didn´t look or feel right, we are probably violating all sorts of permacultury laws by going anti-round, but it works for us.
Stocky (USA)- One of the most energetic people we´ve ever had the pleasure of meeting, assisting in the construction of a soon to be completed earthbag water tower. Although who knows what he thought he was doing!.
Robyn (USA)- The other, some say better, half of the Robyn and Stocky show. We are not quite sure what she was cooking up here, but we can be assured it wasn´t on the menu.
Gabriel (Canada) - Sometimes our WWOOfers surprise us with their unusual skills. Here is one of them taming a wild Spangle.
Yasu (Japan) - We´ve known this bloke for over ten years now, but it took a lot of time to convince him that yes, all these big stones can be dug out with just an iron bar. This is the site of the afore mentioned orchard, before planting, and while he could still stand.Yasu ended up staying for many months and was a fantastic help to us.
Camp area. (Karacadir) - Just a couple of shots to show the main living area here.
Nicole (Switzerland) - Nicole helped plant our fruit orchard. Her lime tree here is going strong.
Mark ( England) - Laying slate in our newly constructed Balinese mandi. For those of you that don´t know what that is.... come visit and find out.
Mark and Nicole - in the finished mandi.
Well guys and gals, that´s all for now, if we haven´t posted you keep checking back, we will be updating and changing this page completely randomly every so often. For all of you who are just checking us out, and wondering what the heck this WWOOF stuff is, go to www.wwoof.org
Que le vaya bien,
Andy and Dorothy