WWOOFing at Caña Dulce

I´m sitting here watching the time on my computer tick down at the internet cafe so I may not be able to do the last week of travling justice in this post. After leaving Quéntar last week we had a hell of a time getting all of our bus connections out to Coín to get picked up by our WWOOF hosts. I can never remember exactly what WWOOF stands for, it´s something along the lines of World Wide Organization of Organic Farmers. What it is is an organization of organic farms and the like that take volunteers for weeks at a time in exchange for room and board. Brandon an I have been at a Permaculture farm near Coín for the last week with the couple who live there and 2 other WWOOFers. It´s called Caña Dulce because of all the invasive cane surrounding it that they use in a lot of their furniture and bulidings. Our project for the last few days has been cutting cane to build a fence around on of their gardens...it is truly amazing how much cane that fence eats up. It´s not a farm so much as it is a sustainable living ecosystem. The couple that live there built it and have over 600 varietys of fruits, vegetables, and plants they grow throughout the year. They teach courses on Permaculture (basically sustainable agriculture) out there also. There are a number of seperate small buildings that make up the area so it´s a lot like living outside or being at camp with going between different buildings and areas of the farm. We´ve also done a lot of gardening and cleaned out the kitchen which is an outdoor patio coverd with a roof and cane and vine walls so that we could paint the concrete floor. We´ve done a lot of hard work but it´s been good to do someting physical. It´s been really good for us to be able to decompress from those first few days and get our bearins on what we´re doing next.

What are we doing next you ask? Going to Morrocco. We´ve met a numebr of people who have told us a lot about things to see there and one of the women we´re WWOOFing with was just there so we´re pretty excited.

I´ll be updating more about this last week when I get a chance in the next couple days.