Eat Sleep Ride is a 24-acre off-grid equine and community farm

Berwickshire

11 • Updated 3 months ago

Hello WWOOFers! We’re a friendly, creative, and hard-working team living on a 24-acre off-grid farm in the beautiful Scottish Borders. Our project, combines equine rescue and rehabilitation, youth and wellbeing programmes, and sustainable living. The humans here are a mix of staff, volunteers, and visiting coaches. The animals include our much-loved rescue horses, a flock of chatty chickens, and a few sheep who escape and service users dogs who think they run the place. Our farm is a mix of equine care, organic growing, and creative community projects. Depending on the season, you might: Help care for and groom our rescue horses. Tend our sensory garden, woodland spaces, and newly planted areas. Grow vegetables in our organic poly tunnel. Help maintain and improve our tiny house accommodation and community spaces. You can learn about horse care, organic gardening, sustainable building, and nature-based wellbeing practices. Every day is different — mornings often start with animal care, followed by gardening or project work, and afternoons might be for workshops, repairs, or seasonal farm tasks. WWOOFers stay in our cosy tiny house or converted spaces on the farm. We provide a weekly shop of your choice and you can use produce from our garden. Breakfast is usually self-serve, lunch is light and flexible, and dinner is a shared event when possible. We love music, cooking, crafting, storytelling, and sharing knowledge around the campfire. The farm is just minutes from the coast, so you can enjoy beaches, cliff walks, and wild swimming. The nearby towns have local markets, history, and cafés, and Edinburgh, Berwick-upon-Tweed, and Newcastle are within reach for day trips. We speak English and welcome people from all backgrounds.

Learning opportunities

Vegetable farming

Horse or donkey farming

Raising of other farm animals

Wild foraging

Traditional crafts

Green Building

Renewable energy production

Methods or systems

Holistic management

Regenerative agriculture

Host type

Nonprofit / Community

Certified organic

9.7 Hectares | 24 Acres

Accommodation

1 WWOOFer

Cabin / Mobile-home

Children accepted

Pets accepted

Meals

Omnivore

Vegetarian

Vegan

Length of stay

1-2 weeks

3-4 weeks

Danielle

Member since 2025

Languages spoken: English

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Response rate: 96% Response time: typically within 3 days

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Berwickshire

Train: Berwick-upon-Tweed Station (30 mins) Bus: Regular services to Eyemouth and Berwick from nearby towns Airports: Edinburgh or Newcastle Airport (both approx. 1.5 hours)

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Feedback

Juliette

France • August 2026

What an experience! Daniel was a very good host, very welcoming and fun. The woofing was well, working with the horses was great (don’t expect to ride) The ranch is superb and the staff (Susan and Ugh) are adorable Sometimes some organisational concerns so be autonomous I have an incredible memory of it. Be ready to face the weather that can change in the space of a few hours :)

Julie

United Kingdom • August 2026

Lovely place and horses and animals well looked after, treated with respect and looked after well by all staff. Would love to return

ALEXANDRA

France • August 2026

It’s a wonderful place for the animals, who are truly well cared for. The work is split between gardening and stable duties. You also sometimes have to welcome guests camping on-site, so the work is varied and interesting! I was even able to take part in workshops offered at the location. You need to become self-sufficient and independent quickly. Accommodation is provided in a very comfortable tiny house set in a beautiful location. However, the state of the tiny depends on the previous occupant. I was unlucky; it was truly disgusting,hair everywhere (human), questionable cutlery and fridge, full trash cans without liners, unappealing floor rugs, . Fortunately, I had the afternoon to get the place into better shape. Danielle is very busy and doesn't have much time to check,which is understandable, as running a stable is a huge amount of work,but it’s a shame when previous occupants don't do their part. Also, the accommodation isn't a private space, as it’s regularly used for workshops, as a showcase model and campers can use it for shower and hot water for a cup of tea; you have to expect frequent visits from strangers inside your living quarters. It also has to be kept spotless to look presentable for these many visitors,which isn't always easy when sharing the space with a stranger, so double the amount of belongings to store. This can lead to patronizing comments about how the place is kept, which is amusing when I recall the state of the accommodation upon my arrival.

Reply from Danielle

Thank you, Alexandra — honest feedback is more useful to me than a polite five stars, and I'd rather know. The state of the tiny house when you arrived wasn't acceptable and I'm sorry you lost an afternoon to it. Bookings often run back to back, so there isn't always a gap for me to check between people, which means it depends on everyone leaving it properly. That clearly didn't happen and I hadn't made the expectation explicit enough. There's now a written checkout standard — bedding, fridge, bins, floors — which I go through with people on arrival rather than sprung on them at the end, and a quick photo check before they leave. I've also asked new arrivals to tell me straight away if anything isn't right, so nobody has to just put up with it. On the tiny house being used by others — you're right that it isn't a fully private space and I should say that plainly in our listing rather than letting people discover it. It's a working demonstration of off-grid sustainable living, so workshops do run there. Campers ask first and it's during the working day when volunteers are out on the yard, so it shouldn't be a case of strangers appearing while you're in there — but it's still a genuine trade-off and people deserve to know before they commit. Thank you for the kind words about the horses and for the work you put in — you got stuck in and were good company. You'd be welcome back. Danielle

Sanjana

Switzerland • July 2026

This was my first wwoofing experience as an adult. I had a great time with the animals, taking care of them and also working in the garden. You will be the only person that lives on the farm, and you will cook all meals for yourself. It would be practical to have a car or a bike if you want to move around independently or do a shop because the closest bus stop is 1.3 km away.

Solveig

Norway • July 2026

I would like to share my honest experience with the host during the interview and arrival process. During the interview, the host explained that I would be living in a small house on the farm, but that I would have to move out if other paying guests wanted to stay there. This made me feel uncertain about my accommodation stability. As the arrival date approached, I did not receive any contact from her. I had to reach out to arrange the time and place to meet. When I asked if it was okay to arrive later due to a cancelled tour the day before, she initially agreed but informed me I would have to get to the farm by train and taxi on my own. Later that day, she messaged to say it was problematic for me to arrive late because no one would be there to meet me. Despite her prior confirmation, I was now being portrayed as a difficult guest. She instructed me to climb over the entrance gate because she did not know me well enough to share the code and did not feel safe giving it. I tried to offer solutions and asked if I could come the next day instead, but she said she had a meeting in Edinburgh and could not accommodate changes. Although I was in Edinburgh at that time, she did not suggest giving me a ride back to the farm. Overall, the communication and attitude made me feel uncomfortable and unwelcome. The host also accused me of wanting to treat the stay like a holiday, which was not true. Thankfully, another farm was able to accommodate me earlier.

Reply from Danielle

Solveig before you came I explained that if a guest wanted to stay with their I would put you up In a flat and accommodate you agreed so this is not true you then expected me to drive to Edinburgh to get you the day before my car doesn't go to Edinburgh,you then asked to arrive at 9pm the next day which I explained I'm not asking staff to work that late [-------------] I got public to Edinburgh and back to my home on Wednesday it's not my responsibility to get you to the farm [---------------------------------------------]

Emma

United Kingdom • July 2026

Danielle was very welcoming of myself & my elderly dog Sky & as my first wwoofing experience, I enjoyed my 2 weeks there. The accommodation was lovely. Work with the horses was hard graft ! My hearing disability knocked my confidence with some of the work with the bigger horses, but although very rewarding with what I could do & staff were understanding & accommodating. I worked in the community garden weeding the main walk way and around the tiny house. Met some lovely people and helped with a craft workshop. Thank you for having us and making my last journey with Sky a memorable one 🙏🏾 I think it is amazing what you have achieved & I'm sure others will enjoy their experience with you also. Emma

Reply from Danielle

Emma, thank you so much for this — and thank you for choosing to spend part of your journey with us. You threw yourself into everything. The community garden looked transformed by the time you left, the walkway and the area around the tiny house especially, and you have a real eye as an artist which came through in the craft workshop. You worked hard and you didn't cut corners — that matters here. You never needed to feel any way about the bigger horses. Everyone finds their own place with them and you found yours, and you did it while looking after Sky at the same time. She was very welcome here, and we feel lucky that Quarry Farm was part of your last chapter together. 🙏 You and Sky are always welcome back. Wishing you every good thing on the road ahead. Danielle and everyone at Eat Sleep Ride