🍏 At the moment we’re in winter mode, focusing on seasonal tasks that set us up for a productive spring 🌱. This includes mulching beds 🍂, clearing brambles 🌿, spot weeding, and pruning our fruit trees 🌳 and soft fruit 🫐 — plus making wine 🍷 from last season’s harvest.
We’re also happily eating our way through frozen berries ❄️🍒, fruit compotes 🫙 and preserves 🍐 — yum!
As a WWOOFer, you’ll be hands-on with all of this 🤲, as well as helping care for our ducks 🦆 and chickens 🐓.
There’s plenty to do and lots to learn if you’re interested in food growing, food processing, and small-scale animal care.
You’ll have comfortable accommodation and we’ll share home-cooked meals, often using our own produce. We enjoy eating and chatting together - we’ve been told it’s a warm, relaxed atmosphere where people feel at home.
We’d love to welcome someone who’s enthusiastic, hands-on and up for joining in a variety of garden and kitchen tasks. If this sounds like you — please get in touch!
We are Chris and Michele and we have a one acre permaculture garden with chickens, ducks and lots of food being grown. We like to involve WWOOFers in the garden but we also love to cook and make preserves, low sugar jams and wine from our produce. There are lots of different things to get involved in, in the garden - sowing, planting, willow hurdle fences, weeding, sheet mulching, watering, composting and path maintenance depending on the time of the year and of course our chickens and ducks!
Although there are green fields everywhere, where you can go for country walks, we also live close to main transport systems and Cardiff city itself is only 15 minutes on the train from our local train station. We are not in a remote location which on the one hand means that you have lots of things convenient to you - shops, museums, swimming pools etc but also means that you are within earshot of roads and a train line. So if you are seeking a completely remote and rural experience then you would be advised to apply elsewhere.
Saying this, we are well situated for you to explore the beauty spots of south Wales and take day trips to places like the beautiful Brecon Beacons. Travelling in the other direction you can take a trip to Barry Island Beach, go a bit further and you get to Llantwit Major and picturesque St Donats, a bit further still and you get to the stunning Gower. You get two days off every week so there is plenty of opportunity if you plan ahead!
If you like the idea of wwoofing at one of the most advanced urban permaculture sites in Wales with the convenience of shops and a nearby city as well as opportunities to visit beautiful places then please get in touch!
Adendum
When you are emailing could you please include the following info as it makes it easier for us to combine wwoofers:
• nationality (we like to have international mixes)
• your age (we like to have mixed ages if at all possible)
• dietary preferences - vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian, omnivore (e.g. it’s better for us to have all vegetarians or no
vegetarians as this makes making meals easier)
• if you are a vegan does this also rule out eating our eggs from our own free range chickens and ducks or would this be an
exception?
• dietary restrictions - gluten intolerance, nut allergies etc
• if you are a smoker
• if you've been in paid work before
• if you've had any experience in farming, gardening and / or highly physical outdoor activities
Organic methods: permaculture, no dig, natural pest control, forest gardening, self-seeding all year round salad crops.
Certifications: We are not certified because we are not a commercial organic farm. We have a large garden, using organic techniques within a permaculture design. We use the site for our own self sufficiency.
Current projects: All year round general garden maintenance. The activities in the garden vary depending on the time of year.
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Learning opportunities
Vegetable farming
Fruit or nut farming
Poultry farming
Wild foraging
Aromatic or medicinal plants, teas
Seed saving or production
Vegetable or fruit preservation
Beer, cider, wine, or juice making
Methods or systems
Biological pest control
Holistic management
No-till farming
Permaculture
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Self-sufficiency property
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