WE REALLY ENJOY HAVING WWOOFERS TO STAY, WE LOOK FORWARD TO WELCOMING YOU in 2026.
Come and join us in Autumn 2026. We'll be foraging, growing microgreens, making sauerkraut and nurturing our trees, protecting our hedges and fields from bracken and brambles etc etc.
WE TRY HARD TO ENSURE THAT YOUR STAY AND THE EXPERIENCE THAT WE CAN OFFER YOU, MEETS YOUR NEEDS.
We think our farm and wood are very special, we encourage you to explore our land, to sketch or draw, to find a place to read and relax, FOREST BATHING or to just marvel at and watch nature.
We are a DARK SKY area.
We had great fun planting 1,900 native deciduous trees with a few friends in February 2023. We planted another 850 native deciduous trees with friends and WWOOFers in the 3rd week of January '24. We've just finished planting 14,500 mixed deciduous and coniferous trees. We are doing this to extend our 13 acre ancient woodland which has really beautiful trees, fungi and lichens; to encourage wildlife and to help in a small way to combat the climate disaster.
We've had several big storms recently, we don't work outside during these, there are always indoor jobs to be done. BUT we do work outside when it's raining. So bring waterproof trousers.
We live in a 300yr old Welsh long house, we have solar panels and air source heating and wood burners. We try hard to save energy and water. To do this we are using compost toilets and have 3 minute showers
We have a warm, well insulated house and wood burners, so you won't be cold indoors.
We are a fit and active vegan couple
who enjoy our life together and our surroundings, we work hard and enjoy nurturing our trees, exchanging ideas with our wwoofs and trying to involve them in every part of the tree nurturing and our sustainabilty process.
Our aim is to plant and care for as many trees as possible, to support all the wildlife on our land in a sympathetic and sustainable way. We've planted blackcurrants prunings to fill out our hedges, providing bird food, we've a newly planted orchard and have plans for a tree nursery too.
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WE ARE UNABLE TO ACCOMMODATE
SMOKERS OR PETS.
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WE WELCOME PEOPLE OF ALL AGES 18 -101 yrs
YOU DONT NEED TO BE AN EXPERT JUST BRING LOTS OF ENTHUSIASM nobody is too old to become a Wwoofer with us, you just need to be reasonably fit and active and be prepared to work in all weathers.
Our daily routine with WWOOFers is our tree care, planting, staking, mulching, weeding around them, cutting the bracken and the brambles and building tripods around the trees to protect them from collapsing bracken.
We look after our ancient hedges too and the numerous wildflowers and grasses in our fields. We are members of the Camarthenshire Meadows Group and record and survey the diverse species in the meadows.
We are using local sheep wool for mulching as well as using wood chip from the woodyard in the village.
We've been give a huge quantity of second-hand Welsh slates to upcycle, so welcome any ideas. We've got 2 electric engraving tools, if you want to engrave the slates.
We are also happy to teach and share our knowledge of food - to make Sauerkraut with you, soya yoghurt and conventional bread, we're just learnt to make our own soya milk and tofu, so adding that to the list too.
Fermented foods are very good for ones gut biome.
We grow MICROGREENS, we've planted fennel, coriander, radish and brocolli. We eat these as part of our salad lunch each day.
We've always enjoyed enjoy growing bean sprouts and pea shoots on the kitchen windowsill, and preparing food for dehydrating.
We eat 30+ different vegetables and fruits each week, always trying to eat a 'rainbow' of different coloured foods.
Gareth makes blackberry jam, medlar jelly and quince jam in the Autumn and makes our marmalade in January too, which is when Seville oranges are available in the UK. We use our family's marmalade recipe.
We regularly have cut wood to be stacked for use on our wood burning stoves. We always need more kindling made.
We compost as much as possible, including humanure from the compost toilets - for use on flowerbeds and tree nursery (not food).
There are potholes in the drive to be filled. Footpaths to be checked for fallen trees and cleared of bracken and brambles. Also a myriad of little '10 minute jobs' that, when completed, just makes everyone happy.
We've also welcomed the local butterfly conservation society volunteers to check for the now rare Brown Hairstreak butterfly eggs. Sadly, none were found, but they are very tiny so maybe, just maybe, they will appear.
We have 2 sets of copper divining rods, if you would like to try to use those, especially when you go up to the Neolithic hillfort, Garn Goch.
There is so much to photograph in our fields and woods.
What is not to like, being outside, watching the kites and buzzards overhead, having the robins alongside you and the other birds singing in the hedgerows. Listening to the owls at night. The Merlin app is popular with our wwoof.
We have for the second year swallows darting in and out of our barns, that's exciting and a wren nesting too.
We've just put up a barn owl box, hoping our barn owl will find a partner this coming winter.
We are long term vegan, we became vegetarian in the '70's. We eat fresh food, make our own bread, cakes, yoghurt, tofu, sauerkraut, etc. We have a big table that we all eat at and we like our meals to be nutritious, well balanced and tasty. We are always really happy to share our meals, chat and eat together. You are welcome to spend as much time in the house as you want.
If we know of WWOOFs staying nearby we like to invite them and their hosts to meet our WWOOFs and share food or outings. It's important, we think, that WWOOFers meet each other, and we try to facilitate that.
You do not have to be vegan or vegetarian to stay here, we are not 'militant vegans'! There is, of course, no obligation to eat with us if you prefer not to. At weekends during the warmer months, there is a lovely wood-fired sourdough pizza marquee, 'Dough Diddley's', which is within walking distance and a couple of pubs in the village too.
We have bought 3 very clean and comfortable WWOOF caravans, as 'a sanctuary' for you and have converted a small barn too into an additional Bothy. They all have electricity, have comfortable beds, cotton sheets, towels and electric blankets, hairdryer and heating. We want you to be warm and very comfortable. There is an excellent shower in the house for your use too, to save water we ask that you take 3minute showers only. Water is very precious commodity.
The caravans and bothy will be very clean and tidy when you arrive, we ask that you leave them that way too. We have a washing machine for your use.
We have no TV, but there is internet and lots to read.
If you want to bring a van or a tent that is fine too, we can provide electric hook up.
We are of course happy to include you in our outings to the Cadog Film Club (October-May), museums, castles or the local area or we can help facilitate other visits. There are lots of walks nearby and we are happy to help you choose one and to take you to the beginning of the walk and collect you afterwards. We have guide books and maps of the area. We want you to explore as much of this area as possible.
WWOOFers participate in our activities for 5 days each week for 5 hrs a day and have 2 days off. We have breakfast at 8am, lunch at 1.00pm and supper at 7pm. Some of our wwoof like to work from 8am -1 and have the afternoon for relaxation others start later. During the red warning heat wave in June we agreed to all work at 6am -8am in the fields as there is no shade. We are flexible.
We'd like to review your stay with you at the end of the first 3 days, as we really want you to be happy and fulfilled staying with us.
One of us usually work alongside our WWOOFs - our fields are very big, so everyone has plenty of space to think, plan and dream as we work. One of us will be somewhere nearby if needed.
We enjoy reading and have many books about trees, wilding, permaculture and sustainable living as well as fiction books.
We are left leaning and read the Guardian newspaper.
We enjoy the experience of being surrounded by woodland and fields that is home to badgers, deer, barn owls, slow worms, hares, otters and hedgehogs, buzzards and red kites.
We have travelled to Europe, India, Japan and SE Asia and look forward to welcoming WWOOFERS from all around the world.
WE WELCOME GUESTS OF ALL AGES AND MOST MONTHS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. We are closed July and August and already full in September. Please see our availability.
We also welcome LGBTQ+* wwoofers.
We only accept a MINIMUM STAY of 6 nights and maximum stay of 2 weeks.
We have footpaths all around us, so plenty of exploring to be done from our doorstep. In the locality are lovely things to see and do, including exploring Carreg Cennen castle, walking up to a Neolithic hill fort (please remember to take the divining rods with you), walking to Llangadog village (35 mins) which has 2 nice pubs and a few shops, getting a bus from Llangadog to Carmarthen, walking to Llyn Y Fan Fach, travelling on the Heart of Wales railway (voted as one of the most beautiful lines in Europe - https://www.walesonline.co.uk) There is walking in the famous Dinefwr Park and castle, the towns of Llandeilo and Llandovery to explore by bus and of course the Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) are on the doorstep.
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