Mano Farm is a 1.3 acre certified organic seed, vegetable and herb farm located in Ojai, California. We farm year-round, emphasizing the use of human labor and hand tools. On-farm apprenticeship, interns, and work trade opportunities are primarily available through the WWOOF-USA network. We offer Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) memberships to residents of the Ojai Valley and sell our seeds through our sister company, All Good Things Organic Seeds. We are also proponents of food justice, a movement that seeks to increase the availability of nutritious, healthy food to low-income individuals and families. Low income and fully subsidized CSA shares are available, and we also accept EBT/SNAP (food stamp) benefits for CSA payments. Contact us for more details.
WWOOFing: Farm life for the fun of it
We are proud, if often overwhelmed members of the World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF) network. This article from the Los Angeles TImes describes a bit of the history of the organization, with a specific focus on the Southern California WWOOF context. Favorite passage:
“Not all farms are created equally,” said Jess Sullivan, 24, a graduate student at UC San Diego who runs a one-acre WWOOF farm with her boyfriend in southeastern San Diego County. Sullivan worked on farms in Maine and Belize during her undergraduate days at Wesleyan University in Connecticut.
In recent months, they have been flooded with applications. She has received as many as 110 in one month alone; she takes only about three volunteers at a time.
She said applicants fall into several categories. The confused — those who have finished college and are avoiding figuring out what to do with their lives; the wanderers — the ones who blithely travel the world with a hunger for exploration; and the ambitious — those who are hooked on the trend of community farming, with a genuine interest in agriculture.
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