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Host Code: 12589

• Province: Hubei Province 湖北省
• Nearest large city: Enshi


• Languages spoken at home: English，汉语


• Home location:
  On a farm 农场


• Home description:
  

  Cabin on Tea Farm

• WWOOFer duration of stay:
  2 weeks 两个星期
  1 month 三十日内
  Up to 3 months 长达三个月


• Children OK: Yes


• Are you vegetarian: No, we do not exclude meat


• How many WWOOFers at one time:
  5


• Climate:
  Hot, often rainy. Hefeng has a semi-tropical monsoon climate and the terrain is that of a semi-tropical rain forest.


• Time of year WWOOFers may visit:
  Summer 夏
  All Year 所有年份


• Type of host:
  Tea Farm 茶园
  Forestry 林业
  Organic Farm 有机农场

• Farm organically:    Yes (我们从来没有使用农药)


• Use animal waste for fertilizer 在您耕种过程中您只用动物粪便作为肥料吗:    No 没有


• Raise animals 您饲养家禽或家畜吗:    No 没有


• Use chemical pesticides to control insects/disease 您使用化学杀虫剂来控制昆虫或农作物疾病吗:    No 没有


• Use chemical fertilizers in your farming 在您耕种过程中您使用化学肥料吗:    No 没有


• Farm naturally 在您耕种过程中您让作物自然生长么:    Yes 是


• Would like to learn more about organic farming practices 您想了解更多关于有机农业的信息吗:    Yes 是


• WWOOFers tasks:
  Farming 农业
  Forestry 林业
  Other 其他事情


• Other details:
  Aside from maintaining the trails and tea fields, there are various projects that the village needs our help with - such activities may include cleaning up the river swimming hole, assisting elder villagers take their trash down the mountain, clearing away landslide debris, etc.


• Message to WWOOFers:
  

  We, One River Tea, are cohosting this WWOOF farm with the Loushuiyuan Tea Cooperative. Together with them, we want to give international guests a genuine chance to experience live on a tea farm in a traditional Tujia wooden cabin. We have two other major goals:

  1. We want to show our neighbors, member-owners of the Loushuiyuan Cooperative, that their is international interest in the organic methods they have been slow to adopt.
  2. We want to help the village with their labor shortage. With no young people interested in farming, vast swathes of the village's tea fields have become consumed by the jungle. Trails that have been walked for more than a century are vanishing, while decades' old terraces are collapsing. We hope to turn the tide and keep the local agrarian lifestyle alive.

  You give us 5 hours x 5 days a week of work, and we'll give you a place to sleep + 3 meals a day.