h3078

Member for
16 years

Chubu

Gifu

Takayama-shi

高山市

  • General Farm (grow various kinds of plants)

  • General Organic Farming
  • Non Agricultural Chemical Method of Farming
  • Non Chemical Fertilizer Method of Growing Foods
  • Natural Farming
  • Small Scale, Large Variety Farming
  • Rice Farming
  • Vegetable Farming
  • Holding Courses for People to Experience Farming
  • Using Your Own Seeds
  • Opportunities to Study Japanese
  • Playing Musical Instruments
  • Baking Bread
  • Walking to Enjoy Nature
  • Mountain Climbing
  • Walking in the Bush
  • Hot Spring
  • General Japanese Family

70 to 90% organic

No

We have an organic attitude of sorts, but we do not go out of our way to be organic or alternative, rather, we do what suits us at the time

・利用できるものは長く使用する
・「もったいない』の心を大切にしている

We take good care of our tools and practice "Mottainai".

  • General diet including meat and fish
  • Our own grown vegetables generally
  • We usually cook homemade meals

When we have a party or an event, we might drink with WWOOFers but these occasions are not so often

Yes, at designated location

  • Farming area
  • Outside the town
  • Quiet place

Our home and our workplace are situated at the same place or very close to each other and so the atmosphere stated pertains to both our home and our workplace

Within 1ha (100 a)

  • Large House
  • Two Story House
  • Typical farm house

20

30

15

0

Yes

  • Goats

No

  • March
  • April
  • May
  • June
  • July
  • August
  • September
  • October
  • November

  • Both Short Period and Long Period Welcome
  • If WWOOFers want to stay for a long period, after about a one week trial period, we decide if the WWOOFer is suited to our place and whether we will ask him or her to stay longer

Up to Four

5 to 20

  • 2 friend WWOOFers of the same gender
  • A group of friends WWOOFing together
  • A couple who are WWOOFing together

Depends on the situation

  • No conditions. If we do not have other WWOOFers or other WWOOFer reservations, we welcome all WWOOFers
  • Any gender
  • WWOOFers of any age
  • We prefer WWOOFers who can speak Japanese
  • WWOOFers who are interested in farming
  • WWOOFers who like nature
  • WWOOFers who are interested in living in a rural area
  • Active WWOOFers
  • Cheerful WWOOFers
  • WWOOFers who have a will to learn the native language(s)
  • WWOOFers who are interested in this culture
  • Healthy WWOOFers

  • General farming
  • Weeding
  • Seeding
  • Planting seedlings in the ground
  • Harvesting
  • Planting rice plants
  • Reaping rice
  • Threshing
  • Thinning out seedlings
  • Managing vegetable / rice fields
  • Chopping wood
  • Shipping goods
  • Supporting deliveries
  • Cleaning
  • Helping attending to customers in a shop
  • Helping at events

We are trying to give WWOOFers 6 hours a day, however, it may increase or decrease depending on the activities we are doing

  • In a room in the house where the Host family live
  • In a traditional Japanese Tatami mat room
  • Using a Japanese futon
  • One room for one person
  • One room for two WWOOFers

  • Usually with the Host

Ask us when contacting us

Yes, at a designated location

  • No

No

It depends on the activities we are doing at our place at the time, however, we usually have time to communicate with WWOOFers

  • Yes, to a certain degree

  • Japanese
  • English

家のまわりは、ほうれん草、ハーブなどのハウス栽培がさかんな農村地帯です。私達は、慣行農業ではなく、からだや環境にやさしい循環型の農業をめざしています。しかし、安全・安心な食料の生産には手間ひまがかかるため、理解ある力を求めています。
みなさんからの連絡をお待ちしています。

We can speak English a little. We welcome ideas and energy from WWOOFers.
WE ARE ACCEPTING WWOOFers
3月から受け入れを再開します。
春野菜の収穫、種まきや苗植え、草取りなど春の作業が始まります。
We can accept WWOOFers from March.
Spring activity such as harvesting spring vegetables, sowing seeds, planting seedlings, and weeding begins.