Hi! We are Matt and Janelle and we have been hosting wwoofers since 2010!
If you're looking for a place with a homey feel and a welcoming cultural stay (for our international wwoofers in particular who we adore,) and you enjoy delicious home-cooked, organic meals while learning about sustainable, organic farming, our place is for you. We have a sustainable 5 acres where we raise our own food - meat, vegetables, grains, and fruit. And don't forget to bring your bathing suit so you can relax in our large in-ground pool after working outside.
WWOOFers who come to our homestead will learn about and participate in a variety of sustainable and organic agricultural practices which will include vegetable growing, pastured poultry, composting, canning & preserving, and general farm maintenance. We love growing, although not a comprehensive list, heirloom tomatoes, beets, strawberries, garlic, pickling ingredients, salsa ingredients (both to be canned for the winter) and cutting flowers. But there is so much more!
We will cook every dinner for you with our home-grown organic meat and veggies, and we all eat together. Farmer Matt is a hobby chef [read: yummy food!] and Wife-y likes to bake, so we can accommodate some simple food needs.
You will be sleeping in our house with us. You will have a lovely room to yourself with a comfortable bed and your own bathroom, accessed from the hall. Since you will be considered a member of our family, we will ask you to help with dinner preparation and dish clean up in the evenings. Our request is that you work 30 hours a week on the farm, but in any combination you'd like.
And we really love our international wwoofers since not only can we share our love of the land and organic farming, but also our culture. And Farmer Matt is learning Italian and he'd love to practice with an Italian wwoofer! Remember, you are NOT coming to the US, from another country, as a worker or volunteer. You are coming as our friend! We welcome you as a member of our family!
In order to get here, you can take a train from Newark Airport or New York City on the New Jersey Transit rail line which will cost you about $20/$25 and will take you 1/2 hour from our farm where we would then pick you up. There is no public transportation to our house. We are 25 minutes from Princeton, 1 hour from New York City and Philadelphia, 2 hours by car from Lancaster County, where the Amish live, 3 hours from Baltimore, 4 hours from Washington, DC., and very close to other large organic farms.
Janelle is fluent in French. We do have a high-energy dog. And we don't accept teenagers. Those ages 19 and below need not apply. Please no smoking or vaping at all, even outside.
Current projects: In the spring and summer, we are planting and harvesting. There is field maintenance as well as structure maintenance. In the summer and fall, we are harvesting and continue with maintenance. We also do pastured poultry, and animal processing.
Here is the comment from our very first WWOOFer Marie, whose review was deleted many years ago: I remained three weeks at Janelle and Matt's farm in Princeton, from 25th october to 14th november 2010. I really enjoyed my stay there. It was my first time as a Wwoofer and I wanted learn english, and because of that, I have chosen this farm because Janelle speaks French and I thought it would have been more comfortable for me at the beginning just in case. Of course, the deal with Janelle was to talk in English ! Because it was my main goal.My work with Matt was a little hard physically at the beginning because I wasn't trained for that :) but every time it was great to talk with him when we work. I slept in a big bedroom. And I won't forget all the meals I ate during these three weeks !! Janelle and Matt are great cook ! Everything was fresh, and how can I forget the cookies, muffins, and waffles !?!!We had fun for Halloween, my birthday and many thing ! Thank for every thing ! Eleonor and Henry, their children, are very nice.So, yes, work could be hard sometimes, but you won't work more that Matt told you. And even if he look like impatient, you will have a lot of fun !Marie
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Learning opportunities
Vegetable farming
Fruit or nut farming
Poultry farming
Pig farming
Sheep or goat farming
Flower farming
Seed saving or production
Meat processing
Vegetable or fruit preservation
Bakery
Methods or systems
Biodynamic agriculture
Holistic management
Permaculture
Regenerative agriculture
Host type
Self-sufficiency property
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