🌻Update June 2026🌻
🍀Artists & Chefs🍀 additionally to our regular garden/farm work we are also looking for artists who would like to contribute their art as work trade (murals, walls, etc.) our vision is a farm covered in beautiful art from artists all over the world, also we’re looking for a person who likes to cook lunch for 10-15 people from farm produce & products, incl canning & preserving, could be a longer stay too, inquire for details
=> Ignore the wwoof calendar when sending your request - it does not reflect our actual calendar & availability
We have a productive organic farm with permaculture principles. With a small cattle herd with calves, which roams the grassland in summer and is in the barn in winter. We have silvoarable and silvopastoral systems in place and plan to plant even more trees. We believe trees and hedges are the key to making our land more resilient towards the changing climate. There is a self-pick vegetable garden for about 50 customers, which includes berries and herbs.
Biodiversity is a huge factor for us, so we'll do everything to ensure and increase biodiversity on our land.
We is a family of four, Dave and Tillie with the two boys Mag (7) and Urs (10), Dave's a mechanic and farmer, Tillie studied agricultural sciences and used to teach agriculture at a vocational school. Now both are full time farmers.
- Vegetable farming: no dig in compost, maintaining garden, answering customers questions, replanting, starting seed, harvesting and preserving
- cattle: feeding, fencing, checking health, tending to newborn calves, relocating herd
- arable crops: weeding and harvesting
- trees: pruning, planting, watering, harvesting
- biodiversity: building and maintaining structures
- grassland: mowing, weeding
Your accomodation is in a RV (on site with access to shower and toilet or in a rustic cabin, which will keep you warm and dry as well. Sometimes RVs are shared with other travellers (same gender, no worries), depending on how many people we are hosting at the same time. We make sure that everybody feels comfortable and safe.
At least one meal a day will be eaten with the family (usually lunch) access to the outside kitchen is granted too, breakfast is individual and the dinner is usually cooked among the volunteers in the outside kitchen.
meals can be whatever you wish/need, we eat everything but can adapt to almost any requirements
work trade - after a year of testing and talking to our wwoofers we found that full days of work are ideal for both parties; so we expect four days of work per week stay (monday through thursday), friday to sunday (three days) are off.
Ideally you arrive on a Sunday evening or Monday morning. We will pick you up at the train station. Talk to us!
The ideal length of your stay is three weeks.
A typical day on Gaia's Farm:
Our farm day starts at 8 am with checking the animals, then about half a day is spent in the vegetable garden, maintaining and replanting the garden, after lunch around 1:30 pm we'll go to the fields and work on them (manually or mechanically, we do have tractors and such :-). the day ends between 5 and 5:30 and then it is time to wind down.
In summer there is a lot to do; hiking, swimming in the nearby lake, cycling (we have hills), forest barbecue fires, foraging, etc.
Pfeffikon is not remote, so there is public transport to every place in Switzerland you can imagine, and it's quite easy to understand.
Please write in your message that you have read the house rules and agree to them:
- keep workspace tidy and clean up after yourself and after your work
- common chores (regardless of work) are: dishes, tidying and cleaning common areas (bathroom, kitchen), etc.
- RV was bought especially for wwoofers, so please keep it clean and clean it thoroughly before your departure
- tools are handled with care, cleaned and put back where taken
- we provide food and I am happy to cook, but help around meals is expected and appreciated, especially setting and clearing the table, running and clearing the dish wasjer
- breakfast is individual, work starts at 8, lunch together (everybody helps) and dinner is individual depending also on your plan, weekends are freer
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Learning opportunities
Vegetable farming
Fruit or nut farming
Poultry farming
Cattle farming
Sheep or goat farming
Aromatic or medicinal plants, teas
Seed saving or production
Vegetable or fruit preservation
Natural cosmetics fabrication
Food justice / sovereignty
Methods or systems
Biological pest control
Biodynamic agriculture
Community-supported agriculture (CSA)
Holistic management
No-till farming
Permaculture
Regenerative agriculture
Rotational grazing
Host type
Production farm
Certified organic
Former WWOOFer
30
Hectares
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74.1
Acres
