If you buy something from a link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Jaya Saxena is a former correspondent at Eater, and the series editor of Best American Food and Travel ...

Kelly Bayer took a vacation from her job in a sleep laboratory by toiling in a vegetable patch in Santa Barbara. The sun beat down on her back as she worked a garden hose over a collection of tomatoes ...

Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms has been connecting Farms with Volunteers since 1971. It all started with the idea of one woman working in London, United Kingdom. Sue Coppard was working on ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Want to get fitter and smarter during a vacation, and save money on food and lodging? Try WWOOFing. Many adventurous travelers familiar with WWOOF — ...

A London secretary invented WWOOF in 1971, when she and three friends volunteered on an organic farm in Sussex for a weekend. Now, as many as 75,000 WWOOFers a year venture to four dozen nations on ...

Between costs for airfare, lodging, and food, traveling is no easy feat these days, especially if you don’t know how to travel on a budget. For many folks, traveling is about immersing yourself in a ...

First come the dirty fingernails, and the sweat, calluses and aching muscles aren’t far behind. But when you’re milking a cow at 4:30 in the morning and have to get to the goat next, maybe you’re not ...

In a world of endless choices, it can be hard to make a decision about what you are going to do with your life. But after much back and forth Ira Bernstein thinks he's found it. The thing that will ...

Last month I abandoned my normal life to go wwoofing for a week in Cornwall. If you haven't a clue what wwoofing is, don't be alarmed. I didn't know until recently. Then once I'd heard about it, I ...