CHAPTER 24

WWOOF: Sustainable Travel Meets Sustainable Food1

Today’s current food system is a complex international network that provides ease and convenience, but at a cost. The growing disconnect between food producers, their products, and consumers has caused health issues, environmental problems, human injustices, and a lack of knowledge and closeness with the environment from which we live off. Organic farming, sustainable agriculture and the farm-to-table movement are growing in popularity as attention to the environment increases and healthy, organic, seasonal food becomes more accessible. Not only have restaurants began to embrace these ideas, and farmer’s markets become more popular, but also organizations such as WWOOF have given people ...

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