JN111-en(Jeollanam-do)

✔️ Registered 2011

✔️ Host Gender Male

✔️ About us
I make tea for the health of people.Tea helps purify the blood. I believe that if people drink tea as they do water, many will become healthier, which is why I have been making tea for nearly 20 years.I manage a centuries-old tea tree forest without using pesticides, fertilizers, or compost.I am always striving to create tea that allows people to feel nature and find peace while drinking it. I do not use artificial fertilizers; instead, the fallen leaves naturally act as fertilizer, and the surrounding trees help regulate the moisture for the tea plants. I am working hard to produce pure, natural tea leaves grown in an environment that reflects nature.

✔️ Farming Experience Since 2007

✔️ Farm Type Temple

✔️ Main Crop wild herb tea from mountain

✔️ Farming Method
We collect leaves from wild tea plants for products.

✔️ Organic Lifestyle
We minimize the food waste.

✔️ Family / Member 5 monks, 2 officer

✔️ Animal Dogs, Cat

✔️ English Simple English

✔️ Other Language –

✔️ Works
The main tasks involve tea field management, tea harvesting, and making tea, with occasional assistance during temple events.The core of tea production lies in the tea fields.To ensure the tea plants are in a stress-free, natural environment, the primary tasks involve removing plants that are incompatible with the tea trees, such as bamboo, kudzu vines, and weeds.Since these tasks require attention to detail, the help of volunteers is greatly appreciated.

-Spring: Tea field management (removing bamboo, kudzu, and weeds between tea plants), tea production (picking tea leaves, making tea, packaging tea), making prayer beads.

-Summer: Packaging tea made in spring, tea field management (removing bamboo, kudzu, and weeds between tea plants), weeding at the temple, making prayer beads.

-Fall: Tea field management (removing bamboo, kudzu, and weeds between tea plants), preparing the tea field for winter, preparing firewood, making prayer beads.

-Winter: Tea field management, tea packaging, preparing firewood, making prayer beads.

✔️ Working Hours
Basic 7 to 8 hours. About 10 hours when making tea.

✔️ WWOOFing Season
Available all year around.

✔️ Knowledge / Skills WWOOFers can learn
Anything about tea

✔️ Experiences WWOOFers can expect
Mediation, Temple experience

*During tea time, we sometimes meditate together and also share thoughts about everyday concerns. If you have any questions about meditation or Buddhism, feel free to ask during tea time.

✔️ Preferred WWOOFer
Diligent WWOOFer

✔️ Message for WWOOFers
-Please be prepared with tolerance since it is a reverent place.

-We only accept WWOOFers who stay more than 10 days.

✔️ Type
The entire dormitory has six to seven rooms called Ondol room, a traditional Korean structure. There are usually two or three extra rooms available for the Wwoofer, and if there are too many people, they can share the room.

✔️ Room Sharing
You might share a room with a woofer of the same gender, but you will be notified in advance.

✔️ Internet WiFi

✔️ Drink & Smoke Light drinking / No smoking

*Please refrain from applying if you smoke. Since the tea produced and packaged here is for human consumption, smoking is strictly prohibited. If smoking is detected, you may be asked to leave the premises.

✔️ Distance from house to farm 1.5Km

✔️ Sharing a Meal
We eat together

✔️ Organic Ingredients
Environmentally Friendly as possible

✔️ Vegetarian Vegetarian available

✔️ Preferred Length of Stay More than 2 weeks

✔️ Capacity 16 people

✔️ Accept Short Stay(~3 days) No

✔️ WWOOFers with Children(under 15 yrs) Yes

✔️ Accept Minor(16~18 yrs) No