Will Work for Beer

Tommy and I were quite keen to have one last WWOOFing experience before leaving New Zealand, so we'd been keeping our eye on the WWOOF "hotlist," which features last-minute requests for workers. And when we saw the listing for Mike's Organic Brewery, just outside beautiful Mount Taranaki, we knew we had found our place...

Good Beer

Good Views

Great People

WWOOFing is one of those exciting opportunities to work for something other than money. Not that the cash overfloweth at this stage of the trip, but our time is even shorter. And it seems to cut out the middle man somehow: instead of menial labor in exchange for petty cash that probably would have gone toward pasta and beer anyway, now we can go straight to the source. We can clean, rake, paint, and bottle and seconds later have a cold lager in our hands, great new friends all around, and the afternoon off to explore. It makes the work itself seem so much more intimately connected to all that goodness.