From Auckland we bussed our way to Raglan (a little surfing town.) We were hoping to do soming WWOOFing (Willing Workers On Organic Farms, where you stay at a farm and exchange 4 hours of work per day for food and a bed to sleep in) so we started looking through the various farms in the Raglan area on the wwoof website. We found Jenny. Jenny picked us up and drove us way out into the rolling green hills of sheep farming country to her beautiful little house near Ruapuke Beach. Upon arrival we met Eilene an Irish woman we became very fond of and Jones (Jenny's dog.) Eilene was a help ex er. We soon learned that www.helpexhange.net is a website just like www.wwoof.org but BETTER! We were soon converted from wwoofers to helpxers. The helpx website allows you to post reviews of the farms that you have stayed on where as wwoof does not. this enables you to find a farm that has good reviews from other people. Jenny has a nice property with room for her two horses, a lovely veggie garden, and a big orchard of lemon, mandarine, avocado, cassasmora, and feijoa trees. We worked in the garden and orcard in the morning and spent the afternoon sitting on the front porch sipping tea and chatting with Eilene. Eilene cooked us incredible meals with fresh veges from the garden. Jenny worked most days but was around in the evenings. We learned lots of kiwi culture among other things. We decided to spend christmas with Jenny and her family which was lots of fun. We had a huge ham for christmas dinner, with heaps of veggie dishes, delicious figgie pudding, trifle, and pavlova for dessert!
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