A while ago, we have signed up with the Canadian branch of the organisation (www.wwoof.ca) and agreed with a few farmers in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick that we would come and work on their farms.
We work and learn on a farm and stay and eat with the farmer's family in return.
Normally stays are for at least several weeks, but Terri and Dave, who have a farm near Baddeck, Nova Scotia were ok with us coming over for just 3 days.
We have no experience with farming but we liked to get to know more about farming in Canada. Also, we like to be more than a bunch of tourists, traveling the world for a year. So for meeting locals and learning about their lifes: WWOOFing is great.
Terri and Dave's animals:
2 Horses
4 Lamas
Little Merlin and her mom
This is Fat Cat, there was 1 further house cat and 5 barn cats
And here is Artic, the dog
Not on the pictures are some 50 chicken and turkeys.
Some jobs we helped with on the farm are cleaning out the chicken barn.
Robin scooping out the chicken poo, "will look good on his resume" as Dave would say :-) 
Matthew transporting the poo away. Even though it was dry... gas masks would not have been bad to have...
We mainly worked on building a fence together with Dave. The animals need more space and as Terri and Dave only moved here last fall, a lot of fencing had to be done. Really nice on this job was that, despite the fast weather changes, we managed to finish the job. YES - COOL STUFF.
Men at work
Not the best of all pictures, but here is the beautiful result:
OUR FIRST FENCE
Our hosts were great. We could not have had a better start WWOOFing in Canada.
Time had come to leave Terri and Dave and move on to our next destination.
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