One benefit of the WOOF experience is the diversity of hands-on skills it teaches you, including how to work with farm animals.

Through opportunities such as WOOF, young adults are able to experience a lifestyle outside of the prescribed expectations of their suburban families.

Climbing trees, building showers out of mud, and hanging out with goats on a permaculture farm are not experiences one finds in a traditional classroom.

Sent home from college due to COVID-19 restrictions, Samantha Wong chose the alternative experience of a farm internship in Southern Oregon.

Living off the land can be a valuable learning environment, such as through internships that unite students with working farms