A WWOOF host opens the doors to his/her farm and home for a complete stranger. Imagine a stranger calling you up and saying that he will be staying in your house for two weeks, and do some work in exchange of a bed and food. What will be your reaction? Will you not want some identify proof of this person?
Hence many hosts accept WWOOF members only, as the WWOOF organizations constantly strive to provide good hosts to the WWOOFers and good WWOOFers to the hosts. Each year numerous unfriendly hosts and WWOOFers are banned by organizations, if they receive repeated complaints. Moreover, WWOOF organizations use the postal service to deliver the membership card to ensure they can trace a WWOOFer.
There are some hosts who provide access to WWOOFers without a membership. Such people normally fool the WWOOFers and make them work for longer hours or ask them to do completely unrelated work. Others who are genuine know very well how to deal with unfriendly WWOOFers. Some may know a WWOOFer since a long time and hence may accept him/her without a membership.
As a WWOOFer you should also go through the membership process. There are numerous benefits of WWOOF membership. You are also more likely to get a pleasant experience by choosing a host registered with a WWOOF organization rather than an unregistered host.
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