As you can see, it is more of a garden with a chicken coop than a farm, though I was warned in an email that this was the case. Regardless, there was plenty of work to do: weeding the two beds of carrots that are pictured above under the white acrylic covers, sawing and chopping wood, weeding the potato beds, filling in the strawberry beds with soil, and other miscellaneous work. To wwoof here one should be able to embrace independence and solitude; Dorothea works in Reykjavik during the week, so you'll be on your own for several days at a time. The major benefit of this is that the wwoofer is free to determine hir own schedule. I didn't have to wake at any particular time, could go for a morning run through the beautiful hills and afterwards ate freshly laid eggs for breakfast. It should be noted that Dorothea was great about taking me to the grocery store to stock up on food for my stay, and that the one-room house without heat, electricity, or running water was actually quite nice. For these reasons, I highly recommend wwoofing here if you're in East Iceland. Dorothea is, however, very strict about hosting only one wwoofer at a time as her apartment is very small so it's a waste of time to email her if you're not travelling alone. Additionally, I would try and contact her as far in advance as possible, for she doesn't accept many wwoofers, and likes to have the summer schedule planned out months in advance. I'll conclude with a few pictures:
The Summer House
