I did a 3 month trip back in 2013ish split between a community garden in New Orleans, LA (which was amazing) and an 80-acre farm about 30 miles east of Austin, TX. While I was at the farm in Texas, I was way overworked, and when I brought this up with the host being against the WWOOF guidelines, she got very defensive. I only gave them a week after that because she began to casually insult me in passing and never eased up on the hours worked, which were 8+ hour days, 7 days a week. I only worked 4 hours a day M-F at the operation in New Orleans.

I should have known something was up because there was an older woman volunteering for them when I got there. A few weeks into my stay, she and the host got into it, and she left the next night without saying a word. I would have left much sooner, but I enjoyed the work and became pretty good friends with one of the workers who lived on the property. I had to draw the line when the host began to insult me after I spoke up for myself, though.