Hitchhiking in Canada

Anna from Berlin, living in Zurich, talked about traveling around Canada with her boyfriend (now ex) from Holland...
This is globalization :)
They hitchhiked all over Canada, met a lot of interesting people, etc. etc. Traditional hitchhiking story. This is what interested me about her: In order to save on accommodation and food, they didn’t just live homeless in a tent, but got a job through the VUFFI project. This is something like an association of farms using exclusively environmentally friendly and natural agricultural technologies. Farmers need workers and they invite young people from all over the world to help them. For 6 hours of work a day, they will provide you with food, housing and new experiences. During their journey, the guys learned to plant seedlings, prune fruit bushes, care for rabbits and children, and many other tricks unknown to urban youth. In addition, the farmers showed them “their Canada” - sights and other interesting things not included in tourist guides.
How do you like all this?
I’ll try to draw an analogy - imagine that a couple of students from St. Petersburg hitchhiked around the Poltava region, working part-time on local collective farms (to clean a pigsty there or something else). Funny? I hope someday this will stop sounding so absurd. All.