Internships! Workshops! Work days!
We want this farm to be an experimental demonstration, an educational resource, and a community gathering place - so if you're excited about what we're doing, please do get involved! We want to start hosting workshops on aspects of perennial agriculture, and we will post announcements about those here. For large projects, we would like to have the community join us for the occasional work day. If you'd like to see our works in progress, contact us to set up a time to visit!
We are always on the lookout for motivated volunteer interns. We’d pay for apprentices if we could – and hopefully someday we will – but right now we can’t afford it. We can provide food and chip in for gas money, but that’s about it. We are very flexible as far as time commitment goes... there are enough projects going to keep several people busy full-time, but an afternoon here or there is also incredibly helpful.
Interning here can be a great educational opportunity, and we're happy to have interns work on whatever is most exciting to them. Because we’re aiming to be a mostly-perennial operation, most of our energy goes into fruit and nut trees. We do some vegetable gardening, but it’s a secondary focus for us. So this would be a pretty great place to learn about establishing an orchard, caring for trees, and seeing a sustainable silvopastoral system in development (we’re integrating sheep and chickens into our orchard system). You can definitely learn about growing vegetables here too, and how to grow them sustainably, but not how to do it on any kind of large scale. David has his permaculture certification so there would be plenty of opportunities to learn about permaculture design while working here. Kristen is a conservation biologist and can share knowledge of local botany, zoology, and agroecology.
We are always on the lookout for motivated volunteer interns. We’d pay for apprentices if we could – and hopefully someday we will – but right now we can’t afford it. We can provide food and chip in for gas money, but that’s about it. We are very flexible as far as time commitment goes... there are enough projects going to keep several people busy full-time, but an afternoon here or there is also incredibly helpful.
Interning here can be a great educational opportunity, and we're happy to have interns work on whatever is most exciting to them. Because we’re aiming to be a mostly-perennial operation, most of our energy goes into fruit and nut trees. We do some vegetable gardening, but it’s a secondary focus for us. So this would be a pretty great place to learn about establishing an orchard, caring for trees, and seeing a sustainable silvopastoral system in development (we’re integrating sheep and chickens into our orchard system). You can definitely learn about growing vegetables here too, and how to grow them sustainably, but not how to do it on any kind of large scale. David has his permaculture certification so there would be plenty of opportunities to learn about permaculture design while working here. Kristen is a conservation biologist and can share knowledge of local botany, zoology, and agroecology.
