Internship Title: Field worker, Carpenter, Program/Curriculum Designer

Internship Site: Wild Roots Farm, Bristol, Vt

Description: Building an 8×16 timber frame chicken coop, garden bed formation, mushroom inoculation, digging swales, planting food guilds, daily chores (feeding chickens, ducks and geese, distributing their manure into the gardens, changing water), building hugelkultur mounds, sharing knowledge, building community, setting up rain water systems/aqua-ponics systems, establish the children’s farm (Wild Sprouts Farm).   There will also be an opportunity to design the medicinal gardens and perennial beds, partake in natural building methods (cob and plaster work) and make kombucha and other medicines from the land.

Desired qualifications/skills/coursework:  Familiarity with permaculture and ecological design. A large ambition to understand natural systems and how they can be utilized to restore eco-systems, offer food and forage for humans and pollinators, and assist with our overall health through building healthy relations with the environment.  If there are specific projects, or research ideas that interns have, space is available for them to conduct their own studies. The purpose of this operation is to invite community members to learn but also teach, to work with children so that they may have a better understand of the environment at a young age, and assist veterans with re-integration into a community whose philosophy is to enrich and become a part of the natural landscape.

Supervision:  Project manager will be on site everyday unless needed elsewhere, always within contact range. Camping will be available to those who are interested at looking at the stars next to the National Forest

Start and End Dates:  now until Oct 15

Total Hours: 10 to 15 per week

Compensation:  Good meals and big hugs

How to apply:  Please contact Jon Turner at 802 377 1214 or email at wildrootsfarmvt@gmail.com.  A sit down meeting will be conducted after initial introduction from phone or email.