Internship Application

We’d like to receive all applications by February 29 if possible (yeah, Leap Year!).  Please be in touch if you are planning to apply and will not have your application in by then, so that we’ll know to expect it and when.

Name(required)

Email(required)

Website

Please tell us about your personal and professional goals for permaculture design:(required)

Please tell us about your experience growing for market, designing, building, and/ or teaching:(required)

Please email a portfolio of your work. This can be designs, photos of gardens you've implemented, buildings you've built, links to films, slideshows, presentations, or educational media you have generated and/ or all of the above.(required)

Where, when, and with whom did you complete your Permaculture Design Certification course? Please provide a website and/ or contact information for your instructors:(required)

Which focus track are you applying for?(required) Food/ Medicine Production and Biological Systems

Natural Building and Sitework

Professional Design

Permaculture Education

If you had a second choice? Food/ Medicine Production and Biological Systems

Natural Building and Sitework

Professional Design

Permaculture Education

Please tell us about why you choose the track you have, and speak to your specific experience in this area:(required)

Please tell us about your experience and interest in the other focus areas:(required)

Please tell us about your experience and ability working in a team, managing groups, and working independently:(required)

Please tell us about your experience and comfort working and living outdoors (in potentially inclimate weather), camping, wilderness immersion, etc.:(required)

Please provide us with some references. At least one should be an employer or former employer (phone number, email, or website):(required)

Is your preference for living in the apartment downtown (2 miles from the farm), or camping on the farm?(required) Apartment

Farm

Any special needs in terms of housing (or other) that we should be aware of? (Also, please use this area to describe if you are applying as a couple (and with whom), family, or one partner of a couple who would both be living here, and or anything else that may be relevant.):

Do you have any experience with the culture or ecology of northern Vermont? What attracts you to this region?(required)

Anything else you'd like us to know about you or that you would like to share?

Thank you for your application!

If possible we’d like to meet with all applicants, preferably on the farm.  If you aren’t able to visit us on the farm, we can arrange a Skype or FaceTime.

Please let us know if you have any other questions.

We are planning to respond to all applicants by the end of February, and planning to start the internship May 1.  While the camping is less comfortable, successful applicants are welcome to come before that time, as most of our nursery work and barefoot tree planting is happening in April.  However, the apartment is occupied until May 1.

While we only have the ability to select relatively few people for the full time residential internship, we are sill open to hosting applicants who were not offered the position for shorter work/ study stays.