Job description

Exceptional Internship Opportunity
On production scale permaculture fruit and vegetable farm.

Please apply only if you are passionate about regenerative agriculture.

AEA Pure Dawn Farm is a startup fruit and vegetable farm in the process of establishing a large scale permaculture farm which will include annual vegetable crops. AEA Pure Dawn Farm is the research and demonstration farm for John Kempf, and will be carefully managed to demonstrate the full potential of plant health and performance, and to describe the possibilities of what the earth can be.

The mission of AEA Pure Dawn Farm is to grow the healthiest and most nutritious food possible, and to demonstrate the capacity of food crops to be completely resistant to disease and insect pests when properly managed and provided with the right nutrition. The soil and cultural plant management techniques which will be used at AEA Pure Dawn Farm are the result of years of crop consulting work on many leading farms around the world, and are at the cutting edge of the latest research and technology developments.

You will have the opportunity to learn directly from John Kempf with weekly trainings and regular discussions about all aspects of the farms management, managing plant health, cultural crop management, farm economics, evaluating plant health in the field, the roles of nutritional elements and biology in soils, plants, and in our own bodies, and the need for a heart connection to the food we are growing. You will be able to help shape and guide the training, and also have access to John’s extensive library of information about soil and plant sciences.

AEA is a startup farm. Everything has to be built from the ground up. We expect a strong commitment and contribution to the farms development from you. There will be a lot of hard work, field work, planting, transplanting, cultivating, irrigating, harvesting, packing and marketing. There will also be tremendous learning opportunities. Only stars need apply. If you are not motivated, and a strong self starter, you are not the right fit for our team.

We have a very dynamic team, we expect our team members to:

• Be passionate about our mission
  • We all enjoy working with like minded friends
• Contribute energy to the team
  • Disagreements are desired, they are evidence of critical thinking. Do you add energy to a team, or detract energy from a team?
• Be able to execute and get the job done
  • When asked to do a task beyond your current skill level, can you figure out how to figure it out?
• Be candid and forthright about concerns and reservations
  • Our most valuable resource is time. We have none to waste in letting concerns remain unresolved. We expect the same from you.

This is a paid internship with compensation of $325.00 per week during the growing season. Housing may be provided if needed. Please expect housemates if we need to provide housing. You are welcome to any of the crops being grown on the farm for your own use. You will be able to be a part of our team from the first week in April through the last week in October. There is the potential for you to be a part of our team on this farm later into the year, or even for the longer term.

Compensation

this position is: stipend / non-monetary compensation

Application instructions

Deadline

March 31, 2015