Live and Work at Earthaven

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Live and Work at Earthaven positions are by arrangement with various hosts—Earthaven members who are working on their site development, buildings, businesses, or gardens. Positions are arranged privately between you and the host (at this time, Earthaven does not have positions sponsored by the community). We also sometimes have rentals available that involve less work and more money. Workers and renters are part of Earthaven’s New Roots program, which includes orientations, regular check-ins, and other activities for support and accountability.

Earthaven members expect a lot of themselves and they expect a lot of you too. Earthaven is a working, building, living environment, and most of the work is hard, physical labor outdoors—digging, hauling, building. Learning by doing, in a service role, is very different from today's formal education. Like many hands-on experiences, you may not realize what you have learned and the value of your experience until months or years later!

A standard position at Earthaven is 24 hours a week: 20 hours a week in exchange for hosting, food, and camping, plus 4 hours a week for Earthaven. There are, however, a wide variety of arrangements, depending on what the host expects and offers. See below for positions that may be currently available. If you are interested in one of these opportunities, please contact the host directly.

 

IMANI FARM/ SCHOOL OF INTEGRATED LIVING INTERNSHIP

Dates: Starts Spring 2013; 3-month or 6-month commitment

Imani Farm cooperative seeks to change culture and ourselves through radical responsibility, regenerative food production, and right relationship to work, health, and each other. The School of Integrated Living (SOIL) offers experiential education through its Farm & Ecovillage Immersion programs. Internship includes homestead farming, SOIL administration, and household support.

Contact: Lee Warren More information. Application.

You Receive You Give
Food $260 stipend/credit Work 28 hrs/wk for host
  4 hrs/wk for Earthaven
32 Total hours per week
Shelter Private room in shared house
Classes Included Money $30 Earthaven fees
$15 vehicle fee (if you bring vehicle)
$30 – 45 Total per month
plus $25 one-time Earthaven fee
Experience Live and work at Earthaven

 

 

MEDICINE WHEEL WORK EXCHANGE

Dates: March-November; 2-month minimum stay (prefer 6 months)

Medicine Wheel is a permaculture-based collective neighborhood, housing up to a dozen other people. Work includes gardens, orchards, natural building, greenhouses, ponds, rainwater catchment, animal care — and sometimes just plain housework, or hauling trash, or chopping firewood or putting up fencing for days.

Contact: Lyndon or Patricia, (828) 664-0067.

You Receive You Give
Food Not included Work 15 hrs/wk for host
2 hrs/wk for MW Kitchen
  4 hrs/wk for Earthaven
21 Total hours per week
Shelter Room, use of house, phone
Classes Sometimes included Money $175 food plan
$30 Earthaven fees
$15 vehicle fee (if you bring vehicle)
$205 – 220 Total per month
plus $25 one-time Earthaven fee
Experience Live and work at Earthaven

 

 

PERMACULTURE INTERNSHIP AT MEDICINE WHEEL NEIGHBORHOOD

Dates: June through Mid-August 2013 (4-week commitment, prefer longer)

Includes a 3-weekend Permaculture Fundamentals Course, and some structured student-mentor time, but is mostly daily experience living at Medicine Wheel House with about 12 others, helping create a Permaculture home system. Gardens, orchards, water catchment, PV, greywater, building, animals — and cooking, cleaning and maintenance chores — are part of the curriculum.

Contact: Patricia Allison, (828) 664-0067. www.patriciaallison.net

You Receive You Give
Food Not included Work 15 hrs/wk for host
4 hr/wk for MW Kitchen, Garden
  4 hrs/wk for Earthaven
23 Total hours per week
Shelter Room, use of house, phone
Classes Permaculture Fundamentals Course – 3 weekends Money One-Time Fees:
$375 course fee
$25 Earthaven fee
$400 Total one-time fees
Monthy Fees:
$175 food plan
$30 Earthaven fees
$15 vehicle fee (if you bring vehicle)
$205 – 220 Total per month
Experience Live and work at Earthaven

 

 

SOUTHEAST WISE WOMEN

Dates: April 15 – October 15, 2013; 6-month minimum stay

Apprenticeship with Corinna Wood, Director of Southeast Wise Women and Red Moon Herbs, and one of the early members at Earthaven. Experience life in this emerging ecovillage and deepen your trust for the wisdom of the Earth and your own body.  Women only.

Contact: Corinna Wood, (828) 669-3655, www.sewisewomen.com. More info. Application.

You Receive You Give
Food Not included Work 28-32 hrs/wk for host
            4 hrs/wk for Earthaven
32-36 Total hours per week
Shelter Rustic accommodations
Classes Corinna Wood's classes Money $260-300 food costs/month
Experience Live and work at Earthaven

 

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