Bodhi Farms is looking for a winter/spring intern. Bodhi Farms is a permaculture based farm that also grows year round in greenhouses. We are looking for a long term intern (or interns) for our winter greenhouse season and our spring planting season. We are looking for in intern for at least 3 months (preferably 6 months). At the farm you will learn the following things.
- Companion Planting. These are typically micro-guilds like the three sisters.
- Swales and water catchement construction. We are continuing with our water retaining ponds
- Cover cropping and forage planting.
- How to build a greenhouse.
- How to build a ground thermal storage system for a greenhouse
- The basics of drip irrigation
- Tree planting and guild creation
- Earthship building
- Bee Keeping
- Beer and Bread Making
- Chicken Tractor building and design
You should be interested in permaculture, physically fit and comfortable with a shovel and a wheelbarrow. WE can accept couples as we have a private room in the house with it’s own shower and bathroom. We can accommodate vegan and vegetarian diets as well as meat eaters (assuming you like local grass feed beef or local free range chicken). If you are interested I would encourage you to view our profile on wwoofusa.org and see the type of experience we offer. Please feel free to email me at brian@bodhifarms.com. Please note we are located in Las Vegas New Mexico, not Las Vegas Nevada. This internship will provide room and board but is otherwise unpaid. We can certainly pick you up from Albuquerque or Santa Fe and Amtrak actually runs through Vegas.
Brian Despain
I’m not at a point that I could commit to an internship but I love anyone working on sustainable futures. I’m in Denver for another year banking up money to pay cash for some land to do something similar in Montana. I thought I’d ask if you ever let tourists like me stay for a weekend to pick your brain on some stuff and see some systems in action? I’m an electrician by trade, fellow brewer, gardener, novice bee keeper, aquaponic enthusiast, welder, mechanic, you name it I can figure it out kinda guy. A weekend trip might be worth it for both us, I’d be happy to wire something up in trade for a place to pitch a tent and shower, some grass fed beef to grill and a tour of the project. Shoot me an email if this might interest you, thanks.
Sure we have a camper for weekend visitors and a spare bedroom as well. Sounds like you have some complimentary skills to my own. I would love to have you out.
Mr Despain,
My experience and ‘specialties’ don’t have much connection permaculture (writing, proofreading/editing, copywriting, etc… on that note, there is an extra “i” in beekeeping) but I am very interested in learning and experiencing such ways of living and working. I’ve been in a period of transition the last few years; trying to figure out what to learn, where to go, and what needs to be done to be able to live a life rich with interaction, ecological contribution, and consumed by living life. I would consider it a remarkably fortunate opportunity to intern at Bodhi Farms.
I have only two questions/concerns:
1. due to student loans, I would need to be able to make about 500-600$ a month; would I have enough spare time to get a part time job nearby, or would the internship be too time consuming?
2. if accepted to the internship position, would I be permitted to bring my dog with me (a 12lb maltese/mutt mix)?
Best of luck in your search!
-Rob