It is good to hear of your desire join our SpiritWorks Farm Community and we thank you for your interest.  We offer employment, internships, apprenticeships and volunteer opportunities.

 

Employment and Volunteering : If you are strictly interested in employment or volunteering, Please skip to the section bolded below for Application Process.

 

Apprenticeship and Internships : We are currently taking applications for our apprenticeship, and internship programs.  Preference will be given to college seeking college credit and herbal students with a specific goal-oriented learning contract.  We are happy to consider your being here and look forward to your responses to the questions below with a clarification of your desired timeline and goals for being here. 

 

Minimum stay for apprentices is 60 days and our fees are $1000/month for the first two months and $500/month thereafter.  Minimum stay for interns is one month.

Volunteers are welcome for the day on Wednesdays and with pre-scheduling and will join in the activities of the day.  A meal will be provided to those here for five hours or more.

 

Fees for apprentices and interns include full participation and immersion into all we offer here with food and a tent site. Both our apprenticeship and internship programs are intensive and participation in all aspects is expected.  Our comprehensive program (not a menu) for learning includes:

• farming (soil, food, herbs, sales),

• processing preparation and uses of herbs,

• preparing farm to table meals featuring culinary herbalism

• creating a health building lifestyle,

• growing oneself while creating  community with others, and

• offering hospitality and educational programs for retreat center guests and community members.  

 

For each season, we select up to 2 apprentices and 2 interns into our program at a time, with preference given to those making longer commitments for the season and having career development goals supportable by our program.

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Apprentice Positions:

Farm Manager Apprentice

Herbal Processing Apprentice

Herbal Nutrition Apprentice

Program Apprentice

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Intern Positions: may have Farm, Herbal, Program, or Culinary focus with all area responsibilities.

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Volunteer Opportunities :

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We are accepting applications for our volunteer workforce. Minimum commitment 4 hours/week.

Looking for something to do that is outside? that’s intimate with nature? that’s productive in that it contributes to local food and herbal medicine supply? that makes the world feel like a better place? that honors health and safe interactions?
SpiritWorks Herb Farm is taking applications for our volunteer farm team. Four hours per week minimum. We offer the ultimate safe social distancing learning work environment, a high energy upbeat team ethos, herbs and what food we can produce. Tent sites provided if you work four days per week.

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Our Application Process is below and the same for all positions.

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We target specific dates for arrival and orientation here to help us to create a cohesive and high functioning community.  Please give us a sense of the time frame you are interested in when you respond.  We schedule group orientations and may need to ask you to be able to shift your start or arrival date a bit. 

 

Please read this website entirely, especially the sections under the tab For Prospective Interns, including the Current Season Focus, Standards, Reflections, About Us, Lifestyle Here, Please Note, and Agreements.