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Welcome! We are a small farm and CSA located within Green Valley Village, a 350-acre intentional community near Sebastopol, CA. We promote a holistic connection with our land, food, nature's cycles, and our community as a way to greater wholeness within ourselves. We are contributing to agri-cultural renewal. Through on-farm participation and other educational opportunities, we are rebuilding our connection with our agricultural roots. Our CSA business strives to build bioregional food security and a localized, relationship-based economy. We provide greater place-based reliance for the intentional community village of which we are a part. We cultivate connections with the vast network of other ecologically based farms and communities in northern California.
In 2010, we will be in our third year of production. We produce food for 30-40 individuals and families, half of whom live on the land itself. So far we have mostly grown a diverse array of annual vegetables, but we are beginning to cultivate more perennial crops, staple crops, grains and herbs. We apply permaculture and ecological farming principles on our farm, and we are starting to incorporate biodynamic growing practices. People who are interested in agri-cultural renewal are encouraged to come. We do cheesemaking, food preserving, seed saving, permaculture design and homesteading skills. Farm work includes weeding, plant propagation, harvesting, produce box packing, transplanting, etc. Work available also in our kitchen gardens, with animal care (we have goats, chickens and llamas), and with other projects on the land.
We are looking for farm apprentices who will stay for 3 months or longer beginning in April. All apprenticeships will begin with a one to two week trial period. Food (veggies from the farm, staples like beans and rice, fresh goats' milk, mostly vegetarian fare), lodging (tent camping available during the dry season, possibly an indoor dorm style room available) and awesome rural community culture are provided. Also provided are educational opportunites - like fieldtrips to other area farms and gardens. People interested in learning more about the food system are encouraged. We request an exchange of 20 hours of work per week. We live in a small, rural village community, and practice heart-centered communication, so we are looking for people that are relatively easy to get along with and open communicators. Hard workers please.
If you have more questions, feel free to contact me, and please do not be offended if it takes a while for me to get back to you, as there are consistently many tasks to do and I generally check email only once per week. Peace and happy growing!!
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