PERMACULTURE Internship description
Projects include (not limited to):
Agroforestry
Social Forestry
Biochar
Fire Mitigation / Remediation
Brush Clearing / Trail Maintenance
Milling
Gardening / Weeding / Watering
Lost Valley Educational Center is looking for three-four Permaculture Interns to join our land team this season!
We are looking for responsible, motivated, dedicated and passionate individuals who want to live in community.
The intern supports the Land Steward and Garden Manager with hands-on permaculture land tending and gardening.
The role requires a high level of interpersonal skill, self-motivation, creative problem-solving ability and a genuine desire to serve. Ideal candidates are curious, self-motivated, service-oriented, conscientious and enthusiastic about living in community.
The permaculture internship role works with the Land & Garden Circles to accomplish our land conservation and restoration goals as well as gardening, fire mitigation, agroforestry, and orcharding/food forest maintenance.
The role requires the ability to perform long hikes in the forest and some strenuous physical labor. We are looking for 18/20 hours a week with a three-month commitment. This can be extended if both parties are amenable.
Program supervisorS
Brian Byers - Community Land Steward
Brian is a permaculture designer, educator, and activist with over a decade of agricultural experience working in the Willamette Valley. He is passionate about building resilient local communities, reconnecting people to nature, and growing nutritious food. He has a bachelors degree in philosophy and has studied permaculture with Andrew Millison, Heiko Koester, Tom Ward, and Jude Hobbs and is certified in permaculture design, as well as holding advanced certificates in surveying, forestry, and teaching. Brian has been the lead teacher of the Lost Valley PDC since 2016.
Khyla Allis- Community Garden Coordinator
Khyla moved from her hometown in Reno, Nevada five days after she graduated high school, to the Big Island of Hawaii, where she learned the words “intentional community” and “permaculture” for the first time. She arrived at Lost Valley in 2016 as a Holistic Sustainability Semester student, going on to receive her Permaculture Design and Ecovillage Design Education certifications. She has since traveled to Australia and New Zealand, researching community and applied permaculture land stewardship on-the-ground, working with many amazing teachers along her journey.
Khyla is inspired to focus her energy as Garden Coordinator to hold workshops and classes on different topics for children and adults alike (tree pruning, worms, soil science, compost, farm to table, preservation, edible mushrooms in your garden, etc.) .
