PermaDynamics Internship
Become a Food Forest Warrior
Become a Food Forest Warrior
We are a family of 5 working full-time on our organic permaculture farm, PermaDynamics.
As a farm, business and family we actively focus on establishing, researching, managing and teaching regenerative living systems to create and maintain community resilient, human inclusive ecosystems.
PermaDynamics has a leading role in the Syntropic Agroforestry movement in Aotearoa, and has featured on multiple mini documentaries.
Country Calendar
Happen Films
Te Hiku Media
We are a part of a small eco-village and as a family manage roughly 2ha of land in production; market garden, tropical greenhouse, compost operation, mushroom growing, plant nursery and syntropic food forest. The rest of the 80ha of trust land is mature forest, regrowth and pasture.
Our farm is highly dynamic as it operates a wide range of permaculture systems, research projects, infrastructure expansion and also new land regeneration projects both within the community and outside.
We are looking for someone who is able to stay for a minimum of 3 months. Someone who is passionate about regeneration, community resilience and is ready to immerse themselves fully in all areas of what it takes to run a permaculture farm. This will include tasks such as food forest management, planting, digging, building with clay, sifting compost, transplanting, building terraces, installing food forests, making firewood, weeding and planting in the market garden as well as joining in for cooking and cleaning. Depending on your interests and previous experience we can also provide research opportunities during your stay.
We host regular courses which you will be allowed to attend as part of your internship, as well as access to all our online permaculture videos which we release weekly. You will also have access to our library of permaculture, syntropy and health books as well as other resources such as microscopes and flow cabinet during your stay should you want to use them.
The main focus on our farm is on degraded land regeneration. Our vision is to create future employment and networking opportunities in this field and to unite people to work together on larger scale land regeneration projects for communities around Aotearoa. Our aim with the internship program is to take on students who show an interest in regeneration and syntropy and empower them to take that knowledge on from here to their own communities, or to spread it to other groups with which we have created networks. Ultimately we are training a team of food forest warriors combating ecosystem collapse and mitigating climate change.
Location:
Matapouri, Whangarei.
(45min from Whangarei CBD, 4km from Matapouri beach, 15/30min from Tutukaka and Ngunguru township).
Next available internship:
March-May 2022
Duration:
3 week initial trial period
3 month total internship following a mutually successful trial period
Hours:
6-8 hours/ day
5 days a week
Diet:
We gather, grow, raise and hunt a majority of our food. Anything we don’t grow we buy in organic.
Food:
Lunch is cooked and shared together each work day. Ingredients for breakfast and dinner is provided.
Accomodation:
Lodging is a self contained cabin with seperate compost toilet, shower and fire bath and a small cabin with wood stove and a detached bedroom.
We are looking for someone who is passionate, physically fit, experienced and able to commit to 3 months of living and contributing to our permaculture farm.
If you would like to join us for this incredibly diverse permaculture work experience then please fill out the application below. Applications close in January 1st 2022 . If your application makes it to our short list you may also be contacted sooner for an interview, character reference, and/or CV prior to confirmation.
As a farm, business and family we actively focus on establishing, researching, managing and teaching regenerative living systems to create and maintain community resilient, human inclusive ecosystems.
PermaDynamics has a leading role in the Syntropic Agroforestry movement in Aotearoa, and has featured on multiple mini documentaries.
Country Calendar
Happen Films
Te Hiku Media
We are a part of a small eco-village and as a family manage roughly 2ha of land in production; market garden, tropical greenhouse, compost operation, mushroom growing, plant nursery and syntropic food forest. The rest of the 80ha of trust land is mature forest, regrowth and pasture.
Our farm is highly dynamic as it operates a wide range of permaculture systems, research projects, infrastructure expansion and also new land regeneration projects both within the community and outside.
We are looking for someone who is able to stay for a minimum of 3 months. Someone who is passionate about regeneration, community resilience and is ready to immerse themselves fully in all areas of what it takes to run a permaculture farm. This will include tasks such as food forest management, planting, digging, building with clay, sifting compost, transplanting, building terraces, installing food forests, making firewood, weeding and planting in the market garden as well as joining in for cooking and cleaning. Depending on your interests and previous experience we can also provide research opportunities during your stay.
We host regular courses which you will be allowed to attend as part of your internship, as well as access to all our online permaculture videos which we release weekly. You will also have access to our library of permaculture, syntropy and health books as well as other resources such as microscopes and flow cabinet during your stay should you want to use them.
The main focus on our farm is on degraded land regeneration. Our vision is to create future employment and networking opportunities in this field and to unite people to work together on larger scale land regeneration projects for communities around Aotearoa. Our aim with the internship program is to take on students who show an interest in regeneration and syntropy and empower them to take that knowledge on from here to their own communities, or to spread it to other groups with which we have created networks. Ultimately we are training a team of food forest warriors combating ecosystem collapse and mitigating climate change.
Location:
Matapouri, Whangarei.
(45min from Whangarei CBD, 4km from Matapouri beach, 15/30min from Tutukaka and Ngunguru township).
Next available internship:
March-May 2022
Duration:
3 week initial trial period
3 month total internship following a mutually successful trial period
Hours:
6-8 hours/ day
5 days a week
Diet:
We gather, grow, raise and hunt a majority of our food. Anything we don’t grow we buy in organic.
Food:
Lunch is cooked and shared together each work day. Ingredients for breakfast and dinner is provided.
Accomodation:
Lodging is a self contained cabin with seperate compost toilet, shower and fire bath and a small cabin with wood stove and a detached bedroom.
We are looking for someone who is passionate, physically fit, experienced and able to commit to 3 months of living and contributing to our permaculture farm.
If you would like to join us for this incredibly diverse permaculture work experience then please fill out the application below. Applications close in January 1st 2022 . If your application makes it to our short list you may also be contacted sooner for an interview, character reference, and/or CV prior to confirmation.