• Work Exchange & Internships

    BECOME A CO-CREATOR OF CHUCKLEBERRY

  • Chuckleberry Community Farm is welcoming edgeworkers and culture creatives to collaborate in the creation of a village, the birthing place of a new culture that renders Modern Culture completely obsolete. Come immerse yourself in a land-based community dedicated to the evolution of consciousness. We offer Work Exchanges and Internships.

     

    This opportunity is for you if you have lived in community before or are sincere in your interest to experience the ecstasies and pains of living and collaborating with others. Coming from a culture that prizes intellectualization, you might find yourself confronted with your own constructs and ideas around what it means to be in community. Most of us go through this discomforting process in the first weeks of arriving at Chuckleberry, which is part of why we ask you to come with the intention of staying for a whole month, no matter what happens.

     

    If you feel called to seize the opportunity to become a co-creator of Chuckleberry, consider making a long-term commitment. It takes time to create the deep relationships required for conscious collaboration. It takes time to heal and uncover your connection to Source. It takes time to create a new culture.

     

    Work exchangers come work with us and learn about growing nutrient-dense organic food using permaculture principles while also experiencing our conscious lifestyle. As a work exchanger, you have access to a large variety of organic ingredients, beautiful communal accommodations, and many workshops to empower your transformational journey and self-expansion.

     

    Whether you come as part of our Work Exchange program, or with the intention of being an Intern, Chuckleberry offers the opportunity to:

    • deeply heal and nourish your Being;
    • let go of old survival strategies;
    • practice heartfelt and authentic communication;
    • confront and integrate your shadow aspects;
    • be-with others dedicated to a path of self-dicovery;
    • learn to consciously feel all of what is passing through you;
    • experiment with completely new ways of living, being, doing, relating and creating;
    • go beyond the concepts and constructs that have been holding you back from delivering your unique gifts to the world.

     

  • Organic Gardening, Permaculture & Regenerative Farming Internship

    START DATE: As soon as possible
    PAYMENT: Organic meals and accommodation. Stipend $500/month + commitment completion bonus of final payment of $1000. Live within our uniquely nourishing community lifestyle.

    ABOUT THE POSITION

    The Gardening Intern, plans, prepares, plants and manages all of the Chuckleberry gardens. You spend most of your day outside in all weather conditions, assuring that we are producing large amounts of high-quality organic produce to deliver all over the Kootenay and Okanagan Valleys, all the while regenerating the land we steward. The Garden Intern loves her plants and enjoys caring for them, figuring out diseases and making plans to improve the current systems that support the garden ecology.


    THE IDEAL CANDIDATE:

    • You have experience growing food and creating permaculture systems.
    • You enjoy problem-solving and coming up with creative solutions;
    • You have an earnest interest in your personal/spiritual growth and in exploring your deeper nature;
    • You are dedicated to finding a balance between your passion for outer success with a deep connection to your inner world;
    • You are interested in learning to work as a team leader;
    • You are able to maintain focus and motivation in self-supervised workflows;
    • You experience sincere enjoyment of productive and efficient work that can be very physical at times.

    YOU WILL LEARN TO:

    • Start vegetables from seed and care for them until transplanting;
    • Successfully transplant starts and care for them through the season;
    • Prune and trellis tomatoes and cucumbers for optimal production;
    • Monitor and adjust soil quality;
    • Manage weeds and pests in a regenerative way;
    • Set and monitor irrigation systems;
    • Create and apply comfrey tea;
    • Build organic soil from scratch;
    • Make a bokashi compost system, and use it;
    • Prepare beds for planting;
    • Harvest, package and market microgreens;

    WORK HOURS: interns work five days per week, from 8:30 am to 12 pm and 1 pm to 3:30 pm, with lunch prepared in-house. You will work a total of 30 hours per week, as well as participate in 2 hours of Emotional Intelligence Training and Community Creation Circle each week.

     

    We offer the opportunity to commit for 1 year with a 1-month Work Exchange trial preceding the beginning of the contract.

    APPLICATION: Please fill out our online application form https://forms.gle/HL6fEp5jxBGRc4Nr8 and email your resume to chuckleberrycommunity@gmail.com

    If you have any questions, please call Jon at 250-359-6669 or Brianne at 250-551-8947.

    Off-Grid Systems Maintenance Internship

    START DATE: As soon as possible
    PAYMENT: Organic meals and accommodation. Stipend $500/month + commitment completion bonus of final payment of $1000. Live within our uniquely nourishing community lifestyle.

     

    ABOUT THE POSITION

    The Maintenance Intern is a jack-of-all-trades that will learn the skills of keeping all of our off-grid systems working. You will draw on your background in construction, maintenance and repair to support the smooth operation of the systems that support this organic farm. You will also learn other skills necessary to operate an organic farm when you are called on to support other important workflows on the farm. You know how to use tools, care for them and put them back where you got them. You love to spend your time outside in all weather conditions. You are a natural at figuring things out.

     

    THE IDEAL CANDIDATE:

    • You have developed construction and maintenance skills;
    • You enjoy problem-solving and coming up with creative solutions;
    • You have an earnest interest in your personal/spiritual growth and in exploring your deeper nature;
    • You are dedicated to finding a balance between your passion for outer success with a deep connection to your inner world;
    • You are interested in learning to work as a team leader;
    • You are able to maintain focus and motivation in self-supervised workflows;
    • You experience sincere enjoyment of productive and efficient work that can be very physical at times.

    YOU WILL LEARN TO:

    • Maintain the wide variety of systems required to operate a successful organic farm;
    • Expand your knowledge base in plumbing, electrical, carpentry, mechanical systems, etc., being coached by our in-house 40-year veteran in those areas;
    • Install and maintain off-grid systems;
    • Install drip irrigation systems and program watering schedules;
    • Build organic soil from scratch;
    • Make a bokashi compost system, and use it;
    • Prepare beds for planting;
    • Harvest, package and market microgreens.

    WORK HOURS: interns work five days per week, from 8:30 am to 12 pm and 1 pm to 3:30 pm, with lunch prepared in-house. You will work a total of 30 hours per week, as well as participate in 2 hours of Emotional Intelligence Training and Community Creation Circle each week.

     

    We offer the opportunity to commit for 1 year with a 1-month Work Exchange trial preceding the beginning of the contract.

    APPLICATION: Please fill out our online application form https://forms.gle/HL6fEp5jxBGRc4Nr8 and email your resume to chuckleberrycommunity@gmail.com

    If you have any questions, please call Jon at 250-359-6669 or Brianne at 250-551-8947.

    Farming & Microgreens Business Internship

    START DATE: As soon as possible
    PAYMENT: Organic meals and accommodation. Stipend $500/month + commitment completion bonus of final payment of $1000. Live within our uniquely nourishing community lifestyle.

    ABOUT THE POSITION

    As the Business Intern, you will be learning all aspects of creating a successful organic farming business with a team of inspired individuals. You will develop relationships with all of our customers, take care of orders and invoicing, work on accounts receivable, participate in research in unexpected areas, marketing, branding, and respond to emails and phone calls from our customers. You are skilled with computers, word processing, excel sheets, and possibly even web design and photo/video editing… You are a creative thinker and remain open to others’ perspectives – you don’t get locked into your idea of what is right/best/good. You are capable of and want to collaborate. You are skilled in keeping track of many details and making sure that as little as possible slips through the cracks. You work with focus and care. You don’t hesitate to talk about what is not working efficiently and to celebrate what works and flows. You will also learn many other skills necessary to operate an organic farm as the business team is called to support one of the other Chuckleberry teams such as the Growroom Team with planting or harvesting our crops.


    THE IDEAL CANDIDATE:

    • You have developed office and computer skills;
    • You are familiar with Microsoft Word, Excel and Quickbooks;
    • You have developed communication and relational skills;
    • You have an earnest interest in your personal/spiritual growth and in exploring your deeper nature;
    • You are dedicated to finding a balance between your passion for outer success with a deep connection to your inner world;
    • You are interested in learning to work as a team leader;
    • You are able to maintain focus and motivation in self-supervised workflows;
    • You experience sincere enjoyment of productive and efficient work that can be very physical at times.

    • YOU WILL LEARN TO:
    • Create and maintain important relationships with clients and suppliers;
    • Prepare order sheets and invoices;
    • Keep track of farm accounting;
    • Program watering schedules;
    • Build organic soil from scratch;
    • Make a bokashi compost system, and use it;
    • Prepare beds for planting;
    • Harvest, package and market microgreens.

    WORK HOURS: interns work five days per week, from 8:30 am to 12 pm and 1 pm to 3:30 pm, with lunch prepared in-house. You will work a total of 30 hours per week, as well as participate in 2 hours of Emotional Intelligence Training and Community Creation Circle each week.

     

    We offer the opportunity to commit for 1 year with a 1-month Work Exchange trial preceding the beginning of the contract.

    APPLICATION: Please fill out our online application form https://forms.gle/HL6fEp5jxBGRc4Nr8 and email your resume to chuckleberrycommunity@gmail.com

    If you have any questions, please call Jon at 250-359-6669 or Brianne at 250-551-8947.

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