Above: Our intern Rebecca (blue hat) transplanting flower seedlings with Gene near a clump of Stella d'Oro lily and clustering of Veronica. 

2025 Work Share

We're looking for individuals who like to garden but don't have access to one, to work with us in exchange for a share of produce. In our extensive gardens we grow vegetables, fruits, culinary and medicinal herbs, amidst landscaping containing flowers and shrubs. Season: Now through mid October. Share size in proportion to level of effort, e.g., 4 hrs/week for a 10% share. Schedule flexible. We supply all tools and supplies. Contact us if you are interested.

2025 Internships
Preparing & Planting (March 15- June 1)
Picking & Tending  (June 1 - August 31)
Harvest, Preserving & Winter-prep (Sept 1- October 31)

Keywords: sustainable living, green design, holistic health, sustainable agriculture, simple living, solar energy

We invite interested individuals and couples to work with us on your own schedules on a broad array of experiences.  These focus primarily on food growing, but also include green design and retrofits. Weather permitting, we are active almost every day throughout the growing season from March 1 through October 31. We have been joined by college students, backyard gardeners, middle-age adults renovating a parent’s garden, and visitors from abroad. Several of you have started your own gardens while working with us, applying what you are learning. To give you a sense of what you might be doing, we have collected a number of images of our interns at Neo-Terra here.

Our backyard mini-farm builds on John Jeavons’ “GROW BIOINTENSIVE®” method (www.growbiointensive.org), Eliot Coleman’s “Winter Harvest,” Bill Mollison's Permaculture principles, and organic farming practices. Depending on the season, you may be preparing new and existing beds for production, working with different cover crops for compost and fertility, planting seeds and crops for the year, improving and maintaining soil health (through rotations, soil testing and organic amendments), preparing and using compost, identifying insect pests and diseases (and trying natural pest and disease control), and much more.

You may also pick up tips on preparing healthy meals, including how to use culinary and medicinal herbs.

Through food preparation you can also address health conditions and food intolerances. Later in the season we cover food preservation and storage.

We approach green design and living technologies from an applied context as we think through projects. Our analyses include calculating paybacks on energy-saving options, retrofits, and passive solar energy house design, for example.  Our aim is to share what we have learned with interested others on the art of living lightly on the earth.  Your likely aim is wanting to learn how to do this for yourself. 

Some of you have come every day, others once a week or on weekends, and still others as your competing activities allowed. Interns will require a small number of personal garden items such as garden gloves. We may share seasonal vegetables and fruit from the mini-farm with you as available.               

Contact us if you are interested.

                     Left: Lauren transplants seedlings on three-inch centers.  Middle: Andy and Lauren learn how to skim cover crops.       
                     Right: Andy teaches his young sisters how to plant seeds in a seed flat with potting mix they helped to sift and prepare.