Healing Spirits has an opening for a paid intern for the year 2025, this is a 8-month program, running from the beginning of March to the end of October. Our goal is to share what we have learned from 33 years of growing herbs. You will gain working knowledge for operating your own medicinal herb farm.
You will work the growing cycle - from sowing seeds to harvesting. Included will be getting the greenhouse up and running, planting seedlings, how to refresh an old bed of herbs, traditional weeding and other forms of weed control. You will learn plant identification, how to dig roots, strip bark from trees, harvest woodland herbs, wildcrafting herbs and harvesting herbs from the farm. And weeding, always weeding.
You will learn how to manage the drying house, including when herbs go into the drying house, where they go in the house so they do not burn, when they are ready to be moved to a higher shelf, and when they are really dry and ready to be processed and stored. You will be taught how to look at the flow of the drying house so you can judge how much to harvest and bring in, and about how long it will take to move herbs through the drying house. This is hot work that is done during the hottest part of the day and critical to the success of drying house management.
You must love farming as well as playing with the plants and dirt.
Housing is not included. Email a letter of interest to Juanita@healingspiritsherbfarm.com
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