live and learn the entire
Coffee experience
If you’ve already volunteered with us before and are looking to return for a longer stay or coming for the first time to know our project our internship program will give you the opportunity to live and learn the entire coffee experience. As an intern you will help work at our 7-hectare farm where we produce all the compost and fertilizer for each of the farmers in our project. You will work the micro mill during harvest season helping us process the coffee from our 15 farmers.
You will also help expand our food production on the farm while learning the basics of permaculture and sustainable agriculture. Creating systems that will provide our future volunteers with organic locally grown food to enjoy during their stay with us. You will learn the principles of permaculture and help us design new systems to create long term sustainability for our project.
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What you’ll be
learning with us
The coffee process from start to finish-growing, fertilizing, harvesting, processing, exportation
Food processing
Introduction to permaculture- ethics and principles (this is not a full certification)
Fermentation / Food
preservation
Farming basics-soil testing, soil ecology, planting/harvest, crop rotation, natural weed and pest management, water management, composting, pruning
Introduction to
agroforestry
The internship
Stay includes
- Hands on practice and experiential learning in the listed areas
- Weekly lectures to coincide with learning topics.
- Meals and lodging with your host
- A certificate of completion
We are looking for
Volunteers who are
Hardworking
Our daily work is physically demanding and in high season fast paced. We are looking for individuals who can meet this rhythm and enjoy this type of work.
If you don’t like outside work or being exposed to the elements this is not the program for you.
Are open to rural living and simpler way of life
Providencia is town of 120 residents and is definition of rural living. We have limited access to internet and amenities. Our interns must be open to disconnecting and flowing with a slower pace of life.
Flexible & reliable
During high season we are busy with volunteer groups, as an intern you may join working with the groups or be managing work at the farm. Our planned schedules often change and we need our interns to be flexible and have a positive attitude
Have a desire to grow your skills and knowledge in ways of sustainability and permaculture
Our daily work is physically demanding and in high season fast paced. We are looking for individuals who can meet this rhythm and enjoy this type of work.
If you don’t like outside work or being exposed to the elements this is not the program for you.
Self-motivated
Once you’ve been fully integrated to our work rhythm there may be days where you’ll be working on projects by yourself or joining us in leading groups. We are a small team with various responsibilities and may not constantly be present with you on the farm. We need individuals who can take initiative without needing constant direction.
Our
Goals
Interns leave the program with tangible skills they learned to take back home with them to create a more sustainable way of life for themselves and community
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Have interns be capable of caring for the farm in times where staff are not present
Have individuals who help in the expansion of food production and support for the micro mill (Turning coffee by hand during processing, harvest and food preservation)