Regenerative Mixed Farm Internship - Western Victoria
If you have a passion for regenerative agriculture, are driven to improve our natural environment, if you are reliable, responsible, committed and ready to do hard meaningful work, please get in contact with us.
Description:
1 month minimum
Includes food to be cooked together
Includes accommodation in a caravan or tent
Includes 20 hours/week of volunteering for general farm chores as well as up to 20 hours of paid work and training (conditions apply)
During an internship you will learn how to care for and manage our farming systems
Interns who show an ability to independently manage farming systems responsibly will be offered more paid hours, will be given more responsibilities and will be invited to stay longer
Activities include:
Upcycling food to feed our laying hens, mixing supplements and feeding them
Harvesting, washing, packing and delivering eggs
Moving cows to new pasture in a rotational grazing system
Caring for fruit trees, fertilizing and mulching
Managing our agroforestry system by germinating, planting, pruning and thinning the forest strips
Requisites:
Have prior studies or learnings related to regenerative agriculture such as permaculture, agroecology, horticulture, farming and/or forestry (this includes self-studies)
Interns must have the intention of learning how to manage a holistic regenerative farming system and must be genuinely dedicated to work in regenerative agriculture
Have experience with working dogs or be willing to learn
To apply for any of these positions, please send a recent CV and cover letter to:
alex@abundancefarm.com.au
kali@abundancefarm.com.au
ABOUT THE FARM
Abundance Farm is a mixed, biodiverse, regenerative, chemical free farm established in 2015 in Raglan, Victoria, on the foothills of Mount Cole.
Our mission is to advance the practice of regenerative agriculture, and the use of renewable energies and resources.
Kali and I (Alex) run the farm since 2015. We are currently caring for egg laying hens, black angus cattle, honeybees, fruit and native trees. We want to continue to grow and improve our carbon sequestration by planting trees and adding more organic matter to the soil through our operations.
Our 900 hens help us rescue 70 tons of food waste per year! We upcycle veggies, fruits, ravioli, tortillas, oils and brewer’s grain and turn it into eggs and compost. We add vitamins, minerals and probiotics such as apple cider vinegar to our chook’s feed, ensuring their health and nutrition as well as producing healthy nutritious eggs.
Our 32 black angus cows are rotationally grazing on 300 acres and help us cycle carbon and nutrients through our pasture as well as helping us cycle and process tree pruning from our agroforestry system to increase the soil organic matter.
We sell our produce through CSA memberships, directly from the farm to our farm members, and to organic grocers in Ballarat and Melbourne.
We have planted 4,000 trees so far and want to continue doing so until we have a healthy agroforestry system of forest alleyways with 20,000 trees.
Our current projects include breeding and brooding cows and chickens, planting and growing trees and other perennials, but also building a post and beam timbercrete house and a food processing facility powered by a 15kw solar system.
OUR OBJECTIVES FOR 2025
100% of our operation, including transport, will be powered by off-grid solar and wind power
We will have 3000 hens and 70 cows on 300 acres of pasture
We will have planted 10,000 trees
We will upcycle 260 tons of food yearly, diverting it from landfill and turning it into eggs, compost, and trees