General Intern

Positions Available:   General positions are filled for 2009.

About:   Interns will live on site or nearby, and will have several duties including gardening, shooting video, and marketing. They'll participate in all of our courses, keep our camp organized, and use permaculture and organic gardening techniques to grow a lot of food on a small piece of ground. They'll learn to market and run a small business, write effective press releases, shoot professional video, cast a fly, and identify the plants of northeastern North America.

Prerequisites:   To be an intern you must have taken a course from us. We want to know something about you that we can't learn from reading an application, and face to face contact is the best way that we know of.

Duties:   Farming/Gardening, Marketing, Videography, General Camp Work.

Duration:   Last week in March through first week in November

Costs, Stipend, and Compensation:   Interns receive room and some board, but for the first three months pay a monthly fee. The last three months the monthly fee is returned as a stipend. The tuition cost is zero if you stay the entire season.

• April, May, June = Pay Tuition of $1000/month
• July = No Tuition
• August, September, October = Receive Stipend of $1000/month

We're basing this system on old-time farm internships, as described in the book "The New Organic Grower" by Elliot Coleman on page 5:

"The student received room and board but was expected to pay the farmer a monthly fee for the first three months. After three months, if the student was a competent worker, the farmer returned that same fee every month as a salary for the second three months. That way, if the student was shiftless and soon departed, the farmer would be paid for his trouble. However, the student who persevered and worked hard would receive six months of thorough training at no cost. Given the price of a college education, the system sounds pretty good."

Particulars:   Minimum age requirement (18). There will be a background check before being accepted because you'll be around families (ours included). We won't be babysitting you. You'll need to be able to cook and fend for yourself. You'll also need to provide your own personal gear, canoe, tent, etc. Our goal is to have a clearly defined business relationship so that there are no grey areas, and as a result no miscommunication.

Desirable Skills:   We're willing to train and work with you on a variety of things. A desirable skill to have is experience editing video with Final Cut Pro. If you've never done so we can work with you on this as well, but if there's a choice between two people and one of them has video editing experience, we're likely to go with that person. Other valuable skills are farming and gardening experience as well as outdoor and guiding experience.

To Apply:   To apply for our intern positions, fill out our course application and attach a resume and essay. Please list any experience and useful skills you have. Mail us this information and we'll get back to you as soon as we read your application.

Video Intern

Dates and Positions Available:   Currently we don't have any open positions available. If you're interested in this position visit our video page to see some examples of past work.

About:   The right person should be an experienced videographer, film student, or have a strong interest and desire to learn the art of filmmaking. You'll be participating in our bushcraft programs, filming and editing daily, and working with us to document what transpires in our semester course. You'll take that footage and edit it into short educational and promotional films for the internet as well as a culminating semester documentary.

Duties:   Planning, shooting and editing documentary-style digital video, getting video on the internet. Shooting daily video, making weekly compilations, and ultimately making a documentary about the semester. You'll also travel with us by canoe on the rivers and lakes of Maine and on foot in the mountains of New Hampshire.

Equipment:   Our cameras, sound, accessories, editing software and computers.

Training:   We have professional training media that will get you up to speed quickly in both filming and editing. You'll jump right in getting hands-on experience. We use professional gear and sound equipment and edit using Final Cut Studio.

Compensation:   This is an unpaid, work-study position. In exchange for your work, you'll participate in our semester program free of charge and have free room and (some) board.

How To Apply:    Send us a link to your demo reel and contact us by email or phone to discuss.

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