Permaculture practitioner volunteer
This year we are seeking one permaculture practitioner. This long-term volunteer position is for someone who wants to work hard on a worthwhile project and who has a significant skill-set to bring with them. In exchange for your full-time participation, we’re offering you a place to camp, access to the season’s events, a close working and living relationship with experienced Kleiwerks International staff, and a full immersion at AVI.

AVI’s permaculture practitioner will focus on...
Establishing the hard-scape for AVI’s outdoor infrastructure. The AVI backyard will eventually incorporate gardens, outdoor classroom, kitchen and courtyard, rainwater catchment, greywater reclamation, sauna/bath house, tenting area and more. Working closely with core staff in the design process, the permaculture practitioner will play a lead role in constructing retaining walls, grading, bed building, material acquisition/salvage runs, and composting. They will also focalize design work on the master plan for AVI’s surrounding yard/s, as well as food and mead fermentation/preservation, and depending on progress, experience some natural building.

Skills Needed
3+ years permaculture design & hands-on experience
Into collective living & healthy eating
Excellent organizer & communicator
Great team player & people person
Creative, solution-oriented thinker
Physically fit, hard worker
Interest in sustainability
Multi-tasker
Self-initiator
Flexible

General Tasks
If a few of the following tasks are beyond your scope but most of this feels right to you, please be in touch. We’ll be working as a team and can share skills as we go.

Greywater & water catchment design & implementation
Participation in development of master plan
Grading & hard-scaping
Building retaining walls
Volunteer coordination
Building tent platforms
Organic gardening
Tree pruning
Bee keeping
Fermentation

You will need to...
Start as soon as possible; through mid-November, with the possibility of staying on longer
Work 35 hours per week
Provide two personal & two professional references

You will have...
Tent space/platform with full access to the house & common room for storage, hanging out, etc
A close working relationship with Meka Bunch and Janell Kapoor
Review/check-in period after the first month
Healthy, mostly organic food
Access to AVI’s programs

AVI and Kleiwerks will try to provide a small stipend but cannot guarantee it right now.

To support AVI
AVI is administered by Kleiwerks International. 100% tax-deductible donations can be made by credit card through PayPal from our 'Support Us' page, or checks can be sent to: Kleiwerks International c/o 82 Buchanan Ave., Asheville, NC 28801. Write AVI in the memo line.

For more information
E-mail us at info@kleiwerks.org
Call (828) 225-8820.

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