Join our Permaculture Internship and experience everything that happens on a permaculture farm. Live off-grid with like-minded people, eat healthy food, immerse yourself in nature and enjoy optional yoga and meditation classes.

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Video from Summer 2021 permaculture internship
What to know what it will be like? check out this 20 min video taken during the Summer 2021 internship. Of course, every internship is different but this gives you an idea.
What do we focus on during the internship?
There are opportunities for interns to work on one area if they desire. Otherwise, we will usually all work together and work on a different aspect each day.
- 15% Growing Vegetables: Sunken Beds, Huglekulture, raised, wood chip beds
- 15% Forest Management: Food Forests, Silvopasture, Reforestation, Forest Management
- 15% Natural Building & Permaculture Systems
- 15% Farm Tasks: Managing the nursery, chickens, pigs, sheep, greenhouse, building compost, worm farms, weeding.
- 15% Community living – Cooking, cleaning, socialising
- 30% free time (weekends & evenings)
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What will you learn?
Learn how to process food from the garden.















Community Living

- Food is cooked on rotation with the other guests (Can’t cook? don’t worry you will have support from our in house chef, so you will leave us a competent cook, one of the best take-home skills of being here)
- Once per month as part of our community outreach, we visit a local farm to help them out for a morning
- Friday afternoons are a deep clean afternoon so we can enjoy a clean environment for the week ahead. During this time we may need to prepare accommodation for future guests or make some repairs or upgrades to the farm.
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The usual day of an intern:
This changes throughout the year as we work with the sun. Usually, we work an average of 5 hours per day. On some days there will also be tours, workshops and lectures.
- 7.30am Yoga Class (optional and 3-4 days per week)
- 8.30am Breakfast (prepared together or on rotation)
- 9.30am- 1.30pm Morning work
- 11.00-11.30am mid-morning break
- 1.30pm Lunch (cook together on rotation, starting at 11am)
- 2.30pm – 4pm Afternoon work
- 7.30pm dinner (cook together on rotation, starting at 530pm)
- Weekends are free time
What can you do in your free time?





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Frequently asked questions
Is it ok to join the internship on a different date than the start date? This is not possible as we have a welcome for new arrivals and then a one-day introduction to the farm which can not be missed.
Is this a permaculture course? No this is not a permaculture course. This is work experience on a permaculture farm. There will be lectures and tours each day but most of the time you will be working and gaining experience. Usually each day you work on a different aspect so you get to experience a variety of tasks. If you prefer a theory classroom-based course then we will be offering this from next year.
Will I get a PDC certificate from an internship? You will not get a PDC certificate. A PDC is a theory course on how to design a garden or a farm. You will work on our farm and see what it is like to live off-grid and manage a farm.
How many interns will there be? Usually, there is the maximum number of people which is 10 interns.
How many people live on your permaculture farm? Two people, Kimberly (yoga teacher and homesteader) and Laurence. (Permaculture/Agroforest and Natural Building practitioner and teacher).
Who will be learning the internship and any lessons/instructions? All instructions will be given by the owners Kimberly or Laurence. They will also be working alongside you on all the tasks so you can fire all your questions at them during this time. We do not let volunteers on interns teach so that the correct information is passed a long.
Will I be socialising and spending free time with the owners of Keela? No. outside of intern hours they have a farm to run, markets to prepare for, friends to help and personal space to enjoy. They usually will have one meal with you during working days but the rest of the time you will be living with the other interns. Occasionally they also organise things like BBQs or pizza parties for you to join. You have a big communal space to share and enjoy with the interns.
I am having some life troubles and want to find myself, is this is a good place for me to come? No this is not the place for you. However, you can consider one of our yoga retreats instead, where you will find time for relaxation, journaling and soul searching.
I have some injuries and am not able to do much physical work is it ok for me to just join the theory and not participate in the work? This is not possible for the internship as you will be expected to work. Living here requires lots of physical work which you must be capable of doing. However, you could join us for a farm stay instead and join some workshops at an extra cost.
Why are you charging us to work, can we not just volunteer somewhere else for free? Yes, you can volunteer somewhere for free. However, we are offering you a unique learning experience where we are providing you with an organised internship that allows you to work on all aspects of the farm over the duration of your stay. Here you will learn about our permaculture systems whilst enjoying a diversity of tasks in a group that all starts on the same day.
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