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Apprentice Farmer

Are you excited about the possibility for a new future? Join Hozho Farms and become a part of creating it.

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Opportunity

Hozho Collective is an organization dedicated to a post-capitalist world rooted in the practice of Contributionism. The Collective consists of member and affiliate organizations practicing new business models. Hozho Farms is a project to build a regenerative farm in Lake County California. The current team includes:

The farm project has completed the conceptual designs for infrastructure and agricultural use.

As the project enters the implementation phase there is an opportunity for an apprentice farmer to join the team. The selected candidate will be involved in the design and implementation decisions for the project. Monthly the group will travel to Lake County and work on projects on the farm.

Over the course of the next 12-18 months a worker cooperative will be formed to manage the operation of the farm. Based on contribution and alignment the apprentice will be on a track to becoming a founding member of the cooperative.

Compensation: The current position comes with a stipend based on experience and contribution.

Location: This work will occur on-line and in person. The in person activities will be located in the SF Bay Area and Middletown in Lake County California.

Duties/Responsibities
  • Participate in design implementation meetings (in-person/virtual)
  • Online research in support of agricultural design
  • Farm work days, once or twice a month (3-6) days
  • Assist at permaculture educational workshops
  • Organizational and personal development
Skills/Experience
  • Familiarity with permaculture design 
  • Formal/informal farm training
  • Cooperative organization models
  • Sociocratic/alternative decision making
  • Social Justice awareness
  • Growth mindset
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Finding the Land

You need people and a place for new ideas to take root and begin to grow.

For 25 years I’ve been going to an special place about 45 minutes from the idyllic Napa Valley in Northern California. 

The initial attraction was an amazing hot spring, Harbin. Located in an isolated canyon it’s healing waters provide an escape from the hustle and bustle of the San Francisco Bay Area. Eventually purchasing a vacation cabin I started spending time in the area on a regular basis…I fell in love with Lake County.

In 2015 the hot spring and general area were devastated by one of the first California mega fires. While I lost my cabin, I didn’t lose my love for the area.

Fast forward to 2023, the hot spring has been rebuilt, I have a new cabin and I’m feeling drawn to the regenerative farming movement. From time to time I would look online for land, holding the intention for the perfect parcel.

In July of 2023 I was scheduled to go to my cabin for a few days and on a whim I looked for land for sale. To my delight there was a 20 acre parcel for sale…it was flat, on a seasonal creek and sat on one of the biggest aquifers in Lake County. There were some small buildings, a well operated with off the grid solar and on old tractor with a variety of attachments. And it was located on the road to the hot spring.

It was perfect!

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I contacted a realtor on a Wednesday and visited the property on Saturday. The current owner gave me a tour and history of what he’d started on the property. I remember the excitement I felt with all the possibilities. After the visit I went to the hot spring to meditate…sitting with the question about the purchase. Meditating was impossible, my mind was flooded with ideas. That night I went to the cabin and my dreams were filled with all the nightmares of what could go wrong. In that 24 hour period I got to see the antics of my mind. What should I choose? Clearly I made the choice to purchase the land or I wouldn’t be writing this post. It flowed so easily that from the day I saw it online to the day I owned it was 2 weeks!

Thus was born Hozho Farms.

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