ROCK FARM RESIDENCY CO-FACILITATORS WANTED
SAWA ROCK FARM PERMACULTURE + NATURAL BUILD RESIDENCY
Earth Care, People Care, Fair Share
A unique opportunity to practice the art of living, with daily circle time, natural building, meditations, community living, appropriate technology, composting, harvesting, foraging, nurturing soils and plants for 6 weeks this Autumn.
ROCK FARM MEETS SAWA
Rock Farm, a market garden, community space and horticultural therapy centre, facilitated by Ben. https://www.facebook.com/RockFarmVeg
SAWA, a creative collective of environmental and socially mindful design professionals, facilitated by Ed https://sawa-architecture.org/
WHERE: Rock Farm, The Hollow, Washington, Pulborough West Sussex, UK, RH20 3GR
WHEN: Residency – Monday 14th of Sept – Saturday 24th Oct 2020.
Friday Course Days – 25th Sep, 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd, Oct 2020
Volunteers Days – Every Monday to Thursday
WHAT: We will be co designing and self building a solar collecting cabin, round house, compost loo, compost hot water shower, rainwater collection pond and swale system and beautiful permaculture artworks.
WHO: Calling all to volunteer and attend the courses and permaculture designers, plumbers, sparkies, chippies, brickies, wets, mud slappers, growers, makers, meditators, architecture students, ecologists and all to co facilitate.
HOW: The priority will not be achievement based but rather therapeutic, practicing nonviolent communication at all times and being most mindful of keeping a peaceful environment for vulnerable visitors, PTSD, learning difficulties, autism, neuro diversities and ethnic minorities etc. Smoking and alcohol and not allowed on site.
COME CO FACILITATE WITH US?
- We need permaculture designers, builders, architects, designers, plumbers with 2 year plus applied experience to Co-facilitate, build, course assist and grow these community structures.
- Come camp on site for 6 weeks
- Communal cooking self organised
- Free lunches on volunteer and course days
- Daily short group mindfulness meditations
- Compost loos, outdoor showers, living on beautiful farm in community
- In exchange will receive a 15/1th share of course donations, estimated (£ 25 x 30 ppl x 5 courses = £250
- Apply now by email please include 300 word reasons for application + CV + portfolio of project work.
FOR ALL APPLICATIONS CONTACT SAWA BY EMAIL:
sawa.engage@gmail.com
Radical inclusion
Is fundamentally what Rock Farm does. It’s the entire reason the farm exists, and our whole model is set up to include and engage marginalised vulnerable people.
They are the community, they’re not tokenistic or exceptions. That doesn’t mean we don’t have more work to do, of course, we can always be more inclusive. But our position on a day-to-day level is basically, “How can we make this site accessible to you?”
Travel
Rock farm has a minivan and is going to and from Brighton and can take people on volunteer and course days (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday).
Nearest railway station to site Pulborough and Worthing. Potential to organise a pick up + drop off on course days in the Minivan.
Parking for 20 odd cars on site.
Food
‘Big Group Volunteers Days – Wednesdays and Thursdays and Friday Course Days Rock farm will cover the lunch for everyone.
Co Facilitators and Volunteer Residents – flexible self organised communal cooking, Rock Farm can access cheap whole food and organic veg to supply the kitchen, please chip in to cover costs.
Drinking and alcohol and smoking is prohibited on site. If you need to smoke please leave the main area of the site.
Water + Electricity
Please note there is no Mains Electricity, some campervans may have capacity to charge phones, we will have a generator for some building activities.
There is mains water on site and we will be making a compost heated shower to heat it, should be up in running at the end of the first week.
Camping
We have limited spaces, please apply soon for these spots. Preference for 6 weekers.
Tent and Campavans welcome.