Visiting and Joining: If you are interested in visiting or joining us, please first READ all the pages on this website. Then, send an email to us at [email protected]. Include in the subject that you are interested in Cambia. Tell us a little about yourself and why you're interested in our community. We will send you a questionnaire to help us get to know you better. Then we may invite you to come for a two or three-week visit depending on our availability. Phone: 443 - 531 - 6848 |
We are continually seeking exceptional individuals for internships at Cambia. Internships are ideally a two week minimum, and after two weeks we will have a check-in to see if the internship is working for Cambia as well as the individual. Interns can expect to live communally, in close proximity with other Cambians. There are no flush toilets on the property (although there are several choices for bathing) and may live in a shared intern cabin unless single rooms are available, or can choose to camp. Interns will integrate into the daily life at Cambia, including sharing in child-care, cleaning/chores, cooking, and working around ~24-30 hours a week on projects. |
Learning opportunities abound, and include:
If you are interested in applying to be an Intern, please write to [email protected] with "Intern" in the subject heading. Please write a bit about yourself and why you're interested. Choose one or two projects you are specifically inspired by and write about some related experiences. Thank you!
- Cooking delicious, full-diet, (mostly) vegetarian meals
- Farming, seed production, and household gardening
- Fermenting, canning, and otherwise preserving foods
- Polyculture, permaculture-inspired gardening
- Learning to identify dozens of native plants
- Natural building, including cob, straw bale, earthen plasters, and timber framing
- Interacting with amazing children (mostly 8 year old Avni)
- Learning how to intuitively balance work and personal time in a communal living situation
- How to responsibly handle human waste-streams (including greywater, compost, and humanure systems)
- Straw bale cabin construction, including clay plaster.
- Farming
- Seed processing and preservation
- Growing crops for seed, breeding, wholesale, and for ourselves!
- Data collection of downy mildew resistance in squash and cucumbers.
- Food preservation, including canning, saucing, fermenting, drying, freezing, and butchering (generally venison).
- Increasing our solar capacity, including photovoltaics and passive solar systems, and making the user interface easy and straightforward.
- Taking care of our animals (chickens, ducks, cats, mealworms, and possum).
- Homeschooling our kid(s).
- Solar electric car
- Designing greenhouse and farm sheds.
- Observing and understanding forest and riparian ecology.
- Interfacing with our neighboring communities and increasing cluster-ties through event hosting (not as much during Covid).
- Swing City construction -- climbing trees, tying ropes, hanging swings
If you are interested in applying to be an Intern, please write to [email protected] with "Intern" in the subject heading. Please write a bit about yourself and why you're interested. Choose one or two projects you are specifically inspired by and write about some related experiences. Thank you!
If you are interested in Membership, you must have previous INTENTIONAL community experience. If you have no experience living in community, we recommend you first spend some time living in an established income-sharing community (like Twin Oaks, East Wind, or Acorn).
Here are some questions to ask yourself before you contact us:
1. Am I ready to work close to full time on domestic life?
2. Do I really want to give up financial freedom and my identity as created by my consumer choices?
3. Am I ready to open myself to others and be completely vulnerable?
4. Am I ready to receive others who will be just as vulnerable to me?
5. Am I ready to find out how I need to change in order to be come a more lovable person?
6. Did I always have an interest in community or is it the divorce and job loss that brought me there?
7. Can can gardening, cooking, natural building, goat milking, and connecting with my community members really feel meaningful to me? or will I always wish I could have been a successful movie star or even an accountant.
8. Do I have emotional resources in me to take care of elderly, sick, or children if such work was needed of me?
9. What if an economic depression brought modern civilization to a halt, would I still want to live communally even if it wasn't an act of "sticking it to the man"
Here are some questions to ask yourself before you contact us:
1. Am I ready to work close to full time on domestic life?
2. Do I really want to give up financial freedom and my identity as created by my consumer choices?
3. Am I ready to open myself to others and be completely vulnerable?
4. Am I ready to receive others who will be just as vulnerable to me?
5. Am I ready to find out how I need to change in order to be come a more lovable person?
6. Did I always have an interest in community or is it the divorce and job loss that brought me there?
7. Can can gardening, cooking, natural building, goat milking, and connecting with my community members really feel meaningful to me? or will I always wish I could have been a successful movie star or even an accountant.
8. Do I have emotional resources in me to take care of elderly, sick, or children if such work was needed of me?
9. What if an economic depression brought modern civilization to a halt, would I still want to live communally even if it wasn't an act of "sticking it to the man"