17. oktober 2020

Sign up as an intern, a volunteer, or go for a course.

APRIL to NOVEMBER 2025 (parts of the season is possible too – and winter – Payd system is from 1 of may til 24 of oktober – only volunteering beetween)

We are located in the southeast of Norway. 1,5 hr from Oslo, 40 min from Torp Airport and 30 min from Larvik. Short travel over to Denmark to Hirtshals.

One of our main goals is to educate and motivate 4 new regenerative farmers every year. We believe that learning by doing is the best way to gain your own practical experience and knowledge.. As an agriculture student you are especially welcome to join the Virgenes Farm team in the beautiful valley. We want you to feel that you actually run a whole farm. You can start here without any skills. But we are looking for people who are really passionate about regenerative farming. Many of our trainees come back year after year. That should be a good sign of a good experience. There will be a lot of hard work, but olso a lot of fun and hands-on knowledge.

In return for your help, we offer basic skills and deeper knowledge required for putting up a market garden. You will learn about regenerative farming and holistic management. Pigs, chickens and cows are a part of our farm and we can show you how we use them as tools to manage and improve the ecosystem. Next to that we have old grain types, potatoes, berries and some greenhouse gardening. We have a slaughtery for chicken, who olso will be some days work. Our sales form is direct marketing. In our case as a CSA, we sell to members of the farm and on local farmers markets (REKO). We are sertified økologisk. (Organic).

in 2025 we need:

• One person will have controll of animals. (Not taken)
• One person will be controll of garden. (Not taken)
• Two persons will be a dual purpouse helper on both animal and garden. (Not taken)
• One or two vouleenteer. (Not taken)

We put up a work system on 40 hours per week, with one day per week totally off in 2025. Half days work on saturday/sundays. There are possibilities to take off some more days if you are here for a longer period of time.

There’s a room in the barn with toilet, shower and laundry machine. We are a friendly group of people, and we split tasks for making food, where all team members prepare the meals together. Are you really interested in regenerative farming? And in cooking? Do you have a drivers license? Are you generally independent and social for alot of teamwork? Then you are on top of the list of what we are looking for.

• Student on a farming school? We pay studenttariff ca 141 NOK per hour pluss 10,2% hollyday money. NOK. MINIMUM 3 MONTHS STAY. Housing and food cost ca NOK 3000, per- week. You get your own litle cabin. (In cash in your “hand” after tax and costs is done you can expect ca 8000,- NOK per month)

• Not from a farming school but you want practical experience? Work and learn. Cost of stay kr 8500,- per week. Monday to monday. Food and housing inc

• Like to volunteer? Join us through our wwoof program. Minimum 4 week.

Whole day introduction to or system? 7500,- + mva.

Half day intoduction to our system 4900,-+ mva

You can borrow a car if needed. Or the boat in the river. From the farm it’s not far to the sea, lakes or mountains. And we have some cool things happening around us, plus a good network to other organic farms and CSA’s. It’s 15 km to the closest shop, 30 km to the nearest small town, 120 km to Oslo.

We would love to meet you. Send us your info to andelsbonde@virgenes.no then we can have a videomeeting to begin with.

Small cut from our bank: Cultura

Richard Perkins Regenerative

Tore Jardar Wirgenes