Renowned for it’s natural building and delicious culinary spreads of fresh homemade food, the Ranch provides interns an opportunity to see permaculture principles in action. Interns will experience a rural Costa Rican community, delight in 325 acres of pristine forests and waterfalls, and participate in a working permaculture farm.
Nestled against the virgin rainforest of La Cangreja National Park, Rancho Mastatal Sustainable Education Center has been teaching, exploring, and promoting techniques of living harmoniously in the landscape for 12 years. Renowned for it’s natural building and delicious culinary spreads of fresh homemade food, the Ranch provides interns an opportunity to see permaculture principles in action. Interns will experience a rural Costa Rican community, delight in 325 acres of pristine forests and waterfalls, and participate in a working permaculture farm.
We offer profound, innovative and impactful internships throughout the year. As a working farm and education center we provide the opportunity for hardworking, conscientious, and responsible individuals to immerse themselves in techniques and technologies related to natural building, animal husbandry, sustainable agricultural, fermentation, homesteading, and community.
Our program aims at providing a balance between hands on instruction and experiential learning that allows interns to quickly take on leadership roles in our beautiful kitchen, amongst our hundreds of fruit and nut trees, with our playful goat herd, and on building sites throughout the Ranch. Commonly a life changing experience for participants, interns routinely return year after year as they become part of the Ranch family and its projects.
For a thorough description of internship life, expectations, application due dates, and costs, please see the internship page on our website.
