Core Responsibilities

• Undertaking the running of Sunseed’s low-impact household

• Orientating co-learning residents and other members on arrival and educating them in low-impact living

• Organising the accommodation and the communal area

• Supervising hygiene, health and safety, cleanliness, tidiness

• Publishing and updating rotas, notices and routines

• Implementing and encouraging no-chemical policy

• Making organic soap, toothpaste, tinctures, balms and other cosmetics

• Food Management (making orders, harvesting etc.)

• Overseeing the implementation of the Sunseed Food Policy

• Promoting solar and energy-efficient cooking

• Preserving excess produce from the gardens (pickling, preserves, ferments, marmelades, almonds etc.)

• Foraging wild plants and promoting their use

• Taking care of the medicinal garden and using medicinal plants

• Baking bread and cakes and managing our sourdough starters

• Taking care of laundry and making beds for new arrivals

Requirements

• Passion for low impact living

• Experience in baking bread, making preserves, marmelades and natural cosmetics

• Experience with medicinal plants and foraging them

• Commitment to use of low-impact cooking technologies, and reducing consumption and waste

• Ability to lead and motivate assistants, interns, ESC's and co-learning residents, who range from those with a wealth of experience to those with little or none