Summer Camp Apprentice

Get back to your roots and enhance your connection to the earth while you work with the Living Earth School! We will explore the surrounding forests and streams as we build natural shelters, make fires without matches, and prepare wild plants for food. This is not your ordinary camp experience. Each team member gets training in survival skills and how to be an effective nature mentor. Our aim is to see the light in each person, camper or staff, and help inspire their passions and gifts.

If The Living Earth School peaks your interest but you aren’t sure you have the skills…yet….then the Apprentice position might be for you! The job of an Apprentice Instructor is to learn through experience while being mentored by Lead Instructors. They learn how to design lessons and take the lead on activities, doing more and more leading as the summer goes on.

Our summer camp season runs June 5 through August 12, with a week of training and a break week July 3-7. If you need housing, you are invited to stay at our Staff Camp. Here there are individual tent spaces, shared outdoor covered kitchen, shower, internet and toilet amenities as well as the comradery of living beside your coworkers and diving deeper into natural living skills. 

For full job descriptions and application, please visit our Jobs page. Email workwithus@livingearthva.org with any questions.