Do you want to live for a year and practice with the Plum Village community?
Are you interested in regenerative farming, ecology and nature?
If so, you can combine these interests!
Applications are now open for our One Year Happy Farm programme in Upper Hamlet. This new cohort would start late February 2026 and end with Plum Village’s annual Rains Retreat from November 2026 to January 2027.
Upper Hamlet is home to the Monks and mainly lay men. We welcome applications from single men, male couples, mixed gender couples and non binary friends. Woman are based at Lower Hamlet and New Hamlet living with the Nuns.
To make a formal application for the next Happy Farm one year programme in Upper Hamlet please send us:
- A letter of aspiration outlining why you want to live and practice in Plum Village for a year and specifically what inspires you to work at the Happy Farm.
- Details of your experience with the Plum Village community or any relevant experience you may have of living in community or practicing in other traditions.
- Details of your experience with organic farming/gardening.
- A simple CV / Résumé with a photo of you.
- A summary of any relevant past or present health issues, physical and mental health.
- Details of language skills.
Contribution
Volunteers are asked to make a financial contribution of €4500 for the year. (€13.55 a day for 11 months).
Email your application to: mick@plumvillage.org
Applications close November 21st 2025.
We will host informal interviews the 1st and 2nd weeks of December 2025.
If your application is successful you will be invited to arrive in Plum Village late February 2026. Exact date to be confirmed.
Find out more about the One Year Happy Farm Programme in Upper Hamlet.