Brandon,
I'm not sure how much our Christian community will resonate with you. We are not 100% permaculture focused, but we have a long history of working with the land. I'll share our land internship page, which is one way to experiment in our community and see if it's a good long-term fit:
https://jubileepartners.org/volunteer/land-internship/
Our income is from the nonprofit side of things: helping immigrants and refugees get settled in the United States (and hopefully NOT get trapped into the materialistic consumeristic mindset of Western society). Fortunately this has dove-tailed well with working on the land (most refugees come from subsistence farming lifestyles so they know more than we do about finding/growing food).
I'll share some land work that I get to be involved in on a regular basis:
-tending 260 acres
-annually growing about 2 tons of sweet potatoes
-2 acres of blueberry bushes
-40 chestnut trees producing roughly 100 gallons a year
-muscadine grape arbors
-asian persimmons
-jujubees
-pawpaws
-figs
-harvesting wild chanterelles
-Shiitake mushroom logs
-Pet rabbits (sometimes for meat)
-hand milking jersey cows
-3 large ponds with fish
-Main Garden: tomatoes, peppers, green beans, okra, squash, corn, garlic, cucumbers, eggplant, kale, collards, etc...
-Neighbor's Field garden/pasture: a place for neighbors (mostly refugees/immigrants) to rent plots and grow whatever they'd like, or keep animals
-Processing chickens, deer, steer
-Communal meals for somewhere between 20 and 80 people lunches Monday through Friday, and dinner 2-3 times per week
-chainsawing for lumber and firewood
-Communal practices: noontime devotions, Sunday worship, morning prayer, business meetings
-Team structures to organize decision making such as leadership, maintenance/construction, land, hospitality, guests, food, cars, volunteer, etc.
-A lot of comings and goings, but always looking for folks that want to be here for the long-term. Our statement of faith is necessarily very brief:
"We affirm that Jesus is Lord. Our life together is a response to the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. We joyfully order our lives in the belief that he calls us to love God and to love our neighbor as ourselves."
So yeah that's the best I can do to sum it up. Good luck on your search!
Matt
