Troy Community Farm - Farm Director Community GroundWorks, Inc.
- Date Posted July 29, 2016
- Location Madison, WI
- Category Nonprofit / Production
- Job type Full-Time
Established in 2001, Community GroundWorks, Inc. (CGW) is a non-profit organization dedicated to healthy food access and connections to nature. Among several other programs, our organization stewards Troy Gardens, a 26 acres site of urban green space comprised of an organic farm, prairie, community gardens, kids’ garden, woodland, and food forest.
Troy Community Farm is a five-acre certified organic, high production, hand scale CSA farm in Madison, WI. The pillars of the farm are the CSA and Beginning Farmer Training, which assure that new farmers are steeped in agroecological principles for a sustainable food system of the future. The farm also operates an apiary, wholesale businesses (sprouts, herbs and crops), farm stand, farm fresh pizza, and an annual spring plant sale.
Check out our website: www.communitygroundworks.org
FARM DIRECTOR
The Farm Director develops and oversees all aspects of Community GroundWorks’ farm-based programs, including Troy Community Farm, wholesale businesses, an apiary, and the greenhouse seedling sales. The Director further develops and oversees all associated intern and education programs and assures that new farmers are steeped in agroecological principles for a sustainable food system of the future.
The Farm Director has significant autonomy and requires a broad skill-set, including strong management and operational skills, attention to detail, grant writing and marketing skills, superior interpersonal skills, ability to write and teach curriculum, business plan development, and in-depth agricultural experience. The Farm Director mentors aspiring farmers on how to start and manage their own sustainable farms, while managing the Troy Community Farm as a high production, hand scale working farm and outdoor classroom. The Farm Director carries the vision for the farm program, and collaborates with other programs and staff. The Farm Director must be a creative, self-directed solution-seeker who can identify opportunities and bring initiative for expansion to the organization.
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