Company description

Cloudview Farm is an educational and demonstrational farm that provides access to high quality produce and offers educational experiences for children and adults. Cloudview Farm is growing our enjoyment of food by growing our understanding of food.

To learn more about Cloudview Farm visit www.cloudviewfarm.org.

Job description

Cloudview Farm offers a variety of on-farm experiences for student and community groups. We are seeking an educator who can both maintain our current offerings and develop Cloudview Farms’ programming. The educator will also help with garden operations. To give visitors a more authentic experience the Educator/ Market Gardener should be familiar with the gardens and animals.

Most visitors are preschool-3rd graders that come for 90-minute field trips and choose between a six plant part lesson and a plant life-cycle curriculum. In 2016, we offered summer day camps for the first time and hope to expand our camps and programming when school is not in session. We also collaborate with an elementary school on a door-to-door school fundraiser selling carrots. As new groups approach us with unique goals we innovate to meet their needs. Also in 2016, first time visitors included culinary students from and area technical high school, wheelchair-bound patients from a physical rehabilitation center, and a professional teacher training academy.

Job responsibilities:

• Support and maintain current garden education programming
  • Lead approximately 30 preschool-3rd grade student field trips in the spring and fall with groups of 10 to 60 students.
  • Organize and manage summer day camps
  • Host 10-15 8th grade students from Lakeside Middle School in Seattle for one week in the fall.
  • Emcee the Annual Fall Festival during the 1st Saturday in October.
• Promote and expand garden education programming
• Promote education programs through social media, website, and email announcements
• Coordinate with other farm and garden staff to develop gardens and property that support programming
• Give public presentations
• Work in the garden to support the CSA and farmers’ market programs
  • Harvest, wash, and pack produce
  • Provide garden labor including weeding, mowing, cultivating, seeding, transplanting
  • Participate in CSA box deliveries

Skills and Experience:

• At least 2 years outdoor education experience, management preferred
• Farm or garden experience

Compensation:

• $21,000-$24,000 starting salary depending on education and experience
• Housing, utilities, trash, internet, and farm food included

Compensation

this position is: salaried, varies DOE, $21,000.00 - $24,000.00

Application instructions

Deadline

no deadline