Company description

Dickson's Farmstand is a neighborhood butcher shop in Chelsea Market offering artisanal meats and house-made charcuterie. Our beef, pork, lamb, and poultry are sourced from small, family farms in upstate New York that are carefully handpicked for their humanely-raised, high-quality animals. We proudly share with you the stories of our farmers and their practices.

Our charcuterie is made in-house by Chef Fred Maurer and our team. Honoring tradition and the values of our shop, we make all of our products from the same whole animals from which we cut our steaks and chops. We strive to use every part of every animal - from nose-to-tail. All of our meat is raised without added hormones, prophylactic antibiotics, or animal by-products - and is always 100% feedlot/CAFO free.

Internship description

Dickson’s Farmstand is a purveyor of a unique selection of artisanal meat and meat products. Our beef, lamb, pork, goat and poultry are sourced from local farms, hand-picked because of their commitment to producing natural, humanely-raised, high-quality and distinctive meat.

Dickson’s Farmstand Meats is looking for an energetic, motivated, curious, and hard-working person to join the intern team at our shop in Chelsea Market. Interns work side by side with our butchers learning the ins and outs of the cutting room and the meat carcass. This is a great opportunity for anyone wanting to learn about whole animal butchery as well as the farm to retail supply chain.

NOTE - we do not train 'butchers'! But we can start you on your meat journey. The internship is a great place to start for anyone interested in getting into the meat industry or looking to deepen their knowledge of meat. (That being said, a number of extremely motivated interns have gone on to join our cutting team)

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Assisting in all cutting room activities
• Loading/unloading carcasses from our truck
• Sorting, packing, and labeling beef, lamb, pork and goat according to cut and primal
• Organizing and maintaining the meat inventory
• Assisting in filling customer orders
• Grinding beef, pork, lamb
• Assisting kitchen team as needed

Requirements:

• Minimum 2 days per week - 3 days preferred
• Weekend opportunities available
• Minimum 3 month commitment

Other Info :
This is an unpaid educational program. Interns are welcome to attend our weekly evening classes free of charge; receive free staff meals; provided relevant training books and materials; eligible for staff discount (50% off any merchandise in store); free meat (on occasion).

Compensation

this position is: college credit

Application instructions

Deadline

no deadline