Farm Intern Laughing Earth
- Date Posted December 18, 2019
- Location Cropseyville, NY
- Category Agriculture
- Job type Summer Job
We offer internships as part of our commitment to community education. We enjoy sharing our farm and knowledge while offering agricultural training to others. Interns learn how biodiversity supports and enriches our farm operation, and are involved in most aspects of production and marketing.
We provide instruction in a wide variety of practices employed on the farm and discuss the objectives we seek to achieve through them. Our goals for the farm are shared and we discuss the decision making processes that are used. Interns have the opportunity to learn our crop and animal planning and management systems, production, and marketing. Most important is the exposure to the farm as a whole organism which thrives on the diversity of many components.
Hands On Training:
We are a small farm business and interns participate in all aspects of our farm operation including vegetable, flower and animal production.
Work includes, but is not limited to:
. greenhouse work
. fencing
. seeding
. composting
. transplanting
. planting
. cultivating
. pest management
. harvesting/packing
. marketing (CSA, farm stand, farmer's market)
. applying and removing mulches and row covers
. trellising
. maintenance of equipment and tools
. weekly work planning
. mowing
. cleanup
. irrigation
. feeding and caring for animals
. rotation of animals and poultry in pastures
. poultry processing
. cooking, cleaning, homemaking
. food preservation
. flower production, harvesting, marketing
Interns work with the farmers most of the time. Interns occasionally work alone. We try to provide training that builds on skills already mastered, moving from fundamental work with hand tools, to more complex work involving equipment. Compensation this position is : stipend / non-monetary compensation
Details: Weekly monetary stipend plus on-site housing and food including meat, eggs, vegetables, and pantry staples Application instructions