Company description

The Community Supported Garden at Genesis Farm (CSG) has been a pioneer in the community food movement for over 30 years The farm started as a garden with roadside sales and grew into a CSA that includes over a hundred different vegetables, fruits, herbs, and flowers, seasonal or year round distribution, and a thriving apprenticeship program. The CSG takes on four apprentices each season (April 1 to mid-November). Our 300+ member CSA biodynamically manages more than 125 acres on 300 acres of farmland (under Farmland Preservation) in northwestern New Jersey near the Delaware Water Gap. There are 20 acres in vegetable production, four acres in grain (wheat, oats, rye, spelt, and triticale), 3.5 acres of orchards and berries, and the remainder in meadows.

Internship description

The season begins the week of April 1 and ends the week of Thanksgiving.

Applicants should be seeking a hands-on learning experience on a production-oriented farm. We offer apprentices their own room, board, stipend, shared lunches, educational opportunities and involvement in garden festivals in exchange for up to 50 hours of work per week. Apprenticeship housing is in a farmhouse on the farm. It is recommended that applicants visit the farm to evaluate the suitability of the position.  

You can expect to be exposed to and given responsibility in the following areas:

- Seeding into flats in the greenhouse and seeding with walk behind seeders in the field

- Become familiar with different cultivation implements and their uses

- Use of different hoes and when to use them

- Basic understanding of our various irrigation methods

- Planting and transplanting by hand and on the tractor pulled transplanter

- Basics of crop rotation

- Basics of cover-cropping

- Basic understanding of field maps

- Familiarity with record keeping

- Develop some skill with the basic operation of the tractor

- Learn to use the skid loader

- Seed saving - collecting, cleaning, and storing

- Take ownership of harvesting a certain crop and learn how to harvest from it over a period of time

- An understanding of the concept of CSA

- How to create a well-rounded share for the members

- Opportunities with outreach, if interested

- Cooking with seasonal vegetables, preservation and root cellaring

- Become familiar with the bio-dynamic preparations

- Basic pruning skills

- Insect control

- General maintenance involving tools, fences, greenhouses, etc.

 

Compensation this position is : stipend / non-monetary compensation
Details: Stipend of $200 per week, plus room and board. Application instructions Deadlineno deadline