Company description

Sucker Brook Farm is a 50 acre NOFA certified diversified organic farm growing vegetables, herbs and cover crops. The farm is an important piece of the food production and distribution community of FingerLakes Farms, Ithaca Milk and Sackett's Table Restaurant & Market, a farm to table venture, in historic Seneca Falls, NY.

Job description

Sucker Brook Farm wants to hire a person to lead the farm into its next chapter. To date the farm has been a supplier of organic mixed vegetables to FingerLakes Farms, a local food distribution company serving most of New York State including the NYC metro region. This is its core market. We have dabbled, with mixed results, in a CSA, and believe there is large upscale potential for on-farm retail of more than just produce. As its current manager, and the manager of multiple other businesses, my desire is to see the farm continue on as a working food producing farm consistent with its history dating back almost 200 years.

All of the needed infrastructure, equipment and markets are in place. Greenhouses, pack shed, endless well water, tractors, barns, main road frontage and a healthy distribution partner are here.

Out of the gate this job probably looks like your typical working farm manager position on a small organic farm. The manager should have experience and a minimum basic knowledge of core areas such as seeding, irrigation systems, crew leadership, harvesting, packing, food safety, mechanics, crop rotation and most importantly, farm safety. Hours in season are sometimes long and not always easy. Farming is never perfect and an art at times, so I am looking for people who are serious about their work, take pride in it and have a desire to create something meaningful from it.

After that, there is potential here for a single person or a farming couple to make a deeper commitment to a career, put their roots down and farm this historic piece of ground in the Finger Lakes region themselves. What that looks like is wide open as anything is possible


If this checks any of your boxes let's talk. If this sounds at least a little interesting I encourage you to connect. If after reading this, you are wondering about the other companies mentioned here and want to learn more I encourage you also to reach out with any questions. I am always looking for good folks to join our various local food company teams.

Compensation

this position is: hourly, varies DOE, $20.00 - $35.00

Application instructions

Deadline

January 31, 2024