Company description

The Deep Medicine Circle (DMC) is a WOC-led nonprofit organization that is committed to healing the wounds of colonialism through food, medicine, story, restoration and learning. We are an organization made up of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people working together in radical solidarity to advance a culture of care. We center climate, economic, racial and health justice, through activities in farming, ecological restoration, land back, community organizing, arts and education. Our work is to Heal the Land and Feed the People.

The DMC’s Farming is Medicine Program reframes farming as an act of care of the land and the people. At this farm, we are working with Indigenous community members on returning land back, asserting the role of farmers as stewards of health through practices that enhance ecology and grow a diversity of nutrient-dense foods. We liberate the food we grow from the market economy to distribute to BIPOC and poor communities oppressed by hunger in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Job description

The Rooftop Medicine Farm Seasonal Crew is a non-exempt position whose responsibilities include providing support to the development and operation of the Rooftop Medicine Farm plan, which supporting farm supervisor, managers and staff in their directives and includes but is not limited to crop planning, seed starting, propagation, field preparation and planting, weeding, harvesting, seed collection, and irrigation.

We view our farm crew members as an integral part of our team. While this is an at-will position, we prioritize candidates who are committed to the long-term vision of Deep Medicine Circle.

Responsibilities:
● Support the Rooftop Farm Supervisor and Managers with preparing and enacting plans and schedules for planting and harvesting crops
● Show up on time and work effective and efficiently throughout the day
● Cultivation of crops by hand, with various tools.
● Drip and overhead Irrigation setup, maintenance, and operation.
● Support the implementation of integrated pest management plan
● Bed prep and planting as per Standard Operating Procedures
● Harvest, wash, pack, weigh, record, and transport crops as per Harvest Standard Operating Procedures
● Tend to the diverse needs of over 30 crops and soil fertility
● Cultivate, seeding and transplanting crops
● Maintenance of the compost piles - building, turning and sifting
● Keeping tools in clean and working order
● Assisting in keeping the aesthetics of the farm in a organized fashion
● Pulling all weeds and not allowing them to go to seed
● Keep cement walkways clean of debris and soil
● Attend DMC monthly Full Circle Meetings at the farm in San Gregorio
● Support DMC Staff in the education of volunteers about agroecological farming and the rooftop ecology through hands-on practice and verbal communication
● Interface with volunteers, UCSF residents, and affiliate organizations in the context of growing, harvesting, packaging, and transporting crops
● Interact with The Logan tenants about the farm, building community with people interested in the Rooftop Medicine Farm and the DMC
● Actively engage in electronic communications and stay up to date with organization’s programs, messages and data input on a daily basis as communicated by farm managers and DMC Staff
● Keep up to date with self-scheduling and DMC schedule/calendar

Experience and Qualifications:
● Self-directed and observant
● Capacity to maintain an overall positive framework
● A person who takes pride in a job well done!
● One full year of farming production experience at minimum
● Ability to work in all weather conditions
● Comfortable working alone and in a team
● Building skills, plumbing, carpentry and use of hand tools is a plus!

Start Date: February 3, 2025
Time Requirement: Full-time, 40 hours a week
Compensation: $28.64 per hour, non-exempt temporary position.
Required and Additional Benefits: Workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and paid sick leave.

Compensation

this position is: hourly, $20/hr +

Application instructions

Deadline

March 03, 2025