Company description

We are a sustainable, diverse 7 acre farm and wood-fired brick oven sourdough bread bakery. We focus on limiting waste, value adding our crops and serving digestible bread.

Internship description

As a Bakery Apprentice at Apple Ridge Farm, you will learn mixing, shaping, and baking sourdough bread as well as pastry production, our value added farm line, and what it takes to run a bakery. We work extremely hard here and the bakery apprentice is no exception. Expect to work 9-10 hour days in the hot sweaty summer. You can also expect to feel great satisfaction while feeding the greater community.

A typical Day would include the following:
Managing the temperature of our Wood Fired Brick Oven
Mixing/Shaping 300-800 Loaves of Sourdough Bread
Managing the proofing and life cycle of the dough and bread
Weighing ingredients to prepare recipes
Mixing/Shaping Pretzels and Pastries
Communicating with Night Bake and Market Team

This job may be for you if:
You take pride in working hard.
A challenge is exciting for you and you look forward to taking it on.
You think on your feet.
If there are a few minutes between tasks you are thinking "what could I be doing right now".
You pay attention to details.
When completing a task you do it the right way because it is the right way.
You are self motivated and strive to do the most good as possible as quick as possible.
You are interested in serving your local and regional community.
You enjoy working on a team, you look out for your co-workers and take pleasure in accomplishing a task together.

Physical Requirements:
Stand for 10 hours on your feet
Deadlift 50 lbs
Early Mornings & Late Nights as needed
Includes housing on farm and farm produced food

Compensation

this position is: hourly, $15-20/hr

Application instructions

Deadline

no deadline