Company description

Mossy Stone Farms is a small "no-till" organic vegetable farm located in the northern Catskill mountains of New York State. We grow organic vegetables, fruit, mushrooms, flowers, and rice on several acres using small scale methods. We sell our produce at local Farmer's Markets, an on site farm stand, and supply greens to a few restaurants nearby.

Internship description

Full time paid "live-in" farmhand & apprentice

We are seeking a full time live-in farmhand for the 2025 season starting in April, continuing through October. You'll be immersed in all details of a small market garden / vegetable farm, including organic vegetable, mushroom, fruit, flower and rice production & marketing.

Your duties will include harvesting, washing and packing vegetables and CSA bags; building and maintaining grow beds; preparing and seeding grow beds; building and sculpting rice paddies and terraces; rice planting and harvesting; producing and harvesting shiitake mushrooms; servicing farmer's markets customers; mowing, land clearing and digging; and more weeding then you've ever done in your life!

You'll also be involved in the building of a permacultural demonstration site, helping us terraform, build ponds, pollard and copice, manage a small forest and wetlands, build hugelkulture mounds, make compost, and much more.

This job requires heavy lifting (rocks, bags of peat moss, that sort of thing), and bending over a great deal. You'll be sore at the end of the day, but enjoy every moment of the experience.

No experience necessary, but always appreciated. This position pays commensurate with experience and hours worked.

You'll live with us in our farmhouse in a spacious room with your own 1/2 bath on our quiet road half way up a wooded mountain.

You don't need a car.

Compensation

this position is: hourly, $20/hr +

Application instructions

Deadline

April 01, 2025