Company description

At The Food Project, we believe that everyone has the right to fresh, healthy, affordable food. Our goal is to transform the food system into a more just, community-engaged model that supports food security for all while connecting diverse communities to each other and to the land.

Since our founding in 1991, The Food Project has grown into a nationally recognized, non-profit organization that works at the intersection of youth, food, and community. Young people are the driving force of The Food Project and work on our farms and with community members to realize the right to food that nourishes our communities and the planet we share.

Each year, we employ 140 teenagers in this vital work on 70 acres of urban and suburban farmland across eastern Massachusetts where they grow 200,000 pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables and use this food to enact innovative food system initiatives that increase access to fresh, healthy food for all.

We focus this work in the two communities we are most deeply connected to: Boston’s Dudley neighborhood and the City of Lynn.

Our Mission
The Food Project’s mission is to create a thoughtful and productive community of youth and adults from diverse backgrounds who work together to build a sustainable food system. Our community produces healthy food for residents of the city and suburbs, provides youth leadership opportunities, and inspires and supports others to create change in their own communities.

Our Vision

We envision a world where youth are active leaders, diverse communities feel connected to the land and each other, and everyone has access to fresh, local, healthy, affordable food.

Job description

What We Seek

The Food Project is seeking an Agriculture Worker for the 2025 growing season at our Reynolds Farm in Wenham, MA. The Agriculture Worker will partner with the Director of Farms and Food and Assistant Grower to participate in all aspects of production at our farm site. This position is a mix of production and youth engagement.

Responsibilities

Farming

Partner with the Assistant Grower and Director of Farms and Food to accomplish all manner of farm tasks, with quality and efficiency, including mulching, planting, irrigation and weeding.
Partner with Director of Agriculture, Assistant Grower and partner farm on site, to lead youth in a meaningful and engaged work experience on the farm.

Youth and Volunteer Engagement

Partner with Assistant Grower to lead farm work for youth programs on the farm.

Organizational Health

Participate in weekly 1:1 supervisory and Ag team meetings
Feedback Participation: Real Talk, circle process, etc.

Qualifications

This position is ideal for an individual who is interested in both sustainable agriculture and youth engagement. Our farms are run in partnership with youth and community members.

Experience working in diverse settings are strongly preferred.

Able to perform labor-intensive agricultural tasks
Excellent interpersonal communication skills and energy for engaging with other people
Dependable, responsible, flexible, and open to learning
Ability to work a 40-hour schedule: Monday - Friday
18+ years of age
Food Project alums a plus
Enthusiasm for working with teenagers
Team-oriented with a good sense of humor; able to work independently.
CPR and First Aid certified or willingness to be trained
Valid driver’s license and able to pass driving background check (required for use of TFP vehicles)
Able to pass a CORI/SORI background check

Location & Schedule

This is a seasonal position - 40-hour 13 week from June-August

Compensation

this position is: hourly, varies DOE, $18.00 - $20.00

Application instructions

Deadline

May 09, 2025