Company description

For over 30 years, Camp Twin Lakes (CTL) has provided life-changing camp experiences for thousands of children with disabilities, serious illnesses, and other life challenges. CTL provides week-long summer camps and year-round weekend retreats at 3 fully accessible and medically supportive facilities. CTL collaborates with over 60 different non-profit organizations, each serving a different camper population, to create customized programs that teach campers to overcome obstacles and grow in their confidence and capabilities. Baldwin Farm at CTL provides farm-based educational programming for our campers and produces fruit, vegetables, and eggs for use in programming, dining halls, and donation to community partners. For more information, please visit our website: www.camptwinlakes.org

Job description

The Garden Coordinator's responsibilities include managing all aspects of fruit and vegetable production, utilizing our 3/4 acre program garden space and 2 acre orchard space to produce food for programmatic use, dining hall use, and donation to community food pantry partners. The Garden Coordinator will work closely with the farm manager, food service coordinator, and chefs to set and achieve production goals. They are responsible for the entirety of fruit and vegetable production, from planning, placing seed/fertilizer/plant orders through to harvest, food safe post-harvest, to delivery to our dining halls or community partners.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities Include:

• Plan and execute all aspects of fruit and vegetable production
• Manage greenhouse and transplant production
• Tend garden by preparing soil, planting crops, installing irrigation, maintaining garden space, harvesting produce, and storing produce using food safe handling practices
• Coordinate with farm manager, food service coordinator, and chefs for utilization of produce, project planning, and implementation
• Practice soil regeneration through cover cropping, composting, and yearly soil testing
• Keep records and data on garden related topics
• Work 1-2 weekends per month
• Assist with animal care and leading educational farm-based programming as needed
• Uphold professional relationships with camp staff, partner staff, and campers
• Keep gardens, barns, and work station neat and organized

Requirements:

• 2 or more seasons working on a diversified vegetable production farm, preferably in the Southeast
• Flexible, hardworking, self motivated individual with ability to work with others to accomplish collective and individual goals
• Able to work independently and on a team to achieve goals of overall farm and camp community
• Physically able to bend, crouch, kneel, walk on uneven surfaces, lift and carry 50 lbs, and work outdoors in all weather conditions

Preferred Experience:

• One or more seasons managing in a vegetable production farm setting
• Farm crew management experience
• Experience with any of the following:
  • Work with children and teens in a camp setting
  • Hydroponics
  • Mushroom cultivation
  • Fruit orchard management
  • Agricultural education

Camp Twin Lakes Provides:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
• Retirement matching
• Paid holidays and time off
• Meals when camp is in session
• Professional development opportunities

Compensation

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

Application instructions

Deadline

no deadline