Company description

La Veta Farm to Table is a dynamic small business that is making a meaningful impact on the local food scene. We have a biodynamic farm that supplies our two farm to table restaurants in a beautiful Colorado mountain town, with heritage pork, heirloom vegetables, eggs and chicken. Our fresh, innovative food wows our guests and we have many customers who drive three hours from Denver just eat at our restaurant and cafe!

Internship description

Dreaming of having your own farm and restaurant some day? Are you creative, motivated and love to cook with fresh, local organic food? Then we encourage you to participate in our Farm to Table Culinary Internship!La Veta Farm to Table is a business dedicated to the local good food movement in the beautiful, mountain town of La Veta in rural South Central Colorado.

Our new biodynamic farm that uses “deep organic”, no-till, permaculture methods to grow vibrant, super nutritious produce, free-range chicken, eggs and pastured pork. Our farm to table bakery and café serves up creative, delicious food from our farm and other local food producers and is a lively hangout for our community and visitors alike. Our internship program encompasses the whole food lifecycle from farm to table. Culinary skills are honed at our bakery café as we prepare creative dishes using our fresh biodynamic food, following the season. Baking artisan bread with local flour, whipping up breakfast skillets with our farm eggs, creating salads with all the colors of the rainbow drizzled with home-made fruit shrubs, grilling heirloom local lamb on the spit seasoned with garlic, mint, thyme and oregano that we have grown, smoking grass-fed local beef, roasting our own suckling pigs, Farm to Table wedding feasts, foraging in our mountains for porcini and chanterelle mushrooms, catching wild trout, smoking it then paring it with freshly dug horseradish, our interns embark on an exciting culinary adventure.

We call our project “love in action” as we work together to restore the earth through biodynamic agricultural practice, tapping into the universal wisdom that feeds the human body and spirit, increasing the health and well-being of the land, plants, animals and ourselves. If you would like to make a difference in the world by participating in a new way of preparing food while living in a beautiful landscape, and serving the community that honors all life, we encourage you to join us for the 2016 season.

We have the following internships available:

Culinary Intern
We are looking for a talented experienced chef or line cook who is a motivated self-starter who can bring your experience in culinary arts to our team in exchange for a vibrant farm to table adventure. Culinary interns work at the café, farm to table dinners, and catering farm to table weddings and events along with a day each week helping out on the farm learning how to grow, harvest and process produce and raise and process meats.

The internship starts as soon as possible and ends October 30th and we can only accept interns that can commit to the entire season. Full room and board is provided along with a $500 per month stipend.

Baker Intern
Love to bake artisan breads, creative cakes, gluten free goodies? We make everything from scratch at our cafe , bakery and restaurant, every bun, peice of bread, pastry or dessert. We are looking for an experienced baker that can complement our team while gaining experience in the farm to table movement. Learn on the farm, get creative in the bakery, and enjoy a beautiful summer in the mountains! Full room and board and $500 stipend.

Farm Intern
Want to learn how to farm? Join our farm team and help seed, plant, grow and harvest beautiful heirloom vegetables, care for our piglets, chickens, geese and ducks. Learn about permaculture food forests, companion planting, following the biodynamic calendar, seed saving and everything that it takes to have a bountiful harvest. Sell at the farmer's market, learn to preserve food and make value added products. We are looking for 2 more farm interns for the 2016 season. Full room and board and a $200 monthly stipend plus educational workshops on biodynamic farming, wild food forgaging along with farm to table field trips.

All interns share a spacious four bedroom house on the farm with the farm manager and other interns and cook organic meals together or eat at the café.

Compensation

this position is: stipend / non-monetary compensation

Work visa

This employer is willing to sponsor a work visa for international applicants

Application instructions

Deadline

no deadline