Job description

The Local Food Project at Airlie is seeking a Gardener for its four-acre organic vegetable garden located at Airlie Conference Center (www.airlie.com) in Warrenton, Virginia, one-hour southwest of Washington, DC.

The Local Food Project at Airlie is designed to demonstrate the benefits of eating local food and supporting local farmers by producing many of the vegetables served in the conference center. The Project aims not only to offer fresh, sustainably produced food to Airlie’s guests, who come from across the nation and the world to attend conferences at Airlie’s world-class facilities, but also to provide guests with opportunities to learn more about sustainable agriculture in local food systems.

The Gardener is responsible for maintaining all aspects of the vegetable garden and its hoophouse using sustainable and organic methods and delivering the resulting food to the conference center’s kitchen. This work includes determining the vegetable mix in conjunction with the Center’s chef, developing planting schedules and crop rotations, maintaining soil fertility, planting, harvesting and composting waste from the Center’s kitchen.

The Gardener is also responsible for conducting garden tours for Airlie Center’s guests.

Qualifications: This is a full-time position. Applicants should have knowledge of and experience with all aspects of growing vegetables sustainably and organically. Applicants should also have a significant understanding of the issues surrounding organic and sustainable agriculture and the importance of local food systems as well as an ability to communicate those issues both orally and in writing.

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