Job description
Fred's Farm is Growing this year!
We're Mike, Arden, and baby Althea. We've agreed to help Fred transform this farm into a more productive and diverse market garden, raise layer hens, and possibly pigs. We've built one greenhouse, and are working on the second one, and are planning several more infrastructure projects that will aid in our success.
We're looking for 2-3 awesome people who would enjoy spending time in New Hampshire helping us thrive and make a good impression in this community. Some experience is nice, but highly trainable and unmistakably intelligent is a pretty good start.
We're offering an opportunity to experience: the design and implementation of a start up small farm business plan, sourcing and establishing new clients and markets, developing essential infrastructure, and other real, practical farm life activities.
Activities include things like: bending, lifting, crawling, pushing, pulling, reaching, hoeing, watering, seeding, flame weeding, thinning, transplanting, harvesting, slicing, sorting, packing, labeling, re-stocking, delivering, billing, direct marketing, building, and much more.
Other possibilities: food drying and canning, lake swimming, bike riding, barbecues, reading farm books in grassy, shaded areas, and more.
The Deal:
We provide:$300/mo. cash stipend with basic staples provided
Housing options for now are a slightly detached "bunkhouse" w/ fridge and sink or a potentially heated room in the farm house. Other spaces can be possible soon.
You provide:Early-rising, enthusiastic, cheerfully productive labor 4-5 days a week totaling 40 hours with 2 or 3 semi-flexible, guaranteed days off (if you want them)
Desired Qualities:
honest, patient, tolerant, possessing a genuine interest, enthusiastic, persevering, handles defeat gracefully, celebrates success, willing to help in any way, with a desire to create abundance through effort and clever wisdom.
We have a longer spot from April-ish to Nov-ish and one or two shorter spots from May-ish to Sept-ish.
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This job expired on July 13, 2013
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