Company description

Trust Land Farm is a mixed vegetable and flower farm located in Missoula, Montana. We are located just a few miles from downtown Missoula and accessible by bike or bus. The 8-acre farm site that is Trust Land Farm’s main field is the first community land trust (CLT) farm in the state of Montana. The CLT farm site is owned by Trust Montana, a nonprofit that works to decommodify land so that it is more accessible to farmers and permanently remains in agriculture. Trust Land Farm has a long-term lease (75 years) on the site that is just starting in 2025!

Our farm mission is to have fun, grow community, and care for our planet through wholesome foods with a commitment to quality, kindness, and environmental integrity. Our farm grows 5ish acres of vegetables and flowers using a Kubota riding tractor and a BCS walk behind tractor. We grow a big variety of veggies for our busy farm stand and offer wholesale produce that we deliver to local restaurants and caterers. Some of our main crops include cut salad greens, large leaf greens, tomatoes, garlic, peppers, strawberries, and herbs, among many more!

We are a women-owned farm business and proud of it!

Internship description

Our farm grows a wide variety of mixed vegetables with organic practices. We are transitioning to organic certified, but not there yet! Our farm is on a site that will be permanently in agriculture, so we make decisions about farm practices based on the long view of land stewardship. We are gradually reducing tillage as we manage the site, using silage tarps to suppress weeds and establishing an integrated cover crop + strip tillage system.

Two full-time positions available starting March or April and ending mid November, depending on the season.

One part-time position available starting April or May and ending mid October, depending on the season.

Full-time farm hands will assist with all aspects of the farm operations including: field and crop planning and management; greenhouse management; irrigation; farmstand management; customer service for clients and the general public; produce harvest, washing, packing, and delivery; infrastructure building and maintenance; and any other farm task as necessary. Full-time positions will have the opportunity for some tractor work on both the Kubota four-wheel tractor and our BCS walk-behind tractor.

Part-time positions will primarily focus on harvest, farm stand management, and field cultivation. Part-time positions will support all aspects of farm operations as described above.

Full-time positions will work 40-45 hours/week with weekend availability required, hours may change depending on the season. Schedule will likely be Sunday – Thursday or Tuesday –
Saturday. Our end times flex depending on what we need to accomplish.

Part time positions will work 8-25 hours/week with weekend availability required. Schedule will likely be Friday, Saturday or Sunday, Tuesday.

Weekend work is important at our farm because we have an on-farm stand that is busiest on Saturday and Sunday. In this second season of Trust Land Farm, the schedule may require some additional flexibility from full-time and part-time employees alike. We hope to find the best fit shifts and labor to match weekly work needs, which typically comes from trial and error.

Our shifts start as early as 6am in the heat of the season and end as late as 9:15pm (if you’re closing down the farm stand on a summer day). We schedule shifts that range between 5 and 10 hours.

We expect our farm crew to work hard and also to take care of their personal needs. We take informal breaks and lunch as the demands of the day or our bodies require it. The crew is responsible for their own meals. Any shift over 5 hours, farm crew is expected to take at least 30 minutes for lunch.

Compensation

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

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Deadline

February 28, 2025