Job description

We have full-time and part-time seasonal opportunities for people looking to be part of an exciting, growing, sustainable business. Employees will participate in all aspects of planting, cultivating, harvesting, packaging, and distributing produce on a NOFA-member farm. Employees may also help in preparing hearty, nutritious meals for customers. 

Our goal is to provide sustainable, long-term opportunities for smart, creative, hard-working people who share our commitment to making it easy for busy people to eat local food. We're a service company more than we are commodity producers, so we're looking for that rare combination of passion for hard physical work in the field and in the kitchen, along with the desire and ability to meet customer needs. We expect a lot from employees: They need to be self-directed, goal-oriented, and focused on doing quality work. Employees have the discretion to solve problems and come up with solutions and are accountable for the results of their work.

Opportunities for growth are limited only by our imagination and ability to deliver services that make customers happy.

Agriculture is not an easy way to make a living, but it's very rewarding to work outdoors, see tangible results, and know that you are helping people eat healthy and enjoy time with their families. Employees receive what we believe to be the best farm wages in the area, freshly harvested vegetables for their families, and the same delicious meals we provide to our customers. 

9 Miles East Farm is dedicated to making it easy for busy people to enjoy local food. The farm seeks to expand the audience for local food through a vertically integrated model of growing, cooking, and delivering meals to subscribers in the Albany/Saratoga Springs region. It's like a CSA, only subscribers receive prepared meals rather than a bag of ingredients. In addition, the farm also delivers bags of freshly harvested vegetables to businesses in the area that are looking to provide an attractive benefit to their employees.

Basically, we want to expand the market for local food by serving a new group of customers and making local food as easy to enjoy as industrial food. 2013 will be our fifth year of operation (though we bought the land and started improving the soil in 2005).

Owners Mary and Gordon Sacks are committed to natural farming methods that use cover crops and organic soil amendments to grow the healthiest, best-tasting vegetables and herbs. Ingredients are harvested right before cooking to preserve flavor and nutrition. The 11.5 acre farm is located in Schuylerville, NY, which is nine miles east of the vibrant small city of Saratoga Springs. Saratoga County is the fastest-growing county in New York, offering great cultural resources, high quality of life, a thriving local food scene, and modest cost of living.  

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