Company description

Slow Food NYC, with more than 20,000 members and followers, is the local chapter of Slow Food USA, the national, non-profit organization dedicated to Good, Clean, and Fair Food for All. We believe that everyone has the right to ample, sustainably and humanely produced, culturally meaningful, delicious food that is good for human health, the health of the planet, and those who labor to put food on our tables.
Urban Harvest at Ujima, part of Slow Food NYC’s Urban Harvest program centered at Ujima Garden, at 644 Riverdale Avenue, in East New York, Brooklyn, is a tuition-free, educational, urban farm resource for community children that teaches about good, clean, and fair food for all and its connection to human health and well-being and the health of the community and the planet. Urban Harvest at Ujima also is a source of farm-fresh, healthful, produce in the community.
This summer, during July and August, approximately 75 children, 6 to 17 years old, in similarly aged groups of ten to 15, will spend a week, Monday through Friday, 10 am to 2 pm, on the farm where they participate, as Student Farmers, in structured, educational activities. During the period, June through August, Urban Harvest at Ujima Farmers will also engage in developing and operating community food distribution channels.

Job description

The Assistant Farmer, working May through August and reporting to the Managing Farmer, is responsible for assisting in all aspects of farm operation, including “hands-on” farm tasks, including farm preparation; crop planning, planting, tending, harvesting, and composting; and assisting in community food distribution.
Assistant Farmer responsibilities include, with room for creativity and personal initiative and with the guidance of the Managing Farmer and the support of Junior Farmers and Slow Food volunteers, as may be available,

• farm clean-up and summer preparation, 
• farm site development and maintenance (including any construction), 
• supply and material planning, acquisition, and management, ▪ farming activities (including planting, tending, harvesting, and composting and farm-stand operation and community food distribution), 
• coordination of Student Farmer daily activities during July and August (including “hands-on “planting, tending, harvesting, and composting), 
• farm clean-up and winter preparation. 

Assistant Farmer Schedule
The Assistant Farmer will, during:

• May through August, attend farm planning and management meetings as required with the Managing Farmer and the Slow Food NYC Urban Harvest Committee; 
• May and June, perform “hands-on” farm activities, as guided by the Managing Farmer, and ensure readiness for farm operation and community food distribution, at minimum, 15 hours per week; 
• July and August, perform “hands-on” farm activities, as guided by the Managing Farmer, and in coordination with the Farm Educator and Farm Chef, and ensure successful farm operation and community food distribution, as required, at minimum, six hours per day, between 9 am and 3 pm, typically, Monday through Friday.

Compensation

this position is: stipend / non-monetary compensation

Application instructions

Deadline

no deadline