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Position: Market Garden Farm Manager
Farm: Little Fields Farm
Location: Bright, Ontario (30 mins SW of Kitchener-Waterloo Region)
We are excited to offer this opportunity to live out your passion for farming!
Our farm consists of 1 acre of vegetables, as well as 1 acre of cover crop for the following year’s vegetables, on which we pasture our laying hens in moveable shelters each summer. We also manage about 4 acres of pasture where we raise our turkeys (50), broiler chickens (2x150), and pigs (4-8). All told, together with the house and treed yard, we rent about 10 acres, though the property itself is nearly 200 acres – primarily organic hay and cash crops farmed by a neighbour as well as about 10 acres of woodlot and marshland.
Farmer Claire founded Little Fields Farm in 2015 after spending several seasons as an intern on farms in Ontario and BC. She is an active member of the National Farmer’s Union (NFU) and is currently serving as women’s advisor to the NFU-Ontario board of directors and as president of NFU Local 341 Oxford-Perth. Farmer Adam spent 10 years leading the Working Centre Market Garden, a 1.5 acre urban market garden in Kitchener. He holds a Master’s Degree in Agroecology and has been passionately committed to building community-based food systems. We have a 1 year old baby, Phoebe, who joins us in the field for much of the day. Our dog Bowie is also a constant working companion in the field.
Shared Responsibilities
Our farm thrives on cooperative work, and we are looking for a committed self-starter who can join our team and share some of our responsibilities in the field. These include:
Requirements
To Apply Please Email Cover Letter and Resume to: claire@littlefields.farm
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Current status: Open/apply now. Date posted: Nov 20 2023 ID: 69490