Farm Crew Member

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Contact Information

Contact Chaw Chang, Lucy Garrison

Email: stickandstonefarm@gmail.com
Phone: 607-216-2495
Location: 1605 Trumansburg Rd Ithaca, NY 14850

 

Farm Description: Stick and Stone Farm is a certified organic vegetable and fruit farm established in 1995. We currently grow 40 acres of certified organic vegetables and fruit, and manage an additional 30-40 acres of land in cover crop rotation. We employ 8-10 people seasonally, with 3-4 employees working year round. We endeavor to grow vibrant and tasty food in a way that is sustainable to our land and environment, our bodies and health, and our livelihood. We market our produce through farmers' market, local wholesale accounts, small regional distributors and the Full Plate Farm Collective, a multi-farm CSA. While we grow over 40 crops, our main crops include beans, beets, cooking greens, Asian vegetables, root crops and winter storage vegetables.

Position Timing: Nov 27th 2023- November 22nd 2024 

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Skills Desired: Good communication, common sense, must work (and play) well with others. Flexibility, attention to detail, and sense of humor are required. Must appreciate and enjoy challenging but productive physical labor, good food, and all kinds of weather. Experience operating small gas engines, tractors is helpful. We prefer to hire folks with experience working on farms or in restaurants, but other outdoor/endurance activities are good to see in an applicant as well.

Duties: Farm work. This includes planting (greenhouse seeding, field seeding, and transplanting), hand weeding, cultivating, harvesting, washing, packing, and possibly fencing, light carpentry, setting up irrigation, vegetable delivery, etc. Work requires extensive bending, kneeling, stooping, in order to get on the level with the vegetables. Must be able to lift and carry 50#+, stand for long periods, kneel on hard lumpy ground, and generally put up with some discomfort while getting things done. Valid drivers license, Spanish language experience is helpful but not required. Join our team of talented interesting people doing rewarding work; you will see the results of your effort, eat the fruits of your labor, and get paid to do it.

 

Schedule: Full time. Typically 7am-4pm M-F, some Saturdays or late days. Early start during strawberry harvest and in very hot weather, late start in winter.

Wage: $16.95/hr to start
Preferred method Of Contact: Email is best, but phone works also.