Organic Farm Manager Job

Posted on January 24, 2019 by Taylor in Employment, Farming, Organic // 0 Comments

EarthDance Organic Farm School, a St. Louis, Missouri Nonprofit is hiring an Organic Farm Manager for the 2019 Season

EarthDance offers a variety of programs to educate people of all ages about organic farming and gardening, healthy food, permaculture, and sustainability.

EarthDance Organic Farm Manager

Salaried, full time, benefits

earthdancefarms.org/jobs

As the Organic Farm Manager, you will be joining a team of farmers and educators in optimizing mixed vegetable, fruit, and herb production on our 14 acre historic, certified organic farm in Ferguson, Missouri. Located in a residential neighborhood, this farm is designed with permaculture principles. While the farm has 6 tillable acres, vegetable production is focused on 1 acre of intensive no-till management, and the remainder is in a 200+ mixed fruit orchard planted on berms and swales with annual crops alley-cropped between fields planted to cover crops, and prairie gardens providing additional pollinator habitat. The farm also has 7980 sq ft of high tunnels, a 30×96 greenhouse (with the back portion being used as our Living Yoga Studio), a harvest house (pack shed) with 2 walk-in coolers, a garden shed, a Seven Generations garden, triple-basin rain garden, shaded picnic area, community pavilion, permaculture-inspired parking grove, and a farmhouse office on site. Your job as Farm Manager will be to lead a team of dedicated farmers, farmer educators, and apprentices to grow an abundance of organic fruits and vegetables through consistent effort, thoughtful planning, timely action, compassionate guidance, and dynamic team-building. At EarthDance we utilize a number of systems and processes for farming smarter not harder and enjoy laughter and shared meals as a part of and complement to the impact-driven programming.

TO APPLY FOR THE ORGANIC FARM MANAGER JOB: Email a resume, cover letter, and 2-3 professional references to work@earthdancefarms.org. Please be as specific as possible when describing your previous farm experience. Tractors, size of operation, # employees, crops grown, tools used, etc are helpful to know.

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