CSA Delivery Driver The CSA Delivery Driver works Fridays from 10am-5pm delivering CSA boxes to members’ homes in Western Franklin and Hampshire Counties. This position entails packing boxes, organizing boxes in the van, following an order list, understanding the delivery route and communicating with customers. This position runs from June-October. Pay is $16/hr. This position […]
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Hiring: Field Crew member – Hart Farm
Field Crew Member Hart Farm seeks a part time worker to join our crew for the 2022 season. Field work entails weeding, planting and other cultivation work as well as efficient harvesting, wash-up and packing of produce, flowers and eggs. The field crew member will work closely with the farm managers in effectively preparing and […]
Come See What’s Cooking at Diemand Farm
Listening to Annie Diemand Bucci talk about her family’s Diemand Farm feels a lot like opening the door of their farm store – it’s like walking into a warm hug. The joy that Annie and her daughter, Tessa White-Diemand, express when they talk about feeding people and carrying on their family’s farming legacy is palpable, and that care shines through in everything they do.
Hiring: Field Manager – Needham Community Farm
The Needham Community Farm is hiring a Field Manager for 2022! The Needham Community Farm (NCF) is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization comprising a very active volunteer Board of Directors, a seasonal Field Manager, a seasonal Program Manager, and a part-time Development Director. NCF’s mission is to deepen its community’s connection to nature, our food system, and each […]
Valley Bounty: Sweet Birch Herbals
“People have evolved with plants for thousands of years,” Hannah Jacobson-Hardy of Sweet Birch Herbals in Ashfield reminds us. “And herbal medicine is still the most used healing practice in the world.”
Through Sweet Birch Herbals, Jacobson-Hardy aims to keep her community rooted to the teaching, healing, and all-around wellbeing that local plants and herbs can provide.
Hiring: Organic Greenhouse Assistant – Windy Ridge Organics
Organic Greenhouse Assistant We are hiring for spring greenhouse production at our certified organic farm and edible plant nursery. Position primarily involves working alone, but in close communication with the farm owner and one or two other employees. The right candidate will be comfortable working solo and must have excellent observation and communication skills. 20-30 […]
WRSI: Fruit Fair Supermarket
For your Thanksgiving shopping needs and beyond, Fruit Fair Supermarket in Chicopee is “a supermarket with a mission,” as Monte Belmonte puts it in this Local Hero Spotlight on WRSI The River. Co-owner Sam Newell left a career in the corporate grocery world to run Fruit Fair and focus on improving access to good food […]
Local Hero Profile: Astarte Farm
Local Hero Profile by Ellery Pool, TerraCorps Service Member Astarte is the Phoenician Goddess of Fertility, and Astarte Farm in Hadley lives up to its namesake by nurturing the earth so that it will be fertile, thriving, and full of life for generations to come. Growing a wide range of vegetables with no-till, organic, sustainable […]
Valley Bounty: Sawyer Farm
What does it mean to grow, sell, and eat food ethically? From when seeds hit the soil to when dinner hits your plate, what does that actually look like?
In our interconnected world, what’s “ethical” is complex and relative to where you are. Sawyer Farm in Worthington built their operation based on their understanding of ethical farming for their land and community and continues to reshape it.
Hiring: Farm Manager- Littleton Community Farm
Littleton Community Farm (LCF) is a 3-acre diversified vegetable farm in Littleton, M.A. whose mission is to reduce food insecurity in our area, provide farm-based education, and be a place for community connection. We aim to inspire through hands-on exposure to agriculture and growing for our entire community. The Farm offers a 75 household CSA […]