Junior
Type: full-time interns with room & board, stipend
Organization: Marvellous Edibles Farm
Location: Owen Sound, Ontario
1 junior and 1 senior late season INTERNSHIP POSITIONS AVAILABLE for 2015
Marvellous Edibles is a diverse 100 acre farm south of the Georgian Bay between
Meaford and Owen Sound. It is on on
e of the most beautiful parts of Ontario,
situated inside the Niagara Escarpment.
We have Certified Organic vegetables, fruits and pasture, and organic but not
certified pastured livestock including poultry.
Our internship program includes:
• seed starting,seedling care, irrigation, weed and pest management, post
harvest care
• cover cropping
• animal husbandry and pasturing
• livestock shelters
• greenhouse construction and management
• orchard management
• crop planning
• efficiency and time management
• value added products
• bread baking
• sausage and bacon production and basic butchering
• Cheese and yogurt making
Interns are encouraged to communicate their interests and work on individual
projects.
There are monthly visits to other CRAFT farms where all interns will be taking
workshops on many of the important aspects of small scale organic farming and
meeting a large group of like minded interns.
Junior Intern applicants should be independent thinkers who enjoy physical work
and committed to producing organic food. No experience is necessary however you
have to be physically fit and mentally strong. 5.5 days, 10 hours a day, Weekly
Stipend of $ 100.00. with room and board.
Senior Intern applicants should have completed 1 or 2 seasons at other farms,
should be available till at least mid January 2015, have supervisory experience
with leadership qualities. The salary is $1000/ monthly as well as room and
board.
Weekday lunches are shared, lodging is a private or shared room in a separate
building with bathroom, shower and laundry facilities.
Website: http://www.marvellousediblesfarm.ca
Email: ayseakoner@gmail.com