growing and marketing healthy organic food on a market garden scale.
Our land is located in the village of Salem, Ontario. We are a 5 minute drive from Fergus/Elora 20 minutes north of Guelph, and approximately 1 hour 45 minutes north-west of Toronto. Most activity at Plowshare centres around our 3 acre vegetable garden, which we cultivate using our two work-horses Sally and Milly, a small rototiller, and lots of sweat and muscle. We sell our vegetables through our Community Supported Agricultures program, as well as at the Orangeville Farmes Market. There is also a small horse boarding/riding facility onsite with 6 riding horses, as well as two pet goats, and several dogs and cats.
We are committed to making this internship a genuine educational opportunity, tailored to individuals interns specific areas of interest. Interns will have the opportunity to participate in every aspect of the farm, including CSA promotions, garden planning, seeding and greenhouse work, transplanting, cultivation, working with our draft-horses, irrigation, harvesting and post harvest handling, attending farmers markets and CSA deliveries, as well as finances and budgeting.
Farm education at Plowshare happens in many different ways: Interns have access to our extensive library of books and periodicals, and there will be regular group garden walks throughout the season. Each month we have two days set aside exclusively for educational purposes. One of these is a CRAFT day, where we visit and tour different CRAFT farms with different themed workshops and tours. The second educational day is left open, to be decided by the interns specific topics of interest. And of course there is much informal education to goes on through the everyday work and conversations on the farm. Interns are provided with room and board as well as a weekly stipend.
Interns receive a stipend of $50/week, as well as meals, on farm accommodations, and occasional access to our farm vehicle.
For more information about our farm internship program, please contact Yehuda Nestel at:
plowsharefarm (at) gmail (dot) com
or by telephone at 519-731-4437