Type: full-time internship with room & board, stipend, more (see below)
Organization: Shaws Creek Farm
Location: Caledon/Peel/GTA, Ontario
We are seeking a full-time, full-season intern for the 2016 season.
We are looking for someone happy and able to commit a minimum of 40hrs/week
from June-October inclusive.
Basic room and board available as well as a stipend. We plan to join the CRAFT
farm network this year, so interns will have an opportunity to learn from many
farmers.
We are a workers co-operative, located at Whole Village Eco-village which is
situated on 200 acres of beautiful rolling pasture, wetland, maple surgar bush
and crop land. We have a pond for swimming, trails for walks and are located
within a 7min car ride, or 40min bike to Erin, Orangeville, or Alton. Living
at, and as a part of, an eco-village gives our interns a unique oppurtunity to
experiance intentional community and see collective farm efforts in action.
Interns have access to a large group of folks with diverse interests and
experiance, not to mention a great collective library!
Shaws Creek Farm Co-operative is an ecologically-grown (organic standards, but
not certified) vegetable farm, with a focus on Community Supported Agriculture
(CSA) boxes. We also sell at a local weekly market, and are developing our on
property farm store. On the Whole Village property we also involve ourselves
with 30+ laying hens, 2 great dairy cows and a maple surgar bush. A portion of
this internship also includes spending some of your work hours each week doing
childcare with a sweet 3 year old (or two!), as part of our community based
framework.
At Shaws Creek Farm, we make food justice, feminism, an anti-oppression
framework and honoring ecological inter-connectedness (and a constant process
of learning what all of these mean and deepening our commitment to these
values) a priority through our work.
To Apply:
Please send an email to us at:
shawscreekcsa@gmail.com
AND
jtownevans@gmail.com
…outlining why you want to work with us, your previous farm and community
living (if any) experience and how you see yourself in alignment with the
values we put forth as priority. Please include any questions you may have for
us.
