Our farm sells vegetables, herbs, a little fruit, plants, and cut flowers. Mostly we sell directly to our community at Chase’s Daily and at our on-farm farm stand. We also have some rewarding relationships developing with chefs in the mid-coast and the Portland areas and we make two deliveries a week to supply them with our produce. We grow on 20 acres with the goal of keeping two thirds in cover crops each year. Our scale is too big lately and we are actively transitioning portions of the farm to an organic deep compost mulch system to build in more resilience and eventually reduce off farm inputs. We are motivated by agroecology and soil biology and we make decisions with a long view of the health of our ecosystem. We continue to learn and remain curious about all we don’t know despite more than 30 years growing on the same fields.
Our preferred candidate will have an interest in regenerative agriculture, experience and comfort with machines and equipment, a level head, an interest in systems, and a resilient curiosity. We don’t have an established hierarchical system at the farm. We seek to value all workers’ contributions and build on team dynamics. There is room here for collaboration and even the possibility of space to incubate personal agricultural goals within our farm infrastructure. Applicants must be able to lift up to 60 lbs occasionally, and half that regularly. Applicants must have the ability to bend and kneel, navigate rough walking conditions, work in cold, wet, and hot conditions, maintain cordial and respectful relationships with co-workers, work independently or as part of a team, and must have the willingness to seek out efficiency at every opportunity. We view punctuality as an expression of respect. We are generally adept at making reasonable accommodations for differing abilities and will consider individual circumstances. Non-smoking only.
This is a part-time and year round position. The position will be defined by its variety. Harvest, planting, mulching, tractor work, seeding, pruning, building, delivering, snow removal, packing, maintenance, etc. Winter months will be dominated by harvest and packing for our wholesale restaurant accounts, deliveries, and snow removal. The rest of the year will be a mix of farming and infrastructure building and maintenance. In the pipe line: deer fencing, establishing a windbreak, a new roof on one of the casitas, a deck on another, irrigation projects, and drainage tile.
There is the possibility of housing December, January, February, and March. There is also the potential to take several months off during the early summer.
$18-20 per hour depending on experience.
Please reach out by email to me: Meg at perimeter96(at)gmail.com.
