Come Intern with Us

Internship positions at Chandler Pond Farm provide the opportunity to experience first-hand what it takes to manage a diverse, organic small farm throughout the growing season. Internships are not easy as the hours are long and the work is physical. However, there is no better way to learn the craft of small-scale agriculture than on the job with your hands in the soil. The primary goal of our internship program is to train prospective farmers in the operation of a diverse, commercial market farm.

Job Description

Interns will be involved in all aspects of the farm from animal chores to field work to sales at the farmers market. While working closely with the farmers much of the time, they will also have many independent responsibilities. Generally, interns are expected to work from 7:00am to 5:00pm (with 1 hour for lunch) Tuesday to Saturday. The schedule may vary slightly with season and task at hand. Farm work is at the same time incredibly demanding and rewarding. Please consider this commitment before applying. The following is a list of some of the tasks an intern can expect to do:

• Field work: includes seeding, transplanting, weeding, thinning, and harvesting.
• Greenhouse: seeding, transplanting, watering, trellising and pest control.
• Food Preparation: Canning, preparing fresh salsa and pesto
• Wash Station: washing, sorting, and packing CSA shares
• Tractor work: bed preparation, haying and mowing.
• Distribution: delivering restaurant orders, distributing CSA, sales at farmers' markets, setting up farm stand.
• Animal care: letting chickens out at sunrise, moving portable chicken pens, feeding and watering animals (chickens, pigs, cows), milking cows, moving fencing for cows and pigs, collecting eggs and putting chickens in at sun down, assisting with beekeeping.