During the growing season we work with dedicated youth to train them in local food production enterprises by propagating, planting, harvesting and selling to restaurants and the community. On the farms, we facilitate weekly sessions at public High Schools and one college that cover seed selection, composting, and best practices in urban soil management, as well as business planning. Through partnerships with schools and community based organizations, Project EATS take urban land and transforms it into farms that produce food for community farm stands and restaurants. Project EATS creates neighborhood owned and operated urban food enterprises throughout New York City.
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– All applicants must posses a valid driver’s license – Facilitating or instructing farm skills to youth apprentices and volunteers – Small plot intensive gardening, crop rotation and inter-cropping – Organic vegetable production growing for market, CSA, and/or restaurant The Farm Manager should be have 2-3 years experience with all but not limited to the following: If the challenge sounds like it is in your skill set we look forward to seeing your application.įor position description and more information click "read more". It takes creativity and dedication to make a vacant lot produce vegetables and perennial crops, and it also takes an experienced agrarian to create the farming systems that will make this operation economically viable. Project EATS like most farming operations is fast paced and multi-dimensional.
Project EATS farmers and the new Farm Manger will design and establish market gardens putting them into production and cover crop in Spring 2012. Project EATS is breaking ground on new farm land this Spring. This farmer will work closely with farm apprentices and impart technical skills in order to build their confidence and competence in running urban market gardens.
Candidates are required to have experience in organic vegetable production and have the confidence to meet production minimums. Project EATS is currently hiring a New York City Farm Manager to farm, develop new farms and train apprentices in the art of small plot intensive urban agriculture. Project EATS a project of Active Citizen Project, is hiring for a New York City Urban Farm Manager Job.
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