Farm #2
Primary Products: mixed vegetables, fruits, and herbs
This farm can accept couples.
This farm is not able to accommodate children.
This farm does not offer a stipend.
Apprenticeship term: June through September
As an apprentice here on the farm, We hope you will have a deeply rewarding and memorable experience during your 2 to 4 month stay for June, July, August, and September.
We are Meg and Erich, with a combined 16 years of seasons of organic farming experience, we cooperatively run a small-scale farm that grows vegetables, fruits, herbs and flowers by hand!
We are located on the Gaspereau Mountain (8minute drive to Wolfville, 1 hour drive to Halifax).
The land is 3 acres of rolling pasture, market garden and Food Forest zones. We spend our down time hiking and swimming in our area at the many close by trails and swimming spots (lakes, rivers, ocean and waterfalls!)
As a team we will work and teach the many tasks throughout the season that we do to make our small-scale market garden run ! We will learn tasks such as seeding, bed preparation, transplanting, pruning, watering, harvesting and packaging for the markets and CSA.
The Apprentice will work a minimum of 25 hours a week. We are flexible on the scheduling with some exceptions such as Fridays are required because it is our busiest day. Two options we recommend are:
Monday - Friday (5 hours a day) 8am- 2pm (with an hour lunch and beat the heat!)
or
Monday, Wednesday, Friday (8 hours +1 extra hour) 8am- 5pm (if too hot in the day, we may start earlier or we will go swimming and shift the afternoon shift )
We love to celebrate our season with lots of delicious food! We cook together as a team for lunches and most dinners. As an apprentice we hope you are excited about farm fresh meals, enjoy community cooking and team clean up. There are days where you will need to cook dinner for yourself such as days we go to market, or weekends or even days you would like to cook for yourself :)
We typically make vegetarian lunches with our farm fresh eggs, but we do also eat meat from our local farmers! (You are welcome to purchase meat with us, but it is not included)
You will have access to the farm produce, apples, and local fruit in season, our pantry for oils, spices, salts and grains (rice, oats, barley, lentils, beans).
You will also have space in the community cupboard/fridge for your own goodies and treats.
You will be living in a newly purchased 4 Season Canvas tent! The space is a 13 ft round tent with 8ft ceilings. We have a queen bed, dresser and electricity for lighting and charger.
We share the living room, kitchen, bathroom (composting toilet inside and outside) and have space inside for wet clothing, coats, and boots.
We open our home from 7am- 9pm (quiet times during early mornings and our babies naps)
We are looking forward to hearing from our next teammate and soil apprentice, please feel free to reach out and contact us about any questions you may have about our farmstay.
Location: Wolfville, NS
Farm #6
Primary production: Mixed certified organic vegetables - spinach, lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, onions, garlic, squash, asparagus, herbs, eggplant, etc
This farm offers minimum wage or higher
This farm is not able to accommodate children.
This farm is not able to accept a couple.
Apprenticeship term: April to end of October
This farm has signed SOIL's Host Charter
We are a certified organic farm in Salmon River just 4 kilometres from Truro, NS which is about 100 kilometres from Halifax. We grow as wide as possible a variety of vegetables to bring to our weekly farmers' market as well as a 50 share CSA program that runs for 18 weeks in the summer/fall. We are looking for someone to work full time from April to October in the field and for some farmer' markets. We can pay a little over minimum wage, no previous experience required, just an eagerness to work hard and learn.
Our apprentice will learn everything it takes to run a small farm from the perspective of starting with just an empty field. The wage will be offered for farm labour and markets only. Learning about our ferments, preserving or participating in building projects will mostly be outside of the hourly wage. There will be plenty opportunities for learning about our farm operations for a motivated apprentice.
We have a trailer on the farm with heat, hot water and power for the apprentice to live in.
Location: Salmon River, near Truro