For New Farmers
New Hampshire
01 - We are a small, family-run, low-spray apple orchard with 270 bearing trees. We run a small farm store every day in the fall and sell at a local farmers’ market. We offer pick-your-own apples and we harvest apples to sell in the store, as well as press fresh cider, make baked goods, jam and jellies.
Work includes harvesting apples, pressing cider, and picking up drops, mowing, baking, and minding the store and farmers’ markets. Work can include helping build a “green” building – a timber-frame, straw-bale house on the property. We feature solar panels on the house and barn, and are on the NH energy tour each fall. We are a musical group so we welcome instruments and singers.
We need one or two apprentices from early September until near the end of October. We offer room and board at the farm with use of a bike and a kayak.
Farm is in southeast NH in a rural setting and near Exeter, NH. We are one hour from Boston with Amtrak access nearby, twenty minutes from NH beaches and one hour to mountains for hiking.
02 – This farm is located on a 180-acre property in the White Mountain region of NH. There are about 5 acres of meadow with 3.5 acres hand cultivated; the remaining land is forested. Family owned for 53 years, we became an independent non-profit organization in 2003/2004. Our focus is on learning methods to localize the production of essential goods for human existence: food, shelter & clothing.
We are a permaculture-inspired operation that has the intention of establishing a self-sustaining community. We strive to create sustainable facilities while enhancing our natural landscape to provide for the needs of the human inhabitants. Workshops, educational events, and farm work are year-round activities, all of which vary according to the season. Projects include forestry, ecological building, renewable energy, gardening (annuals, perennials, herbs, greenhouse, and an orchard), making value-added products, marketing, farm stand, cleaning and cooking. We co-exist with chickens, goats, pigs, oxen and bees. 2011 has been named the Year of Renewal and Renewables, and as such we will be giving increased attention to topics of energy production and consumption.
Interns are accepted on a rolling application basis. Interns commit 26 hours of work and $20 per week in exchange for organic food, accommodation, and the educational experience. Additional hours are required for communal cooking and cleaning. Tasks require physical wellbeing and determination. We request a minimum six-week commitment.
We provide three meals a day. All members of the D Acres community take turns cooking dinner, share cleaning responsibilities, and meet weekly to discuss tasks. Communication skills are necessary. Interns must be enthusiastic about communal living and subsistence values. Accommodations include tree houses (first come, first serve), tent platforms, and indoor options (for the colder months).
Advantages include a 500-volume library on sustainable practices, a well-traveled and experienced staff, and our organization’s fourteen years of experience coordinating volunteers onsite. Interns work alongside full-time staff, experientially learning the methods and ideology of sustainable farming, building, and living.
We are located 20 minutes from the college town of Plymouth, NH and 45 minutes from Dartmouth in a fairly rural area with a great view! There is much hiking, climbing, skiing, biking, and canoeing to be done in the area. Additionally, we participate in and host a variety of local community events throughout the year.
03 - We are an organic vegetable, herb and flower farm operating on six acres of open field in the lakes region of New Hampshire. We sell a wide variety of produce (over 100 kinds of vegetables) to restaurants, grocers, caterers, and through our CSA program.
Work on the farm consists of seeding, planting, cultivating, harvesting, and delivering vegetables from June through November. Special projects this year include greenhouse construction, light forestry work, and opening up new field space on the farm.
We would like our apprentices to begin mid-April/early May and end mid-October/November, 2011.
Room, board and a weekly stipend are available and will be worked out with the apprentices individually to suit their needs.
We offer all of our skills and knowledge in relation to running and building a small organic farm: topics include crop maintenance and management, harvesting and marketing produce, disease- and pest-management, soil health and farm building, seedling production and irrigation installation, to name a few. We also offer access to other farms in our area that are working on greenhouse production, small fruits and berries as well as animal husbandry. We live between the White Mountains and the lakes region of NH so off-farm activities include hiking, biking, swimming, waterskiing, kayaking and canoeing, and much more. The farm is close to Wolfeboro where you can find coffee shops, restaurants, pubs and shopping. There are a number of calendar events on the farm, which include preserving workshops, concerts, and picnics, and a neighborhood that focuses on sustainability and community projects.
04 - We are a year-round CSA providing over 100 households with vegetables, milk, yogurt, and eggs. We have 5.5 acres of vegetables and have fourteen milk cows, as well as young stock and 100 chickens.
Work on the farm includes planting, harvesting and weeding, using biodynamic principles, as well as milking, moving cows to pasture, making yogurt and haying.
We need two or three apprentices in the gardens from mid-April through the end of October and one dairy apprentice any time from May through September.
We provide a room, farm produce, a $500/month stipend, and worker’s compensation.
We offer the opportunity to learn about biodynamic and locally-supported agriculture and there are many recreational possibilities in the area, especially if you connect with some of our very interesting farm members.
05 - This is a community-supported agriculture farm raising grass-fed beef, chickens, pork, eggs and u-pick blueberries.
Work to be done includes gardening, harvesting vegetables, and berries, maintenance, minor construction and repair, fencing, animal husbandry, updating website, swimming, and smores production.
We’re looking for apprentices from May 2nd through August.
We offer practical hands-on experience planting, maintaining and harvesting a market garden, and animal husbandry, with mid-day swim breaks, weather permitting.
06 - Enterprises include small garden, a small hoop greenhouse, thirty acres of fields to be maintained, and sixty acres forest for timber stand improvement.
Work to be done includes managing garden and greenhouse, planning, planting, irrigation, maintenance and repairs on five buildings, including carpentry. We have a matching NRCS grant for roadwork, irrigation and timber stand improvement.
I need one or two apprentices to begin March 21st-April 15th through October.
I have a large farmhouse and simple apartment space on the top floor of a barn. An apprentice may set up his/her own site if desired. Hourly pay, less room and board and shared household responsibilities available.
We are planing to clear a house lot and need help with site preparation. We are near Mt. Belknapp Recreation Center, five lakes, in a beautiful location, gay-friendly. There is hiking, biking and sailing.
07 - This farm consists of 54 acres of pasture and woodland in southwest New Hampshire. Raising highland beef cattle, laying hens, broiler chickens, & pigs. Growing and preserving food to provide for the year. Orchard of apples, peaches, cherries, raspberries, and blueberries. There is a wood fire brick oven for baking, and wood shop for timber framing, yurt building, and other carpentry projects. Maple sugaring in the spring. Woodlot management.
Types of work to be done include:
- Egg Production – flock care; collecting, cleaning, boxing, & delivery of eggs
- Animal husbandry – cattle, pigs, meat birds: feeding, water, fencing, etc.
- Vegetable and fruit production – planting, cultivating, harvesting, and preserving for our use on the farm
- Yurts – collecting yurt poles, yurt assembly, sewing covers & insulation
- Woodlot management – firewood and yurt parts
- Livestock butchering – chickens, cattle, pigs
- Food provision – creating meals from products grown and raised on the farm
- Carpentry and woodworking - stick and timber framing.
We’re looking for an individual or couple, with an ongoing start date. Duration 6-12 months.
Accommodations include a Two Girls Farm yurt, farm-raised food, firewood, internet and a $50/week stipend.
We offer hands-on training and apprenticeship in agricultural production, carpentry, & homesteading with opportunity to study and explore native flora and fauna, homestead arts, music, sustainability, and to independently pursue additional agricultural activities.
