ORGANIC FARMING JOBS :) Heartwood Farms needs a Farm Administrator

Heartwood Farms needs a Farm Administrator

Heartwood Farms is a unique combination of rural farm life combined with the community interactions a thriving cohousing community offers. Heartwood Cohousing consists of 24 households located on 361 acres of diverse ecosystems in southwest Colorado. There are ~65 acres of irrigated pasture land, a spring fed pond with adjacent wet -lands, Pinon and Juniper forests, a sage meadow and ~100 acres of Ponderosa forest. We have trails throughout the property. Heartwood Farms was created to meet the needs of the community for fresh, organic food grown on our own land. It grows a variety of vegetable crops, has planted fruit trees, herbs, flowers, and is working to improve the pasture land. In addition Heartwood Farms cares for goats, chickens, bunnies, birds and bees. Members of the community also have horses and llamas.
We offer our produce to the community through a weekly Farmer’s markets and all week at the community store. We also provide food to local restaurants and health food stores. We work with the larger community to use waste from other businesses to help build our soil. It is an exciting time for Heartwood Farms. 2009 was our first year growing food. It was amazing what we accomplished. We built fences, prepared and planted beds, planted fruit trees and bushes, got strawberries going, started to create a spiral herb garden, put up bird houses, established bees in their hives, built a seedling house and root cellar using alternative building methods, created intern facilities, and much more. Check out this article from the Durango Herald. This coming year we hope to refine our systems and improve our communication and team building. If you are someone who knows how to organize, communicate and support people and you want to experience rural farm life while living within an active cohousing community please e-mail me or give me a call. You don’t have to know anything about farming to fill this role, just have the skills mentioned above and the desire to help out a worth while organization. We can’t pay more than a stipend but we can offer you an opportunity to make a difference to our organization and to help further our goal of keeping food local and grown in a way that benefits the land and the people who eat it. We are also looking for interns to work on the farm getting their hands dirty, from April to the end of October. These applicants need to be willing to work hard and have fun. If that sounds appealing to you check out our intern opportunities.