Farmer

Hellgate Forest Farm is searching for a farmer to join our team for the 2025 season!

Overview of Position:

• ~35-hours/week at $18/hour
• 4 days a week (7 am-4:30 pm, 1 1/2 hours of break/off-time each day)
• No experience required, but favorable.
• Positive attitude and physical fitness a must!

Hellgate Farm is a 1-acre forest farm, which began as a non-agricultural, clay-shale mountain side located in Canaan, NY. We wish to promote human powered market gardening, responsible land stewardship, and a permaculture lifestyle. We aim to provide opportunities for people interested in these practices to connect and learn. It is important to us that our produce goes to feed people representative of our communities, of varying socioeconomic status.

Hellgate Farm is recognized as a former NYC urban farm, known for its small batch products such as hot sauce and seasoning blends.

Hellgate Forest Farm cultivates staple crops, medicinal herbs, market garden crops, berries, and perennial trees/plants. The farm is located off-grid and uses alternative infrastructure, organic and low till farming practices, and maintains permaculture spaces. (non-agricultural soils, heavy slopes, no grid for electricity, no consistent fossil fuel inputs, no tractors). This project is an example of commercial farming infrastructure as well as shelters that can be constructed with alternative building methods and maintained without fossil fuel inputs.

We have BIG goals for the 2025 season, and we need your help!

We hope to finish our pavilion (siding, stairs, railing, masonry, finish carpentry), grow our tunnel infrastructure, raise hens, and venture deeper into staple and medicinal crops.

- Responsibility.

• We're searching for someone to be solely focused on the farm's fields. Maintaining irrigation, preparing beds, transplanting/sowing crops, harvesting can be expected tasks.

- Experience.

• Previous experience in farming or agriculture is preferred but not required; willingness to learn is essential.
• Knowledge of basic gardening practices and crop management will be beneficial.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot equipment issues as they arise.

- Physical Fitness and Persistence.

• Farming is a passionate craft that requires physical fitness, grit, and recognition that we orchestrate the gifts of Mother Earth, often at her mercy (heat/sun, cold, rain/snow, wind). This requires resiliency and task diversity.
• Can lift at least 50 pounds, withstand the elements endured in unconditioned/outdoor work, and persist in physical labor.
• Positive attitude, ability to problem-solving, and communal ethics.

- Community, Work Environment.

• The Hellgate Forest Farm team consists of personable and spirited folks of all ages and backgrounds (and three farm cats!). We ask that applicants have a positive outlook, communal ethics, and yearn for opportunities to learn/grow.

- Benefits.

• No gym membership needed- maintain your fitness by farming.
• Free organic veggies/greens!
• Communal lunches during warmer seasons (lunch provided by host).
• Meaningful work, see the product of your contribution daily.

Interested? Please fill out this Google application.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc_SYKdkeuN4wfs3DDZPN_hjkRNWGtOOGRH_M3XefgGFswUJQ/viewform?usp=dialog

and please contact us @ healingharvetfarm.connect@gmail.com

Check out www.healingharvestny.com for more information.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $18.00 per hour

Expected hours: 35 per week

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Morning shift
• Weekends as needed

Experience:

• Sustainable agriculture: 1 year (Preferred)

Ability to Commute:

• Canaan, NY 12029 (Required)

Ability to Relocate:

• Canaan, NY 12029: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $18