Working at Tumbling Shoals Farm (joining our farmily)
Working at Tumbling Shoals Farm is both rewarding and challenging. You can expect hard days in the field in the heat, rain and sometimes cold, repetitive tasks, getting dirty, lots of bending over, sore muscles, sore hamstrings (did I mention lots of bending over? ), working together as a team, lots of laughter, education through experience, and eating lots of tasty fresh from the field organic produce. We work hard, but have fun doing it!
Tumbling Shoals Farm is very diverse so the tasks vary greatly. Your main farm task is harvesting and all the washing, grading, weighing and packing that goes along with preparing to sell our produce at four farmers markets a week and through a 200 member CSA. You will also do a lot of planting, transplanting, mulching, cultivation, thinning, pruning, trellising, etc. Helping to sell at the Saturday Watauga County Farmers' Market in Boone every few weeks or so is perhaps the most rewarding part of the work. Employees will participate in all aspects of the farm. The main benefits of joining the Tumbling Shoals Farmily are: it’s an hourly paid position with set hours (new employees begin at $10.50 per hour, 40 hours per week, raises given based on performance-both the farm and yours), plus free on-farm housing, a paid vacation mid-season, working outside, learning through experience how food is grown and how a farm system works. Also, as much fresh organic produce as you can eat! 
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Our needs from you:
Team player: a small farm can be an intense working environment and we work together as a well-knit team, so coming in with a team attitude goes a long way
Flexibility-We are a small team and so accommodating everyone's personality traits often requires a bit of personal flexibility.
Dependability-of course, we need to be able to rely on you to be here working hard when we need you.
Engagement-we need you to care as much as we do about the quality of food that we grow for our customers, this is key to our success. People who are interested in agriculture as a career are given first priority.
Motivation- while we usually work as a team, sometimes we need you to complete tasks alone. Self motivated people are very valuable.
Communication- communication is the key to our success as a team. We need you to be able to communicate effectively your needs just as we need you to understand our needs. If we are not communicating effectively, we need you to be able to tell us that! Because we are a small farm with such a small work team sometimes working in harsh conditions, interpersonal communication is a must!
Compensation:
This is an hourly wage position. All new employees begin at $10.50/hr. (Plus housing and veggies and a mid-season paid vacation)
Hours and dates:
Farmhand positions begin in late March. Employees work 40 hours/week (5 days, 8 hours/day). Days on/off vary as to whether you are working at farmers' market or not, but either you will have Sat-Sun off or Sun-Mon off. All employees will have a paid vacation mid-season, which will be staggered (we'll work out the actual schedule once everyone is here). Most positions are seasonal and will end in October or November.
If you are interested, please contact us (Shiloh or Jason). Please send a resume (doesn't have to be formal--just something to let us know what you've been up to the last few years), a brief description of why you are interested in working at Tumbling Shoals Farm, and three work references.
farmer@tumblingshoalsfarm.com or 336-452-2920
Team player: a small farm can be an intense working environment and we work together as a well-knit team, so coming in with a team attitude goes a long way
Flexibility-We are a small team and so accommodating everyone's personality traits often requires a bit of personal flexibility.
Dependability-of course, we need to be able to rely on you to be here working hard when we need you.
Engagement-we need you to care as much as we do about the quality of food that we grow for our customers, this is key to our success. People who are interested in agriculture as a career are given first priority.
Motivation- while we usually work as a team, sometimes we need you to complete tasks alone. Self motivated people are very valuable.
Communication- communication is the key to our success as a team. We need you to be able to communicate effectively your needs just as we need you to understand our needs. If we are not communicating effectively, we need you to be able to tell us that! Because we are a small farm with such a small work team sometimes working in harsh conditions, interpersonal communication is a must!
Compensation:
This is an hourly wage position. All new employees begin at $10.50/hr. (Plus housing and veggies and a mid-season paid vacation)
Hours and dates:
Farmhand positions begin in late March. Employees work 40 hours/week (5 days, 8 hours/day). Days on/off vary as to whether you are working at farmers' market or not, but either you will have Sat-Sun off or Sun-Mon off. All employees will have a paid vacation mid-season, which will be staggered (we'll work out the actual schedule once everyone is here). Most positions are seasonal and will end in October or November.
If you are interested, please contact us (Shiloh or Jason). Please send a resume (doesn't have to be formal--just something to let us know what you've been up to the last few years), a brief description of why you are interested in working at Tumbling Shoals Farm, and three work references.
farmer@tumblingshoalsfarm.com or 336-452-2920
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