Paid Beginning Farmer Fellowship
Unadilla Community Farm
Hey there & Happy New Year!
This is Tara Taylor, the new Food Forest Manager at Unadilla Community Farm & Education Center after a warm hand off of operations.
I am posting with a brief update, and a humble request.
We’ve just opened up the applications for our 2025 Beginning Farmer Training Program, a 22-week paid fellowship teaching the planting, care & maintenance, and harvesting of our Food Forest crops for donation to food pantries, mutual aid groups, and free herbal clinics. We couldn’t have provided 8,758.90 lbs of food to over six thousand people last year, saving them $129,653.17 in grocery and healthcare costs, without these limited experience growers engaging in fellowship with us. Our incoming leadership team is excited to continue this program’s many years of success with students across 7 continents by seeking out more beginning farmers local to the tri-state region to invite to join us.
We humbly ask that you help us make this paid opportunity accessible by posting up a flyer within your community on our behalf. The flyers can be taped up on doors or walls for set and forget support. If printing is a challenge, let us know and we’re happy to drop off or snail-mail you some perforated copies.
The description below can also be forwarded to email lists and organizers in your community with the description below to multiply our outreach with the click of a button.
Thank you for your ongoing support of the Unadilla Community Farm & Education Center!
Unadilla Community Farm is a 501(c)3 non-profit farm education center in West Edmeston, NY, donating 100% of harvest from our multi-story Food Forest to food pantries, mutual aid groups, and free herbal clinics, serving low-income and historically underserved communities.
Our Farm Fellowship is a paid, season-long opportunity for experiential, hands-on learning of the humble tasks that ensure the planting, care & maintenance, and harvesting of our Food Forest crops for donation to food pantries, mutual aid groups, and free herbal clinics.
Fellows will learn how to: 1) tend to a food forest by applying principles of no-till organic farming, regenerative agroforestry, and permaculture design, with a focus on growing perennial fruits & herbs, cover crops, and annual vegetables; 2) carry out sustainable harvest, storage & distribution techniques at-scale; and 3) participate in public education through Community Volunteer Days and optional weekly classes.
- Time Commitment: 23 weeks from April 27-October 4, 2025. Fellows who live on-site must be able to commit to the full season. This is a seasonal part-time contracted position.
- Schedule: 8:00am-12:00pm Mondays-Saturdays. We offer paid sick days and unpaid vacation (with two weeks notice).
- Wage: $20 per hour. Must be authorized to work in the U.S. (we cannot offer work visas).
- Required Experience: Applicants must have 1 season of farming experience (at a production farm/nonprofit farm or other farm type), OR must have completed Unadilla Community Farm’s Permaculture Internship.
- Work Environment: Fellows should be able to carry 40 pounds and be on their feet walking, standing, moving, or squatting for up to 4 hours a day, 6 days a week. Fellows should feel comfortable with a variety of outdoor working conditions, including full sun, light rain, or light frost.
- Room & Board: Fellows may commute to the farm, or apply to live on-site. For fellows who live on-site and can commit to the 24 hr/wk full-season schedule, room and board are provided at no charge.
West Edmeston, NY
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Unadilla Community Farm Education Center Inc is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. All donations are tax-deductible for federal income tax purposes.
