FARM CREW POSITION:
We’re looking to hire a few good folks to join our farm crew for the 2022 growing season. Preference will go to applicants hoping to farm with us for the entire 2022 season and beyond, though seasonal applicants will be considered. Work could start immediately, or later in the spring, depending on your availability. Year-round work is available.
Affordable on-farm housing is available for one person or couple.
Full time and part time positions available, 3-5 days a week, 8 hours per day of field work, harvest and market prep, with the possibility of farmers market sales.
We are looking for help doing a wide range of field work including hoeing, hand weeding, harvest, planting, washing produce, and selling at farmers markets. Applicants must be capable of lifting 50 lbs, tolerant of working outside in all types of weather, and enthusiastic about working alone and with other people doing work that is often repetitive. Some farming experience is preferred, as is familiarity/enthusiasm for working outdoors in all kinds of weather. Reliable transportation to Westport and Little Compton required.
Pay starts at $14.50 hour, more for experienced applicants, plus lots of seasonal, organic produce.
For the right person there is opportunity to grow into an assistant field manager/ CSA coordinator/ washstand lead/ crew leader/ floral extraordinaire/ livestock guru. Come show us you’re reliable, talented and ready to take on responsibility and we can talk longer term.
We take Covid 19 very seriously as a public health emergency and expect our workers to as well.
To Apply: Please send resume cover letter to [email protected]. Feel free to reach out with questions, or to request more information.
About the Farm:
Skinny Dip Farm is owned and operated by Hannah and Ben Wolbach. We started it in 2011 and are just starting our 12th season. We farm both at our home, on about 1.5 acres in Little Compton, and on another 4 or so acres of leased land in Westport. We grow a wide variety of crops which are sold at farmers markets, through a small CSA, to restaurants and caterers and through an online store. We primarily grow vegetables, with an emphasis on salad greens, but also grow flowers (+/- .25 acre), herbs and some other oddball crops like dry beans and flour corn. We also run chickens on cover crop as part of our fertility plan and sent about 250 to slaughter in 2021. We grow and sell year round, with winter production in 4 unheated high tunnels, 3 cat tunnels and right outside for as long as we can, which is pretty deep into December most years in our ocean influenced South Coast locations. We manage our two properties differently, leaning towards minimal till, intensive methods on the home property and tractor based extensive methods on the leased land, though that is and has been evolving. We run the farm with a small crew, 6 people in 2021, who are very involved in most aspects of running the farm. We take great pride in the quality of our produce and our commitment to caring for the land we farm.