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OPEN NOW: 2024 FARM STAFF POSITIONS
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Joyfully Organic Farm is a skilled, successful and dynamic Certified Organic vegetable farm in the Greater Toronto Area. We have a deep love of amazing food + strong farming practices. We have a large community of customers who share our love of eating well. We provide food for prominent Farmers Markets in Toronto, a large CSA, and wholesale relationships to local food purveyors.
We practice an innovative model of farming that focuses on lean operation efficiencies, bio-intensive planting, high yields per acre, multi-succession planting and laughing a lot. The farm is in its 11th year of production, with 4 production vegetable fields, a nursery production green house, in-field caterpillar tunnels, and a cut flower garden. The farm maximizes the efficiencies of two unique and distinct farm production systems. Some crops are grown on a 30 inch bed system with the use of walking tractors and managed with hand tools. Most of our other crops are grown in a tractor based system designed by our farm, that retains the strengths and efficiencies of the smaller tool production system, but leverages the efficiency of farming with tractors.
Available Staff Position(s)
For 2024 Farm Season
We are interviewing candidates now to join our crew for 2024.
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Volunteer Positions
We are honoured that you are interested in volunteering with us. Thank you!
TWO TYPES OF VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES:
Regular Volunteer Position: Weekly Commitment
Occasional Volunteer: Join our worker bee volunteer days (one or two/season)
Regular Volunteer Position 2023
We are now accepting applications for Volunteer Positions for the 2023 Farm Season. Joyfully Organic Farm is a fast-paced, high-output model of vegetable production, run by a team of highly trained farmers. A regular volunteer shift at our farm, involves pitching in on a farm task - under the leadership of a Farm Staff Member who will provide all the necessary training to that task. Volunteer positions at our farm are best suited to those who like pitching in, and the satisfaction of good hard work in the outdoors.
If you are in pursuit of an educational experience, you may be better suited to an internship or educational course on another farm.
An ideal volunteer at Joyfully Organic Farm :
- Can make a weekly commitment to a 4-5 hour volunteer shift
- Lives nearby to easily travel to and from the farm fields in Markham
- Has a love of ‘pitching in’ and engaging on the task at hand
- Embraces and brings positivity to repetitive tasks
- Can respectfully and attentively take direction from Farm Staff
Occasional Volunteer Position
Invitation to occasional worker bee volunteer days (once or twice a season)