Our team at Henny Penny is dynamic and diverse and our passion for what we do is apparent to our community.
Current Job Opportunities:
FARM MARKET WORKERS (Ridgefield and Lagrangeville)
We are looking for enthusiastic, upbeat people to join our market team. This person will be in charge of our market booth on Saturdays, either New Canaan, Ridgefield or Larchmont or our farm stand in Lagrangeville on Sundays. There is opportunity to run our Thursday Westport Farmers Market booth occasionally as well.
The ideal candidate is quick at absorbing information (learning a lot about our products and farm practices), is physically fit to set up & break down the market stand, and enjoys engaging with our customers while sharing knowledge of our products.
There are opportunities to grow, both in responsibilities, days and hours, within this role as well. This job is ideally suited for someone that can pick up their market items at our farm in Ridgefield, CT on the way to their market destination or is local to the Lagrangeville Farm Stand.
Pay: $18/hr with threshold bonuses for each market
Please submit a a resume and cover letter to contact@hennypennyfarm2015.com
FARM CREW MEMBER (LAGRANGEVILLE, NY LOCATION) (year-round employment)
Job Description:
We are hiring for someone to join our farm crew. All farm members help with all aspects of animal husbandry for sheep, chickens, turkeys and pigs. Our sheep flock is about 150-200 head and we raise 18 pigs annually. All of our animal species are raised on pasture. Generally the position is 6 days per week during peak season, on average 30 hours per week. In the winter season work transitions to 5 days/week.
Responsibilities include:
- Moving the associated electric fencing as needed for grazing practices for all species
- Feeding and watering all chickens and turkeys
- Moving the mobile poultry tractors daily
- Monitoring general bird health
- Monitoring poultry grazing pastures
- Cleaning brooders
- Caring for young chicks and poults
- feeding and watering pigs
- Loading grain silos as needed; this entails emptying 1 tonn of 50lb feed bags into the top opening of an IBC tote
- Maintaining cleanliness of equipment
- general farm chores are also expected for all farm staff
- pay $20-24/hr depending on experience
The successful candidate will:
- Have prior working farm experience with poultry at a minimum and experience with other livestock is a plus (particularly sheep)
- experience driving (and maintaining) tractors is a plus as well
- Have keen observational skills
- Very good attention to detail
- a valid driving license and is comfortable driving a small pickup truck for trips to/from butcher
If you think this is the job for you, submit a a resume and cover letter to contact@hennypennyfarm2015.com today!
Internship opportunities
Interns learn about animal husbandry of sheep, chickens, pigs and turkeys and help with day to day farming activities. Interns also help with our environmental conservation projects as well as educational outreach. As a Tier 3 Certified Regenified Farm we work to continually improve our environmental stewardship as we feed our community and provide educational programming. Please note our internship is only being held at our 115-acre Lagrangeville, NY farm location in 2026.
