Current Job Opportunities:
FARM COORDINATOR (posted 4/12/24)
Hiring for someone to fill the part-time role of our Farm Coordinator. This role is a central role at Henny Penny Farm, that requires someone who has excellent and precise organizational skills, good planning and strategizing skills, and superb communication skills (both written and verbal).
The ideal candidate not only enjoys this kind of work, but enjoys the less-than-conventional office setting here at a working farm.
This role changes and evolves with the farm, so the ideal candidate will be adaptable with change. Currently the role entails:
Weekly work:
- monitoring inventory and feed for ordering needs
- maintaining our farm calendar and planning
- general email/phone call communication
- running farm store one day per week, Monday through Friday only
- other general admin, tidying and filing
Monthly work:
- running system reports
- coordinates farm workers, interns and volunteers
General work spread across the year:
- Managing camp signup process and camp preparation
- Managing Thanksgiving Turkey pre-orders and organizing pickups
- Coordinating CSA and Meat Share fulfillment process
- Customer communication
- Farm Membership administration
- Birthday Party bookings and inquiries
- Organizing tours and communication with inquiring schools and organizations
- Maintain and keep farm procedures and documentation up to date
Annual/Bi-annual work:
- Reconcile and coordinate inventory counts (2x per year)
- Year End process and reporting
Must have intermediate to advanced spreadsheet skills, ideally Excel.
Flexible hours, vary across the year. Estimated average minimum of 12 hours per week.
Please submit a resume and cover letter
FARM MARKET WORKER
We are looking for an enthusiastic, upbeat person to join our market team. This person will be in charge of our market booth or farm stand on Saturdays, either Ridgefield, New Canaan or Larchmont.
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 their knowledge of our products.
There are opportunities to grow, both in responsibilities, days and hours, within this role as well.
Please submit a resume and cover letter
Volunteer opportunities
By contributing time and talent, our volunteers help the farm and our educational programs grow. We attract a diverse and truly interesting group of people, united by their passion to learn about and help our natural habitats and our food system.
Internship opportunities
Interns learn about our food system, horticulture, as well as animal husbandry of sheep, goats, chickens (egg and meat), rabbits and honeybees. Small scale growing of both vegetable and cutting flowers, land stewardship and habitat maintenance are pivotal to all of the work that is done at Henny Penny Farm.