CRAFT Kawartha Farms
Start your 2010 farm experience with us! CRAFT Kawartha Farms
The Kawartha region is a thriving agricultural area with a growing number of small-scale farming operations responding to the rising interest in the local food movement. As a newly formed CRAFT node, our ecological farming community has joined together and is working cooperatively to provide education and support for prospective future farmers. As a CRAFT intern you will live, work and learn on a farm for a full growing season, with invaluable opportunities to learn necessary skills by working alongside experienced farmers.
Our farmers are currently producing CSA shares, fresh produce, berries, garlic, herbs, chicken, eggs, ducks, turkey, guinea fowl, beef, pork, lamb, sprouts, grains, flours, honey, maple syrup and much more. Their expertise includes Heirloom fruits and vegetables, Heritage breed livestock, green power, biodynamic, organic and sustainable farming practices.
All internships must involve an exchange of labour (by the intern) for education and hands-on farming experience (from the farmer). Each farm may organize its internship as they see fit. Individual farms operate independently so the living arrangements, stipends, work hours and training methods for interns are specific to each farm.
The internship includes monthly educational field trips to the other area CRAFT farms to experience various other farming enterprises, as well as providing an occasion to interact and network with the other interns. Throughout the growing season more opportunities will arise for interns to have further hands-on experience on additional farms in the region.
Among the Field Day workshop topics planned for our 2010 season are:
- Collecting Maple Syrup Ecologically
- Basics of Botany & Greenhouse Set-Up
- Enhancing Soil Fertility & Building Soil Blocks
- Garden Irrigation
- Creating Top Soil
- Working with Draft Horses
- Small Scale Beef Operations & Calving
- Green Building Tips
- Farmers Market Guidelines
- Farm Marketing & Finances
- Seed Saving
- How To Grow Great Garlic
Farms offering 2010 CRAFT Kawartha internships:
- Cedar Grove Organic—Still Interviewing For One Position
- Chick-a-biddy Acres—2010 Positions Filled
- f. N. Happy Farm—Still Interviewing For One Position
- Farmhouse Garden—2010 Positions Filled
- Gaelic Garlic—Still Interviewing For One Position
- Kawartha Ecological Growers—Still Interviewing For Positions
- Circle Organic Community Farm—2010 Position Filled
- Lunar Rhythm Gardens—One Position Filled/Still Interviewing For One Position
- Russet House Farm—Still Interviewing For One Position
- Sun Root Organics
- Tall Tree Farm & Woodworks—2010 Positions Filled
- Wheelbarrow Farm—Two Positions Filled/Still Interviewing For One Position
- Willo’Wind Farm—One Position Filled/Still Interviewing For One Position
- Wholearth Farmstudio—One Position Filled/Still Interviewing For One Position
- Wicklow Way—Positions Filled
(Our farms also extend outside of the Kawartha region…Click below on map link to see all the Kawartha Node Farm locations)
Kawartha Node Farm Map
How to Become a CRAFT Kawartha intern
Please apply for your internship by submitting your resume and covering letter directly to the farm of your choice.
Application Deadlines
Most farm deadlines are mid-February, however some farms are still accepting applications and do so throughout the year, so get in touch directly.
How to Become a CRAFT Kawartha Farm
- To become a CRAFT Farm in Kawartha you must:
- Be a producer and marketer of food
- Offer a full-season sustainable farming internship
- Operate your farm in a sustainable manner that fits with the Principles of Organic Agriculture-however farms are NOT required to be certified organic.
- Participate in planning meetings for CRAFT Kawartha
- Contribute a membership fee to assist with advertising costs
- Farms are encouraged to host an educational “Field Day” for all CRAFT Kawartha interns on their farm and send your intern(s) to all six (with an optional seventh) of the monthly CRAFT field days on other farms
If you would like to become a CRAFT Kawartha Farm please contact Montana Jones at farm at wholearth dot com
