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Teign Greens is looking for two hard-working and driven market gardening trainees to join the team for 6-months from April to September. *Closing Date Sunday 8th January*
We’re a Community Supported Agriculture Scheme supplying weekly organic and biodynamic vegetable bags to local households as well as a small amount of wholesale surplus to shops and projects. We provide up to 100 households with local, sustainable food. All our veg is grown on our beautiful and productive 5-acre market garden, using min-till methods to minimise our impact on the earth. Crops are grown on rotation between agroforestry rows of fruit trees and soft fruit bushes, and our margins and hedges are left wild to promote biodiversity.
Our informal traineeship will see you taking part in all elements of running a market garden and CSA scheme including propagation, cultivation, weed and pest management, crop planning and record keeping as well as harvesting and packing our produce. You will cover a loose syllabus over the 6 months, and we’ll have weekly check-ins with you about your learning. Teign Greens is based at Oxen Park Farm, a 55 acre organic farm which is also home to On The Hill, a residential land-based learning enterprise. There will be scope to join regular visits to nearby agroeocological farms throughout the season as part of the South Hams and South West Growers Groups.
We can offer basic accommodation, store cupboard food, fresh vegetables and a stipend of £50 per week in return for 4 days per week work on the market garden, plus occasional weekend duties. Accommodation on the farm is in your own basic but comfy caravan with woodburner. You’ll share an outdoor kitchen (inc. pizza oven), showers and compost loo with a small community of volunteers and trainees from the wider farm including trainees and volunteers with On The Hill project. During the week we all share lunch and we’ll have regular social evenings for the whole farm team to come together throughout the summer.
More details and apply here: https://www.teigngreens.co.uk/work-with-us
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