Farmer needed for land located 8 miles outside Washington, DC, in Montgomery County,MD.
Historic property on 2 acres has two existing organic, fenced gardens; smokehouse and root cellar—plus enough additional sunny space to create hoop gardens or greenhouse. Will rent or barter to interested party. Continue Reading →
TALMAR Gardens and Horticultural Therapy Center is a non-profit farm established to provide a therapeutic and recreational environment offering horticultural therapy and vocational skills training opportunities for people with special needs. With frequent help from our program participants, we grow flowers, vegetables and herbs using sustainable and organic methods. talmar.org
Interns will participate in a range of on-farm activities including growing produce and flowers, pest management, soil development, and harvest. In addition to hands-on training, interns will also receive readings and resources for further knowledge development. Activities include:
Field work – seeding, transplanting, weeding, thinning, trellising, bed preparation, and mowing Continue Reading →
Side by Side Farm is accepting applications for 2 part-time interns for the 2013 season. Our farm is located in an idyllic setting, less than an hour’s drive north of Baltimore. This position would be perfect for persons looking to gain solid farming experience who are not yet able to commit to a full-time position. We farm on 3 acres for our vegetable CSA, using organic growing methods, and the balance of the land (woodlots and pasture) is managed according to permaculture principles. We also grow a handful of specialty crops, including baby ginger, shiitake mushrooms and lemongrass. To read more about our farm, visit our website at: www.sidebysidefarm.com.
Internships run from mid-March to the end of October. We prefer that interns commit to the full season, but we have some flexibility with start and end dates. We are looking for hard working, open-minded, energetic people to join our team. Prior farming experience is a plus, but is not necessary. Continue Reading →
Real Food Farm is pleased to announce the opening of the Community Outreach Coordinator position. This is a 1-year VISTA position starting November 
2012. Real Food Farm is Civic Works’innovative urban agricultural enterprise engaged in growing fresh produce on six acres of land in Clifton Park in northeast Baltimore. We broke ground in October 2009 and since then we have been busy growing food, educating youth, partnering with community organizations, and bringing more real food to Northeast Baltimore.
Community Outreach Coordinator
Real Food Farm is currently seeking a full-time Americorps VISTA Community Outreach Coordinator to begin November 2012. This is an opportunity for an individual interested in directly engaging communities with low-access to fresh food. The goal of the position is to develop Real Food Farm’s capacity to increase food access and food security in the Clifton Park neighborhoods. Responsibilities include utilizing existing partnerships and programming while reaching out to new partners. The Coordinator will continue to develop the Mobile Market program while assisting in its daily operations; increase accessibility of other RFF programs including on-farm volunteering, education programming, and the CSA; and work with city agencies, universities, and community health partners for the betterment of the food system in the Clifton Park neighborhoods. Continue Reading →
on the radio! Thanks for Charlotte Heyrman for sending us the link. Listen HERE to the segment on the Marc Steiner show.
This week on the show, we’ll speak with three farmers who work small parcels of land in Baltimore County. Becky and Jack Gurly operate Calvert’s Gift Farm in Sparks, MD, where they grow organic vegetables on 5 acres. They also help run a training program for new farmers. They joined us along with Denzel Mitchell, one of their trainees, to discuss the importance of increasing the number of small farmers, to share what it’s like to run a small farm today, and to discuss how they came to the approach to farming that they’ve chosen. Then, join us for a tour of a new shrimp farm that’s being built in an old warehouse in the heart of Baltimore. We’re joined by Peter May, an estuarine ecologist, and Bryon Salladin, an arborist.
Tractor Operation and Maintenance Workshop at the Accokeek Foundation
Saturday, April 14 – Sunday, April 15, 2012– 8:30am to 5:00 pm
This two-day, hands-on workshop demystifies tractors and empowers their users to operate and maintain their machines more safely, and with greater skill and confidence. Day one focuses on the fundamentals of tractor operation; reviewing everything from the historical purpose and use of tractors to the functions and safe use of all of the pedals and levers, the drawbar, power take-off (PTO), and the front-end loader. We will end the first day with tractor driving practice for the novices in the class. Continue Reading →
Mobilizing and Organizing From Below
June 1st – 3rd, 2012
Baltimore, Maryland * 2640
Mobilizing and Organizing from Below will be a gathering of activists and organizers, workers and parents, revolutionaries and militants and radicals and dissenters, dedicated to increasing our ability to come together and challenge the systems of exploitation and oppression that have taken hold of the world. The conference will be a weekend of intensive, horizontally-organized political education, in which we can share skills, analyze the problems we face, and pose difficult questions. It will also provide a space for people from different traditions to come together and recognize the depth of our similarities and the richness of our differences; a space for reflection and discussion, distinct from both the chaotic excitement of spontaneous mass actions and the intense demands of long-term organizing work. Continue Reading →
Backbone Food Farm is hiring an Assistant Farm Manager to work with us for the 2012 growing season and subsequent years to come. We are looking for a person to join our crew to supervise, in conjunction with the two head farmers, our 12 acre produce operation. Our season runs March 15- October 30.
About Backbone
BBFF is a 530 acre farm located in the rich farmlands and rolling mountains of western Maryland. About 100 acres of the farm are fields, which we use for produce, hay and pasture. The remainder is wooded. We are entering our thirteenth year here, and have been growing produce since the day we moved in. Continue Reading →
Now Accepting Applications for the 2012 Beginner Farmer Training Program
Future Harvest-Chesapeake Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture is now accepting applications from new farmers across the Chesapeake region interested in participating in the Beginner Farmer Training Program (BFTP) 2012 program year.
We recruit five to ten trainees, mostly college graduates with some farming experience and a commitment to a career in sustainable and/or organic agriculture. The program is free to participants. Email a statement of interest, resume, and 3 professional references to Cathy Tipper, crtipper@aol.com, by November 30, 2011. For more information about the program, visit www.futureharvestcasa.org or call Cathy at 410-218-3620. Continue Reading →
Seeking tenants for a farmhouse in Finksburg, MD. Here’s a note from the young farmer neighbors. Email McKenzie for more information. mckenzieditter at gmail.com
Our landlords are perfect. Cherokee and her sisters Pawnee and Shawnee grew up in the house for rent during the 50′s and 60′s. Their parents moved here right after WWII so they could start a farm. They previously lived in Baltimore City and had a victory garden. Back in the day, the farm had everything. Bees, worms, rabbits, cattle, hay, orchards, veggies… The old Massy Ferg is still functional too.
When we moved here two months ago, there was only one big pasture. Continue Reading →
Thursday!
rain or shine. Come for any and all of it. FREE and open to everyone.
all details at www.thegreenhorns.net/baltimore
