Join us at Hosmer Point Summer Camp to provide a vibrant garden education program while producing food for our hungry campers! Gain experience growing food and flowers and caring for farm animals while getting kids excited about growing, cooking, and eating food! Live on-site with a large group of young adults and participate in the fun, loud, active, communal experience that is summer camp. Get ready to work hard and play harder!
Season: May 19 - August 22 (dates flexible)
Benefits and Compensation:
Weekly stipend based on education and experience- $270 - $400 per week
Shared housing in a cabin on site
All meals (including on days off). We serve fresh, healthy food and can accommodate dietary restrictions, vegetarians, and vegans.
Kid-safe pets welcome.
Free access to gym, yoga, and fitness classes at the Craftsbury Outdoor Center.
Mountain biking trails, canoeing, swimming, hiking and more accessible outside your door in one of the most beautiful spots on earth!
Tasks:
Assist in implementing educational, hands-on, (frequently very silly) activities for campers around gardening, cooking, vegetable production, and raising animals.
Weeding, planting, watering, dead-heading flowers, suckering tomatoes, and harvesting.
Daily care of animals (pigs, chickens, ducks, rabbits and goats)
Help campers with daily farm and garden chores.
Must be observant, physically fit, enjoy working with children and getting a little silly, and able to abstain from tobacco, cannabis, and alcohol use on site.
Full job description and application instructions at hosmerpoint.com/staff