Come learn how to weld at VTSU-Randolph in this two-day hands-on training on Feb 21st-22nd! This hands-on welding training focuses on the real-world skills you need to fix, build, and maintain equipment on the land. You’ll learn essential welding safety and fundamentals.
Thanks to the support from their mentor, Margrit (née Mikulis) and Jay Malouf of Chantr
Come join us at VTSU-Randolph for a weekend of sausage making in our new meat education lab! This master class covers the art and craft of sausage making from start to finish, with additional tips and techniques on smoked meats. Hosted at The 1787 Butchery, a state-of-the-art meat science lab designed for education and hands-on training, the session focuses on trimming, weighing, linking, and smoking. Students will gain practical, hands-on experience creating sausages from raw ingredients to finished links.
Join us for the 39th Annual NOFA/Mass Winter Conference — a one-day gathering to learn about healthy soils principles in practice. This year, we’ll explore what makes soil thrive: from the rich microbial life underground to the human communities and cultural practices that sustain it above.
January 21, 2026
Position Start Date: Late April
Pay Rate: Commensurate with experience
For consideration, please email resume and cover letter to contact below.
Job Description:
Gardening assistant for a private residence with extensive perennial garden beds, a formal kitchen garden and substantial edible landscaping crops. We are in search of a fine gardener/ landscaping assistant to aid the property caretaker in the maintenance of these areas. The primary role of this position is as a gardener, however, the assistant may be asked to perform occasional property management and farming tasks. In addition to the primary residence, the gardening assistant will help in the care and maintenance of the landscape at a seasonal lakefront property. This is a part-time, seasonal position. The duration of the position is weather dependent, but anticipated to begin in mid- late April and run through mid-late November. This position is for 15-20 hours per week, however, additional hours are available doing trail maintenance or forestry work for the right candidate.
Job Responsibilities:
Skills and Qualifications:
Contact: Tacy Lincoln
Email: [email protected]
Interested in learning how child nutrition programs are implementing culturally responsive practices? Join us for a panel of three school meal experts from Vermont and Maine to find inspiration!
Our speakers will share powerful, stories that explore the many dimensions of what culturally relevant food can mean in schools, including implementing halal meal programs to meet students' needs, weaving personal cultural foodways into the lunch line to celebrate diversity, and an early childhood perspective on honoring a wide array of family cultures through a shared love of food.
Location: Killeen Crossroads Farm, Shelburne VT
Position Type: Seasonal / Full-time / Part-time
Dates: April through October, with possibility of extension
Compensation: $18 hour, PTO and farm produce share
Reports to Garden Manager
About the Farm
Killeen Crossroads Farm is a 20-acre diversified market farm in Shelburne, Vermont. We grow a variety of specialty vegetables, herbs and cut flowers alongside pastured poultry, and beef. Our livestock include egg-laying hens, meat birds, turkeys, and a small herd of beef cows, all raised as part of an integrated, soil-building farm system.
We strive to build and maintain healthy soils through ecologically based growing methods. Key farm infrastructure includes two 30' × 96' high tunnels, a 30' × 36' heated propagation house, irrigation throughout the fields, refrigerated storage, and climate controlled farm stand.
Our products are sold through our busy on-farm shop and pick-your-own garden as well as to local restaurants and wholesale accounts.
Position Overview
We are seeking reliable, motivated Farm Crew Members to assist with vegetable, flower, and poultry production. This is a hands-on, physically active role ideal for someone who enjoys working outdoors, caring for animals, and learning about diversified farming systems.
Responsibilities
Duties may include, but are not limited to:
Poultry & Animal Care
General Farm Duties
Qualifications
Schedule
How to Apply
Please send a brief cover letter, resume, and 3 references to [email protected] with the title format “Last Name, First Name – “Farm Crew Member Application”.
Tell us why you’re interested in working with us at Killeen Crossroads Farm and what skills or experience you bring to the role. We are open to full time and part time positions.
Breadseed Farm is in our sixth year of business in Craftsbury, VT. We are looking to hire two farmers to join our team in operating our successful one acre market garden.
As part of our team you will be involved in all aspects of our farm, and will be trained on the following; harvest, wash/pack, cultivation, high tunnel management, cut flower production and arranging, greenhouse seeding, irrigation, and farmers markets. At the start of the season, you will be provided with a field map, greenhouse, crop plan and any information about the farm business you are interested in.
This is a great job for any one interested in learning the ins and outs of a small scale diversified vegetable and flower farm. You will be working alongside farm managers and owners, Kayleigh and Doug who each have almost twenty years of experience training and educating staff and volunteers in all aspects of market gardening.
We are looking to hire two seasonal positions, one full time and one part-time (flexible). At least one season of vegetable production preferred. More information about the positions and how to apply, please visit our website.
Any questions can be sent to [email protected]
