Adamah Apprentice at Jewish Farming Fellowship (7427)

Adamah Apprentices support farm production at the Adamah Fellowship in Falls Village, CT. The fellowship is a three-month residential farming program for young adults building Jewish community on the land. Apprentices are paid staff with experience in agriculture who work with the Adamah Farm Director to lead fellows in farm production.  

The apprenticeship runs from April-November at the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center in Falls Village, CT. Compensation includes full-time minimum hourly wage plus free onsite housing and utilities, food from the farm and access to educational opportunities.  

Adamah is a 20 acre regenerative, educational farm. We run a residential fellowship program, which apprentices help facilitate. The focus of our farm business is 3 acres of vegetables but we also grow chestnuts, hazelnuts, berries and other perennials; raise goats, sheep, and chickens; make a lot of compost; and make value added products.

Apprenticeship Responsibilities: 

• leading Adamah fellows in daily farm tasks including but not limited to planting, harvesting, bed-prep, weeding, mulching, wash-and-pack, and delivery; 

• holding the details and complexity of accomplishing projects from start to finish while maintaining the farm as a resonant learning space for fellows; 

• participating in some of the Adamah programming when the fellowship is in session including our morning prayer service and Adamah sharing circles; 

• supporting hospitality departments at the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center when needed; 

• supporting our homestead scale livestock, markets, onsite educational programming, and other Adamah farm endeavors when needed; 

• engaging in the community with commitment, responsibility and leadership. 

Ideal Qualifications: 

• Farming experience 

• Experiential education background 

• Excellent problem solving and project management skills 

• Teaching and leadership skills 

• Ability to hold complex details 

• Punctuality and reliability 

• Adaptability and flexibility as plans shift depending on farm conditions and community needs 

• Ability to connect with a wide range of personalities 

• Desire and skills to be in community 

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to articulate needs while keeping the needs of others in mind. Farms are composites of many moving parts and they involve a lot of communication. As a residential community working in informal education, our farm requires even more communication than most.  

• A positive attitude, a love of manual labor, a passion for regenerative farming and food systems, a sense of humor, and the capacity to feel moved by the sight of rotting food waste mixed with manure and straw.  

Compensation includes Connecticut hourly minimum wage plus housing.