Become a Project Lead
Join our farm as a project lead!
What’s a project lead? Under the farm’s all-volunteer model, project leads are our super volunteers (think volunteer project managers) who lead a specific part of the farm’s work. For example, we have project leads for our mushroom, berry, bee, and compost programs. We cover the full budget for their supplies and can even help them build a team of volunteers to support them on Sundays and during the week. We provide mentorship and supervision, and we love folks who take initiative, are self-directed, and have a vision.
No experience necessary. Most positions take 5 to 10 hours a month and a two-year commitment.
Have an idea for a project that’s not listed below? Email admin@ecfarm.org to express interest. See our current open positions below.
Current open positions
If you are interested in applying for or discussing any of these, please email admin@ecfarm.org.
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Lead a team of nearly a dozen volunteers running our 300 gallon flood and drain aquaponics program in the greenhouse, a year-round program with all infrastructure already built out and ready for fish and plants. One of our board members will co-lead on plumbing, water, and electrical issues, so we need someone to project manage the team and get the fish in (and keep them alive) starting this fall.
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Every Sunday, Edgewood Community Farm hosts ReDelicous' free farmers market and food distribution. We have a ReDelicious liaison on site Sundays from 3:15 to 5:15pm to support the ReDelicous team, host for the farm, answer visitors' questions, and complete the closing checklist at the end of each distribution.
We're looking for several deputies to help with our liaison so we have coverage every week. -
We’re looking for a project lead to run our hops program, including maintaining and pruning the plants, harvesting, and dehydrating (with help from our volunteers). This person will also launch our brewing program, help us identify and secure the supplies we need, and then lead the brewing! Our hops plants are several years old and need some love and attention, and this year we harvested nearly ten gallons of dried hops that are ready to be brewed.
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Take the lead on our ecologically friendly clover fescue lawn, an 1,800 square foot space near the farm entrance. You'll handle maintenance, weeding, reseeding, and troubleshooting, plus assess watering needs and manage occasional mowing (we like to let it grow tall for the bees). The lawn is already established and grown out, needs minimal watering, and we've got automatic watering set up.
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Help us grow and manage our fruiting and flowering trees, including transplanting, pruning, and maintenance, as you support the expansion of our fruit forest. The farm currently has a variety of trees including paw paws, sour cherries, figs, elderberries, persimmons, Yoshino cherries, redbuds, and mulberries.