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Want to be a Care Farmer?

Homesteads for Hope Community Farm in Rochester NY is offering (5) paid apprenticeships in our Care Farming Training Program, a 7-month residential experience learning sustainable agriculture while working alongside young adults with disabilities. This position offers hands-on training on an 8-acre vegetable farm, as well as opportunities in flower production, animal husbandry, and CSA logistics. Perks include on-site housing, community engagement, social recreation - and skills to last a lifetime!

  • As defined by the Care Farming Network, “Care Farming is the therapeutic use of farming practices for marginalized or vulnerable groups of people. This model is common in the UK and Europe and goes by varying names, including Care Farming, Social Farming, and Social Care Farming”

    What are the therapeutic benefits of Care Farming and Care Farms?

    Being involved with Care Farming and Care Farms has many benefits, and many people have enriched themselves and their lives through their experiences.

  • The CFT Program offered at Homesteads for Hope is a seasonal, 30 week training program for (5) Individuals for learning, working & living on a Care Farm. *The goal of this program is to train the next generation of Direct Support Professionals and Farmers.

    Start Date: +/-March 25, 2024

    End Date: +/-November 8, 2024

    Wage: $15.50/Hr, Minus Housing

  • What you will learn and experience:

    - Mission & Vision of Care Farming Across the US.

    - Learning alongside people with disabilities as a new career opportunity

    - Market Farming vs CSA Food Share Programs

    - Seasonal Growing, Succession Planting

    - Greenhouse Propagation

    - Irrigation Systems

    - Farm Machinery & Tools

    - Cover cropping and crop rotation systems

    - Harvest and post-harvest handling techniques

    - Organic pest, disease, and weed management

  • Please send a cover letter, resume and 3 references to Farm manager: Chris@HomesteadsforHope.org

    Program starts prior to April 1, 2025 and lasts 7 months until early November 2025.