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Abbey Home Farm
Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Posted: 17 Nov 2023
Deadline: 1 Jan 2024
Compensation: Minimum wage
Paid Apprenticeship Full-time Fixed term / contract
Job description
The Organic Farm Shop, Abbey Home Farm is offering a great opportunity for a hardworking passionate about organic growing person who wants to be a vegetable grower to join our gardening team in March 2024, with a view to becoming our next 2.5-year apprentice soon after.
We are looking specifically for someone who has already had some experience as a longish term wwoofer, trainee or seasonal worker.
The successful applicant needs to have a 'can do' flexible attitude and be a good team player. Most of the time will be growing but there will also be work in the shop once or twice a month and in emergency. (full training given).The apprenticeship is a 3-season structured practical and theoretical programme aiming to fully skill individuals up to become commercial organic growers.
Interviews will be in December with trials in January. The job comes with subsidised housing (sorry no pets) and full-time wage.
Application information
If you are interested send a cv and letter of interest to Hilary ASAP. Please include why you might make a good apprentice and all relevant growing experience with full details of host farms.
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About Abbey Home Farm
Abbey Home Farm is run by Will and Hilary Chester-Master. They took over the management of the farm from Wills family in 1990 and set about establishing an organic system of farming from day 1. Both Will and Hilary are totally committed to organic practices and are striving to make Abbey Home Farm a truly sustainable, both environmentally and financially, place. The farm, the garden, the shop and the cafe would not run without the other members of the team. There are at present approx 40 people involved, working here in all sorts of capacities, some full time, many part time, from many different backgrounds, but with common links: a passion for local and organic food, high animal welfare, caring for the environment and protecting our wildlife.
Roots to Work
C/o Sustain
The Green House
244-254 Cambridge Heath Road
London E2 9DA
0203 5596 777
sustain@sustainweb.org
www.rootstowork.org
Roots to Work is a project of Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming.
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