Find your place in the field of good food

Our goal is to connect good people with good food. We advertise sustainable food jobs and training opportunities to help jobseekers and employers find each other.

Roots to Work is a project of Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming.

Job description

Start date: 1st October 2026

End date 31 March 2027

Hours / week: 30 hours / week, 5 days a week

Main duties

Assisting the estate team in the running of our 57-acre estate, including:

• Wood processing

• Training volunteers in various firewood tasks

Time split

• One day per week will be spent as a general volunteer alongside the general

volunteers (gardening, cleaning, kitchen, preparation for guests).

• Four days per week will be spent as a specialist volunteer, including

supporting/managing general volunteers on the estate.

Reporting line

You will report to and work under the supervision of the Estate & Campsite Manager,

leading volunteers on designated estate and woodland projects. Projects will be

carried out in accordance with agreed plans and will also include supporting the wider

estate team, including the Grounds Manager.

In exchange

We provide full room and board, with all utilities included (water, electricity, council tax),

access to laundry facilities, and the added benefits of community living.

Some things you will be doing each month:

• October: Cutting yew hedges; biochar production

• November: Landscape construction as required, such as track drainage, path

widening, compost container building

• December/January: Cutting field hedges; removing brash to piles for future

biochar

• Late January/early February: Snowdrop Tea woodland and grounds

preparation – clearing, woodchip spreading, pruning• February/March: Processing firewood – splitting and stacking wood

Other tasks

• Leading volunteer groups on estate work

• Training volunteers to split wood safely with axes

• Help with running of the biomass boiler

• One day a week working in other areas like kitchen, vegetable and formal

gardens, hospitality, maintenance

This role requires

• Prior experience working on the land

• A good level of strength and fitness

• Ability to maintain full compliance with Health & Safety standards in all aspects

of work and volunteer supervision

• Ability to lead, support, and coordinate volunteers while ensuring a positive and

rewarding volunteer experience

• Use of estate machinery (full training will be given)

Desirable skills

• Current cross cut or felling chainsaw licence

• Ability to cook for large groups of 20+ people

Application information

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