General Farm Description: Mossy Stone Farms is a small organic vegetable farm, water garden and permaculture incubator located in the northern Catskill mountains of New York State. We grow organic vegetables, mushrooms, flowers, and rice on several acres using no-till and small scale methods. We sell our produce at a local Farmer's Market, run a small CSA, and supply greens to a few restaurants nearby. We hold workshops, farm to table dinners, and the occasional camping event.
CRAFT Member Farm? No
Internship Starts: 1-Apr-25 Internship Ends: 1-Dec-25 Number of Internship Available: 1 Application Deadline: asap Minimum Length of Stay: All season
Internship Details:
We are seeking a full time live-in farmhand / apprentice for the 2025 season. You will live and work on the farm. You’ll be immersed in all details of a small market garden, receive a weekly $500 stipend, valuable experience in organic vegetable, mushroom, fruit and rice production, Permacultural practices, and of course all the fresh vegetables and mushrooms you could possibly want.
Your duties will include harvesting, washing and packing vegetables and CSA bags; building and maintaining grow beds; preparing and seeding grow beds; building and sculpting rice paddies and terraces; rice planting, weeding, and harvesting; soaking and harvesting shiitake mushrooms; servicing farmer’s markets customers; mowing, land clearing and digging; and more weeding then you’ve ever done in your life!
You’ll also be involved in the building of a permacultural demonstration site, helping us terraform, build ponds, pollard and coppice, manage forest and wetlands, build hugelkulture mounds, and many more things.
No experience necessary, but always appreciated. You don’t need a car.