Field Assistant – Old Fort at Hesperus

The Farmer Training Program focuses on three areas: running a productive farm, providing an educational experience for Farmers-in-training (FITs), and providing a space for reconciliation and healing. Field Assistants continue to gain hands-on experience growing vegetables at high elevation, while taking on additional responsibilities. Field Assistants work with other staff to tend about three acres of vegetables, learning new and traditional skills and techniques vital to farming at high elevation, and join a network committing to supporting beginning farmers through incubator and land access opportunities, business planning, and community support. Field Assistants work with and assist other program staff in tasks including but not limited to the following, which may take place in both the FIT Plot and the Education Garden: working with FITs in field work; leading FIT groups; running the campus Farm Stand; assisting with the CSA; using hand tools; operating small equipment; assisting with irrigation and repairs and daily operation; succession planting; weed management; harvest/processing; deliveries; events; and assisting in other daily farm tasks.