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Field Manager - Everett Family Farm - Soquel, CA
Posted by Marissa Grossman on October 10, 2008 at 12:13 pm
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Position: Field Manager at Everett Family Farm in Soquel, CA
Full-time
Salary: 30K  for ten months of work…
Start date: ~February through the end November but all negotiable

Everett Family Farm is a 45-acre CCOF Certified Organic, fruit, flower, vegetable, and egg operation.
Approximately 3 acres are used for field crops.
The majority of the farm is in orchards: apples, pears, persimmons, plums, cherries, pluots, figs, etc.
We pasture-raise 250+ chickens for eggs.  We also have Swiss Dairy goats for milk and cheese production.
We sell our produce at two local farmer’s markets (Sat Westside & Sun Live Oak).  We also sell to local restaurants and have a farm stand on the property.
The field crops have been farmed for the last six years by past UCSC Farm & Garden Apprentices.
The farm is located in Soquel, two miles from Highway 1, nestled next to beautiful foothills and Soquel Creek.

Work includes: crop planning, sowing, weed management, harvesting & selling crops, pruning, mulching, management of farm stand, helping with care of chickens, and much, much more.
Check us out on localharvest.org
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