Farm Fellow – Zumwalt Acres
Last Updated On: enero 22nd, 2026 at 02:32PM MST
Contact information
Farm Address:3105 E 2000 N Rd
Sheldon, Illinois, 60966
Primary Contact: Acacia Berg
Primary Phone:
Type: Cell
Number: 6083930393
Email: zumwaltacres@gmail.com
Website: https://www.zumwaltacres.org/fellowship
Internship information
General Farm Description: Zumwalt Acres (ZA) is a multifaceted farm, community, and educational hub. We steward vegetables, fruit and nut trees, mushrooms, honeybees and chickens. We also conduct climate change research and implement sustainable soil management practices. We host events to exchange learnings, gather community, make music and art, and celebrate Jewish holidays. We work towards regeneration of the local ecosystem, climate change mitigation, providing food for our community, and creating a space where young people can collaboratively implement their vision of an abundant future.CRAFT Member Farm? No
Internship Starts: 3/9/2026
Internship Ends: 11/13/2026
Number of Internship Available: 2
Application Deadline: 2/20/2026
Minimum Length of Stay: 3 months
Internship Details:
Our community of 4 farm stewards is looking for 1-2 fellows to join us for part or all of the 2026 growing season. Rolling applications are open until positions are filled!
ZA fellows are self-directed folks who live at the farm, co-create community, and support farming operations, event hosting, and other organizational work. Fellows will collaboratively build work and community systems that are mutually supportive and center learning.
Fellow benefits:
- $500 per month (for fellows that stay for a 6-month season or longer)
- Free food and housing
- Opportunities for fellow learning through structured programming and hands-on experience, ranging from horticultural skills to cultural organizing
- Access to farm events and associated educators
Fellows will support ZA’s work in the following areas:
– Farm work: harvesting, weeding, planting, tending compost, tree care, mushroom cultivation.
– Marketing: maintaining a good relationship with distributors (Down at the Farms, Watseka Farmers Market, Sheldon Food Pantry) and carving paths for equitable food allocation.
– Event Planning: Support farm events by preparing the space and contributing to applicable programming.
– Community building: Creating a healthy and conscientious communal living environment with other members of the house and ZA community.
– Community outreach: maintaining ZA’s connections with the Sheldon community, other farmers in the area, other food and climate justice organizations, and participants in community events and research field days.
– Coming up with ideas that you are excited to implement! We are excited to engage with applicants who are passionate about our mission — so if you have a skill set that isn’t listed, we want to hear about it in your application!
Educational Opportunities: Regenerative agriculture practices, horticulture and agroforestry skills, mushroom cultivation, beekeeping, animal husbandry, climate change and sustainable agriculture research, food justice organizing, mutual aid, Jewish and interfaith education and shared practice, community cultivation.
Skills Desired: Farming and communal living experience are a plus, but not required. Applicants should have an active interest in living in an intentional community and awareness of the challenges that come along with it, thoughtfulness in the role that agriculture plays in people's lives, the midwest, and beyond, and excitement to get your hands dirty and do a little bit of everything at the farm. There is no one right application!
Meals: Yes
Stipend: $500/month
Housing: Yes
Preferred method of Contact: email