FARM CREW LEAD – Replenova Farm

Last Updated On: February 11th, 2025 at 09:05AM MST

Contact information

Farm Address:
1252 Royalsborough Road, Durham, ME 04222
Durham, Maine, 04222

Primary Contact: Eric
Secondary Contact: Gary

Primary Phone:
    Type: Cell
    Number: 207 406 0449
    Email: e.day@replenova.com

    Email: info@replenova.com

Website: https://www.replenova.com

Internship information

General Farm Description: The Farm The farm is located in Durham, ME about 25 minutes north of Portland and 10 minutes from Freeport, ME. We are on a 17-acre piece of land. 10 acres of hay, 2 acres of woods, 1.5 acres of crops, a farm store and 6 high tunnels. Farm Philosophy Replenova’s mission is to provide the community with healthy food using conscientious environmental and social practices. We do this by avoiding all biocides, relying on solar power, using human scale power whenever possible, paying a fair wage, selling local products and engaging our community to teach about healthful food. We leverage our commercial kitchen and market reduce waste, prepare, store, and create value added products to share with the community. The people on our farm are open minded and willing to engage in any topic with patience and desire to understand. If there are differing views, a calm and respectful conversation is welcome. There are plenty of topics available to find common ground if ideological views differ. Operation We are a certified organic diverse vegetable farm. We operate a farm store that is open 5 days a week (Tuesday-Saturday) year-round. We have 6 high tunnels and an acre + of field crops. We are a low till farm utilizing cultural interventions, green manure, crop rotation, tarping, hand cultivating, and zero pesticides. We grow crops for our farm store which has a 20 member Buy Down CSA, several wholesale channels, restaurants, and an online farmers market. We rely almost solely on solar power to run the farm infrastructure apart from the diesel tractor. In the store, we sell all local products such as milk, butter, yogurt, cheese, meats, bread, honey, pasta, maple syrup, ferments, hummus, granola, treats, chips, cider, etc from roughly a 30-mile radius. We operate a ghost kitchen producing hand crafted sandwiches, soups, salads, and to-go meals comprised of our veggies from the farm and local ingredients.

CRAFT Member Farm? No

Internship Starts: April 2025
Internship Ends: November 2025
Number of Internship Available: 1
Application Deadline: March 1st 2025
Minimum Length of Stay: No Housing Provided

Internship Details:

The Position – Farm Crew Lead

The Work (30 – 40 hrs per week)
Field / Farm Work
• You will be expected to help coordinate harvests with wholesale orders in the wash/pack area
• You will help greenhouse operations including seeding, germination, temperature requirements, and watering.
• You will help with bed prep, transplanting, soil amendments, composting, and irrigation.
• You will help with harvesting techniques, processing, washing, packing, and shipping
• You will help with crop rotation, green manure, no till tarping practice, and low/high tunnel management.
• You will help with temp control passive heating and compostable practices.
• You will help with value added processing of veggies.
• You will have the opportunity to work alongside students from the community.
• You will have the opportunity to help in the store on Saturdays.
• You will have the opportunity to deliver vegetables to wholesale customers.

Qualifications:
• 2-3 years of working on a organic vegetable farm
• We seek an individual with aspirations of managing or owning a farm in the future
• An individual with experience or knowledge of growing on heavy soils is preferred
• Knowledge of soil fertility, crop transitions, cover crop termination and compost applications is ideal
• Highly organized, ability to think through systems, and streamline processes.
• Ability to be self-paced and independent.
• Ability to lift 30 pounds frequently, and up to 50 pounds occasionally; to stand, kneel or crouch for extended periods.
• Great attitude while working outdoors in all weather.

Compensation

– $17- $19/hr
– Seconds of vegetables will be available all season

Educational Opportunities: On the Job Learning

Skills Desired: Qualifications: • 2-3 years of working on a organic vegetable farm • We seek an individual with aspirations of managing or owning a farm in the future • An individual with experience or knowledge of growing on heavy soils is preferred • Knowledge of soil fertility, crop transitions, cover crop termination and compost applications is ideal • Highly organized, ability to think through systems, and streamline processes. • Ability to be self-paced and independent. • Ability to lift 30 pounds frequently, and up to 50 pounds occasionally; to stand, kneel or crouch for extended periods. • Great attitude while working outdoors in all weather.

Meals: We provide seconds of vegetables all season.

Stipend: Compensation - $17- $19/hr - Seconds of vegetables will be available all season

Housing: Housing is NOT provided

Preferred method of Contact: email