Where Pigs Fly Farm is a small farm located on 10 acres in Centreville. They raise laying hens, broiler chickens, and heritage breed turkeys out on pasture and grow vegetables using organic methods. They sell their produce at the Chestertown Farmer’s Market, as well as through thier website to customers in Easton, Annapolis and Davidsonville.
Currently they are a two-person part time operation. They are at the point that they cannot do everything themselves, but not quite big enough to sustain full-time staff.
Essential Functions:
- Planting, weeding and harvest of field crops, using organic methods
- Assist with harvesting of broiler chickens
- You will not need to take the life of a chicken! They take that role very seriously and prefer to do that themselves. Duties on harvest day include running the scalder and plucker, evisceration, and packaging. It’s not bloody, but there are guts!
- Clean out chicken coops and brooders using a pitchfork, shovel, and garden cart
- Assist with logistics of moving broiler chicks and chickens from brooders to field and from the field to processing area.
- Assist with moving fencing for rotational grazing of goats, pigs, turkeys, and chickens
- Assist with management of pasture
- identifying and cutting down weed species such as Johnson Grass, Thistle, Foxtail, Datura, etc.
- Other duties as they arise
- Monday mornings - 4 hours
- Tuesdays 8am - 5pm
- (May 11 through October 5th for chicken processing season)
- Wednesday mornings - 4 hours
- (they are flexible on this- Thursday or Friday also works)
Professional Experience and Qualifications
- Experience with farm work is a plus
- If no farm experience, other useful work experience can include any outdoor work in hot, difficult conditions, fast-paced labor, such as in a restaurant or for landscaping company
- Willingness to work outside and be hot, dirty, sweaty and in regular contact with feces
- Energetic and positive attitude
- (you don’t have to be perky, just don’t be grumpy or whiney!)
- Ability to self-direct
- identify needs and meet them, or ask for guidance
- Ability to use hand tools, shovels, rakes, push/pull carts and do manual labor
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