Rootdown Farm in Pemberton, BC has 2 field staff positions available for 2017! Duration: early May till mid October, 2017. Approx. 40 hours/week; 5 days/week (Monday-Friday).  Variability of hours correspond to busy times of the season. (Jun-Aug. ~40+hrs/wk, May, Sept, Oct. ~30-35hrs/wk About Rootdown Farm We are a Certified Organic Farm nestled in the Pemberton

Everyone should have access to healthy food, soil, and community. We enact this vision by cultivating engaging gardens and programs that catalyze healthy eating, ecological stewardship, and community celebration. This urban farm job position will help Fresh Roots steward two 1⁄2 acre schoolyard market gardens on school grounds in the heart of East and South

This volunteer internship opportunity allows participants to take part in growing and harvesting food on a community engaged farm. Our innovative Schoolyard Farms, the first of their kind in Canada, provide an opportunity to interact with a diversity of individuals through food. Interns will gain hands-on experience in harvesting produce, field preparation, and crop maintenance

Aunt Leah’s Tree Lots is hiring a seasonal Christmas Tree Lot Manager, Assistant Manager, & Tree Lot Assistants in Vancouver, BC. As a social enterprise Aunt Leah’s Tree Lots have been raising money to fund programs for over 25 years that helps prevent youth in foster care from becoming homeless. Aunt Leah’s is currently recruiting

We are looking for reliable, organized people for our commercial division admin and our box coordinator positions.  For the right applicant, these positions could be combined, and would then be roughly 25-30 hrs/week in peak season. Commercial Division Administration You will be the “face” of Saanich Organics for all our commercial customers (40+ restaurants and grocers

Farm Job Posting Salt Spring Apple Company is looking for a committed, hardworking orchard manager interested in taking a leadership role at our small certified organic apple orchard, which is among Canada’s most diverse. We are growing more than 333 varieties of heritage and connoisseur apples and have 3,356 trees planted on our spectacular five

The Sharing Farm Society, a nonprofit organization in Richmond, BC, a new job opening for a full-time permanent Executive Director starting in September 2016. The Sharing Farm Society is a community of amazing staff, directors, and volunteers who work together to grow organic fruits and vegetables for donation to our neighbours in need. Our 3.5 acre farm is located on City land

IOPA is no longer accepting applications for this position. Islands Organic Producers Association (IOPA) has posted a new marketing position for Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands region. About IOPA The Islands Organic Producers Association is a community of island farmers committed to organic agriculture. IOPA was founded in 1990 as a non-profit association and is a

By Michael Ekers and Charles Levkoe Originally published in the Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario’s March-April 2016 newsletter, Volume 37, Issue 2. Are agricultural internships and volunteer positions strictly about addressing farms’ labour needs or are they a new model of farmer education and social movement building that is taking place beyond the confines of urban

Event Coordinator Contract for COABC Conference 2017 The Certified Organic Associations of BC (COABC) is seeking to contract an experienced event coordinator to work closely with a committee to plan and host a three day conference in Nanaimo, BC in February 2017. The COABC Conference provides educational and networking opportunities for new and established organic