Position Overview
Work Activities
Maintain young trees, assist with livestock care and movement, create biochar, assist with lambing, cut undesirable vegetation, and perform deliveries and other tasks.
Training Opportunities
Managed grazing techniques, biochar production, and marketing/direct sales.
Minimum Qualifications and Desired Skills
Able to work outdoors in all weather, lift 50 pounds, have valid driver's license and transportation, be reliable, organized, self-motivated, and able to work independently and in teams.
Other Benefits
Lunch provided if working over lunch hour.
On-Farm Housing
Not Available
About the Trainers
John Rafkin & Wendy Johnson
Trainer Experience: We started Jóia in 2014 and have offered training internships and apprenticeships on our farm for the past six years. We are spreading our reach of applicants with PFI's Labor4Learning. We have had past full-time and part-time employees as well as seasonal employees. We have had paid interns and apprentices. We have trained and mentored around 15 people for short-term and long-term positions.
About the Farm
We are located in northeast, north central Iowa near Charles City. Our guiding values are to celebrate life by observing the natural synergies between soil, plants and animals and how they adapt to change. We are a 100% perennial farm specializing in managed adaptive grazing of sheep and cattle on perennial pastures and Kernza; growing small grains such as Kernza, oats and other novel small grains; and agroforestry practices including established silvopasture, riparian buffer, enhanced windbreaks and micro orcharding. We integrate poultry and pigs into our operation at a smaller scale. We are certified organic and certified humane. We use adaptive management grazing, no antibiotics, no-GMOs, and are certified grass-fed and -finished. We sell grass-fed beef, lamb, pork, chicken, turkey, duck and food grade small grains sold in our virtual farm store, and through buying clubs, on farm sales and retailers.