SEEKING FARM MANAGER
Gravity Hill Farm, located in Titusville, New Jersey is seeking a highly motivated individual with a minimum of 2 years of experience in certified organic vegetable production and marketing, and a minimum of 1 year of experience in a managerial/supervisory position. The Farm Manager will be responsible for training and supervising interns and hourly staff, field management (tillage/soil fertility/direct seeding/transplanting/cultivation/irrigation/disease & pest control/crop rotation), equipment maintenance, harvesting, seed ordering, record keeping, and direct sales marketing through established local and on-farm markets. The ideal candidate would be available to start early December 2011 (but consideration may be made for an early January 2012 start). Additionally a two-year commitment to the position is preferred. This position includes on-farm housing and all utilities in a modern one bedroom apartment, salary (commensurate with experience), health insurance, profit share, and farm produce. Individuals with a commitment and dedication to farming as a livelihood, as well as community outreach are encouraged to apply. Please send a letter of interest and resume to Jennifer Schmehl at jenniferschmehl@hotmail.com.

SEEKING INTERN/ASSISTANT FARM MANAGER
Gravity Hill Farm, located in Titusville, New Jersey is seeking a highly motivated individual with a minimum of 2 years of experience in certified organic vegetable production and/or marketing. The Intern/Assistant Farm Manager could be responsible for, but not limited to: greenhouse management, record keeping, harvesting, cultivation, produce marketing, community outreach, and animal care. The ideal candidate would be available to start in late January/early February. This position includes housing and all utilities in our brand new Community Building, a monthly stipend, farm produce, and hands on experience/knowledge/skills in the operation, production, and marketing of a small family farm.Individuals with a commitment to farming as a livelihood, interest in farming/food policy issues, as well as a dedication to community outreach are encouraged to apply. Please send a letter of interest and resume to Jennifer Schmehl at jenniferschmehl@hotmail.com.

Our small farm runs on the hard work and dedication of people committed to growing food in an environmentally-friendly and sustainable way that requires much more intensive hands-on labor than conventional farms. Because we don't use chemical pesticides or herbicides, weeding and "bug management" take up a lot of our time. From 7am until the sun goes down, we are seeding, planting and maintaining the fields. And then the reward — harvesting food and flowers for market.

Below, a few of the people who keep Gravity Hill growing strong.

This is Rachel's first season at Gravity Hill Farm, and she is excited to be working back in the area, having grown up in nearby Bucks County, PA. After working for a few years as a pastry cook in NYC, Rachel began traveling and volunteering on organic farms in Costa Rica and Spain and completed an internship in northern California last season. She finds learning how to grow your own food self-empowering and inspiring and a joyful way to contribute to a vibrant community. While not preparing, cultivating or eating food, Rachel can be found curled up with a library book, going to ballet class, sewing artichoke patches to mail her friends, or riding her new scooter around the beautiful countryside.

Mahra found Gravity Hill Farm at the New Hope Farmers market and was instantly impressed by our diverse presentation of produce. Mahra's interest in farming sprouted from her experience on an educational farm in California, where she learned about growing vegetables and milking goats by teaching kids where their food comes from. She feels that healthy food creates healthy communities, and eating locally is a choice we can all make to create peace. Mahra grew up in Lambertville NJ, and after working on different farms nationally, she returned home to study Shiatsu bodywork, which included a study in macrobiotic cooking. Her many interests are making fermented foods like kimchee and sauerkraut, playing guitar, taking long walks, and practicing martial arts. In her years growing up in this area, she has witnessed the outrageous transformation of historic family farms into developments, and is so excited to respond to this by being a part of the local organic farm movement.