We are looking for Harvest Help on Friday mornings! Work with our harvest team to harvest fresh, organically grown vegetables for distribution to Food Pantries, Food Banks, and our Share subscribers. Contribute 3 hours each Friday morning (8:30am – 11:30am or 9am to 12noon) enjoying the beauty of the plants, trees, birds and the great …
GrowCity started Monday October 3rd with 10 enthusiastic youth ready to learn job skills, farming basics, public speaking and entrepreneurship. Check out the Instagram and Facebook pages (Links below and in the Sidebar) for photos of the youth at work and thanks again to the Community Foundation of Broward and Its Issues that Matter Funding! …
Welcome to this season’s Garden/Farm Interns! Along with our returning Garden/Farm Manager Tracy, we’re in for another great year of vegetables. Our Garden/Farm Interns learn all about growing organically in South Florida, and receive a full garden share of vegetables every week for their efforts. #knowyourfarmers #microlocal #gardensthatgive Grow-Gather-Give !
Youth Education Specialist: Urban Farm “At The Fruitful Field we grow people; in the process a lot of vegetables and fruit are produced.” TFF seeks a part-time Educational Specialist for our “GrowCity Farm and Table” youth program. In its second year, GrowCity youth program at TFF provides a real-life paid work opportunity (after-school) on our …
The beginning of the season — we are starting to fill up our nursery with seedlings (some new varieties and many of our CSA subscriber favorites). Today, we started seeds for many varieties of #tomato #pepper #herbs #chard#eggplant #kale #greens #grownwithlove Sign Ups for the CSA begin August 31st!
We’re ‘hiring’ for our big season! Inviting applications for our full -season Garden-Farm Intern Program (not to be confused with our high school ‘Grow-City’ internship). This is our fourth year running–Interns learn about vegetable-growing, fruit tree care and are rewarded with delicious veggies every week. Check the link to apply! http://www.idealist.org/view/internship/kNj7ptZSkmfP/
As we wrap up our main growing season we use tools such as this “tunnel” with aluminate cover to grow a few herbs and veggies during the summer sun and it’s heat. We also use some of the grow areas on our property that have partial shade from trees.
We are sooooo proud of these guys!! Gardening, Mulching, Speaking, Cooking, Creating works of Artistic expression, Public Speaking, Tour Guides par excellence.
A Fruitful success! Check our Facebook page for full galleries of photos on the sold out event! https://www.facebook.com/TheFruitfulField/
