Sustainable Agriculture Apprentice Academic Year 2026-2027

CP02 Chatham College for Work Study Students; United States; On-site; USD 17,000 - 22,000; Part time

Job summary

Chatham University is seeking a sustainable agriculture apprentice for the Eden Hall campus farm. The role involves hands-on work across organic vegetables, orchards, and mushrooms with a collaborative team on campus.

Shifts run Monday to Friday with varied weekly tasks; apprentices may work up to 19 hours per week and can take two shifts per week. Responsibilities include pest identification, soil amendments, greenhouse work, and harvesting planning.

Qualifications

• Ability to collaborate on a team in a campus farm setting.
• Willingness to engage in hands-on agricultural tasks in various weather conditions.
• Strong communication and listening skills for field work.

Responsibilities

• Support organic vegetable production, orchard management, and mushroom production.
• Assist with pest identification and soil amendments on Eden Hall campus.
• Participate in greenhouse planting and harvesting planning with Parkhurst.
• Seasonal tasks include maple tapping and orchard work during winter.

Skills

Collaboration

Active listening

Hands-on

Outdoor work

Job description

We value our students! Join the farm team as a sustainable agriculture apprentice! Apprentices will work on a variety of agricultural enterprises which include organic vegetable production, orchard management, mushroom production, and other seasonal agricultural tasks on the Eden Hall campus. Each week and shift will be different depending on the farm's seasonal needs. Employees will work collaboratively with crews to accomplish tasks such as identifying pests, determining soil amendments, planting in greenhouse, and working with Parkhurst to determine harvesting plans. In the winter, we also tap maple trees and manage our organic orchards.

Shift logistics: Shifts run Monday to Friday from 9-12 and 1-4 for farm tasks. Students can work up to 19 hours a week and they can also work as little as two shifts (5-6 hours) a week.

Essential skills: Collaboration, active listening, excitement about hands-on work and working outdoors in all weather conditions.

All current student employees should notify their other manager(s) if you work multiple jobs on campus at the same time. Additionally, students may not work more than 20 hours per week (combined between all campus jobs) during the academic year. Students may not exceed 980 work hours per calendar year. Student jobs do not automatically roll over to the next academic year or summer.

Chatham University strives to promote a campus environment that understands and embraces multiculturalism while increasing individuals' intercultural competence. We actively work to build and sustain a diverse and culturally vibrant campus, which promotes employee and student success and retention. Chatham University is an Equal Opportunity Employer with a strong commitment to diversity, inclusion, and equity. Chatham University does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, age, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, marital or family status, political affiliation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that’s unique about our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to success, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it’s our people. Our employees are self-disciplined, hardworking, curious, trustworthy, humble and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in our area.