Get Involved
Cotyledon Farm offers year round opportunities to get involved.
Our food is grown for and by our members and supporting community. By working or volunteering at Cotyledon Farm, you are participating in sustainable, local agriculture, which helps our community thrive.
Opportunities Include:
- Work Share May-October
- Year Round Internships, 3 months minimum
- Volunteer Work Days, Saturday mornings, June-October
- Special Project Work Days with your group, school, or company
- School Community Service Hours
Volunteer Work Days
Community Work Hours are Open to the Public 2 Saturdays a Month. Check Community Calendar for Dates.
These workdays are designed to welcome and include non-members on to the farm to participate in farm work activities. Attendees must be 12 years of age or older. Youth must be with an adult guardian.
Typical tasks include weeding, transplanting, planting bed prep, trellising, harvesting, and more. Please wear sturdy, closed toed shoes, and be ready to work with appropriate clothing, including rain gear. Hiking boots and comfortable clothing you’d wear for yard work are ideal.
If you have any mobility restrictions, you must contact us to discuss accommodations before coming to the farm.
Any questions or concerns, please contact CotyledonFarm@gmail.com.
Workshare Information
Workshare members are essential to the daily and seasonal operations on this farm. Each one is a cornerstone of what makes this place so special.
What you give: 8 hours per week for 22 weeks (mid-May through the end of October with the option to continue on if desired). Folks who wish to start earlier in the year can, with potentially shorter weekly hours to accommodate the ebb and flow of the season and produce availability.
What you receive: Each week during the CSA season you will receive a Full Share + 1 dozen eggs. You also receive 10% off each farm-store purchase during the work-season. In the shoulder seasons when the CSA is not in full swing, you’ll receive as much produce as is available.
What this is: A relationship. An opportunity. An exchange. A gift for each of us. I’m learning more about what a “gift economy” looks like, and if we value our time and the products of our labor as gifts, would we treat them differently?
This is partially-compensated volunteerism. We do this work because we can benefit from it directly in tangible ways, but we also benefit in ways that are not always explicit. It’s something we do for ourselves, for our community, and our loved ones.
What this is not: A dollar for dollar match for your labor. Why? Lots of reasons, namely, this farm enterprise is more than “just” a farm and it is not economically viable at this time to offer explicitly dollar for dollar matches for every hour worked. We have volunteers, members, friends, family, and students work on this farm at different times of year to help sustain this beautiful, complicated, ambitious thing.
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