WORKING AT RED FIRE FARM
Hours at Red Fire Farm:
Monday through Friday, we start at 8:30am and work until about 6:30pm (sometimes longer when the season is really cranking, so flexibility is important). Apprentices, managers and others living in the farm house share the rotation of weekend duties, working part of a weekend once a month.
Location:
Red Fire Farm is a 50 acre farm located in southern Hampshire County on Taylor and Carver Streets in Granby Massachusetts. Fields of flat vegetable soils and upland pasture surrounding a substantial beaver pond make the farm as picturesque as it is productive. Twenty five minutes from Amherst, 30 minutes from Northampton, and 10 minutes from the Chicopee Memorial State Park(beautiful swimming lake), you can easily get to the attractions of the Five College area. Some of us also like to go up to Greenfield for contradancing and beers or homemade ginger-ale at the People’s Pint.
Living on the farm:
Some of the positions offer housing as compensation.
We have an old-style farm house on the farm property. It includes
private bedrooms and shared living room, bathroom, and kitchen/dining
room.
There is a beautiful new porch that everyone eats lunch on during
the summer.
The house is about 40 feet from the farm stand, and folks just run
over and pick up vegetables, fresh cheese, or whatever else they
need for cooking.
The barn also has a large hang-out space with lots of couches for
parties or visitors.
This past year, the chef made two big delicious lunch meals a week;
that is likely to be the norm for next year also.
The rest of meals are on your own, though many times people make
meals to share with everyone in the evenings.