Current Positions Available January 2011:

1. Paid - Farm Marketing and Sales Position

2. Unpaid - Farm and Processing apprenticeship

1. Farm Marketing and Sales Position
Purpose –
The purpose of this position is to acquire, manage, and provide customer service for new accounts for the various food products offered by North Mountain Pastures (NMP).

Major Duties- 1. Acquisition and management of new wholesale accounts – Primary responsibility of position is calling, visiting, and organizing distribution to new wholesale accounts. This will require coordination with other NMP employees on availability of vehicles, and/or coordination with other distribution avenues.  2. Establishment of new CSA delivery sites and Buyer's Club sites – Marketing and organizing new delivery sites for both of the aforementioned.  3. Coordination with other NMP divisions – Necessary time spent communicating with production to verify availability of goods for sale, communication with accounting to verify payment from accounts, and any other needs.

Additional Duties - 1. Deliveries – about 1-2 days a week will be spent verifying packed orders, loading up, driving to, and delivering orders for wholesale orders, buyer's club, and CSA dropoffs.  2. Farmer's Markets – Another 1-2 days a week will be spent attending farmer's markets, directly selling and managing sales of NMP products.

Application Details - This is a new position, and applicants should be aware that they will be a part of developing this position with us as young business owners.  The timeframe for the job is beginning in January 2011, and with the hope of remaining a long term position.  Please send letter of interest and resume to Brooks at brooks@northmountainpastures.com.  Feel free to contact Brooks at 717-497-3496 or brooks@northmountainpastures.com for more job description information and compensation details.  

2. Farming/Processing Apprentice, 2010-2011

North Mountain Pastures is looking for farm/food processing apprentices.  We are a grass-based farm in Perry County, PA, raising poultry, lamb, and pork, marketing our products through a meat CSA and two DC farmer’s markets.  We also make fermented vegetables from organic produce for sale to our customers.

We’re in the process of setting up a USDA-inspected butcher shop a mile from our farm to process traditional dry-cured meats for sale.  We will be making several kinds of bacon, prosciutto, salami, and other cured meats with only Himalayan sea salt and organic spices.

Apprentices will be responsible for 35-40 hours a week of farm, marketing, and processing duties.  These will include, but are not limited to feeding and moving animals on pasture, maintaining and improving infrastructure, washing eggs, helping with CSA deliveries, going to farmer’s market in DC, making fermented vegetables, making cured meats, and learning about food processing and HACCP requirements.

Apprentices will receive room and board, with their own bedroom in an apartment with a full kitchen above the processing facility.  All food will be provided, with most of it coming from our farm or neighboring farms.  As a requirement, the apprentice will develop a product that conforms to our farm philosophy, write a business plan for the product, and process and sell the product to our customers.  We provide the facilities and markets, the apprentice provides the ideas and labor, and all profits go to the apprentice.

This is a new program, and apprentices should be aware that they will be a part of developing this program with us as young business owners.  The timeframe for the apprenticeship is Aug 2010-July 2011.  Please contact Brooks at 717-497-3496 or brooks@northmountainpastures.com for more information.