Agriculture Steward
ACES offers 10-12 week Agriculture Stewardship opportunities to our community members. High school and college students are encouraged to apply and it may be possible to integrate into school internship requirements. These Ag Steward positions will become involved in our regenerative agriculture program working with either our intensive vegetable production and/or our rotational livestock systems.
Possible Duties and Responsibilities
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:
1) Vegetable Production:
Assist with vegetable production including: soil preparation, seed propagation, irrigating, transplanting, and cultivation.
Assist with harvesting, washing, packaging, and sales of final vegetable products.
Assist with sales of produce and meat at farmers’ markets and at the ranch.
Assist with maintenance of vegetable production area by mowing and weed whacking
2) Livestock Production:
Assist with the daily care of cattle, sheep, goats, laying hens, broilers, turkeys, rabbits, and bees.
Daily care includes: providing feed and fresh water, creating electric fencing paddocks and moving animals through a multi-species rotational grazing system, mucking out stalls and houses, collecting and washing eggs.
Participate in humane, on-property slaughter of chickens and turkeys.
Possible Duties and Responsibilities Continued
3) Site Maintenance:
Site maintenance including mowing, weed whacking, fence repair, trail repair, event preparation, cleaning, or other site duties as needed.
4) Customer Service
Provide a welcoming and educational environment to all guests.
Lead farm tours.
Assist with sales of produce and meat at local farmers’ markets and at the ranch.
Participation in on-farm events including, but not limited to, dining events, educational programs, and farm tours.
To Apply
Applications will be reviewed annually from February 15th through March 19th. Find application details here.
ACES employees work with school children, therefore ACES conducts background checks for criminal history and motor vehicle records.
Aspen Center for Environmental Studies (ACES) is an Equal Opportunity Employer and complies with all federal laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or protected veteran or disabled status and will not be discriminated against.
