Student Employment
What better way to learn how a small farm operates than with hands on experience while getting paid?
- Jobs average 12-24 hours per week
- Student must be enrolled in 6 units in the Fall and Spring, and 3 units in the Summer
- Must have a valid driver's license.
- For more information or to apply, please e-mail shonefarm@santarosa.edu.
Farm Intern
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- Designed for SRJC Sustainable Agriculture program students to deepen and enhance their knowledge and learning
- Participate in farm maintenance as well as perform tasks supporting irrigation and fertilization
- Participate in orchard management, including pruning, thinning, and harvesting
- Hand-scale bed preparation, transplanting (both mechanical and by hand), weeding and cultivation, installing crop infrastructure, ongoing crop maintenance, harvest, post-harvest handling, and packing
- Participate in all greenhouse activities including making potting mix, sowing seeds, watering, potting up,and asexual propagating by divisions, cuttings, etc.
Farm Sales Assistant
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- Creating marketing materials: taking photos, crafting content for e-mails and social media
- Assisting at Pick and Sip events at Shone Farm one Saturday each month
- Organizing and delivering produce, value added goods, and possibly wine
- Coordinating and distributing food to students through the SRJC Student Equity program
Wine Sales Assistant
Job duties may include:
- Creating marketing materials: taking photos, crafting content for e-mails and social media
- Assisting at Pick and Sip events at Shone Farm one Saturday each month
- Running and tracking wine promotions
- Helping with the wine club
Livestock Tech
Job duties may include:
- Working with a small herd of beef cattle, goats, and sheep
- Assisting the supervisor in day-to-day activities to maintain the livestock facilities
- Assisting with rotating livestock in pasture, moving, feeding, and handling livestock as needed
- This position is about 12 hours/ week
Resident Program
- Shone Farm offers students the ability to reside in Resident Housing located on the farm
- In lieu of rent, student residents are able to do a work exchange of approximately 12 hours per week
- Applications are accepted year round
- Move-in dates correspond with each semester
- Resident Housing Application
Wildfire Resilience Program
- Student interns participate in a semester-long wildfire training with professionals from Fire Forward and Laguna Foundation
- Provides hands-on training in the 120-acre SRJC Shone Farm forest
- Students work on reducing wildfire fuel and reintroducing “good fire” (fire in controlled situations) into the landscape
- This training gets students ready for this very important and growing workforce
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Volunteer
Please reach out to shonefarm@santarosa.edu to discuss volunteer options. If you will be volunteering, you will need to fill out the following two forms:
Volunteer Form - We have found it is best to download this form and then open it using Adobe Acrobat. This allows you to fill it out electronically.