Farm Manager

Antioch College Farm

Position Title: Farm Manager

Reports To: Antioch College Farm Director

Department: Antioch College Farm

FLSA Status: Full-time, salaried, exempt

Schedule: 40 hours per week, including some early-morning and weekend work on a rotating schedule for animal care, markets, and events

Benefits: Comprehensive benefits package, including health, dental, and vision insurance, a retirement plan, and paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays

About the Antioch College Farm

The Antioch College Farm uses ecological agriculture to provide an integrated context for liberal arts learning. A small, public-facing farm and a College-wide asset, it serves as an outdoor classroom and living laboratory that connects student work to campus dining and the wider Yellow Springs community. The Farm includes diversified annual crops in fields and hoop houses, pastured poultry, livestock grazing on the campus solar arrays, orchards and perennial food forests, and native prairie, all managed with organic and ecological methods. It supplies campus dining, sells to the local community, and hosts courses, certificate and summer programs, volunteer days, tours, workshops, and events.

Position Summary

The Farm Manager runs the day-to-day operation of the Antioch College Farm and helps carry out its long-term plan in partnership with the Farm Director. The Manager is a teacher and a grower: they mentor student workers, help teach Farm-based courses, and welcome children, volunteers, and community members onto a working farm. We are looking for an experienced, consistent, and dependable grower who enjoys working with students and the public.

Essential Responsibilities

• Oversee daily Farm operations, including crop planning, planting, cultivation, harvest, and seasonal workflow.
• Care for poultry and other livestock, including feeding, moving mobile housing, health monitoring, and egg collection and handling.
• Maintain the College’s solar array sites, including vegetation management, fencing, routine inspections, and coordination with grazing partners.
• Maintain orchards, perennial plantings, campus compost, and Farm infrastructure, including tools, equipment, hoop houses, fencing, and irrigation.
• Help teach Farm-based courses, support certificate, summer, and workshop programs, and assist faculty who use the Farm as an outdoor classroom.
• Supervise, train, and mentor student workers, seasonal staff, and volunteers, including scheduling and approving timesheets.
• Lead tours and hands-on activities for K–12 groups, community members, and campus events, and contribute photos and updates for Farm communications.
• Manage Farm sales, which may include farmers markets, eggs, native plants, and CSA shares, and maintain food-safety certifications (such as GAP) and records.
• Keep production, sales, and labor records, and help manage the Farm budget, purchasing, and grant reporting with the Farm Director.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Required

• Bachelor’s degree in sustainable agriculture, life sciences, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

• At least two years of hands-on ecological or organic farming experience, including both crops and livestock.

• A demonstrated record of dependable, sustained work, and experience teaching or mentoring students, youth, or volunteers.

• Strong communication, organization, and recordkeeping skills; comfortable speaking to groups.

• Valid driver’s license and ability to pass a background check (the position works with minors).

• First Aid/CPR certification and Produce Safety Alliance grower training, or willingness to complete both within the first year.

• Preferred

• Experience supervising student or seasonal crews.

• Experience with pastured poultry, small ruminants, or orchards.

• Farmers market, CSA, or food-safety certification experience.

• Experience in a college, school, or nonprofit farm education setting.

• Working Conditions

• This position works primarily outdoors in all weather and seasons, with some office time. It requires physical farm work, including lifting up to 50 pounds, operating farm equipment, and moving across uneven terrain. Some early-morning, evening, and weekend work is required.