Stepping Stone Farm is a working market garden in a delightful, fertile valley, 8kms from the centre of Moruya, NSW.
It has been set up with all the infrastructure, tooling, vehicles and machinery needed for a viable market farming business based on organic and regenerative farming practices.
There is a full time mentor/manager with many years experience growing vegetables and teaching aspiring farmers. Currently there is 0.5 Ha under cultivation and the plan is to gradually increase this to 3 Ha over the next few years. Interns will be given the skill set, knowledge and experience needed to both develop a business plan and then implement it. We want to give new farmers a better chance of securing capital and land access, and a better chance to realise their farm business aspirations.
We are partnered with Campbell Page's EcoCrews program that provides opportunities for interns, but at present there are no places left on this round of the program. You can call the team at EcoCrews on 1300 291 003 for more details about the next round.
However, SAGE offers its own intern program. You can apply below.
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We’re thrilled to announce we’ve partnered with Campbell Page's EcoCrews program that will offer paid jobs to locals living in the Eurobodalla!
Please note that there are no places currently available. Please call the team at EcoCrews on 1300 291 003 to find out when the next round of applications will be.
Working and learning at Stepping Stone Farm as part of a tight knit crew, you’ll do everything from planning, preparation and growing through to sales and distribution of produce.
Over 6 months of paid work, you’ll become a competent and confident market grower so you can start your own sustainable veggie farming business.
The Stepping Stone Farm EcoCrew provides paid agriculture jobs with accredited training for locals in the Eurobodalla.
Call the team at EcoCrews on 1300 291 003 or click here to sign up now.
In this award wage job you'll get hands on skills and qualifications like:
Call the team at EcoCrews on 1300 291 003 or click here to sign up now.
"I’ve landed in a community of like-minded individuals who love growing quality produce in a sustainable way. There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t learn something new. My favourite activities on the farm so far have been growing our own seedlings, experimenting with microgreens, and harvesting, washing, and packing our produce for the weekly SAGE markets and our growing customer base. I’ve also been taken out of my comfort zone and learned how to operate farm machinery and use a range of tools and implements, with expert guidance and encouragement.
The farm’s most significant impact on me has been raising my awareness about the phenomenal taste of produce grown in soil organically and how this is affecting growing numbers of consumers in such a positive and healthy way.
I’ve never eaten so well in all my life, despite being a keen cook and home gardener. Another significant impact on me during this internship has been the opportunity to connect with a diverse range of committed locals, who are determined to develop SSF into a model educational farm. I feel like I’m at the forefront of a modern, community-based small farm movement."
"Stepping Stone Farm’s first year has been an exhaustively full spectrum of the mouth-watering highs and water-logged lows of market gardening.
With any vestiges of idealism ripped to shreds, and even through the turbulence of a season of fire recovery, floods, pandemic and heart failure, I can say with honesty that my faith, knowledge and practice in local food systems has only grown throughout my internship, and that I have Joyce, Shani and the Stepping Stone team to thank for their roles in that."
