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SalaryCan Your Passion to Be of Service to the World Be Met at Plowshare Farm?
Live Your Ideals in an Inclusive, Sustainable Community
Plowshare Farm strives to be responsive to the social, human, spiritual and ecological needs of our times. At Plowshare, people with a wide range of capabilities – including people with special needs – Live and work side by side to build an Inclusive and Sustainable Community. As an Anthroposophically-based lifesharing community, we are innovators creating a model of social and ecological renewal.
Have you wondered if another way of living might be right for you? Do you find yourself searching for something more – more human connection, more meaning, more fulfillment? Plowshare Farm might be just what you’ve been searching for.
If you’re someone with a pioneer spirit, there is room here to make a real contribution to building a Sustainable Community. At the same time, joining the Plowshare Farm community takes people on a journey of inner transformation: as you support others to unfold to their fullest potential, you will find yourself doing the same.
At Plowshare, we live in extended family households that include people with developmental challenges, yearlong service volunteers, coworkers, and often children. People who demonstrate qualities of leadership and presence take responsibility for a household and also carry a craft (such as farming, gardening, handcrafts, pottery, baking, etc). We invite inquiries from people who have the experience to step directly into these responsibilities, and also from younger people who hope to grow into them through a term of voluntary service.
Do you have some of these traits, related experiences and skills:
- A passion for the Practical Arts and Social Arts?
- Living in community?
- Waldorf School teaching?
- Building maintenance and care? Mechanics/equipment care?
- Home health care?
- A homesteading impulse?
- Spiritual striving?
- Conservation/environmental stewardship?
We are looking for applicants with: enthusiasm for bringing out the best in others; striving toward a healthy, rhythmical lifestyle; openness to work out of an Anthroposophically-informed understanding of the developing human being; good household skills including orderliness and financial management; desire to Live and work in a spiritually striving community; some practical skill (hand crafts, farming, baking, pottery, fiber arts, woodwork, mechanics, etc.); and preferably at least one of the following: a background with the developmentally disabled, training in Social Therapy, a foundational knowledge of Anthroposophy, or an artistic practice.
Plowshare Farm respects and values family life. We offer a balanced lifestyle including meaningful work, time for oneself, and generous vacation time (6 weeks per year).
Our Year of Service volunteers receive free room and board, and a monthly allowance for incidental expenses.
Long-term Lifesharing Coworker benefits include health insurance, monthly employer contributions to a Health Savings Account, a contribution toward Waldorf School tuition for children of coworkers, compensation and retirement. We also offer training in Social Therapy through the Camphill Academy.
Plowshare Farm is nestled in the woods of southern New Hampshire where there are thriving Waldorf Schools, adult education opportunities, an active Anthroposophical Society, and a beautiful natural environment. We are an hour and a half northwest of Boston.
Job Type: Full-time
Schedule:
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- Night shift
- Weekends as needed
Work Location: In person
