Apply for Mentorship

To apply for the Mentorship in Sustainable Farming at Carnation Farms, please answer the questions below. After completing the form, email your resume. The deadline is midnight on Friday, February 4, 2022. All fields with an asterisk (*) must be filled in order to submit this application.

Current Mailing Address*
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Permanent Address*
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Demographic Information
We request optional demographic information on age, gender, and ethnicity to ensure that we are reaching applicants from a wide variety of backgrounds.
Date of Birth
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Gender identifying as:
Ethnicity identifying as:

Application Questions
Your answers to the questions below help the Carnation Farms team understand your background and interest in the Mentorship in Sustainable Agriculture. For each question, your response should be between 50 and 300 words.

Question #1: Describe your previous employment, internships, WOOFing (World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms), working on a family farm, or volunteer/service learning experience, if any, in farming or gardening. If you have not had such experience, please tell us about other experiences that you feel give you background in farming or related skills that would transfer to farming.*

Question #2: What is your vision for your future in farming? Carnation Farms devotes considerable time and financial resources to help participants in the Mentorship gain the skills and knowledge needed to establish their own food-producing farms. How does this program fit into your short-term and long-term career goals? What do you hope to gain through this program that will help you be successful? In your response, please let us know if you have ever visited Carnation Farms.*

Question #3: Since farms are businesses, we are interested in knowing whether you have worked for a business. If you have, please provide an example of a business challenge and how you or the business overcame it.*

Question #4: The Mentorship involves classroom and experiential learning related to farming. Please describe any education you have received, which could include classes, conferences, trainings, workshops, or college or online coursework related to agriculture.*

Question #5: Farming is physically demanding and requires hard work, sometimes in inclement weather, and can include repetitive tasks. Our program requires personal motivation and work ethic. Please tell us how your experiences have prepared you for hard work. Also, tell us how you imagine staying motivated through the duration of the Mentorship.*

Question #6: Carnation Farms’ Mentorship is strongly based on our public-facing Mission and our internal Manifesto, one component of which is to “grow new farmers to ensure a sustainable food systems for generations to come.” Our program is built around taking direction and learning from mentors who have had years of experience in local agriculture. Tell us about a place you’ve worked in the past, how you sought to understand its mission and objectives, and adapted to their processes, techniques, or procedures.*

Question #7: Carnation Farms provides affordable housing (rent and utilities) on the farm for individuals in the Mentorship program, beginning April 1st and ending November 30th, 2022. This includes a separate bedroom, with shared kitchen and living areas. If you plan to use housing, please tell what community living and/or rural living experience do you have had. What are some of the challenges and rewards of living in community and living rurally?*

Knowledge and Skills*
Farming requires a broad set of knowledge and skills. The list below includes some of the topics that mentees will learn at Carnation Farms. Please check the boxes of any areas in which you already have had experience. To select more than one choice hold down the control button on the keyboard while making your choices.

Pick one or two of the topics above and briefly tell us something about what you have already learned and why it is important to being a successful farmer.*

Mentorship Completion Requirement*
The Mentorship program begins April 4th and ends November 30th, 2022. Are you prepared to commit to the duration? If not, what prevents your full participation?

Previous Employer
Please provide information necessary for a reference check with a previous employer. Please include both the business and supervisor names.

Additional Reference
Someone who can tell us about your interest in farming, such as a mentor, a member of a volunteer organization or board, another employer, or someone with whom you have a professional relationship.

What would you like us to know?*
Finally, this is a chance for you to shine! Please tell us anything else about yourself that would make you a fine apprentice. You could: tell us something you’re particularly proud of, make a video of yourself sharing your interest in farming, attach photos, provide a link to online media that you created, attach a report or poem, tell a story of an experience that convinced you to go into farming, or anything else. The sky is the limit!

Questions?

Thank you for your interest in the Mentorship in Sustainable Agriculture at Carnation Farms. Please remember to email your resume.
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Demographic Information