Assistant Dairy Manager at Light Root Community Farm in Boulder, Colorado

Light Root Community Farm is a 65 acre highly diversified farm and dairy located in Boulder, Colorado.  We operate a small holistic grass-based dairy focused on producing high quality raw milk for our herd share member program. Our dairy herd is made up primarily of jersey and jersey cross cows on a once- a-day milking routine and integrated into a management intensive grazing system on the farm.  We integrate a flock of 150+ pastured organic laying hens into our grazing systems providing egg shares for farm members.  The Farm includes a small demonstration garden with raised beds using a low till system to grow medicinal herbs, flowers and vegetables.  We also grow 1-3 acres of field crops and cover crops.   The farm utilizes draft animal power (horses, oxen and donkeys),  for all field tillage, cultivation and hay production on the farm. Draft animal power supports our values of being light on the land, reducing our carbon footprint by reducing use of fossil fuels, contributing to on-farm fertility, and supporting a living relationship between the land, animals, and farmers. 

 We value a direct relationship with the community we feed, and all of the farm’s products are marketed through our farmstand and farm share memberships. Light Root Community Farm’s  practices are rooted in Biodynamic, Organic and Regenerative farming methods to promote diversity, and health and resilience in the soil, plants, animals and humans on the farm. 

Light Root Community Farm also operates a non profit–Living Earth Agriculture Foundation,  which holds the social mission of our work.  LEAF offers a variety of  therapeutic and educational programming, volunteer opportunities, farmer training workshops, and  youth camps to connect, educate, and provide healing to the community by deepening our relationship to Agriculture.   The working farm is the basis for the community programming, and operates in collaboration to support the mission of both entities. 

We are now accepting applications for a Assitant Dairy Manager to start as early as summer 2024 or until the posistion is filled.  If you are interested in learning more about the posisiton please see the attached pdf below or go to our website at https://www.lightroot.farm/join-our-farm-team.