BARN + POSTHARVEST MANAGER - Full-time, year round - Starts late Feb/early March - Strong organizational skills and enthusiasm for order and lists required. Help lead others towards the goal of a clean, orderly cooler and beautiful, clean produce.

Barn Manager and Paprika Post-Harvest Coordinator

  • 30-35 hours/week

  • year round: Help make our produce clean and beautiful and assure that it gets to the right destination. This position works from our climate-controlled wash/pack barn in Damariscotta. Strong organizational skills and enthusiasm for order and lists required. Help lead others towards the goal of a clean, orderly cooler and beautiful, clean produce.

  • August - November: work with the crew to process our farm-grown, heritage peppers into paprika and other Chile flakes, maintaining production and inventory records and managing online order fulfillment

  • October - December: prepare and staff bi-weekly CSA pick ups

Paprika Manager This is a position that focuses on our newest line of farm grown paprika and dried Chile flakes. This is a leadership position that focuses on our paprika from harvest through sales.

Responsibilities are centered around

-pepper harvest and processing (drying, grinding)

-paprika packaging, jarring

-record keeping, batch creation, inventory management

-overseeing order fulfillment for our online store

-promotion and marketing work for the right candidate

-work at the Common Ground Country Fair

Paprika work occurs from August 1 though Jan 1.

For candidates interested in season long year round employment: we have other combinations of positions (spring greenhouse for instance) that can work in concert to provide full employment.

Part Time Farm Crew. If you have another job, gig, or are launching your own project, but want to get involved in some some meaningful outdoor work to balance things out, we welcome part time farm employees.  Open to between 1-4 mornings per week. 7-12. We are flexible and can work with your needs and interests.

Full Time Vegetable Crew Member

work directly with Brendan and the totality of the farm crew to ensure the healthy, organized and effective management of our organic field vegetable production.

This will include integration in greenhouse production, planting and harvesting. Ideally a successful match will become familiar with the cultural practices we employ at Morning Dew Farm to produce a diverse selection of seasonal produce. This includes weed control strategies, season extension tools, irrigation, and soil building practices. For an individual with some experience looking to improve their understanding and build their decision making skill set, a weekly farm walk with Brendan that explores meta- management strategies can be provided. This position has the potential to grow into a managerial position in a second year with additional autonomy and creative freedom.

Full and Part time Farm Crew Positions

  • Work as a team to achieve weekly tasks both big and little with a good diversity through the week and a wide scope through the year. From spreading compost to building caterpillar tunnels, setting up irrigation, planting, harvesting, trellis work, cleaning, packing and delivering, you will probably be asked to do a little of everything through year, but nothing the owners won’t do along side you. We need a mix of full and part time folks to make the magic happen, and are experienced in accommodating a wide variety of schedules to help make it work for the both of us.

  • Greenhouse work starts in March and outdoor harvests go until December, so inquire anytime: often times we could use a hand!


Greenhouse Crew Positions

  • Greenhouse Crew Positions Full or part time, runs March through June with option to transition to field crew when greenhouse closes accepting applications for 2026.

    • If working in a warm greenhouse full of plants on a cold March day is up your alley, this is the position for you. We start the season off with a bang, gearing up for the gardening season with hundreds of thousands of starts for home gardeners. Basic seeding responsibilities and care plus keeping lists organized, checking on germination and growth, monitoring for pest and diseases, managing temperature and ventilation, and maintaining a general awareness of plant health. May to June seedling pick up organization and once a week customer service.

  • Field and Tunnel Vegetable Production co-managers: positions filled

    • Planting, cultivating and harvesting daily operation of our Damariscotta fields and tunnels. This individual will have independence and input when it comes to developing and executing a weekly plan and will work closely with farm owner-operators to maintain regular supply of greens crops as well as more flexible seasonal varieties. This position is well suited to someone with a strong baseline in production farming who wants to gain experience in observation and decision making on the farm. This is an independent position, but will have the option to draw on other members of the farm team for help on larger projects.

    • must have minimum 3 seasons of commercial vegetable farm experience

  • Microgreen Greenhouse co-manager - Position filled. Part to Full time, Year Round position with growth potential. If you are highly organized, love working in the sunshine (think 70° greenhouse on sunny days in January) and enjoy working both independently and as part of a group of people who sincerely enjoy growing food together for our community, apply! Greenhouse, farm or food-service related experience is a plus, but we will train the right candidate.

  • Winter/Spring Greenhouse assistant Summer/Fall Wash and Pack Manager hiring for this position currently paused

    • Year-round Job with two distinct seasonal responsibilities

    • Greenhouse Assistant Management: February to June. If working in a warm greenhouse full of plants on a cold March day is up your alley, this is the position for you. We start the season off with a bang, gearing up for the gardening season with thousands of starts for home gardeners. Basic seeding responsibilities and care plus keeping lists organized, checking on germination and growth, monitoring for pest and diseases, managing temperature and ventilation, and maintaining a general awareness of plant health. May to June seedling pick up organization and once a week customer service.

    • Wash + Pack Assistant Management June to February Help make our produce clean and beautiful and assure that it gets to the right destination. This position works from our new washing pack barn in Damariscotta. Strong organizational skills and enthusiasm for order and lists required. Help leads others towards the goal of a clean, orderly cooler and beautiful, clean produce.

    • Greenhouse, farm or food-service related experience is a plus, but we will train the right candidate.

PAPRIKA KITCHEN CREW - Part-time Seasonal - September and October - Help us produce our farm to table Paprika. Due to the concentrated harvest season for peppers in Maine, we need to handle and dry hundreds of pounds of heirloom peppers each week. This is a flexible position that can be between 1 and 3 days per week 4 hours per shift. Shifts are available 7 days a week in the afternoons.

Paprika Prep Crew Sept and Oct. Help us produce our farm to table Paprika. Due to the concentrated harvest season for peppers in Maine, we need to handle and dry hundreds of pounds of heirloom peppers each week. This is a flexible position that can be between 1 and 3 days per week 4 hours per shift. Shifts are available 7 days a week in the afternoons.

Our farm grows and harvests organic vegetables year round. We work outdoors in the fields March to November. Our microgreens greenhouse and our pack/wash barn are bustling with activity year round. We also have a busy greenhouse season in the spring growing and selling vegetable and flower starts for home gardeners. Every employee has a diverse range of tasks, and we work with individuals to create a job list that best suits their interests, existing skill set and acquisition of new skills.

Pay starts at $17/hour for part-time seasonal, $19/hour for roles with more managerial responsibilities

Thank you for your interest being a part of our farm! WE LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU.

TO APPLY: submit your resume and cover letter along with this application

We are a family farm, and we strive to make each member of our crew feel engaged and empowered. 

Our Farm

Morning Dew Farm is a certified-organic, community-minded farm with a focus on providing customers with vibrant, nutrient dense food with an eye to flavor, color and diversity. In the spring we grow vegetable and flower starts for retail stores and home gardeners, in the summer and fall we provide a succession of seasonal vegetables to over 30 stores and restaurants along the Mid-Coast, and we grow microgreens year round in our heated greenhouses. There are a diversity of tasks to accomplish throughout the season and there are many roles to fill both small and large. We can accommodate many schedules and seasonal shifts. If you are interested in getting out in the fields and helping feed the community, let’s see where you might fit into our farm family!