Bright Spot Farms

Bright Spot Farms

Bright Spot Farms is an agriculture-focused training program of the West End Neighborhood House. Founded in 2011 with the goal of providing paid employment training pathways for young adults, Bright Spot Farms today continues to provide meaningful hands-on work experience and training to 25 high school students from Wilmington and New Castle County each year.

We believe in the power of farming to transform people through building confidence and fostering leadership. Our objective is to heal and empower the young people in our program by rooting our farming in an ethic of community service. Bright Spot Farms operates a working farm and nursery/garden center through which it trains youth and sells bedding plants, vegetable and herb starts, and fresh chemical-free vegetables to its Wilmington and New Castle community. Further help on this page can be found by clicking here.

Member Duties : The Bright Spot Farms Seasonal Assistant, providing Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Management will: Complete CSA Administrative tasks, order add-on products and additional produce for CSA boxes, format and develop content for weekly newsletter, perform outreach, tabling, and meetings as necessary, organize open houses and farm events for CSA members, Manage CSA produce and membership tracker documents (Excel spreadsheets), format and develop content for social media sites (Instagram & Facebook), liaison between community partners (Senior centers, Community Centers) and Bright Spot Farm.

Develop relationships and partnerships, ongoing communication in form of emails or on-site visits, retain partnerships and recruit for additional partners, deliver bulk CSA produce to community partners, set up on-site produce stand at Senior centers. AmeriCorps member will not be engaged in sales of produce.

Program Benefits : Education award upon successful completion of service .

Terms :

Permits working at another job during off hours , Permits attendance at school during off hours , Uniforms provided and required .

Service Areas :

Community Outreach , Environment .

Skills :

Computers/Technology , Agriculture/Farming , General Skills , Team Work , Environment , Recruitment , Youth Development .