Welcome, Prospective Apprentice!

We hire neurodiverse apprentices for 10-week job contracts, structured around a clearly designed 7-step framework guided by mentors, who introduce work skills, provide job coaching, and help address specific challenges you may have experienced in getting and keeping a job.

This is an opportunity to add to your resume by doing paid work within a supportive environment designed to increase positive awareness around neurodiversity challenges and gifts.

Sample duties include:

  • Plant seeds, seedlings, and starts in varying weather conditions

  • Weeding, clean-up/compost, landscaping

  • Water, prune, and harvest

  • Prepare deliveries according to order for our distribution clients

Also:

We will work with you to learn more about your individual interests and talents, so that we can consider additional job responsibilities and assignments once we get to know you and you get to know our foundational garden program.

Qualifications:

  • Willingness to identify, communicate about, and work consistently on an identified area of personal development

  • Commitment to meeting all responsibilities identified in your employment contract in conversation with staff

  • Interest in working on a team with others

  • Ability to follow a task list, and learn to create your own in response to assigned duties

Time: Two mornings per week, 9:30-noon

When: Garden opens and positions become available in April through October.

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More information for Neurodiverse Apprentices: Detailed .pdf Apprentice Job Description here.