charlie sanford

Honey Feast Farm & Apiary
6895 Lake Nellie Road, Clermont, FL 34714
Part-Time Initially with Opportunity to Grow into Full-Time Leadership Position

Build Something Special From the Ground Up

Honey Feast Farm is a growing 15-acre organic farm and apiary in Clermont, Florida. We are developing a farm stand and community-focused organic produce program that connects local families directly with fresh food grown close to home.

We are looking for a passionate, entrepreneurial individual who wants more than just a job. We want someone who is excited about local food, sustainable agriculture, environmental stewardship, and building a thriving farm-to-community program.

This person will play a key role in helping shape the future of our farm stand, vegetable production areas, and customer community.

The Opportunity

You will help design, build, and manage our organic produce operation from the ground up.

This includes helping determine what crops to grow, developing growing plans, establishing production systems, expanding the customer base, improving the farm stand experience, and helping create a destination where people can regularly purchase fresh local produce and farm products.

This is a hands-on position. While there is planning and leadership involved, we are looking for someone who is willing to work alongside the crops and the land every day.

Responsibilities

Help plan and develop vegetable growing areas
Select crops and seasonal planting schedules
Establish and maintain organic growing systems
Plant, weed, irrigate, harvest, and care for crops
Assist with greenhouse and propagation activities as needed
Build and improve farm stand operations
Develop customer relationships and community engagement
Create programs that encourage repeat visits and local participation
Help establish a strong farm-to-table and local food culture
Coordinate harvests and product availability
Maintain high quality standards for produce presentation
Assist with marketing, events, and community outreach
Track crop performance and identify opportunities for improvement
Help grow the produce operation into a sustainable long-term business
What We're Looking For

The ideal candidate believes in:

Supporting local food systems
Reducing unnecessary food transportation
Strengthening local communities
Organic and sustainable agriculture
Environmental stewardship
Building relationships with customers
You should also be comfortable with:

Physical outdoor work
Working in Florida heat and weather
Lifting, planting, harvesting, weeding, and irrigation work
Problem-solving and taking initiative
Building systems from the ground up
Preferred Experience

Experience in one or more of the following is highly desirable:

Organic farming
Market gardening
Vegetable production
Regenerative agriculture
Farm stand management
Farmers markets
Greenhouse production
Community agriculture programs
Agricultural education
Small business development
Passion, initiative, and a willingness to learn are just as important as experience.

Compensation

Compensation will be based on experience and responsibilities.

The position will begin part-time and is intended to grow into a full-time leadership role as the farm stand and produce operation expand.

Why Join Honey Feast?

This is an opportunity to help create something meaningful. We are building a farm where people can reconnect with local food, support local agriculture, and enjoy products grown with care and integrity.

If you are passionate about organic growing, community building, environmental stewardship, and helping create a successful farm-to-community program, we would love to hear from you.

Benefits:


Flexible schedule
Paid time off
Relocation assistance
Work Location: In person

This position will be filled before 1/4/2025

We are a 15 acre farm in Central Florida with a large customer base for our honeys.  We produce honey which is our main source of income.  We also are building a store and want to grow organic crops for the store.  We have 5 acres of organic peaches and 5 acres of organic oranges to tend to as a u-pick.

We are looking for 1 person possibly 2 in the right situation.  No kids.  To live on the farm and work for us to grow this endeavor further for $16 per hour.
Daily duties would include honey bottling and cleaning floors and taking out recycling etc. in the honey room and helping grow crops, help with establishing chickens for eggs and dairy cow, sell goods in the store.
We are located in Central Florida.
We have a nice 2 bedroom 1 bath home available that we basically just use for lunch and would provide a room.   Its a very nice home.
This person would have to be a perfect fit to gel with us so we are really wanting to start some dialogue and get to know anyone interested and feel out the possibilities.
Must be into organics and natural living.

Hey our farm is right down the street from you.  Why dont you come pick some organic U-pick peaches for free and come say hi?  The peaches are looking really nice this year!  

Can anyone chime in or physically help with this project?  

I have 5 acres of Naval Oranges, 5 acres of peaches and 3 acres of baby Macadamia trees.  I have not used any chemicals or fertilizers for over 18 months.  This year I purchased a John Deere 5067 tractor and a great no till seeder.  I want to plant some cover crops like sun hemp or sorghum Sudan or a mix and maybe an inoculant to fix nitrogen in the trees.  My naval oranges actually look really nice the old farmer said he spread 140 pounds of synthetic fertilizer on the orange trees and thats why they look so good.  They have greening.  What's weird is these synthetic fertilizers just give a short burst of nitrogen and I think with the right mix of cover crops and innoculants we could run a great test to see if the slow release of the nitrogen helps heal the trees.  I also want to plant some pine trees and oaks and various diversity in the rows where some of the dead trees are.

I bought a cool Italian flail mower that gets under the trees real good so I have not used any glyphosate or anything to kill the grass under the trees I let it grow wild for 1 year and just chopped up all that natural biomass so there's a good over over the soil now.

I included a BEFORE photo of the soil when I bought the grove 18 months ago really sandy soil with lots of glyphosate.

Anyways I am looking for anyone local that wants to chime in and maybe see it evolve and run a cool test on them with me.  I am new to this but love learning and trying things.

I noticed (maybe I overlooked something) that the UF and citrus labs never really study the natural methods effectiveness on healing citrus greening.  And I am willing to sacrifice my trees for a cool organic test.  Hopefully it works but it would be cool to have multiple inputs on what to do.  

Hope to hear from you.

Hello!  I have built this cool honey business by Disney world.  The honey is sold in tons of grocery stores now so we bought a 15 acre farm and have a 5 acre you pick peach grove and oranges.  I can fund the off grid project with the honey biz but I don’t have the right female partner to settle down with and take it to the next level so if you’re interested I would consider.  Love Charlie