Birdsfoot Farm

As a Farm Hand at Birdsfoot Farm in Canton, New York, I worked alongside the farm owner, Dulli, contributing to all aspects of daily farm operations. My responsibilities included planting, weeding, harvesting, produce maintenance, washing and packaging vegetables, preparing CSA shares, and helping manage the Birdsfoot stand at the Canton Farmers' Market. Through these responsibilities, I gained hands-on experience in sustainable agriculture while developing the physical endurance, responsibility, and problem-solving skills required to maintain a working farm.

Thanks to the support of the SLU Fellowship Program, my summer was spent working at Birdsfoot Farm in Canton, NY. Birdsfoot Farm is first and foremost a community of like minded individuals, similarly passionate about activism and healthy food. The farm itself is a low-till organic farm which cultivates vegetables for its CSA shares, the Canton farmers market, as well as community consumption. I spent the summer working alongside Dulli, the head farmer, and gaining first hand experience in organic farming practices. 

During the Summer of 2025, I had the opportunity to live, work, and learn about Birdsfoot Farm. Birdsfoot Farm is an intentional community centered around local agriculture. One of Birdsfoot's values is living as sustainable as possible. Some examples of this being off-grid housing, composting toilets, and sharing communal foods and goods. 

Birdsfoot is an organic Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm in Canton, NY. 

Birdsfoot was the best possible experience I could have had during my summer going into senior year. It gave me a true understanding of everything that goes into farming from having your hands in the soil to community engagement and marketing.

With the generous support from St. Lawrence University's Center for Career Excellence, I was able to spend my summer interning at Birdsfoot Farm right here in Canton, NY. Birdsfoot Farm is an intentional, consensus-based community of a handful of individuals, all of whom are devoted to living a materially simple life. Under the direction of their farmer, Dulli, I spent each work day in the field learning the practices of low-till organic farming.