OPEN All Year!
Thur: 12-7pm
Fri: 12-8pm
Sat: 12-8pm
Sun: 12-7pm
500 West St. Barre, Massachusetts
Food served until one hour prior to close of brewery
Job Openings
To be considered for any of our current positions (see below) please fill out this form. Thanks for your interest in becoming a part of our team!
Kitchen Lead/ Wood Fired Pizza Chef/ BBQ Pit Leader
JOB DESCRIPTION ($20-$40/HOUR DOE + TIPS)
We are definitely looking for a needle in a haystack! As our business grows we are seeking an extremely hardworking, caring, grounded individual to gradually step in as kitchen leader.
Our kitchen operates on a very sustainable timetable, because we still need to find the time to harvest the food as well as serve it to the community! We are open year round Thursday-Sunday from noon until 6-8 pm depending on the day/season.
While we do not serve a "fancy" menu, we care deeply about the ingredients use: produced here on the farm, local, organic, whole foods.
We currently have one family member looking to step back as kitchen leader and move towards heading up cheese making at the creamery.
The kitchen leader would need to have the following skills:
-Past experience as head chef
-Upbeat, empathetic, conscientious, friendly
-Calm, clear, caring communication skills
-Previous experience in a kitchen including safe food handling, allergy awareness, cleanliness, ability to work under stress, high energy.
-Team player. There is no job below anyone here. We all take out the trash, clean the bathroom, stack wood, and weed the garden in the hot sun.
-Organizational skills
-Ability to help keep staff busy in slow times
-Imagination and motivation for creating new menu items featuring our farm's (and local) products. Also, strong desire to serve food that has integrity. Ability to be flexible with menu depending on what is coming out of the fields that week (and readiness to change the menu when it unexpectedly changes)
-ability to lift and carry at least 50 lbs
-ability to work in an almost entirely woman operated kitchen.
-Self motivated, dependable, trustworthy, hardworking, mindful, visionary who is not afraid to get dirty!
Our kitchen has some atypical equipment including a wood fired grill, 100% wood fired smoker, and 100% wood fired pizza oven. We are hoping to hire someone with experience or skills in one or more of these areas:
-Smoker: Our vertical smoker means the operator needs to be agile on a ladder, able to climb up and down many many times a day. Knowledge of smoking meat. Willingness to get dirty and clean the smoker.
-Fornio/pizziolo: Knowledge of pizza making from dough to fire in a wood fired brick oven. Our oven is outdoors year round, so willingness to brave the elements! (In the winter it is just outside glass doors of the barn so it's not completely outside)
-Grill: In the summer we cook our grass fed beef burgers in an outdoor pavilion kitchen on a wood fired grill. We are looking for someone who will lovingly flip burgers over a hot fire all day!
Optional experience/ interest:
We are not just a kitchen, we are a farm, dairy, brewery, creamery, and distillery too! Possible work could (but certainly does not have to) dabble or dive into the following areas:
-field work raising vegetables
-crop work operating/ repairing heavy machinery
-Herd management/ milking cows caring for calves, or petting zoo
-Brewery/ distillery operations
-Creamery/ Affinage/ cheese monger/ sales manager
-Marketing our farm/ products on social media and beyond
-Logging in the winter
About Us
Our 5th generation family owned and operated dairy Farm/ Brewery/ Farm to Table restaurant is expanding! We currently sustainably milk a herd of 60 pasture raised LOVELY cows, grow 5 acres of vegetables for our farm to table restaurant, raise 100% of the grass fed beef we use at the restaurant, operate a seasonal farm stand selling our raw milk and local specialty items and ice cream, sustainably harvest 100% of our own hardwood which we use to cook our grass fed beef/ run our BBQ smoker/ and heat our wood fired brick oven for pizza, and harvest all our own forage to feed the cows. We grow hops for our beer as well as use local fruits for fermentations, and usually have about 18 of our own beers on tap that we brew here in our 14 barrel brew house. While we are not certified organic, we use mostly organic practices, regenerative farming and consider sustainability in all we do. We are currently building a creamery, which will soon produce natural raw milk cheese from our cows milk, as well as pasteurized fresh cheese and cultured butter. AND we will be opening a distillery where we will use our non GMO corn, and other local ingredients to make spirits. Can you see why we need help?!
We are looking for someone who deeply cares about food to help in the kitchen and/or farm. We have a large 60x60 1830's post and beam barn for indoor seating year round and virtually unlimited outdoor seating. The menu includes our own grass fed beef burgers, wood fired pizza with house made dough, locally grown hand cut fries, salads and sides with our vegetables and local seasonal produce, tacos, designer grilled cheese paninis, cheese slates, etc. In our custom vertical wood fired smoker we smoke ribs, chicken wings, chicken, and brisket. With the opening of the creamery we plan to make our menu even more cheese centric!
People coming to our farm do not just TASTE the terroir, they are IN it! We are really selling an experience as much as nourishment and liquid joy. We have a gorgeous view of our cows grazing on rolling hills with Mt. Wachusett in the background. Play area for children to enjoy, and run around on the grass. We host OCR races for thousands of people (where adults get to play and run around in the forest, fields and mud as well!) We have a new concert venue in our back field. Most our 1300 acres of land is protected with conservation restrictions so the fields and forests will remain that way FOREVER. We LOVE our land, our sweet cows, and the food we raise. We want to SHARE the bounty and lifestyle with our community, and with you!
Farm Stand Ice Cream Scooper / Retail Sales
Job Overview: We’re looking for someone who has excellent customer service skills, attention to detail, and enthusiasm! Our Ice Cream Stand is at the heart of our operation here at the farm and so, our ideal candidate would be able to work in a fast-paced setting and be self motivated to make sure everything gets done that needs to. A passion for good food is essential. A positive attitude is a must! If you enjoy interacting with customers and putting a smile on someone's face with a scoop of ice cream...then, well, this job is for you!
We are a strong team at Carter & Stevens Farm and Stone Cow Brewery and we're not afraid of hard work. No one is above any job here and everyone is expected to support their coworkers on a daily basis in a variety of tasks. We all help clean (everything and everywhere) including the bathrooms, take out the trash, and stock shelves.
Shift details: We are open Wednesday-Sunday from April until October.
We prefer employees who can work shifts throughout the Spring, Summer, and Fall seasons. At least one weekend-day (sat or sun) shift per week is required. Scheduling is done monthly and is flexible. Farm stand shifts are typically from 10:30-3p.m., 12-9p.m., or 3-9p.m. (or 10:30-9p.m. if you prefer working a double shift).
Skills we require and tasks that will be performed daily:
-Excellent customer service and outgoing cheerful personality. Make customers feel welcome and special.
-Ability to run an ipad cash register and make correct change
-Ability to carry heavy tubs of ice cream and scoop countless number of cones (strong arm muscles!) while maintaining a smile!
-Food service skills such as cleanliness, understanding of food safety and allergy awareness. Also, frequent hand washing is mandatory.
-Hardworking, (never idle and self-motivated).
-Ability to show kindness at all times to customers and co-workers.
-Ability to articulate our farm's story to customers. An ideal candidate is a people-person.
-Knowledge of or willing to learn about local produce, raw milk, grass fed beef and our farm's sustainable agricultural practices.
Farm-to-table Kitchen Staff / BBQ Pit Crew
Job Overview: We run an atypical kitchen (actually, we operate two atypical kitchens). We encourage teamwork and camaraderie here. There is no head chef, instead, we find which food/cooking station each person is most skilled at and then work together to prepare and expedite our food service. We love to collaborate on menu and methods as much as we can. The central theme in the kitchen is using food that is in-season, cooking with fresh local ingredients and truly showcasing what we produce here on the farm.
We are a strong team at Carter & Stevens Farm and Stone Cow Brewery and we're not afraid of hard work. No one is above any job here and everyone is expected to support their coworkers on a daily basis in a variety of tasks. We all help clean (everything and everywhere).
Shift details: Our kitchens serve food Thursday-Sunday (year-round)
Shift details: Our kitchen moves (between two locations) and menu changes depending on the season. We operate our indoor Barn Kitchen during the winter months and we cook outside in the summer (in all weather) at our outdoor BBQ pavilion. We are open Thursday-Sunday year round. Kitchen prep shifts start at 10a.m. and we serve food until 1 hour prior to brewery closing (6-8p.m. depending on day of week and season) We purposely do not stay open very late (like most other restaurants)
Skills:
-Previous kitchen experience preferred, but a love of food required!
-Working knowledge of proper food handling procedures
-The ability to work in a fast-paced environment
-The ability to work in a team
-Excellent communication skills
-Ability to show kindness to customers and co-workers at all times
-Exceptional customer service skill
Tasks that will be performed daily:
-Setting up food prep area
-Making sandwiches, salads, and sharing slates, etc. with care and enthusiasm
-Plating and expediting food
-Taking orders from customers
-Keeping work areas and overall kitchen sanitized and clean
Lord of Fries:
Job overview: Extremely physically demanding work in serving a perfect Pomme Frite to hundreds of happy people. We use only local potatoes, which you will hand cut in our potato slicer. If you love getting into the fast paced flow of "the zone,” working your body extremely hard, and obsessing over the perfect amount of crispy outside, tender moist cloud like interior of French Fry Perfection…well, then, this job is for you.
Shift details: Our BBQ is open Saturdays and Sunday in the summer, and we serve fries in the indoor kitchen Friday-Sunday in the spring, fall, and winter. Fryers run 12-7 or 8pm, but there is plenty of other kitchen work as well, and one person does not need to just do Fries everyday, we trade off to keep things interesting!
Skills we require and tasks that will be performed daily:
-Passion about a job that some would consider menial. Here at Stone Cow this is a skilled job that is revered. If the fry station cannot keep up with demand, then the entire kitchen crumbles. We take great pride in the excellence of our French fries.
-Ability to work in hot kitchen
-Willing to clean fryers weekly to high standards.
-Common sense and safety minded person, able to understand the danger of working with hot oil.
-Ability to lift and carry a minimum of 50 lbs long distances from the storage area to the fryers.
-Ability to adore French fries everyday! haha, not kidding!