Kayam Individual Volunteers

We are a people-powered farm! Kayam needs your help to grow food, blaze trails, and build infrastructure. Individual volunteers can get involved through flexible, intermittent activities, or they can choose to work more intensively during our spring and fall seasons.

Intensive volunteer opportunities include:

  • Spring High School Intern—3-5 weeks full-time, practicing and learning sustainable agriculture and ecological stewardship
    Download Kayam High School Internship Form
  • Marketeer—harvest, weigh, wash, distribute, and sell nourishing organic produce
  • Volunteer Fall Farmer—plant, harvest, compost, mulch, dig, eat, enjoy
  • College Intern—apply your education and interests by farming, teaching, and implementing a special project of your own choosing.

We are a young project, still establishing infrastructure and exploring about our local flora and fauna. The following opportunities are specialized for folks looking to pursue one area of interest by volunteering periodically over the course of one season or more.

Volunteer Educator—share your passion for food, farming, and the environment by teaching local groups and Pearlstone guests. Receive training in hands-on Jewish experiential agro-environmental curriculum, and/or Organic Cooking Classes. YOU’LL HAVE SO MUCH FUN!

Artist—beautify our landscape with painted signs, murals, sculptures, and more!

Bio-diesel—help us establish a bio-diesel system here at Kayam!

Videographer—edit video footage (and take more if you’d like!) and produce a short film about Kayam

Herb gardener—plant, maintain, and/or harvest culinary and/or medicinal herbs on the farm

Flower gardener—plant, maintain, and/or harvest flowers. Some of our flowers attract beneficial insects; others we sell or display at Pearlstone

Orchardist—tend to our orchard by pruning, mulching, and someday harvesting (not yet)

Viticulturist—tend to our vineyard by pruning, trellising, and someday harvesting (not yet)

Medicinal Herbalist—plant medicinal herbs, harvest, and make herbal medicine

Bee-researcher—explore our landscape to determine what/where bees can find food

Value-Added Products—can tomatoes, pickle cucumbers, and create other tasty delights with farm produce


Here are some of our finest Kayam Volunteers:

Skilled builder—Howard Farber has been the best carpenter around for the past 30 years. His work at Kayam is impressive for all our visitors to see

Photographer—David Starling comes to us from Constellation Energy where he works as a project manager. He is a freelance photographer with the Baltimore Jewish Times.

Bee-keeper—Our volunteer beekeepers are Kathy Harris and Tim. Kathy also raises sheep and chickens, and teaches for a local 4-H club.


Interested in filling a position? Contact BTiferet Sassona, Kayam Volunteer Coordinator, at Tiferet@pearlstonecenter.org or 410-429-4400 ext 232.