JOB OPPORTUNITIES

store manager
Farm Assistant / Retail Support
Kitchen Assistant / Prep Cook

Store Manager

About the Role

The Little Farm Store at 5 West Creek Road is where everything we grow and make meets our customers: cut flowers, vegetables, Nantucket sea salt, honey, herbal teas, pasture-raised pork, pantry goods, and prepared foods from our kitchen.

We're looking for a Store Manager to take full ownership of the store: running it day to day, keeping it stocked and beautiful, managing ordering and inventory, and growing sales. You'll meet with the owner once a week to review the numbers and plan ahead, and otherwise run the store independently.

Run the Store

  • Open and close, and keep the store running smoothly every day

  • Schedule and lead part-time store staff, plus farm team members who cover shifts

  • Greet and help customers, and share what's fresh and how it's grown

  • Run checkout and keep our Toast point-of-sale accurate

  • Manage hot chicken dinner orders and pickups

  • Pack and ship online orders

Inventory & Purchasing

  • Order from outside vendors and keep always-in-stock items on the shelf

  • Receive flowers, produce, and products from the farm and kitchen, and request what the store needs

  • Keep pricing, product listings, and costs accurate in Toast

  • Track waste and shrink, and pull tired product

Merchandising & Sales

  • Keep shelves, the cooler, and the prepared foods case full, fresh, and beautiful

  • Refresh displays and signage as the seasons change

  • Help grow sales through social posts, promotions, and local partnerships

Prepared Foods

  • Coordinate with the kitchen on daily prepared foods and frozen meals

  • Keep food safety practices, labeling, and temperature logs in order

Weekly Review

  • Meet with the owner once a week to review sales, margins, inventory, staffing, and what's coming up

  • Bring ideas for new products, displays, and ways to grow the store

Qualifications

  • 2+ years of retail, specialty food, or farm store experience, ideally in a lead or management role

  • Experience with ordering, inventory, and vendors

  • Comfortable with numbers, spreadsheets, and a POS system

  • ServSafe Manager certification, or willingness to get it

  • Organized, independent, and a natural problem-solver

  • Warm and outgoing with customers, with an eye for presentation

  • Weekend availability

  • Ability to lift 40 lbs

  • Driver's license and reliable transportation

  • Love of good food and beautiful flowers

Compensation

  • $28/hr, depending on experience

  • [Performance bonus tied to store sales growth]

  • Subsidized housing available

  • Staff discount and take-home flowers and produce

Hours

  • Full-time, year-round

  • Monday - Saturday 10 am - 6 pm, including some weekends

Farm Assistant / Retail Support

About the Role

Eat Fire Farm is looking for a reliable, hands-on person who wants a real farm season on Nantucket. This is a multi-faceted support role that follows our flowers and vegetables from the field to the cooler and out to every place they meet customers: The Little Farm Store, our farmstand, and the farmers market. It takes hard work, good judgment, and an eye for making things look beautiful.

Flowers & Field

  • Seed, transplant, weed, and maintain cut flower and vegetable beds

  • Harvest flowers to grade and bunch them in the field

  • Process stems into buckets, manage hydration, and keep the walk-in cooler organized and rotated

  • Help build bouquets in the barn

  • Harvest, wash, and pack vegetables and herbs

  • Assist with irrigation, low tunnels, and general farm upkeep

The Little Farm Store

  • Stock shelves and cooler with flowers, produce, and farm products

  • Keep displays full, fresh, and beautiful; pull tired product

  • Flag low inventory (honey, sea salt, teas, packaging, and other always-in-stock items)

  • Help customers and keep the space clean and welcoming

  • Back up the store manager as needed

Farmstand

  • Stock and refresh the self-serve farmstand on harvest days

  • Keep signage, pricing, and the payment station tidy

  • Track what goes out and what comes back

Farmers Market

  • Load, set up, and break down the market booth

  • Sell flowers, produce, and farm products, and talk with customers about how we grow

  • Run the point-of-sale and close out sales at the end of the day

Value-Added & Packaging

  • Help package and label sea salt, herbal teas, hydrosols, and pantry products

  • Support herb harvest and drying

Other

  • Local deliveries around the island

  • Whatever the day calls for — it's a small farm

Qualifications

  • Enthusiasm for farming and promoting local food

  • Love of good food and beautiful flowers

  • Self-starter with a serious work ethic, able to work independently and as part of a small team

  • Warm and comfortable with customers

  • Detail-oriented, with an eye for presentation

  • Valid driver's license and clean driving record

  • Ability to repeatedly lift 50 lbs and work outdoors in all weather, including early mornings

  • Farm or flower experience is a plus, but not required — we'll train the right person

Compensation

  • Starting at $22/hr, depending on experience

  • Seasonal housing may be available

  • Take-home flowers and produce, store discount

Hours

  • [25–40] hours a week, [April–November 2027]

  • Some weekends required for market and store

  • Potential for a longer season or year-round role for the right person

Kitchen Assistant / Prep Cook

About the Role

Eat Fire Farm is looking for a reliable, hardworking cook who wants to be part of a small, growing farm kitchen on Nantucket. This is a hands-on support role helping us expand the prepared foods at The Little Farm Store and produce our farm's pantry products, cooking with what we grow and raise.

Prepared Foods

  • Learn and execute our kitchen staples

  • Prep vegetables and herbs from the farm

  • Make fresh pasta

  • Roast chickens for our daily hot chicken dinner pickup

  • Batch soups and stocks

  • Portion, package, and label frozen meals and frozen pizzas

  • Keep the store's prepared foods stocked and looking great

Farm Products

  • Package and label herbal teas, sea salt, and pantry products

  • Help with herb drying and distillation

Kitchen Care

  • Dishwashing and daily kitchen cleaning

  • Receive deliveries and keep the walk-in and storage organized and labeled

  • Follow food safety practices, including temperature logs

  • Work within a posted schedule in a shared kitchen

Qualifications

  • Previous professional kitchen experience

  • ServSafe certification (or willingness to get it)

  • Driver's license and reliable transportation

  • Ability to lift 50 lbs

  • Attention to detail and strong organizational skills

  • Enthusiasm for farming and promoting local food

  • Love of good food and beautiful flowers

  • Self-starter with a serious work ethic, able to work independently

Compensation

  • Starting at $20/hr, depending on experience

  • Seasonal housing may be available

Hours

  • [30–40] hours a week

  • [Weekday daytime shifts, plus some afternoons for dinner pickup]

  • Potential for a longer season or year-round role for the right person

About Eat Fire Farm

Eat Fire Farm is a small, diversified farm on Nantucket run by Caroline and Dylan. We grow more than 150 varieties of cut flowers alongside vegetables and herbs, raise pasture-raised pork, harvest sea salt from Nantucket harbor, and make herbal teas and hydrosols. Everything we grow and make is sold close to home — at The Little Farm Store at 5 West Creek Road, our farmstand, the farmers market, and through our sister business, Eat Fire Pizza.

Please send a short cover letter and resume to caroline@eatfire.farm. Tell us a little about yourself and why you'd like to spend a season farming on Nantucket.