Job offers and join-in activities

Arche Noah is recruiting a scientific team member (m/f/d) for the organisation area Knowledge and Development. The core tasks of ARCHE NOAH are the conservation and development of the diversity of cultivated plants in its own collections, the operation of a public show garden, the distribution of seeds. Arche Noah offers courses and seminars on the topic of crop diversity and is a strong political voice. The organisation is well networked internationally. The non-profit organisation is financed by membership fees and donations and carries out funding projects. The main focus of the position offered is, among other things, cooperation in networks for farmer seed work on vegetable crops in Central and South-Eastern Europe; the coordination of practical trials and participatory breeding activities on farms in Austria; as well as project management and project acquisition.

Research & Züchtung Dottenfelderhof offers internship for the operational area of cereal breeding. The research & Züchtung Dottenfelderhof in der Landbauschule Dottenfelderhof e.V. (FZD) is a non-profit initiative dealing with biodynamic and organic breeding and breeding research. In cereals, the crops winter and spring wheat, winter barley, oats and winter rye are worked on. Activities focus on the evaluation of seed-borne cereal diseases such as stone blight and fly blight.

Research & Züchtung Dottenfelderhof is looking for reinforcement (m, w, div) for the operational area of cereal breeding and project coordination. The research & Züchtung Dottenfelderhof in der Landbauschule Dottenfelderhof e.V. (FZD) is a non-profit initiative dealing with biodynamic and organic breeding and breeding research. In cereals, the crops winter and spring wheat, winter barley, oats and winter rye are worked on.

Small seed company is looking for senior employees (m, w, div) for the operating area vegetable seed production. A central area at Culinaris is tomato breeding. There biodynamic work, cultivation, conservation breeding, quality control and marketing are carried out on the farm.

The LohmannsHof nursery in Westen/Dörverden, offers a part-time internship (approx. 30h ) during the lecture-free period (July - October ). The focus of the internship is practical on-farm tomato cultivation.

• Single plant harvest of experimental tomatoes
• Bonitures of different phenotypic traits and diseases
• Harvesting and maintenance work in the greenhouse and field
• Harvesting and preparation of vegetable seeds
• Previous experience in vegetable production and/or experimental work is an advantage
• Possibility to collect own data for a student research project

• For the period April - November 2022, GZPK is looking for two long-term interns (d/w/m) for the grain team, with an option for extension.
• For the period February/May - November/December 2022, GZPK is looking for one:n long-term intern:in (d/w/m) to provide technical and practical support to the grain legumes team.
• Among others, the internship includes the following tasks:
• Carrying out regular work in the breeding program.
• Collection of field data and support in logistical work at the Feldbach site
• Planning, preparation and maintenance of agricultural field trials
• Support in the implementation of projects
• Maintenance and bonituring of field trials
• Creation of crosses in the breeding garden
• Harvest preparation and harvesting of plot trials / breeding gardens
• Preparation of plot harvest and breeding garden samples
• Laboratory testing of processing quality
• Seeding preparations and sowing for the following season

• Cultivari offers from April 2022 the opportunity to prepare as a trainee for subsequent employment as a breeding assistant:in.
• Versatile practical activities, the theory in the weekly meetings with the employees to the questions that have arisen.

Fancy organic growing in your own garden? Sativa Rheinau and ProSpecieRara are again looking for gardeners to grow lettuce test lines in their own gardens in late summer to report back the degree of powdery mildew infestation.

• Indefinite employment, with a position of responsibility in vegetable production and the option to join the business.
• Working at the same level as other work areas and gaining insights into breeding and seed propagation work.
• Leeway in long-term business development.
• Flexible adjustment of the scope of work.

Training in an existing breeding programme with the possibility of taking over responsibility/setting up a new breeding programme. Considerable room for development and independent work in a motivated team and a positive working atmosphere. [Additional information is available in German only!]

Collaborative breeding project for new organic lettuce varieties from Sativa. [Additional information is available in German only!]

Training in biodynamic breeding and Goethean botany. Individual breeding impulses are possible. We would like to see the research and breeding project on the wild cereal Dasypyrum villosum taken over and carried on. [Additional information is available in German only!]