Spring Valley Student Farm is home to 11 undergraduate students who live in two houses (of 4 and 7 student residents) on the farm, about 4.5 miles from campus. Each student contributes ten hours of farm chores per week, including weekly farm meetings, in exchange for discounted housing. Students live and work together and treasure the family atmosphere of Spring Valley.

Many Spring Valley student farmers are deeply inspired by their experiences at the farm and develop lifelong passions, skills, and friendships.

If you are interested in living at the farm, please sign up for our housing email list with this short form! We will share news about upcoming info sessions, deadlines, and housing resources.

Spring 2026 Semester Housing at Spring Valley: Applications for Spring 2025 will open October 1.  The Spring 2026 Fact Sheet will be posted when applications open. In the meantime, you may read the Fall 2025 Fact Sheet, and see our general application here.

Summer 2026 Housing at Spring Valley: Applications for Summer 2026 will open in Spring 2026. For more information about summer housing, you may read last year's fact sheet Summer Housing Fact Sheet.docx. 

What's it like to live at Spring Valley? Check out this article from student farmer Rory Monaco - "You Should Live On a Farm"

Questions? Contact Farm Manager Jessica.Larkin-Wells@uconn.edu or call 203-215-9345.

I If you have already contributed to this community, thank you. Spring Valley could never be the vibrant place that it is without the support of a large and diverse collection of brilliant individuals. As you explore the idea of joining our community, please listen to a few things we would like to share:

First: Spring Valley requires sincere commitment. The ten hours that you will contribute each week aren’t the clock-in, clock-out type. Living at the farm means incorporating the farm into your daily life. This might mean... Monday night farm meeting to make our plans for the week, cranking open the hoop house on Tuesday morning, washing buckets of baby lettuce in cold water on Wednesday, delivering tomatoes to Whitney on Thursday, leading volunteers to mulch vegetable beds on Farm Friday, and cleaning out the seed fridge on Saturday. For some of us, SVSF commitments fit naturally and comfortably into the kind of lifestyle we want to lead. But it’s not for everyone. We are looking for reliable and open-minded people with enthusiasm to share.

Second: We can’t accept all the people who deserve to be here—we don’t have room. If you are not invited to live here, please remember that Spring Valley is intended to be a living laboratory that is open to all. Please stay involved in our regular volunteer hours or consider becoming more involved through an academic internship! If you have any ideas of a project or would simply like to spend more time in the field, contact our farm manager.

Know that we will read your application with an open heart and mind. We encourage you to reach out to any of the student farmers or the manager with questions.

Thank you. Keep loving that sunshine,

The Spring Valley Farm Family