Urban Gardener Love & Carrots
- Date Posted May 07, 2024
- Location Washington, DC
- Category Agriculture
- Job type Full-Time
Our Urban Gardeners are responsible for the maintenance of our clients’ organic vegetable gardens, ensuring that they are beautiful and productive! On an average day they travel to 3-4 gardens, primarily residential, and maintain between 20-30 gardens over the course of a two-week period.
Gardeners work independently, driving from site to site, to perform all necessary garden tasks, and are supported remotely by our office crew and in the field by a team of experienced senior farmers. Our service area ranges throughout the beltway area, and each farmer is provided with a kit containing all tools needed to maintain gardens. Bulk garden materials are stored at our base of operations for employee use.
Winter work:
The season for garden maintenance runs from March through November. From December through February all employees work on our installation crew. Installation crew work requires driving our medium-duty trucks and more heavy lifting/bed filling etc. Garden crew members can choose not to work December through mid February, but if they do work year-round, truck driving and installation work is required for those months.
Maintenance tasks include:
- Seeding, planting, weeding, pruning, harvesting and applying organic pest control practices.
- Amending soil, soil fertility management.
- Trellising, drip irrigation repair and management.
- Ensuring the area in and around the garden is neat and well maintained.
- Tracking visit details on iPad or phone.
- Engaging with clients: teaching, sending recap emails, answering questions, receiving client feedback and applying feedback to gardens.
Necessary Qualifications:
- 1+ year experience with annual vegetable cultivation required
- A valid driver's license and working personal vehicle required.
- Knowledge of proper harvesting, weeding, transplanting, pest/disease ID, sowing, fertilization and rotation/succession planting techniques.
- Ability to lift 50lbs, perform manual work, lift heavy objects, walk and stand for long periods of time
- Ability to perform physical labor outdoors in various weather conditions (heat, rain, cold)
- The ability to think on your feet and come up with solutions to common garden issues on the spot without immediate assistance.
- Proactive, friendly, and prompt communication through phone and email.
- Comfortable teaching adults and children gardening basics (using our supplied curriculum.)
- Attention to detail and organization is critical
- Covid 19 Vaccination - must include the original vaccine series, boosters not required
Compensation and Benefits:
- Schedule: 7:30 AM - 6 PM, Monday - Thursday
- Starting rate: $20/hr +, commensurate with experience.
- Health and Dental insurance, 401k, and paid time off
- Annual smartphone reimbursement
- Annual gear credit
- Mileage reimbursement for use of your personal vehicle on garden routes.
- Vegetables to take home! Our headquarters has a large on-site vegetable garden for staff use.
Compensation this position is : hourly, $20/hr + Application instructions Please click here to sign in and view application details.
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