Company description

New Beat Farm is a Certified organic farm growing vegetables, and cut flowers in the heart of Waldo county's rich agricultural community. This beautiful agrarian landscape is also just 15 minutes from the coastal town of Belfast, 35 minutes from Waterville. We are grateful to only be 10 minutes away from MOFGA’s (Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association) education center and the site of their Common Ground Fair.

We work within a mixture of production systems with 1.5 acres in no-till permanent beds and two acres in larger field crop production using our Belgian and Percheron draft horses. Our farm as a whole is comprised of 135 ares of crop land, pasture and forest.

We market our produce and flowers through a year round Multi-Farm CSA, a local farmers market, and a few wholesale outlets. We sell our flowers through the farmers markets, retail shops, and wholesale to other florists, as well as design work for weddings and special events throughout the season.

We farm because it is the best way for us to live by our ideals and give back. We are passionate about providing our community with high quality, nutritious produce and radiant blooms through having a deep commitment to the health of our soils and the agro-ecosystem of our farm as a whole, and farming at a scale where we can stay intimately connected to every row foot of ground we grow on.

Job description

Our Flower Production Lead is immersed in all things floral at the farm, from starting and nurturing tiny finicky seedlings to arranging bouquets for our farmers markets and wedding events. Along with Adrienne they are responsible for ensuring the farm has the consistency and abundance of blooms to meet our market demands. This job includes both independent work as well as working with and overseeing a small group of team members. While focused on flowers, they will also be involved in broader team projects like prepping our no-till beds in the spring, spring transplant pushes(both flower and vegetable), fall root crop harvest and greenhouse and high tunnel projects. This position includes:

Greenhouse Management: Timely and accurate seeding and paying attention to the individual requirements of over 40 types of flowers. Monitoring seeding chart to ensure succession plantings are done and overseeing other team members who might be seeding in the greenhouse.

Field Management: Work with farm manager/owners Adrienne and Ken, to ensure plants get in the ground in a timely fashion, bed prep, fertility and water management needs are met, weeds and floral supports are monitored.

Harvest/ Design: Take lead on executing and overseeing our team when flower harvesting, ensuring timely and efficient harvests, and that quality standards for blooms are met. Post harvest they will be involved in arranging and packing flowers for both wholesale and retail outlets.

Requirements:

• Comes to work, on time, energized and prepared for the day with a can-do, positive attitude, whether for a beautiful morning harvest amongst the bees or a cold damp spring transplanting day.
• Has good communication skills.
• Comfortable playing a role as a leader in the field and able to oversee the work of others, give guidance and constructive criticism.
• Has awareness of the need to balance both efficiency and quality of work and to anticipate needs to ensure for efficient transitions from one task to the next.
• Lead by example in all the work they do.
• High level of attention to detail and proficiency in managing lists and record keeping
• Floral design experience or demonstrated artistic aptitude
• Ability to work efficiently independently as well as with a small group.
• Ability to work hard outside in a variety of weather conditions
• Can lift 50lb, and has the physical health and ability to work often repetitive tasks for long periods of time squatting or kneeling.
• Valid Drivers License to operate vehicles on farm and delivery routes.
• At least one full season of commercial farm experience

Compensation:

Pay commensurate with experience, starting at $19/hr plus paid time off in-season. Abundant access to fresh vegetables and flowers from the farm. Employees receive 8hrs of PTO time per 200 hours worked to be used for sick time or other personal time off.

Compensation

this position is: hourly, $15-20/hr

Application instructions

Deadline

February 28, 2025