Company description

We are a certified organic vegetable farm in the hills of central Maine. We grow eight acres of MOFGA Certified Organic vegetables that we sell to coops and small grocery stores across the state. While we take particular joy in growing salad, our diverse offerings allow us to have produce for sale winter, spring, summer and fall.

As farmers, we take great pride in the quality of our produce, and the care we take of our land, and employees. We aim to create an efficient, productive and fun environment for our crew to work and grow. If you love working hard, have significant vegetable experience, and enjoy being on an efficient and skilled crew—this might be the farm for you!

Job description

We're hiring to round out our Farm Team heading into the busy season! This is not a seasonal job, our farm is operational year round. We're in the field through April-Thanksgiving, and we fill our days in the winter months growing salad, washing and packing produce, tending our greenhouses and getting ahead on farm maintenance tasks for the next growing season!

We are looking to fill a role on our team in which the individual will play a key role in salad processing, order fulfillment and greenhouse production. This person can except to spend a couple mornings/week in the pack house processing salad, managing order fulfillment during busy pack days and spending one or two afternoons/week in the greenhouse participating in micro greens production. The balance of their time will be spent working alongside their co-workers in all aspects of field production (planting, harvesting, prep). This job is a nice mix of indoor work and outdoor work. The right person for this job is super organized, has a keen eye for details and excels at following detailed procedures carefully.

We are a small but mighty crew of highly motivated, ambitious farmers– we all, including the owners, work hands on in the operation daily. Individual’s positions are designed to give a more in-depth farming experience than your average farm job, spread out the day-to-day responsibilities of the running the farm, and create jobs with lots of room for folks to grow as farmers. Our week’s are well organized and predictable, so new staff can to step into independent roles quickly. There is lots of opportunity for individuals who’ve spent time working on other farms to step into leadership roles here, and be compensated as such.

Applicants who have commercial vegetable experience are strongly preferred, but it isn’t required. This is physical work, and applicants should be confident that they’ll be able to lift, bend, and stand all day.

This position is full time/year round, with hours available immediately.

Starting wage $18.50-$20/hr+ DOE

Compensation

this position is: hourly, varies DOE, $18.00 - $20.00

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Deadline

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