Company description

Dig Deep Farms (DDF) is a Black Ag Tech (BAT) social enterprise with a dual mission of providing access to healthy food and creating job experiences and employment opportunities for populations historically denied access to both.

Job description

Urban farming involves strenuous physical work in all weather conditions. Examples of daily activities include bed preparation, transplanting, seed sowing, watering, weeding, tilling, thinning, composting, harvesting, produce handling, storage, some minor construction and marketing.

The DDF Urban Farmer will be responsible in all diverse farm operational activities under the instruction of farm management, as well as become familiar with regenerative agriculture and permaculture practices, facilitate and assist with meeting goals and performance metrics for DDF’s Urban Farmer, focus on farm upkeep and maintenance, ensure entry of data pertaining to day-to-day operations, provide action-oriented assistance of direct day-to-day operations of DDF’s urban agricultural mission, model and foster an enthusiastic and hands-on work environment, assist the crew, interns and volunteers in excellent time management and meeting goals and tasks within each day and week, anticipate activities that need to be accomplished and work ahead of the interns and volunteers to prepare for tasks, harvest, wash, and pack produce for Food as Rx programs and clients with efficiency and accuracy, and ensure timely clean up of farm sites.

The DDF Urban Farmer will work in a crew of 2 to 10 urban farmers and interns under the direct supervision of the Farm Manager. The DDF Urban Farmer crew will rotate farming tasks across sites. It is expected that farmers will complete all assigned tasks as directed and come up with additional tasks that facilitate the accomplishment of the general goal of developing an intensive urban farming operation. DDF will facilitate and coordinate informal and important training in healthy farming practices, food systems and food justice. The goal of the DDF Urban Farming program is to produce healthy food for community members throughout Alameda County and to generate enough revenue to sustain the program, to bring new jobs and new opportunities to the community.

Compensation

this position is: hourly, $20/hr +

Application instructions

Deadline

no deadline