Company description

Carolina Flowers is a florist and 30-acre flower farm serving Asheville, NC, and beyond. We create designs for weddings and events throughout Western North Carolina, Charlotte and Greenville, and we create daily flower deliveries for our Asheville customers. We operate from our retail storefront on Haywood Road in West Asheville, and we are transitioning our production team to our new studio in Hendersonville. We are currently moving our farm from Marshall to Edneyville, about 15 minutes east of Hendersonville.

Carolina Flowers is in an exciting period of growth and expansion, and we hope to find a career-oriented Farmer with great skills who wants to grow as a member of our farm team.

Job description

Job Title: Farmer

Location: Edneyville, NC and Marshall, NC — all work in Edneyville beginning December 2025

Terms: Full-Time, approximately 40 hours per week

Schedule: Monday through Friday, approximately 7:30 to 3:30 may vary by season with occasional Saturday and Sunday work as needed

Compensation: $20+ per hour depending on experience

Requirements: At least two full seasons of recent farming experience

Start Date: As soon as possible

The Farmer will be responsible for supporting the Farm Manager in all areas of the farm, including harvesting, planting, weeding, soil prep, supporting/staking, irrigation, composting, maintenance, clean up, and all of the other many various job farms. The Farmer will be working on a team of three or four farmers.

The Farmer is responsible for growing dozens of floral crops, providing them with sufficient water and nutrition, managing pests and diseases, supporting growing habits, maintaining, harvesting and handling each flower according to particular handling requirements. The Farmer should encapsulate the spirit of Carolina Flowers with an upbeat, positive attitude and a genial, kind demeanor. The Farmer must be resilient and able to work outdoors in all weather conditions, including heat and rain and snow.

You must be a team player! At Carolina Flowers, we’ve spent years developing our growing practices, and we’re looking for people who can learn and execute our techniques. Good communication skills are required as you will be expected to ask clarifying questions to make sure you understand the processes. You must be open minded and able to receive feedback and direction.

Farming is a rewarding job, but it can be repetitive. You must be able to work on repetitive tasks for long periods of time regardless of the weather.

Duties

Operating equipment, including a tractor, BCS walk-behind tractor, weed whacker, backpack fogger, irrigation pumps and other equipment
Harvesting flowers while adhering to handling requirements
Preparing soil for planting
Running, installing and maintaining irrigation systems
Weeding
Fertility management
Monitoring for pests and disease
Mowing and grounds maintenance
Clean up
Keeping harvest records on the computer and on paper
Integrated pest management
Staking and support netting
Understanding proper harvest stage, necessary harvest conditions and post-harvest handling and processing, including drying
Dead-heading and topping plants to ensure continued production and proper physical structure
Removing previous season’s crops efficiently in order to make room for the next succession planting
Cover-cropping fields between successions as much as possible.
Caring for all over-wintered crops throughout cold months, including venting high tunnels and constructing and venting low tunnels
Seasonally pruning flower bushes to encourage regrowth and proper physical structure
Maintaining the farm properties, including mowing, weed-whacking, ditch maintenance, and regularly removing trash
Maintaining proper irrigation and temperature conditions inside high-tunnels.
May sometimes be asked to assist with deliveries (3-4 times per year)
May sometimes be asked to assist with farmer markets (approximately 1 time per year)
Other related assignments as necessary

Requirements

Must be able to lift and carry 50 pounds on a regular basis
At least two seasons of commercial farming experience
You MUST be able to listen to feedback on your work and use this information to improve
Manual dexterity
An upbeat, positive attitude that comes across in everything you do
Enthusiastic team player
Organized and efficient
Resilient and indefatigable
Punctual and reliable

Compensation

this position is: hourly, $20/hr +

Application instructions

Deadline

no deadline