Company description
Artemis Flower Farm is a specialty cut flower farm located at 8104 N 63rd St in Longmont. It is run by husband & wife Helen Skiba and Nelson Esseveld, who live on the farm with their toddler. We have been growing cut flowers for 12 seasons, and 2026 will be our 6th season at this property as part of the Treehouse Farm Collective. We sell our flowers to the Colorado Flower Collective and local florists, at our farm stand, at our on-farm workshops, and to wedding clients. We also sell & ship dahlia tubers and dried flowers in the winter. We currently farm on about 2 acres, with 3 caterpillar tunnels, and we are actively expanding our footprint along with managing the farm’s collective space. We grow over 160,000 stems of flowers each season and we are continuously improving & refining our practices.
Job description
The Cut Flower Grower works with the owners to grow, arrange, and sell cut flower crops. Primary field tasks include bed preparation, weeding, watering, transplanting, seeding, harvesting, spraying, mulching, pruning, and record-keeping, among others. Further tasks may include arranging flowers for subscription bouquets and markets, cleaning buckets and studio space, preparing for and cleaning up after on-farm events, and flower deliveries.
These tasks require bending, lifting, stooping, kneeling, cutting, digging, pushing, and pulling. Good physical condition and stamina is essential to this position.
The Grower is expected to understand and anticipate the crop and harvest schedule, cultivate personal knowledge of flower crops, soil science, and farming techniques, actively communicate problems and seek solutions, help develop better and more efficient processes, and take a critical interest in achieving the farm’s goals.
Learning Opportunities (Number 11 Will SHOCK YOU! 😄)
- Cultivate & harvest over 100 flower varieties, including flowers from seed, cuttings, tubers, bulbs, corms, & perennials.
- Design floral arrangements for events and retail.
- Learn what it takes behind the scenes to run a successful farm business: crop planning, marketing, logistics, sourcing, delivery, and so much more.
- Research, scout, & apply biological pest controls.
- Brew & apply compost tea.
- Operate a walk-behind tractor.
- Learn about implements used on a four-wheel tractor; potential operator training depending on aptitude.
- Set-up & maintain drip & overhead irrigation.
- Care for & move farm’s chicken flock; learn about other animals on the farm.
- Learn from other farm operations on the property.
- Get plugged into the local farm scene through events and organizations.
Experience required: At least 1 season working on a commercial farm.
Preferred experience: Flower harvest & cultivation.
Pay Rate: $18-$22 per hour DOE
Pay Dates: 1st and 15th day of each month
Employment Start: March 2nd, 2026
Expected Employment End: November 25th, 2026
Note: Colorado is an “at will” employment state. The Employee or Employer may terminate employment at any time, for any reason.
Work Hours: 30-40 hours per week. Typical work hours are not over 8 per day, we take 30-60 minutes for lunch. You receive 15 mins paid break per four hours of work. In the early and late season, we work 9am-5pm, and adjust our work hours as the season demands; we shift to 8-4 and then to our main summer hours of 7am-4pm by mid-May. On days over 95°F we start at 6am and end at 12pm, but this doesn’t happen too often (fingers crossed). We believe in work-life balance.
Benefits:
- Paid Time Off: 30 total hours, to be scheduled at least 2 weeks in advance.
- 1 hour of accrued paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked.
- Take home flowers.
- Attend any of our on-farm workshops free of charge.
- Space on the farm to grow your own garden.
Compensation
this position is: hourly, varies DOE, $18.00 - $22.00
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Deadline
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