Company description

About Our Farm: Green Spark Farm produces vegetables year-round in coastal Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Our farm is certified organic by MOFGA Certification Services, LLC. We employ between four and seven employees on the farm from April to November, and one person year-round in addition to ourselves, the two farmers.

We run a highly diversified market farm, seeding over 500 plant varieties of both heirloom and contemporary vegetables, flowers, herbs, melons and watermelons.
We specialize in market farming, winter greens production, retail plant production, and heirloom tomatoes.
We farm on four total acres (16 tunnels), with over an acre and a quarter of our fields under tunnel space, allowing us to extend our growing season to produce soil-grown greens year-round, and very early crops of tomatoes, cucumbers, and cut flowers (among other crops), standing out at the farmers’ markets with huge displays of fresh vegetables all year.
We operate 4680 square feet of nursery greenhouse space, producing seedlings, herbs, native plants, pollinator plants, flowering perennials and annual packs, containers and baskets for retail sale to home gardeners.
Our top markets are the Portland Farmers’ Markets (year-round), our annual Organic Plant Sale in May and June at the farm, and seasonal on-farm stand. We have long-term relationships marketing to our CSA, restaurants, and wholesale accounts.

Job description

What we are looking for: We are looking to hire employees who are able to commit to a full or part time work schedule for the main season from April to November. There is opportunity for one person to stay year-round and work with us producing winter greens and prepping storage crops for market through the winter (3 days/week December through March, when spring season begins again).

Hours: We work 8 hours a day. There is opportunity for more hours. We value a regular schedule of hours so we ourselves and our crew can lead healthy lives off the farm and come to work refreshed and ready each day. The hours at Green Spark Farm are consistently 40-45 hrs a week.

Work: Our work days are filled with harvesting, washing and packing vegetables, preparing cut flowers and retail plants for markets, planting, weeding, potting-up seedlings, and amending beds. Be prepared for fast physical labor in any weather.

Fridays are harvest and packing days for farmers’ markets, but we often harvest every day in peak season (July and August).
Monday-Thursday are seeding, transplanting, weeding, and tomato pruning and trellising days.

Compensation

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

Application instructions

Deadline

April 03, 2026