Company description

About Us
Harbor Herbalist Tea and Orchard Botanicals is a tea company and 20-acre regenerative farm in Port Orchard, Washington. Since 2010 we have made small-batch herbal teas and sold them year-round at farmers markets in Seattle. Much of what we grow goes into our own products, including teas, jams, hydrosols, and salves. We also sell seasonal flower bouquets and duck eggs.

The farm is a mix of orchard, row plantings, and forest. It grows medicinal and culinary herbs, fruit and berries, cut flowers, and seasonal vegetables. We farm regeneratively, and after many years of learning this land, we work with its ecology rather than against it. Harbor Herbalist Tea is owned and operated by Jene Farr and Sonya Pongsava.

Job description

The Role
We are looking for a Farm Manager who can run the day-to-day work of a highly diversified farm. You will work independently, keep things tidy and organized, and notice the details. You will also help train and work alongside our part-time seasonal crew. You will check in regularly with the owners, and we value open, direct communication.

Responsibilities

Year-round

• Morning and evening chores for our ducks and geese, 5 days a week
• Moving the mobile poultry run twice a week
• Regular check-ins with the owners on priorities, progress, and planning
• Supporting and teaching part-time seasonal employees

Spring

• Field prep: broadforking, laying compost, weeding
• Seeding in the propagation house
• Transplanting seedlings from mid-April to mid-May

Summer

• Weeding, plus installing and maintaining drip irrigation
• Mowing, brushcutting, and weedwacking
• Weekly herb and flower harvests
• Processing herbs in our drying facility and garbling once dry
• Helping harvest herbs for steam distillation
• Harvesting fruit, vegetables, and roses for our jam and food production

Fall

• Fall flower harvest
• Clearing fields and preparing them for winter
• Cover cropping
• Digging dahlia tubers and planting spring flower bulbs

Winter

• Pruning trees and vines
• Planning and preparing for the coming season

Qualifications:

Experience (one of the following):

2+ years as a farm manager, or
5-6 years of farming experience

Knowledge and skills:

• Familiarity with medicinal plants used in herbal teas
• Experience with fruit and berry production, cut flower production, and seasonal vegetables
• Comfort with mixed-species row crop production, orcharding, and general land maintenance
• Experience operating farm equipment, including a chainsaw and a weedwacker
• Depth and breadth of knowledge across a diversified farm

Qualities we’re looking for:

• Works independently and takes initiative
• Tidy, organized, and detail-oriented
• Quick and efficient with farm tasks
• Collaborative, and a good teacher for seasonal staff
• Willing to communicate directly and check in regularly
• Loves the whole range of farm work, from the fields to the orchard to land upkeep

Compensation

this position is: hourly, varies DOE, $25.00 - $30.00

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Deadline

no deadline