Company description

Love & Carrots is DC’s foremost urban farming and edible landscaping company. We design, install and maintain beautiful and productive urban farms, vegetable gardens, and native landscapes across DC, MD, and VA. Through our garden care & coaching program we provide expert garden maintenance, guidance, and education, helping connect people to their food and inspiring local food production inside the beltway. Since our inception in 2011 we've installed over 1000 vegetable gardens - our clients include residents, local restaurants, and community organizations throughout the DMV.

Job description

We are seeking a full-time crew member to join our Garden Maintenance team.

The maintenance team is responsible for the care of clients’ vegetable gardens, ensuring that they are neat, healthy, and productive. Gardeners work independently, driving from site to site, to perform all necessary garden tasks, and are supported remotely by the office management team.

Senior gardeners are responsible for managing high-impact sites, assisting and training newer crew members, and resolving garden issues independently.

Maintenance tasks include:

• Seeding, planting, weeding, pruning, harvesting and applying organic pest control practices.
• Amending soil, soil fertility management.
• Trellising, drip irrigation repair and management.
• Ensuring the area in and around the garden is neat and well maintained.
• Tracking visit details using garden tracking software on phone
• Engaging with clients: teaching, sending recap emails, answering questions, receiving client feedback and applying feedback to gardens.

Necessary Qualifications:

• 3+ years experience with annual vegetable cultivation required
• Both a driver's license and a reliable personal vehicle are required to fulfill job duties.
• Extensive knowledge of proper harvesting, weeding, transplanting, pest/disease ID, sowing, fertilization and rotation/succession planting techniques.
• The ability to think on your feet and come up with solutions to common garden issues on the spot without immediate assistance.
• Proactive, friendly, and prompt communication through phone and email.
• Comfortable teaching adults and children gardening basics (using our supplied curriculum.)
• Attention to detail and organization
• Ability to manage challenging sites and troubleshoot independently
• Crew management experience a plus

Winter work:

The season for garden maintenance runs from March through November. From December through February all employees work on our installation crew. Installation crew work requires driving our medium-duty trucks and more heavy lifting/bed filling etc. Maintenance crew members can choose not to work December through mid February, but if they do work year-round, truck driving and installation work is required for those months.

Physical Demands:

• Ability to lift 50lbs, perform manual work, lift heavy objects, walk and stand for long periods of time
• Ability to perform physical labor outdoors in various weather conditions (heat, rain, cold)

Compensation and Benefits:

• Schedule: 7:30 AM - 6 PM, Monday - Thursday
• Starting rate: $24-29+/hour, commensurate with experience.
• Health and Dental insurance, 401k, and paid time off
• Biweekly smartphone reimbursement
• Annual gear credit
• Mileage reimbursement for use of your personal vehicle on garden routes.

Compensation

this position is: hourly, $20/hr +

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Deadline

no deadline