COMPANY DESCRIPTION
DUTCHESS FARM IS NOW HIRING!
Every season is an adventure in sustainable agriculture and the help our staff provides is essential. We work together to grow high quality food for our community and love to eat our vegetables. There are many exciting opportunities to learn and develop your farming skills, take home fresh veggies, and enjoy memorable experiences that are difficult to find working a 9-5 job.
We have a full time Assistant Manager & a part time Farm Worker openings on our vegetable farm located in Poultney and Castleton. Help us plant, cultivate, weed, irrigate, harvest, wash and pack produce.
Ideal candidate should have multiple season vegetable production experience including growing in greenhouses & outside.
Job starts in April
About Dutchess Farm:
Located in Castleton and Poultney, Vermont, Dutchess Farm is a small family farm that has been in business since 1986. We grow a variety of produce for our CSA members, local wholesale accounts, custom growing, and farmer’s markets. We are known for our garlic, greens, herbs, peppers, tomatoes, and more. We use cover crops extensively and grow with organic inputs.
Our farm consists of about 10 acres. In warmer weather, 5 acres are in production while the other 5 are cover cropped. We also utilize 9 greenhouses, most of which are overflowing with heat loving crops like tomatoes, sweet peppers, zukes & cukes. In the winter, the greenhouses are home to greens such as spinach, kale, chard, and leafy brassicas.
Dutchess Farm works closely with local food banks & donates food to those in need.
Do you love fresh food? A farm share & access to local farm products is included
JOB DESCRIPTION
Job duties would include:
- Planting
- Weeding
- Vegetable harvesting for local farmer's markets & CSA's
- Washing & sorting vegetables
- Tractor work for the right person
Mechanical ability is helpful, but not necessary.
An ideal candidate should possess the following skills and experience:
- Experience in vegetable farming
- Dependability
- Attentiveness to detail
- Team player; adaptable & collaborative
- Effective communicator
- An interest in agriculture and local foods
- Ability to lift 50lbs
- Ability to drive manual transmission helpful but not necessary
A sampling of our day-to-day tasks is below:
Greenhouse growing
- Flipping crops, bed prep, transplanting, weeding
- Trellising tomatoes & cucumbers
Bed prep
- Tillage-based — Chisel plowing, tilling, raised bed laying
- No-till — Mowing, tarping
Weeding and pest management
- Hand weeding, hoeing, flame weeding
- Set up & removal of row covers & bug netting
- For the right person: tractor-based cultivation like Williams tooling & hilling potatoes
Transplanting
- Hand transplant often with the use of wheel dibbler & hand tools as well as water wheel transplanter
Irrigation
- Familiarity with drip systems helpful
Harvesting & Wash-pack
- We normally have 2 large harvest days during the summer months. The harvest happens early in the day to ensure the proper cooling, and storage of crops during summer heat.
- Washing, maintaining quality control of vegetables
Miscellaneous
- Farm maintenance — Organizing, mowing, maintaining deer fence
- Greenhouse maintenance
- Direct seeding
COMPENSATIONthis position is : hourly, varies DOE, $17.00 - $20.00APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONSEmail [email protected]
Please feel free to contact us with any questions regarding the position.
When applying please provide at least one work reference that we can contact.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Contact Stephen Chamberlain:
802-468-0202