Job Duties
Workers will plant, water, harvest and pack cut flowers. Work included preparing the fields and greenhouse for planting and harvesting, lift/move crates weighing 50lbs. Packaging will include moving harvested flowers to barn and greenhouse and placing flowers into cooler, pulling cut flowers out of cooler, bundling, wrapping, re-packing, and loading on to truck for delivery. Workers may be required to lay fabric and irrigation. Post-harvest workers will be required to clear the fields, barn, greenhouse, and other farm premises of trash residue from the cut flowers. Workers will also be required to pull up and put away the drip lines once harvest is complete. Work may also include mechanized work using mowers and weed eaters. Workers will be expected to be able to operate mowers and weed eaters with or without direction. In addition, workers may be required to perform variable tasks such as the following: Irrigation, ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, and other tasks related to general farming. May assist with general farm building maintenance.
3 months of verifiable prior experience working on a cut flower farm, indoors and/or outdoors, handling both manual and machine tasks associated with flower production and harvest activities.
