Annapolis Valley Farms
$18.00 to 20.00 hourly for 30 hours per week
Overview
Languages
English
Education
- No degree, certificate or diploma
Experience
1 year to less than 2 years
Work site environment
- Organic farming
- Other miscellaneous animal farming
- Other miscellaneous crop farming
- Dusty
- Hot
- Noisy
- Odours
- Outdoors
Work setting
- Rural area
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Clipping
- Deleafing
- Farm animal grooming
- Feed inventory
- Fruit trees training
- Handling animals
- Harvesting seedlings
- Maintain and manage growth of vines, vine canopy and grapes
- Mixing fertilizer
- Monitoring animal health
- Permaculture
- Soil fertility programs
- Vertical farming system
- Weeding
- Maintain farm machinery, equipment and buildings
- Organize and co-ordinate planting, cultivating and crop harvesting activities; raising and breeding of livestock and poultry
- Purchase machinery, livestock, seed, feed and other supplies
- Determine the amount and kinds of crops to be grown and livestock to be raised
- Establish marketing programs
- Perform general farm duties
- Recruit, hire and supervise staff and/or volunteers
Supervision
- 1 to 2 people
- Staff in various areas of responsibility
Experience and specialization
Type of crops
- Cabbage
- Carrots
- Cucumbers
- Grapes
- Raspberries
- Tomatoes
- Worms
Equipment and machinery experience
- Automated manure handling or storage system
- Truck
Additional information
Transportation/travel information
- Own vehicle
- Valid driver’s licence
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Attention to detail
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Fast-paced environment
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Handling heavy loads
- Large workload
- Manual dexterity
- Physically demanding
- Standing for extended periods
- Tight deadlines
- Work under pressure
Personal suitability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Judgement
- Organized
- Team player
- Values and ethics
Screening questions
- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
Benefits
Financial benefits
- Gasoline paid
Other benefits
- Free parking available
- Learning/training paid by employer
- On-site housing options
- Team building opportunities
- Parking available
- Wellness program
To apply for this job email your details to annapolisvalleyfarms@gmail.com
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