Website Plan B Organic Farms
$20.00 hourly – 40 to 60 hours per week
Overview
Languages
English
Education
- Other trades certificate or diploma
Experience
5 years or more
Asset languages
- Spanish
Work site environment
- Fruit and vegetable combination farming
- Organic farming
- Outdoors
- Wet/damp
- Dusty
- Hot
- Cold/refrigerated
Work setting
- Staff accommodation available
- Room and board provided
- Rural area
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Greenhouse cleaning
- Hand harvesting vegetables
- Hoeing crops
- Mixing fertilizer
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- Soil fertility programs
- Vegetable culling
- Weeding
- Fertilize and spray crops
- Harvest crops
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
- Examine produce for quality and prepare for market
- Write daily basic progress reports
Experience and specialization
Equipment and machinery experience
- Loader
- Manure spreader
- Planting equipment
- Sprayer or duster
- Tillage equipment
- Tractor
- Vegetable harvester
Additional information
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Personal suitability
- Organized
- Team player
To apply for this job email your details to info@planborganicfarms.ca
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