Farmworker/laborer

Job description

Before employment begins, all workers will be trained on Lady Moon Farms, Inc. policies and processes which includes internal procedures, progressive discipline, and food safety protocols. The employer will provide workers with 2 days (16 working hours) of training in the specific operations of the employer's establishment, work areas, and procedures.

Worker tasks include planting transplants by hand into plastic rows, weeding by hand, hoeing, harvesting and bunching greens, including kales, collards, chards, parsleys, beets, dandelions, mustards, and lettuce, harvesting warm vegetable items including tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, squash, cucumbers, jalapeños, and watermelons. Warm vegetable items are transported to the packhouse and packed into shipping boxes. All commodities listed on Schedule A. Other field skills include pulling up plastic, staking, tying, grading.

Some workers who have experience driving tractors maybe asked to transport harvest wagons from one field to another. Workers will work with general farming hand tools such as rakes, long handled hoes, shovels, etc. Workers may also need to clean and disinfect the houses and buses. May apply agricultural pesticides to crops, pull and lay plastic, install and repair drip irrigation system, and cutting and cleaning irrigation ditch drains.

Special Requirements

Workers need a minimum 3 months experience with general farm/harvesting vegetables.