Farmworkers And Laborers, Crop, Nursery, And Greenhouse
Employer
22935 Chautauqua Road
Elsah, IL 62028
United States
Job description
Worker will manually plant, cultivate and harvest fruits and vegetables. Use hand tools such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning tools, shears and knives.
Duties may include tilling soil and applying fertilizers; transplanting, weeding, thinning, or pruning crops. Applying pesticides. Cleaning, grading, sorting, packing and loading harvested products. Will also participate in irrigation activities and greenhouse/high tunnel production.
Worker should be able to lift 50 lbs. Must have 3 months experience.
The employer will furnish without cost all tools, supplies, or equipment required in the performance of work. All terms and conditions included in this job order will apply to all workers, domestic and foreign, employed under this job order.
Special Requirements
Three Rivers Community Farm engages in a unique form of direct-to-consumer produce distribution (250 member Community Supported Agriculture, CSA, Program), as well as weekly farmers markets from April-November, and an on-site farm stand, which requires of employees a knowledge and judgement level significantly above industry standards. This knowledge and judgement can only come from experience in the field and pack house. For example, employees will be required to pick muskmelons within a narrow range of ripeness standards (unlike conventional melons, which are picked and shipped green). They will be required to pack highly perishable varieties of numerous different salad crops--not in the conventional 24 count leaf lettuce box--but in boxes of mixed produce where they can easily be crushed or otherwise damaged. They will spend large amounts of time grading heirloom tomatoes for ripeness, cosmetic and structural defects and suitability for delivery to very high end customers. This