Farm Worker

Job description

Perform manual agricultural labor to plant, cultivate, and harvest vegetables and melons, including water spinach, sweet potato leaves, winter melons, bitter melons, and hairy melons. Duties include preparing and tilling soil; planting seeds and seedlings; applying fertilizer; irrigating; weeding; and controlling pests to promote healthy crop growth. Workers will install and maintain trellis netting and other supports for vertically grown melon crops and assist with crop rotation as seasonal varieties are replaced. Harvest mature vegetables and melons by hand throughout the production season, then sort, grade, clean, and pack harvested produce for storage or shipment. Load and transport crops as needed and maintain tools, equipment, growing areas, and work areas in a clean and orderly condition.