Farm Crew Member

Foothill Roots Farm is hiring Farm Crew Members for on-site work in Meadow Vista, CA. Responsibilities include greenhouse tasks, transplanting, harvesting, and customer interaction at the farm stand. The position requires physical fitness, punctuality, and teamwork. Compensation is $17/hour with potential for overtime and sick time. Work is seasonal from April to November, Monday to Friday, with 7.5-8 hour shifts.
Foothill Roots Farm is a diversified Certified Organic mixed vegetable farm using biologically intensive, regenerative practices. We cultivate approx. 24 acres and grow a large variety of vegetables, herbs, fruit, and flowers. We sell our produce through a 100-member CSA program, at our twice weekly on-farm farm stand, and through wholesale accounts to local restaurants and food distributors


Job Description:

Farm crew members work in the field, propagation greenhouse, wash/pack facility, and at our twice weekly farm stand. This allows for a wide variety of tasks day to day, week to week and throughout the season. Crew members are trained on the job to perform the tasks they are responsible for (listed below).


Tasks (include, but not limited to)


• Growing transplants in the greenhouse

• Moving tarps and sandbags used for field occultation

• Transplanting

• Cultivating/weeding

• Trellising

• Harvesting

• Irrigation work

• Mowing/weed whacking- general property upkeep

• Washing produce

• Packing produce

• Record keeping

• Farm stand- Customer interaction and sales, restocking produce at stand


Skills and Requirements

We are looking for healthy, well rounded, good natured, mature people who like to work hard and who we can trust. We need people who come to work on time prepared for the day. Farm experience is great, but not required for this position. Physical work experience or a sports background are important as farming is a very physically demanding job.

Working on the farm requires the ability to lift 40-50lbs repeatedly, kneeling, squatting, standing for long periods of time, and moving quickly from one task to the next. Work must be done in all weather conditions; hot, sunny and potentially smokey as well as cold and rainy conditions. Please consider this carefully before applying. We are seeking hardy folks who can work gracefully with others and meet the many challenges of farm work with good humor.


All crew members must:

• Come to work on time dependably

• Have a working cell phone for communication

• Be able to follow instructions and pay attention to detail

• Be physically fit and able to lift 40-50lbs repeatedly

• Be able to cope with the many challenges of farm work

• Be able to encourage others and see the good in other people

• Be able to gracefully accept constructive criticism

• Be able to communicate clearly with other crew members and managers


Schedule

Start Date: Beginning of April

End Date: Mid November, potential for year round work exists

Work Days: Monday-Friday

Work Hours: 7.5-8 hour work day with a 1 hour unpaid lunch

Work start/end: Seasonally dependent, but generally 7-3:30 or 4


Compensation:

$17/hour. We pay overtime at 8hours/day and 40hours/week. For every 30 hours worked, 1 hour of sick time is earned which can be used to pay for time taken off due to sickness. Crew members are welcome to take home fresh produce from the abundance of the farm and welcome to purchase bread and fruit from farms we regularly work with at a discounted price.


Please fill out the Farm Crew Member Application, link below, to be considered for hire. Thanks for your interest in the farm!

https://forms.gle/eWCJBQBAec8rEhAP8