Stitchdown Farm is hiring 2 field crew positions for the 2024 growing season to add to our existing 3 woman farmer and floristry team.
Applicants should have prior farming, landscaping or manual labor experience. Ideally they love to be weed, are fast and efficient workers, reliable, self motivated to learn flower farming, proactive, a team player who can also work independently, a willingness to take direction as well as problem solve and ask questions. Field crew positions will primarily be responsible for the production in the fields and does not necessarily include floral design in the studio. However, additional hours spent in the design studio or on the weekends doing weddings will be offered on a case by case basis so bonus points for applicants with a floristry or art background.
Rustic on farm housing is available to rent or assistance in securing local housing will be provided.
Field Crew (2 Positions)
April 1 - October 31
Starting at $15/hr
40 hours/wk
8am - 4pm
Monday - Friday, 1/2 Day Saturday
1 wk PTO with full season commitment
Farming Responsibilities Include:
Bucket washing
Transplanting
Morning harvest management
Greenhouse management
Watering
Seedling management
Flower Harvesting
Vegetable harvesting
Weeding
Trellising
Shit slinging
Irrigation rodeo star
Flower harvesting
Weeding
Landscape fabric laying
Wheelbarrow operation
Flower drying
Vegetable processing
Weeding
Flower harvesting
Weeding
Arrange weekly bouquets for wholesale retail accounts (coops etc.)
Arrange weekly Flower Club bunches
Arrange bouquets for the farm stand
Clean & Organize floral design studio
Assist in cleaning, schlepping and all the unglamourous bits of flowering
POTENTIAL FLORISTING RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:
Wholesale deliveries, pickups and bucket wedding deliveries
Washing buckets
Prepping vases
Scraping the crud off of one million candlestick holsters
Making sicknasty playlists
Processing flowers
Internet searches
Wedding cleanup on Sundays