Staff Farmer
Application Deadline: Friday June 16 at 11:59pm PT
Position Description
The Staff Farmer is a supporting position that helps with specific tasks & operations our farm and nursery.
The Staff Farmer's primary responsibilities are:
- supporting Farm & Nursery Managers
- shipment of online sales orders every Thursday
- fertilization of all nursery plants & vegetable gardens
- maintenance of irrigation throughout the Farm & Nursery
- helping to maintain a clean & organized space for customer's experience
- assisting with Nursery Sales every Friday & Saturday
- assist with care of our two dogs
The Staff Farmer will report to the Farm Co-Managers.
Position Hours and Times
The Staff Farmer will work 27.5 hours a week:
Monday, 7:30am to 12:30pm
Thursday to Saturday, 7:30am to 3:30pm
Organization Description
Sarvodaya Institute is a 9-year-old, POC-managed non-profit organization focused on helping people recognize themselves as Earth and learn how to engage with our home-body in a nourishing way. We practice and teach gardening as a practice of healing and regeneration to restore health to all beings, working towards the "upliftment of all."
We are seeking an energetic, highly-skilled, empathetic, communicative, community-oriented person. We encourage people of any ethnicity and orientation to apply. You are welcome here.
Required Skills
- Valid Driver's License
- Passion for plants, gardening and healing
- Some experience with gardening and farming: propagation, maintenance, soil health, tree care, vegetable growing, irrigation
- Neat & Meticulous: Plants packaged for shipping must be handled delicately and packaged presentably.
- Thorough: Making sure all irrigation is checked weekly. Breaks are reported or repaired as soon as possible.
- Physical strength & stamina: ability to lift 40-50 lbs from the ground, work outdoors doing physical work for an 8 hours
- Sales: ability to sell, know your product and your customer and match them together
- Technology use: must have smartphone and be comfortable using various apps. We primarily use Shopify, Shopify POS, Slack, Asana and Rachio
Languages
English & Spanish bilingual preferred
Compensation
$16.50/hour
Application Instructions
Send the following to our jobs@sarvodayainstitute.org
- Resume
- Respond to each prompt below. Keep each response limited to 1 short paragraph:
- Describe your experience with farming and gardening
- Why do you think this is the job for you?