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As any thriving organism, Don and Becky’s Farm is nearly always in
a state of growth and change. Part of this evolution is the people we
work with. Our farm couldn’t exist without our crew. We are always
interested in speaking to those who are drawn to this work and our farm.
We generally employ one or two people year-round and about 7-10
people seasonally. Our busiest season runs from May until late October.
There’s never a day without an extremely varied schedule of tasks.
A typical day (if there is one): In harvest season, we’d start the day
near dawn picking greens for a few hours. Then spend an hour or two
washing and packaging them. Meanwhile, part of the crew might begin
preparing our subscription boxes and loading them on the truck. Just
after noon, the driver would begin his/her afternoon delivery route,
while other crewmembers hoe for an hour and then pick something like
peppers or tomatoes which are less effected by exposure to sun, and
wash it during the hottest part of late afternoon. Setting up the
irrigation driplines before quitting time might complete the day.
For many “Gringos”, one of the biggest treats is working daily with
our professional Mexican crew. These guys take it up a notch!
Fifteen year veteran, Erasmo, will tease, entertain, and work the
bejeebers off all comers.
We can usually make use of many of your varied skills, from organizational and
office/computer skills to mechanic and welding skills. There are some
repetitive tasks requiring bending and lifting of as much as 50
pounds. These are part of farming and cannot be avoided.
If you are physically fit, ready to be careful and respectful of the land,
and get satisfaction of working hard, you’d fit right in.
If you are considering farming as a vocation, you will learn how a
prosperous one functions here. The range of crops and enterprises is
very wide. The direct marketing system of neighborhood delivered
subscriptions is one of the largest and most efficient operations of it’s
kind in the country. We’ve never had “interns” per se. We don’t see
learning on the farm as a specialized venture, we are a working farm
where everyone is always learning.
We like to encourage our helpers to stay more than one season. There
are so many tasks which are once-a-year that it hardly makes sense to
learn them at all if one is here just for the season. And the organization
of the farm is hard to understand fully until one sees the entire
seasonal cycle through a few times. It both makes the seemingly
endless admonitions to do tasks in prescribed ways rational, and gives
the satisfaction of observing the results of a job well done. What
feeling the young men have who worked here a few years ago--to see
the apple trees which they planted as high school boys bearing fine
fruit as mature trees!
We offer competitive wages commensurate with experience. We are
fully covered by workman’s compensation and after three years,
employees are enrolled in an employer-funded SEP pension plan.
If you would like to apply, send the application and we will
arrange to speak with you. You will need to first highlight, then copy the application. It can then be
pasted into a Word document, completed, and sent as an e-mail attachment. Or you can paste the
Word document into the body of an e-mail or print it on paper and mail.
For more information contact:
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