This job expired on June 14, 2014
Professional Organic Gardener Smart Gardener
- Date Posted April 15, 2014
- Location San Francisco, CA
- Category Agriculture / Business
- Job Type Full-Time
Job Description
We are currently looking for experienced, enthusiastic, and self-motivated organic garden managers. Smart Gardener is a multi-sided technology platform that connects inexperienced, fresh food enthusiasts with landscaping professionals that possess the expertise and resources to plan, build, manage, maintain, and harvest organic food gardens.
SmartGardener.com, our DIY website, was established in 2011 and now has over 200,000 users. We are now one of the most popular garden-planning websites in the country. After realizing that a substantial portion of our users want direct help with their vegetable gardens, we created Smart Backyard (SmartBackyard.com) which connects inexperienced, fresh food enthusiasts with landscaping partners trained on our platform. Our goal is to connect experienced, enthusiastic, and self-motivated organic garden managers with our landscaping partners. This is a unique opportunity to create, define, and manage an organic gardening division within an established landscaping company. Our partners are looking for select individuals to help us grow this area of their business.
The candidate must be experienced and have a strong working knowledge in vegetable plant care and maintenance. Additional skills include companion and succession planting knowledge, organic pest and disease care and treatment, watering requirements, and plant stabilization methods including trellising, fencing, staking and more.
You must have a good working knowledge of computers and be able to learn and execute on our proprietary software used in the commission of the work.
The ideal candidate will also be able to interact with customers, sell our partners services, and expand the services offered with new and old clients. Our partners will have a presence at local events (i.e. Farmer’s markets and sustainability themed events) where you would be expected to represent the company and its services.
This is physical outdoor work and includes some heavy lifting.
Additional skills that are useful include experience with greenhouses, cold frames, hoop houses, chickens, and hive bee culture. We will consider full-time, part-time, and seasonal applications. Compensation is $13/hr-$20/hr depending on experience, but compensation, hours, and responsibility will be negotiated with our partners. Our partners are looking foran entrepreneurial individual to create and manage an organic food productiondivision within their business. Our current partners are based in San Franciscobut we will be accepting applications for the remainder of the SF Bay Area as wecontinue building out our partner network.
Send your resume and cover letter to gardengrowingjobs@gmail.com. Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis. Please include your location. Ifit’s a good fit we will connect you with a partner in your geographic area. Thanks for your time and consideration.
Peace and Carrots,
The Smart Gardener Team Compensation this position is How to apply
SmartGardener.com, our DIY website, was established in 2011 and now has over 200,000 users. We are now one of the most popular garden-planning websites in the country. After realizing that a substantial portion of our users want direct help with their vegetable gardens, we created Smart Backyard (SmartBackyard.com) which connects inexperienced, fresh food enthusiasts with landscaping partners trained on our platform. Our goal is to connect experienced, enthusiastic, and self-motivated organic garden managers with our landscaping partners. This is a unique opportunity to create, define, and manage an organic gardening division within an established landscaping company. Our partners are looking for select individuals to help us grow this area of their business.
The candidate must be experienced and have a strong working knowledge in vegetable plant care and maintenance. Additional skills include companion and succession planting knowledge, organic pest and disease care and treatment, watering requirements, and plant stabilization methods including trellising, fencing, staking and more.
You must have a good working knowledge of computers and be able to learn and execute on our proprietary software used in the commission of the work.
The ideal candidate will also be able to interact with customers, sell our partners services, and expand the services offered with new and old clients. Our partners will have a presence at local events (i.e. Farmer’s markets and sustainability themed events) where you would be expected to represent the company and its services.
This is physical outdoor work and includes some heavy lifting.
Additional skills that are useful include experience with greenhouses, cold frames, hoop houses, chickens, and hive bee culture. We will consider full-time, part-time, and seasonal applications. Compensation is $13/hr-$20/hr depending on experience, but compensation, hours, and responsibility will be negotiated with our partners. Our partners are looking foran entrepreneurial individual to create and manage an organic food productiondivision within their business. Our current partners are based in San Franciscobut we will be accepting applications for the remainder of the SF Bay Area as wecontinue building out our partner network.
Send your resume and cover letter to gardengrowingjobs@gmail.com. Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis. Please include your location. Ifit’s a good fit we will connect you with a partner in your geographic area. Thanks for your time and consideration.
Peace and Carrots,
The Smart Gardener Team Compensation this position is How to apply
This job expired on June 14, 2014
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