Job description

About Farmscape:
Farmscape is the largest urban farming venture in California with offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Inspired by the Victory Gardens of the 1940′s, we started in 2009 helping residents, schools, and businesses set up vegetable gardens and home orchards. To date, we have installed over 350 urban farms and currently maintain 150 of those plots.

We currently employ 15 people, mostly farmers, who manage farms and gardens along their neighborhood routes. Our farmers plant, maintain, and harvest at each location, leaving the produce for the client. We've also developed our own scholastic curriculum, implemented at over a dozen Los Angeles schools.

About you:
You are experienced in both vegetable production and customer service. You have the patience to hunt for caterpillars and sit in lots of LA traffic. You communicate personably and clearly. You can handle the heat. You thrive working independently and with others. You equally enjoy harvesting 10 pounds of tomatoes and shovelling 100 cubic feet of soil.

Job Responsibilities:

• Make weekly visits to yards of Farmscape members at regularly scheduled times
• Manage all aspects of annual vegetable cultivation from planning and planting plots, fertilization and pest control, to leaving a harvest on each member’s doorstep
• Keep detailed records during weekly visits
• Maintain good relationships with members, both in-person and via phone/email
• Adhere to Farmscape best practices in managing farms
• Communicate promptly with supervisor regarding supply needs and unexpected garden issues
• Communicate with sales staff regarding newly installed farms and add them to the weekly route in a timely manner
• Assist with covering routes when other farmers are on vacation
• Assist with office and garden projects as required
• Offer garden consultation hours as scheduled
• Attend staff meetings and training sessions as required
• Represent Farmscape in a friendly and professional manner

Qualifications:

• Valid driver’s license and full-time access to working vehicle (that you don't mind getting messy)
• Experience with annual vegetable cultivation required
• Related education in horticulture, crop science, etc. a plus
• Experience working with classrooms, youth groups, children is a plus
• Ability to learn and adapt to Farmscape best practices
• Friendly and clear communicator
• Organizational skills and attention to detail a must
• Ability to work independently

Compensation:
Commensurate with experience. Benefits package available to full-time farmers.

Compensation

this position is: contract

Application instructions

Deadline

November 14, 2014