This job expired on September 24, 2016

Culinary Gardener

  • Date Posted July 26, 2016
  • Location St Helena, CA
  • Category Agriculture
  • Job type Full-Time

Company description

The Restaurant’s Culinary Garden specializes in unique and highly specialized crops. Practicing organic and sustainable methods of cultivation, the gardeners focus on consistent and immaculate attention to detail within all areas of the garden to grow healthy produce for The Restaurant’s exquisite and creative culinary dishes. The gardener position offers experiential and hands-on learning that highlights the inner workings of a farm to restaurant relationship.

Job description

Gardener’s responsibilities:

  • Assist in all regular garden tasks including harvest, greenhouse work and work in the field
  • Garden construction, compost maintenance and irrigation maintenance
  • Adhere to highly-detailed standards
  • Become familiar with different crop varieties, maintain awareness of changing crop locations
  • Carry out important, time-sensitive harvests with great speed and accuracy
  • Monitor and report on conditions of crops, equipment, and overall appearance of garden
  • Assist in general upkeep of garden tools and machinery

Additionally, gardeners will be challenged to think critically towards maximizing garden efficiency, be perceptive to the daily changing status of our field and greenhouse crops, and become an integrated, independently motivated member of the garden team.

Candidates should:

  • Speak fluent English, have a driver’s license and be able to lift at least 50lbs.
  • Perform long hours of physically demanding tasks in all weather conditions
  • Have excellent attention to detail, especially in meticulous adherence to written and verbal directions
  • Welcome constructive feedback, using it as an opportunity to learn and improve
  • Interact and communicate well with garden and kitchen staff

Compensation

this position is: hourly, under $15/hr

Application instructions

This job expired on September 24, 2016

Deadline

no deadline