Job description

Position – Field Technician (Farming Assistant)

Organization/Department - Growing Home Inc, Les Brown Memorial Farm

Location – Marseilles, Illinois

Duration – 7 to 8 months beginning early spring 2012 FTE - 40 – 50 hours/week including weekends, time off negotiable

Salary – compensation based on 40 hour work week at $9/hour

Housing  – free onsite housing available

Additional Benefits – food staples provided, shared health insurance cost options, all the veggies you can eat  

Growing Home Inc seeks a hard-working farm assistant for a seasonal position at the Les Brown Memorial farm in rural LaSalle County.  The assistant will work with a farm team of 4 to 5 full-time members assisting with all aspects of organic vegetable production, processing and delivery. S/he will also have the opportunity to participate in the education of our job training interns.   Tasks include seedling care, soil tillage, planting, harvesting, irrigation, supervision of small groups of program interns, driving and delivery, assisting at farmers market and events, hen care, grounds and equipment maintenance, processing and packing of fresh produce.

Successful candidates will have: 

•     Interest in vegetable production   
•     Illinois Driver’s License and outstanding driving record ·    
•     Ability to perform hard physical labor 
•     Ability to and interest in living with others     
•     Interest in living in rural Illinois  
•     Interest in working with Growing Home’s transitional job- training program participants   

Please send resume and letter of interest to: jobs@growinghomeinc.org

Please include relevant work experience, as well as future plans and ambitions in agriculture.    

Background:
Growing Home Inc is a non-profit organization that grows and markets organic vegetables as a way to train Chicagoans facing work barriers to re-enter the job market.  Growing Home has two primary production facilities – the urban Wood Street Farm and training center in Chicago, and the rural Les Brown Memorial Farm in Marseilles.  The Les Brown Memorial Farm is a small, diversified vegetable and herb production operation, using direct sales and Community Supported Agriculture as marketing strategies.  Nearly 200 varieties of plants are grown on 3 acres of intensively managed land. The farm is uniquely scaled for minimum disturbance to the soil and environment, using human power and low impact tillage machines. The site serves as a secondary training facility for Growing Home’s transitional jobs program.
All Growing Home production practices, vegetables, and herbs are certified organic.

To familiarize yourself with our organization and mission, please visit us at http://growinghomeinc.org/.    

You can also access this direct link: http://growinghomeinc.org/growing-home-seeks-field-technician/.

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Application instructions

Deadline

January 03, 2013