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Crops: Green/Red Romaine, Green/Red Oak, Green/Red Leaf, Mizuna,
Arugula, Green/Red Chard, Tatsoi, Spinach, Kale, Culinary Herbs,
Microgreens.\
The job requires a minimum of 3 months of verifiable commercial
agricultural employment experience, preferably on a vegetable farm,
handling both manual and machine tasks associated with commodity
production and harvest activities. Workers must be able to perform
manual as well as mechanized activities with accuracy and efficiency.
This is hard, strenuous labor, under cold, wet conditions in the spring
and extreme heat and humidity in the summer. Workers may be required to
perform a variety of duties related to the production of herbs and
vegetables. Workers may be required to manually plant, cultivate and
harvest vegetables such as: Green/Red Romaine, Green/Red Oak, Green/Red
Leaf, Mizuna, Arugula, Green/Red Chard, Tatsoi, Spinach, Kale as well as
other types of vegetables, lettuce crops, Culinary Herbs, Microgreens
and other field crops. Workers will be required to use hand tools, such
as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears and knives.
Duties may include tilling soil and applying\
fertilizers, transplanting, weeding, thinning, or pruning crops,
applying pesticides, or cleaning, grading, sorting, packing and loading
harvested products. Drivers may be required to assist with farm building
and field maintenance, repair fences, and / or repair or cover hoop
houses. Workers may be asked to perform irrigation activities such as
placing irrigation pipes and fittings. There is a considerable amount of
stooping and kneeling throughout the various tasks being performed. Care
must be taken to prevent damaging produce and plants. Workers will be
required to dig and prepare ground, till soil and prepare field or
planting, plant pots in fields, remove broken or damaged poles and
install new poles (hoop houses), manually remove weeds by hand or with
digging tools. Workers may be asked to spread plastic or cover crops
with netting materials or plastic and remove them when no longer needed
by hand or machine. Workers may be asked to pack crops in totes, bins,
clamshells, tie or bundle items, weigh product and load product by hand.
Workers may be asked to install and maintain irrigation systems and
water lines. Move and install irrigation pipes and equipment, and remove
drip tubing or install drip tubing, dig, and maintain ditches. When work
is performed in the field workers must wear assigned personal protective
equipment when required. Must report for work daily wearing work
clothing and boots or another durable footwear. Workers wearing clothing
inappropriate for work will not be permitted to start work.\
In addition, workers will be required to perform variable tasks such as
the following: ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, ground preparation,
and other tasks related to general farming. Workers will also engage in
maintaining the equipment, restrooms, and fields in sanitary condition
by sanitizing equipment, restrooms, lunch tables, picking up packing
material, boxes, labels, trash, and discard of any other unwanted items.
Work will also include mechanized fieldwork using power equipment. By
way of example and not limitation power equipment may include tractors,
planters, sprayers, cultivators, and other equipment. Workers will be
expected to be able to operate agricultural equipment with or without
direction. Workers must be able to comprehend and follow instructions
and communicate effectively to supervisors. Unusual, complex, or
non-routine activities will be supervised. Field workers will be
expected to perform their general duties in a timely and proficient
manner without close supervision. Workers must obey all safety rules and
basic instructions and be able to recognize, und rstand and comply with
safety, pesticide warning / re-entry and other essential postings.
Workers may be required also to perform duties such as: Harvest crops by
hand and work in the fields for long periods of time. Workers will work
in the packing house packing vegetables. Physical Demands/Work
Environment: Workers will be required to harvest crops by hand and work
in the fields for long periods of time. Workers will work in packing
areas used for packing vegetables. Workers are expected to perform
duties including boxing, weighing, loading of product. Workers will
assist in loading/unloading trucks with products weighing up to and
including 60 pounds of lifting to a height of 5 feet or long periods of
time. Workers must be able to work on their feet in bent positions and
must be able to bend and stoop for long periods of time. Work requires
repetitive movements and extensive walking. Allergies to ragweed,
goldenrod, honeybees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related
chemicals may affect a workers? ability to perform the job. Work
required in fields when plants are wet with dew and rain, and may be
required during light rain, snow, moderate winds, direct sun, high
humidity and extreme temperatures. Temperatures in fields may range from
10 to 105 degrees Fahrenheit. Workers will be required to work during
occasional showers not severe enough to stop field operations. Workers
should be physically able to do the work required with or without
reasonable accommodations. To be qualified for this