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The Chard Holding Group CIC
Georgetown, Glasgow, Scotland
Posted: 29 May 2025
Deadline: 2 Jun 2025
Compensation: £12.21 per hour
Paid
Job description
You’ll help with the smooth running of our organic vegetable farm and veg box delivery service.
Predominantly this will include picking and harvesting produce in the field and then portioning produce and packing it into veg boxes in our veg shed. You may also undertake deliveries of veg boxes to our customers.
Harvests can start from 7am and will include picking a wide range of produce which is growing in our organic field including potatoes, broad beans, borlotti beans, chard, lettuce, cucumbers, spring onions, spinach, kale and mixed salad leaves. Nearly all of this is done without any mechanisation with many crops cut with a knife and bunched with elastic bands. This means you will need to work quickly and efficiently with the work more similar to a production line than leisurely garding activity.
In the veg shed potions are often made up and a shift may include packing hundreds of bags of salad mix before making up veg boxes or getting additional orders together.
The role may also include undertaking occasional veg box delivery routes. This involves packing our van with the veg boxes for your route and delivering veg boxes to our customers.
This is the first time we have recruited for such a role but we expect the split between field and veg shed to be around 50/50.
You may also undertake other activities on the farm from time to time including sowing seed trays and weeding.
Application information
Via our website: https://locavore.scot/recruitment/
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About The Chard Holding Group CIC
We are a social enterprise which exists to build more sustainable food networks which are better for people and the environment. Locavore CIC was established in 2011 in the south-side of Glasgow and in early 2024 The Chard Holding Group CIC took over now operate Locavore with the same ethos and mission: Our activities include: -Running our two Glasgow shops in Govanhill and Partick which serve 16,000 customers a month with local, organic and zero waste foods and goods. -Delivering local organic veg boxes to around 2000 customers from Ayr to Edinburgh with our fleet of electric vans. We currently make around 1100 box deliveries per week. -Supplying other business and with local and organic food through our wholesale service which also services a local authority via a procurement contract. -Growing local organic vegetables at a number of market garden sites which we sell through our shops, veg box scheme and wholesale service.
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