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School Gardener and Food Grower

MAD LEAP CIC
Hackney Wick, London

Posted: 11 Jun 2025

Deadline: 25 Jun 2025

Compensation: £15.00 per hour

Paid Part-time

Job description

We are looking for people who are interested in sustainability and urban farming to work on one of our sites in East London, where we make compost from school food waste and use it to grow food for school meals.

Gainsborough Primary School is on a circular food journey. We have been growing a variety of crops, looking after their outdoor environment and learning how to grow more sustainable food. We need a gardener to support us to look after the playground raised beds so they can be productive and aesthetically pleasing.

We are looking for people with general gardening maintenance skills as well as experience in growing food growing, including germination, crop maintenance, and harvesting.

We would need a gardener to come weekly during the summer months and then monthly during the winter months. We need them to maintain our raised beds and work alongside pupils and staff to teach us how to look after our own designated areas. 

There may be an opportunity to expand the role later in the year to incorporate food growing in a polytunnel with raised beds, where we can grow more intensively for the kitchen. This is an opportunity to work within a progressive school setting, with an organisation that is pushing the forefront of urban, circular food and waste management.

Application information

Please email info@madleap.co.uk to apply

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