Find your place in the field of good food

Our goal is to connect good people with good food. We advertise sustainable food jobs and training opportunities to help jobseekers and employers find each other.

Roots to Work is a project of Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming.

Job description

An exciting opportunity for a grower to lead a new field scale growing operation and develop a great business within the organic growing community in Cornwall. Tresemple is a mixed organic farm, with 20 acres of organic vegetables on a rotation. 

Responsibilities include: 

• Managing wholesale and local sales of crops, communicating with customers
• Directing harvest teams and harvesting
• Managing the pack shed and packing
• Admin and invoicing 
• Timetabling the seasonal harvest workforce 
• Working closely with the farm manager to manage the growth and sale of the vegetables 

Essential skills 

• Minimum 1 year commercial horticultural experience 
• Experience working outdoors in all weather, good dexterity and speed 
• Highly organised, good record keeping 
• Comfortable with supervising and managing work teams 
• Resilient, hardy and a team player

Desirable skills 

• Field scale organic veg experience, managing tractors, planters and weeders. 
• Crop planning experience 

Details 

• Permanent role, flexible hours~25 a week, over 4 days, with more work available at peak harvesting times
• £12.21-£16.00 per hour depending on experience
• No accommodation included 
• Own transport necessary 

Application information

Please email your CV and why you are interested in the role to Rhys and Becky at veg@tresemplefarm.co.uk

Applications closing by Friday 31st October. 

Interviews will be held as half trial work days on 5th, 6th and 7th November. 

We would like the successful candidate to start as soon as possible, ideally mid November. 

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