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Farm Grower

The Kindling Trust and Bridge 5 Mill
Kindling Farm, Tarbock Green, Merseyside

Posted: 10 Nov 2025

Deadline: 21 Dec 2025

Compensation: £24,900 - £25,800 per annum

Living Wage employer

Paid Full-time Part-time Flexible hours Permanent

Job description

2026 will see some exciting changes to the way we grow fresh organic food for our two cities of Gtr Manchester and Gtr Liverpool. Greatly increasing the quantities of food we grow, closely working together across both sites, utilising the strengths of a market garden and a 78 acre farm to create a truly sustainable community of food producers.

While this job description is specifically for Kindling Farm, we are also currently recruiting for growers at Kindling Market Garden in Stockport, so there may be opportunities to work across the two sites depending on your skills, hours available, your preference and the needs of the different sites. 

Kindling Farm was set up to create a fairer and more sustainable food and farming system for all. In April 2023 we purchased a 31 hectare (78 acre) farm in Knowsley, to establish an organic fruit and veg based agroforestry system and show that climate and wildlife focused farming is possible.

We have just had our first growing season (following 18 months of fertility building, establishing our agroforestry system, putting infrastructure in place etc.), and - though shorter than planned - it was a big success. We are now getting ready to scale up our production and markets for the coming season and are looking for skilled, hard working and experienced grower(s) to join us. 

We are currently in the process of developing our 2026 crop plans (field-scale and polytunnel), working with our buyers and our sister site Kindling Market Garden site (in Stockport) - and if you can join us soon you would be very welcome to have an input into that.

We will continue scaling up gradually this season (while we build up our markets, team and infrastructure), producing a range of fieldscale veg (courgettes, squash, brassicas, celery, beetroot, leafy greens etc.) and polytunnel crops (tomatoes, spring onions, cucumbers) in our 720m2 tunnel (which we hope to increase next season as finance allows). We also hope to expand our strawberry beds (we started with 4,000 plants this year); and will continue planting our agroforestry system this winter as well as delivering our Countryside Stewardship and Sustainable Farming Incentive agreements at a farm level.

So, there is a lot to do! Kindling Farm is a very small team and we have relied heavily on our amazing volunteers and short term seasonal growers during this first season and while this involvement will continue we need to build a team of growers to take us up to the next level. We are looking for the right person/people with the skills, practical experience (including use of machinery) and passion to help us deliver our ambitious plans. 

This role will work with and be supported by the Kindling Farm team, with guidance from our farm advisors who are a fountain of knowledge and experience. 

We know that this is a challenging role, but we think it will be an extremely rewarding one and if you think it is for you we look forward to hearing from you

The primary role of the grower will be:

Crop production in the tunnels and at a field scale. This will involve a mix of Tractor work for field scale cultivations, planting and weeding and tasks by hand e.g. planting, weeding, harvesting.

The role will also involve irrigation, crop storage and transportation.

Other tasks will include working with the Farm team to carry out:

• Tree care

• Land management (delivery of our Countryside Stewardship and Sustainable Farm Incentive Agreements).

• Farm Machinery/infrastructure: Maintenance, repair and purchase of farm machinery and equipment.

Application information

Please send your CV and a covering letter to farm@kindling.org.uk putting Kindling Farm job application in the subject heading, and we will get back to you asap - this is a rolling application process.

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