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Namayasai LLP (at Rickstaddle Farm)
Lewes, East Sussex
Posted: 7 Jul 2026
Deadline: 21 Aug 2026
Compensation: £13 per hour
Paid Traineeship Internship Full-time Part-time Flexible hours Permanent Fixed term / contract
Job description
Due to a planned departure, we have a vacancy for a grower or trainee grower on our off-grid farm in Lewes, East Sussex. Choice of part-time 3 to 4 days per week or full time Tuesday to Saturday (£13 per hour + harvest bonus). No experience is required provided you can learn quickly but you must be genuinely interested in farming and horticulture, nature or nutrition. Option for a profit and sales share after two years and hourly rates are reviewed twice a year.
With a small box-scheme and working closely with top chefs we harvest at or before dawn on the day of delivery (up to 3 times a week) and only sell what we grow.
No pesticides, fungicides or herbicides are used. We offer a wide range of fruit, vegetables and some herbs 99% out-door grown, in a low-input alley-cropping set-up that has been very slowly evolving since 2009. Foraged produce according to season. Several thousand self-seeded native trees in the mix now form a 21-acre woodland created entirely by nature. The location is very peaceful and far from any main roads. Woodpeckers, owls, buzzards, kites, lapwings and cuckoos perform for us as the seasons progress. We have spare land for anyone with ideas and a business plan keen to take the first steps.
To start immediately or at any time up to August 11th.
Application information
For more information please email Robin@namayasai.co.uk with a CV and covering letter, or message / call 07736104770.
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About Namayasai LLP (at Rickstaddle Farm)
Growers of vegetables, herbs & fruit, grown outside for the best in nutrition and flavour. Off-grid, our irrigation and washing water is from a borehole with a DC solar pump. Among the first in the UK to pioneer the agroforestry method known as 'alley cropping' and to attempt to use conservation biological control in a commercial free-of-subsidy setting. We do not buy in from other growers or wholesalers – everything we supply is grown by us on our land. Our pre-dawn harvests ensure customers receive produce that is only 2 to 12 hours from being picked. An important part of sustainability is the payment of a real living wage to staff and recognition of good work. We review pay and what we produce continually, to keep the business and working with us viable.
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