Stitchdown Farm is hiring 2 field crew positions for the 2024 growing season to add to our existing 3 woman farmer and floristry team. 

Applicants should have prior farming, landscaping or manual labor experience. Ideally they love to be weed, are fast and efficient workers, reliable, self motivated to learn flower farming, proactive, a team player who can also work independently, a willingness to take direction as well as problem solve and ask questions. Field crew positions will primarily be responsible for the production in the fields and does not necessarily include floral design in the studio. However, additional hours spent in the design studio or on the weekends doing weddings will be offered on a case by case basis so bonus points for applicants with a floristry or art background. 

Rustic on farm housing is available to rent or assistance in securing local housing will be provided.

Field Crew (2 Positions)

  • April 1  - October 31 

  • Starting at $15/hr

  • 40 hours/wk

  • 8am - 4pm

  • Monday - Friday, 1/2 Day Saturday

  • 1 wk PTO with full season commitment

Farming Responsibilities Include:

  • Bucket washing

  • Transplanting

  • Morning harvest management

  • Greenhouse management

    • Watering

    • Seedling management

  • Flower Harvesting

  • Vegetable harvesting

  • Weeding

  • Trellising

  • Shit slinging

  • Irrigation rodeo star

  • Flower harvesting

  • Weeding

  • Landscape fabric laying

  • Wheelbarrow operation

  • Flower drying

  • Vegetable processing

  • Weeding

  • Flower harvesting

  • Weeding

  • Arrange weekly bouquets for wholesale retail accounts (coops etc.)

  • Arrange weekly Flower Club bunches

  • Arrange bouquets for the farm stand

  • Clean & Organize floral design studio

  • Assist in cleaning, schlepping and all the unglamourous bits of flowering

POTENTIAL FLORISTING RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

  • Wholesale deliveries, pickups and bucket wedding deliveries

  • Washing buckets

  • Prepping vases

  • Scraping the crud off of one million candlestick holsters

  • Making sicknasty playlists 

  • Processing flowers

  • Internet searches

  • Wedding cleanup on Sundays

ITS PRETTY SWEET HERE