What are the responsibilities and job description for the Farmworkers/laborers position at Cold Spring Farm?
This job requires harvesting, thinning, irrigation, training, and pruning by the worker.
Crops: Apple, pears, cherries (Bing and Queen Anne), plums, peaches, blueberry, raspberry, marion berry, loganberry, mulberry, walnut, and chestnut. These crops listed may or may not be planted and employer is not limited to only these crops listed.
APPLES/CHERRIES/ PLUMS/ PEACHES/PEARS Harvest: Worker will hand harvest apples, cherries, plums, peaches and pears. Worker will attach harness, bucket or bag and pick low hanging fruit while standing on the ground and higher branches while standing on a ladder. Worker will pick according to grade, color and size by grasping fruit with the hands and removing from the tree in a motion so as not to harm adjacent buds on the tree branches. Worker will carry harness, bucket or bag of up to 60 lbs. and will place fruit into bins, which hold approximately 22 bushels of fruit. Care must be exercised at all times to prevent bruising of fruit or breaking of branches. Some workers may be required to examine harvested fruit in bins and sort out any fruit not meeting the grade, color and size specifications. Workers must possess the ability to pick up, and handle, a 10 ft. or 12 ft. orchard ladder weighing 40 pounds.
Please see Addendum C: A.8a Job Duties
Salary : $20