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Who Cooks For You Farm LLC Harvest Crew in New Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
9 Full Time Seasonal H-2A Jobs available 4/20/2024 - 12/1/2024.
Crops/Commodities: Assorted organic vegetables and fruits, including strawberries and melons, and herbs.. This job requires a minimum of three months of verifiable agricultural field work employment experience handling both manual and machine tasks associated with vegetable production and harvest activities. Workers must be able to perform manual as well as mechanized activities with accuracy and efficiency.
Plants, cultivates, harvests a variety of organic vegetables, fruits (strawberries and melons), and herbs , in fields and greenhouses. Washes, field grades and packs vegetables, fruits (strawberries and melons), herbs. Cultivates, hand weeds and thins plants. Plants transplants plants, riding on transplanter or by hand. Picks, cuts, lifts, or pulls crop to harvest them. Harvests crops into crates bins boxes or onto a conveyor belt. Loads seedlings and crops onto wagons and trucks. Assists with irrigation installation and removal, moving irrigation pipe by hand. Washes harvest bins and empty seedling flats. May spread or remove plastic or other ground covering, move and lay hoops, bags, and floating row covers. May stake tie plants, trellis prune plants, and set poles and wires for vine plants. May be required to shovel, hoe, rake, spread compost, straw, leaves, fertilizer, feeding, transplanting, and potting in the greenhouse. Preparing beds, pulling up plastic and dead plants, and planting new seedlings in hoophouse as well as pruning, harvesting, tying up line, clipping plants, sterilizing tools, and washblast water to packshed. In the packshed, produce must be washed, graded, and packed according to quality and weight for storage and sale.
Requirements:
- 3 months experience in duties listed
- Lifting requirement 60 lbs.
- Exposure to Extreme temperatures
- Extensive pushing or pulling, sitting or walking
- Frequent stopping or bending over
- Repetitive movements
The full terms and conditions of the job (form ETA790a) should be reviewed and provided to qualified applicants from this website: seasonaljobs.dol.gov