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Be part of the change you would like to see by working with Fertile Earth Worm Farm – a small, progressive company whose mission is to divert as much food as possible from the landfills. Instead, we convert food into valuable organic soil amendments like compost, worm castings, worm tea and soil blends for the Cannabis industry.

Fertile Earth Worm Farm is looking to hire a Farm & Nursery Manager who will oversee management of the farm and plant nursery.

This will be a full-time, salaried position with benefits to be negotiated.

Duties will include (but not be limited to):

Ensuring health of approximately 2,000 palms and ornamental trees__
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- Creating and implementing a plant nutrition program utilizing our organic soil amendments

- Scouting for pests and diseases

Sales

- Identifying and determiningprices of trees

- Advertising trees on sites such as plantant.com

- Getting plants ready for sale (digging, bagging and burlapping, etc.)

- Organizing plant sales

- Networking with industry professionals to move plants

- Packaging and distributing organic soil and compost products

Maintenance

- Preventative maintenance of equipment, including Kubota SVL-95 and several trucks

- Ensuring farm is organized and presentable

Managing organic waste management fleet

- Ensuring organics recycling truck carries out its route on each scheduled day. This is the most vital everyday aspect of the business.

-Hiring and training new drivers as needed.

-Coordinating with drivers and being responsive to their needs whilst they're on the route.

-Being proactive with preventative maintenance including scheduling appointments with mechanics and dealers.

-Documenting how much food is being recovered each week and keeping documentation of these records.

-Getting a CDL (details to be discussed further into interview process)

Creating/updating thermophilic composting/vermicomposting systems on the farm (**Training to be provided**)

-Streamlining a system in which food can be dumped without mess, and processed into the preliminary stages of hot compost.

-Determining how to allocate space in which windrows can be effectively turned and allowed to both finish and mature.

-Setting up and overseeing “continuous flow through” worm beds for passive harvesting of worm castings.

-Participating in Soil Food Web courses or other material deemed educational and instrumental to understanding the science behind our systems.

-Managing composting personnel and/or composting the materials him or herself, if need be.

Developing a sufficient team and managing/delegating duties in order to ensure efficient operation

-Identifying what positions are needed on the farm.

-Interviewing/hiring individuals to fulfill those positions and delegating their appropriate duties.

-Using budget to guide the number and type of hires.

-Assessing necessary positions in the future and managing team development.

Preparing blueprint for current and future farm development

-Developing proposal for future infrastructure in order to facilitate farm activities while maximizing efficiency.

-Ensuring areas for farm tours and workshops to take place.

-Deciding which crops to plant and when (currently planting organic ginger, pineapple and hemp).

We are looking for a candidate who has a vision, passion about our mission, leadership skills, top notch communication and reliability, entrepreneurial spirit, self-starter as well as the utmost flexibility. If a prospective applicant cannot do everything in their power to ensure that our organics recycling truck routes are completed EVERY DAY IN WHICH THEY ARE SCHEDULED, including driving the truck themselves if there is no other option, then you are advised to not apply for this role. Previous experience in the plant nursery industry is also required.

While small now, our scale and impact is large and set to increase by several magnitudes in the near future. Being involved in this business guarantees a diversion of many tons of food from landfills weekly, and fewer methane emissions as a result. The application of our soil amendments to our soils allows for increased fertility, improved water-holding capacity, healthier waterways, and healthier food. Simply put, if this job is for you, and if you're up for the challenge, you could be instrumental in facilitating the change that the world desperately needs right now.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $35,000.00 - $40,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Paid time off

Schedule:

• 10 hour shift
• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday
• Weekend availability

Supplemental Pay:

• Bonus pay
• Commission pay

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Homestead, FL 33032: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Application Question(s):

• Do you have experience composting?

Experience:

• farming/plant nursery: 1 year (Preferred)

Language:

• English (Required)

License/Certification:

• soil food web certification (Preferred)

Willingness to travel:

• 25% (Preferred)

Work Location: One location

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The world is changing and we need to change with it. Our current “take-make-waste” economy is filling up our landfills and polluting our air and water at impressive rates. In essence, our nation is shitty at managing waste. We’re here to change that.

Be part of the change you would like to see by working with Fertile Earth Worm Farm – a small, progressive company whose mission is to divert as much food as possible from the landfills. Instead, we convert food into valuable organic soil amendments like compost, worm castings, worm tea and soil blends for the Cannabis industry.

Fertile Earth Worm Farm is looking to hire a Director of Operations who will oversee management of the farm and ensure that vital business-related activities are carried out. This is an opportunity for an individual to make as much of a difference as they want based on how hard they're willing to work.

This will be a full-time, salaried position with benefits to be negotiated.

Duties will include (but not be limited to):

Managing organic waste management fleet

- Ensuring organics recycling truck carries out its route on each scheduled day. This is the most vital everyday aspect of the business.

-Hiring and training new drivers as needed.

-Coordinating with drivers and being responsive to their needs whilst they're on the route.

-Being proactive with preventative maintenance including scheduling appointments with mechanics and dealers.

-Documenting how much food is being recovered each week and keeping documentation of these records.

-Getting a CDL (details to be discussed further into interview process)

Coordinating with commercial composting clients/preparing them for service

-Preliminary site visits to prospective clients in order to understand the most efficient manner in which the they can be serviced.

-Determine the number and types of containers/food receptacles they need.

-Get quotes on containers/food receptacles (toters, FEL containers, etc.).

-Report contamination to management at client locations as well as subcontractors.

-Holding workshops for kitchen staff in order to ensure collection of contamination-free food.

Creating/updating thermophilic composting/vermicomposting systems on the farm

-Streamlining a system in which food can be dumped without mess, and processed into the preliminary stages of hot compost.

-Determining how to allocate space in which windrows can be effectively turned and allowed to both finish and mature.

-Setting up and overseeing “continuous flow through” worm beds for passive harvesting of worm castings.

-Participating in Soil Food Web courses or other material deemed educational and instrumental to understanding the science behind our systems.

-Managing composting personnel and/or composting the materials him or herself, if need be.

Developing a sufficient team and managing/delegating duties in order to ensure efficient operation

-Identifying what positions are needed on the farm.

-Interviewing/hiring individuals to fulfill those positions and delegating their appropriate duties.

-Using budget to guide the number and type of hires.

Scaling up the team as necessary based on budget and needs

-Assessing necessary positions in the future and managing team development.

Preparing blueprint for current and future farm development

-Developing proposal for future infrastructure in order to facilitate farm activities while maximizing efficiency.

-Reviewing tentative blueprints with higher management/ownership before implementing.

-Ensuring areas for farm tours and workshops to take place.

-Deciding which crops to plant and when (currently planting organic ginger, pineapple and hemp).

Attending conferences, meetings with prospective food pickup clients, and government entities

-Meeting in person with prospective clients before contractual obligations in order to be on the same page regarding their wants and their expected volume.

-Developing proposals and communicating data for government entities.

-Being ready to travel both within the region and outside of it in order to network with others in the waste, composting, and vermicomposting industry.

We are looking for a candidate who has a vision, passion about our mission, leadership skills, top notch communication and reliability, as well as the utmost flexibility. If a prospective applicant cannot do everything in their power to ensure that our organics recycling truck routes are completed EVERY DAY IN WHICH THEY ARE SCHEDULED, including driving the truck themselves if there is no other option, then you are advised to not apply for this role.

While we have been in the game for over a decade, we are still essentially a start-up, and ultimately a small company. The emphasis on flexibility cannot be understated. For this reason any prospective applicant is encouraged from the jump to negotiate what they feel would make this role worth it for them.

While small now, our scale and impact is large. Based on recent conversations, it's set to increase by several magnitudes in the near future. Being involved in this business guarantees a diversion of many tons of food from landfills weekly, and fewer methane emissions as a result. The application of our soil amendments to our soils allows for increased fertility, improved water-holding capacity, healthier waterways, and healthier food. Simply put, if this job is for you, and if you're up for the challenge, you could be instrumental in facilitating the change that the world desperately needs right now.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $35,000.00 - $45,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Paid time off

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday
• Weekend availability

Supplemental Pay:

• Bonus pay
• Commission pay

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Homestead, FL 33032: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Application Question(s):

• Do you have experience composting?

Experience:

• farming: 1 year (Preferred)

Language:

• English (Required)

License/Certification:

• soil food web certification (Preferred)

Willingness to travel:

• 25% (Preferred)

Work Location: One location

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Do you appreciate the environment? Do you like knowing that the work you do helps to make the world a better place? Do you like getting dirty? How about the feeling of soil in your hands? Do you have experience working on farms and/or operating heavy machinery like front end loaders?

If so, consider joining our team! We at Fertile Earth Worm Farm are here to revolutionize how the world deals with food 'waste.' We take food otherwise destined for the landfill and convert it into nutritious compost, organic fertilizer (in the form of earthworm castings) and organic soil blends for the cannabis, turf and agricultural industries. Because it isn't waste until we waste it.

We are looking for a farm hand whose duties will include:

* Taking care of the earthworms (feeding, watering, measuring population densities, recording temperature and moisture readings and more)

* Creating compost by operating a brand new Kubota tractor (combining food scraps in the correct ratio with a carbon source, building static piles or windrows, monitoring temperatures of piles, flipping piles on a rotational basis, sifting finished compost, etc).

* Other jobs as needed (could include fixing irrigation, construction, tending to experiments, creating compost tea, etc).

Ideal candidate will have experience operating a front end loader, creating compost (or understanding fundamentals), and prior experience working on a farm. Knowledge/experience working with earthworms is a plus! Previous commercial driving experience and CDL license is also a bonus.

Currently we are looking to start someone out PT at 10-15 hours/week but we expect the hours to increase to 30-40 hours/week in the coming weeks or months.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Pay: $14.00 - $15.00 per hour

Schedule:

• 8 Hour Shift
• Day shift
• Holidays
• Monday to Friday
• Weekends

Supplemental Pay:

• Commission Pay

COVID-19 considerations:Contact with customers is not required, all farm staff practice social distancing and use of masks and frequent hand washing is encouraged.

Location:

• Davie, FL 33328 (Required)

Work authorization:

• United States (Required)

Work Location:

• One location

Hours per week:

• Less than 10
• 10-19
• 20-29

Company's website:

• http://fertileearthwormfarm.com

Company's Facebook page:

• https://www.facebook.com/FertileEarthWormFarm

Work Remotely:

• No

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