Find your place in the field of good food

Our goal is to connect good people with good food. We advertise sustainable food jobs and training opportunities to help jobseekers and employers find each other.

Roots to Work is a project of Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming.

Junior Urban Farmer

Square Mile Farms
London

Posted: 14 Oct 2024

Deadline: 18 Oct 2024

Compensation: £27,350 p/a

Living Wage employer

Paid Full-time Permanent

Job description

Square Mile Farms is on a mission to reconnect people with food. We put vertical growing systems into urban areas, such as corporate offices, co working spaces and apartment buildings, so people can grow and consume their own zero miles, ultra fresh salad greens and herbs where they live and work. We are growing quickly and need help managing our urban farms. This is an exciting opportunity to join an environmentally conscious start up and work closely with plants growing in the city.

What you’ll be doing within the farm operations team:

• Support the management, maintenance and harvesting of our client farms across London and surrounding areas working closely with our team of Urban Farmers and Community Managers

• Access client buildings to carry out documented checks to ensure the farm system is working correctly and the plants are growing healthily

• Top up the farm system with water if required

• Be diligent to ensure the farm is looking as good as it can. Cleaning of the systems.

• Transport and substitute new seedlings

• Record data of each farm

• Support harvest sessions with the client communities

• Represent SMF and interact with clients when on site

• Liaise with rest of the team to give feedback and for general coordination of client sites

Requirements:

• Previous experience or knowledge of horticulture or hydroponics is essential

• Be passionate about agriculture, horticulture and / or nature

• Ability and willingness to be on your feet for most of the day and travel between client sites

• Be happy to work autonomously, but within the team and with client communities

• Well organised

• Conscientious attitude and keen to learn

• Diligence and attention to detail

• Comfortable/keen to cycle a ideal but not essential (we have a cargo bike)

• Fluency in English is a must

What SMF can offer you:

• Chance to work for an exciting, growing, purpose driven start up

• Opportunities to grow with the business should you want to

• A unique proposition (we’re the only ones doing this!)

• To spend a lot of time with fantastic edible plants 

• Volunteering opportunities

• Lots of sustainable, fresh produce to take home

• Cycle to work scheme

• Competitive salary (we are committed to London Living Wage)

• Well being budget 

• Team days to celebrate success

• Team breakfasts on Mondays 

Application information

Email your CV to our Head of Growing Operations dish@squaremilefarms.com

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