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.

Seasonal Grower: Wild Farm, Radlett

Wild Farm
Radlett, Hertfordshire

Posted: 6 Jan 2025

Deadline: 20 Feb 2025

Compensation: £12.50

Paid Fixed term / contract

Job description

Wild Farm is a small, no till, regenerative market garden that grows specifically for a family of cafes and restaurants in Hertfordshire. (Cafe in the Park and Daisy & Co.) We are a small friendly team of full time workers and volunteers that strives to have connections with the Chefs and kitchens that we grow for and to be able to provide high quality, local produce for both evening restaurant service and daytime cafes. We are not organically certified but use organic seed and practices where possible and adopt a regenerative and nature friendly approach to growing. The site is 4 acres with 100, 10 metre growing beds, a glasshouse, 1 large polytunnel and 4 small polytunnels. The nearest train station is Radlett which is a 30 minute walk to site. Own transport is preferable.

Details of the role

Fixed contract: Start immediate. End October 31st 2025

Salary: £12.50 per hour (depending on experience)

Days: Monday to Friday 8am-4.30pm

Responsible to: Wild Farm Head Grower and Cafe in the Park Senior Management and Directors This position does not come with accomodation.

Grower Job Description

The assistant grower will demonstrate the skills required to assist in all areas of the production of vegetables, fruit and flowers at Wild Farm for our family of restaurants and cafes.

Production

• Propagating and maintaining plants from seed
• Planting and maintaining glasshouse and polytunnel crops, field vegetables and fruit
• Chicken husbandry Nature friendly weed, pest and disease management
• Compost management
• Cultivating soil using hand techniques
• Harvesting at pace to a high quality
• Assisting with record keeping including harvest, planting and crop plan records

Person Specification

Essential:

• 1 years experience working in a market garden or similar
• A passion for food and growing Happy to work on physically demanding tasks, outdoors and in all weathers
• Ability to be proactive, take initiative, prioritise tasks and work to deadlines
• Good natured and able to work in a small team and independently
• Ability to supervise and explain tasks to volunteers if needed
• Ability to contribute to good record keeping
• Reliable, punctual and robust in nature and approach

Desirable:

• Clean UK driving licence and access to a vehicle as some work may be carried out at cafe gardens
• Experience with small power tools and tractor

Application information

Please send a CV and a covering letter demonstrating how you meet the requirements of the role to wildfarmradlett@gmail.com. Please call Jude Allen (Head Grower) if you would like to discuss the role in advance (07551450579)

Please mention Roots to Work when applying for these jobs