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Bore Place Market Garden
Chiddingstone, Kent
Posted: 14 Jan 2025
Deadline: 27 Feb 2025
Compensation: From £12.60 per hour
Paid Traineeship Full-time Flexible hours
Job description
2 seasonal paid jobs at Bore Place Organic Market Garden. Season: April – October 2025
The Market Garden at Bore Place is 6½ acres (mostly outdoors) and supplies box schemes, a wholefood shop as well as attending a farmers market in London. We grow a wide range of vegetables and do most of the propagating ourselves. During the season you will see and experience sowing, planting crop maintenance and harvesting
The market garden is a medium scale veg growing business. Ideal if you want to make a next step into learning about growing vegetables for wholesale and farmers markets. We harvest to order so you need to be able to work with deadlines and be physically fit.
One role is assistant head grower. Basic seasonal accommodation is available if needed. This role is for someone who can take on responsibility, manage people in the field and has experience in the whole process, growing from seed to product. some experience driving a tractor comes in handy. Hard/Smart working and good people skills are essential. Start date is middle of April. Work in the winter with and for our woodsman here on site is an option to create work during the wintertime.
The other position is for a seasonal worker. You will be involved in propagating, planting, weed control and harvesting, experience in similar market gardens is preferred. The work starts beginning of May for 4 days a week maybe 5 if you want.
* there is often work for the odd day here and there. If you can make your way to work easy and fancy a day here and there please get in touch.
Application information
Please send a short cover letter and CV to metske.laan@boreplace.org
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About Bore Place Market Garden
The Market Garden at Bore Place is 6½ acres and supplies box schemes as well as some wholefood shops. I am looking for someone with experience in market gardening for the period May – October. The work is paid and our working week is on average 40 h a week. Please send an email/ CV to me for more information - Metske van der Laan metske.laan@boreplace.org - and tell me something about yourself and the experience you have. We are recruiting again for 2022. Interviews will be held mid-January.
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