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Market Garden Grower

The Kindling Trust and Bridge 5 Mill
Woodbank Park, Stockport

Posted: 27 Jan 2025

Deadline: 24 Feb 2025

Compensation: £24,375 per annum pro rata

Paid Full-time Flexible hours Fixed term / contract

Job description

We are seeking an experienced, committed and organised grower to join our small Market Garden team at our 2.5 acre urban agriculture site in Stockport, Greater Manchester.

You will be joining a fantastic, knowledgable and passionate team with a great range of skills and experience. Working together under the guidance of our lead grower, the team share the tasks and responsibilities involved crop production and running and developing Market Garden site of this scale.

Year on year, we have increased the amount of produce we grow, developing our our sales and relationships with our Greater Manchester markets through our amazing fresh organic produce.

Recently we took ownership of two additional polytunnels and over the coming year are looking forward to improving our plant raising and veg packing spaces, as well as trialling some new crops with some of our long term supportive buyers.

We are therefore looking for a grower, who can help us meet the potential of our amazing site, and crucially work well with our great little team and our amazing volunteers and buyers. 

Main Duties include:

• Growing a range of organic vegetables, fruit and herbs in the polytunnels & on the field on approximately 2.5 acres of land.
• All aspects of crop production – bed preparation, sowing, weeding & harvesting, packing & storage and delivery of produce.
• Working with volunteers (in partnership with the Programme Co-ordinator).
• Input into site maintenance priorities (in partnership with the team).
• Working with our buyers on deliveries, logistics etc.
• Potential future input into future crop planning (in partnership with the lead grower) to meet ambitious sales targets.
• Input into risk assessments and health & safety reviews (with the team)
• Monitoring, record keeping etc.

Application information

Please send a covering letter and a CV to mail@kindling.org.uk

Application deadline: Monday 24th February 2025

Interview dates: Tuesday 4th March 2025

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