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.

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity to work with a growing organisation at the cutting edge of regenerative food production, urban design and commercial growing.

We are seeking someone with some growing experience, who understands how plants grow and the life cycle of plants, can identify many fruit & veg and has some basic knowledge of soil regeneration and agroforestry.

The rest is down to us to teach you!

We are seeking a part-time grower for the summer season to begin with, with the intention of them leading our demonstration market garden in Berkshire.  Ideally some hours across 5 days a week (20 hours per week).  Exact days and hours can be flexible depending on existing commitments.  The contract may be renewed depending on many factors.

Essential criteria:

• Some experience in food production
• An understanding of no dig, soil health, agroforestry
• Willingness to learn
• Flexibility
• Own transport

Desirable:

• Commercial growing experience
• Some knowledge of edible perennials and tree / shrub crops

What we offer

• Exciting and innovative work based mostly outdoors
• Opportunity to grow with us as we expand and take on more market gardens
• Learning from our team
• Certified learning with LANTRA

*ACCOMMODATION IS NOT ON OFFER - you must live locally to Lambourn or be prepared to relocate yourself*

The site

A 1.2 acre market garden site on the chalky downlands in Berkshire, with forest garden, orchard and large polytunnel.  The systems are set up and there is an existing network of customers.

The site is exposed and can be very windy, but we are establishing windbreaks on all boundaries, some already in existence.

It is a very rural site with Lambourn being the closest community; Hungerford, Wantage, Swindon and Newbury are all within 25mins drive of the site.

The venue

Sheepdrove Organic Farm is a well established organic arable farm and events venue, with some livestock and many enterprises operating from the site.  The landowners are extremely supportive of the market garden and assist with the promotion of it and networking.

There is access to an indoor kitchen, toilets and warm breakout room.

About edge

We are nonprofit and pay a fair wage.  We are an equal opportunities organisation and encourage applications from people of all and any backgrounds, particularly BIPOC, single parents and queer folk.

We have been running for 13 years, and came out of an incredible edible group focused on local food growing.

Please send any questions to grow@edgelandscaping.uk

Application information

We will interview on a rolling basis as applications come in, so encourage early applications.

The interview will include practical tasks as well as a more formal 'standard' interview.

Apply by sending your CV and a bit about yourself to grow@edgelandscaping.uk

Please mention Roots to Work when applying for these jobs