Aspiring Farmer

**Position Overview**

**Our farm**

We are a 298-acre sustainably managed family-farm. Our main products are honey, maple syrup, and garlic. We have a strong focus on quality. Our honey and maple products have won awards at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair. We have recently completed an intergenerational farm transfer and are making strategic investments to improve efficiency, increase the scale of our production, diversify our products, maintain historic and aging buildings, and continue important stewardship initiatives such as tree planting and invasive species control. This makes it an exciting time to be part of the farm team as we learn and grow together.

**Duties and Responsibilities**
- Beekeeping including hive inspections, queen breeding, production of wooden beekeeping equipment, equipment cleaning, honey harvesting, extraction, and product packaging
- Garlic cultivation, harvest, processing, and packaging
- Maple syrup work including maintaining existing and installing new sap collection pipeline, maple product production, packaging of maple products, cutting and splitting firewood
- Sales and marketing of farm products
- Environmental stewardship work including control of invasive species, sustainable forest management, as well as tree planting and care
- General farm labour including maintenance of equipment and buildings, repair of equipment and buildings, grounds maintenance
- Operational research activities including field trials, taking measurements, recording observations, carrying out treatments/interventions, and gathering data
- Hours may vary depending on the season. Maple syrup season, in particular, can have weekend work some weeks and other much slower weeks if the sap is not running.
- Other duties as required

**Physical Requirements**
- The work is often quite physically demanding and may involve long periods of time sitting, standing, walking, bending, crouching, kneeling, etc, and various combinations of these activities.
- Hand harvesting vegetables, hoeing and hand weeding crops.
- Work environment will be a mix of indoor and outdoor including conditions that could be wet/damp, noisy, hot, cold, and/or dusty.
- The work is often physically demanding, requires attention to detail, hand-eye co-ordination, ability to distinguish between colours

**Qualifications and Experience**
- Completion of relevant post-secondary education is an asset
- Wood working or mechanical skills are an asset
- Experience living or working on a farm is an asset
- Ability to drive a tractor and/or farm truck is an asset
- Chainsaw operator’s safety training is an asset
- Minimum of G2 driver’s license required.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent, Seasonal

Pay: $16.55-$25.00 per hour

Expected hours: 24 - 48 per week

**Benefits**:

- Flexible schedule
- Paid time off

Flexible Language Requirement:

- French not required

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
- Weekends as needed

Supplemental pay types:

- Overtime pay

Ability to Commute:

- Janetville, ON L0B 1K0 (required)

Ability to Relocate:

- Janetville, ON L0B 1K0: Relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person