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Farm Hand Positions with City Beet Farm for the 2025 Growing Season

We're looking for our 2025 field crew!

About the Farm

City Beet Farm is a small-scale urban farm located in the Mount Pleasant, Riley Park, and Southlands neighbourhoods of Vancouver on unceded Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh territory. We grow vegetables and cut-flowers on 15 sites made up of front and backyards. We use ecological farming practices that improve the long-term health of the soil and support biodiversity. We are a small team and work alongside many neighbours: our relationship with the local community is very important to us. We sell our produce and flowers through our weekly CSA, pop-up market and partnerships with local community organizations. We aim to provide a collaborative and supportive work environment.

Job Description

We are hiring two farm hands for the 2025 season. The farm hands will work closely as part of a small team on many aspects of small-scale market gardening from seeding-selling.

The tasks of these positions include:

Daily operations such as seeding, bed prep, transplanting, weeding, harvesting, equipment maintenance, etc.
Processing and prepping veggies and flowers for CSA and Market each week-- including making bouquets
Market and CSA pickup setup and takedown
Tending our market table on Wednesday afternoon/evenings
There is potential for one of the farm hands to assist with administrative tasks and social media

Job Details

Positions: 2 part-time Farm Hand positions

Start Date: around May 5th or 12th 2025

End Date: End of October. Exact end date to be confirmed as we get closer, depending on the weather and when the CSA ends.

Schedule: 2-4 days/ week, 7.5 hrs/ day:

Position 1: one farm hand will work 4 days/week, Monday-Thursday
Position 2: one farm hand will work 2 or 3 days out of Monday-Wednesday
Please note this breakdown of days/hours is not finalized, so please apply and indicate your availability/ preferences and we may be able to work with your schedule for the right candidate.

Most days we work from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm. Our CSA pickup and market table are on Wednesdays from 4:00-6:30, so the farm hands may work regular hours that day, or from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm, depending on need and preference.

Compensation: $21/hr plus 4% in lieu of vacation pay and access to fresh veggies

Eligibility: We have applied for wage subsidies to partially fund these positions that require candidates to be 15-30 years of age at the start of employment and must hold Canadian citizenship, Canadian permanent residency status, or Canadian refugee status.

Desired Qualifications

The ideal candidate for this position will have:

At least one year prior vegetable and cut flower farming experience
Strong communication skills
Ability to work alongside a small crew in a supportive and efficient manner, and to work both independently and as part of the team as required
Experience in customer service, especially working in a farmers market setting or something similar
Good work ethic with the desire to work and learn in all weather
Ability to complete physically demanding and repetitive tasks, including lifting up to 40 lbs safely and efficiently
Passion for sustainable farming, building community and local food
Experience operating small-scale farm tools such as a BCS two-wheel tractor, Quick Greens Harvester, and tilther in addition to common hand tools is an asset
A valid driver’s licence and experience driving with a trailer is an asset

The ideal Farm Hands would be reliable and highly self-motivated, and have a sense of fun! We are a farm with many moving parts and we are looking for someone who can learn our systems and work cohesively alongside us.

Even if you don't have all the exact qualifications listed above but you have equivalent experiences that make you a great fit for the position, we'd love to hear from you!

We strongly encourage people who are underrepresented in farming and related fields or face barriers to employment to apply, including new immigrants and refugees, applicants who have not completed high school or previously been employed, women, Indigenous youth, members of racialized communities, and LGBTQ2SIA+ youth.

How to Apply

Please send your resume and a brief cover letter detailing what interests you about the position and why you'd be a good fit to Liana at info@citybeetfarm.com by 11:59 pm on Sunday April 27th 2025 with '2025 Farm Hand Application' in the subject line. We'll conduct interviews the following week. Please also clearly indicate your preferred number of days per week, and whether you meet the funding eligibility requirements listed above in your email.

Thank you for your interest in City Beet Farm and for taking the time to apply. We look forward to hearing from you!