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Community Garden Summer Assistant
Location:
New Canaan, CT
Description:
Role: Community Garden Summer Assistant Reports To: Garden Manager FLSA: PT Seasonal, Hourly, Non-Exempt Role Status: On-site (Availability May through October) Duties: Maintain raised beds and perimeter plantings. Learn the plant families, associated care, identification of beneficial insects and pest management. Promote the Foundation's initiatives, engaging with guests in the garden allowing for a unique garden experience. Support garden programming including School Programs, Pop-up Engagements, summer Picnics, and Star Gardening Club working with adults with disabilities. Ensure sustainable practices with seaweed enrichment/slurries, composting, organic fertilizers, repurposing water and promoting beneficial insects. Qualifications: Knowledge and previous experience with vegetable gardening. Availability: Up to 25hrs per week, (including some evenings and weekends). Basic Excel skills to track seed inventory and garden harvest totals. Requirements Maintain raised beds and perimeter plantings. Learn the plant families, associated care, identification of beneficial insects and pest management. Promote the Foundation's initiatives, engaging with guests in the garden allowing for a unique garden experience. Support garden programming including School Programs, Pop-up Engagements, Summer Picnics, and Star Gardening Club working with adults with disabilities. Ensure sustainable practices with seaweed enrichment/slurries, composting, organic fertilizers, repurposing water and promoting beneficial insects. Physical Requirements: Ability to lift 25lbs and a willingness to work in the outdoor elements. Your own transportation is essential. Compensation Hourly pay rate: $18.75 Grace Farms is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. About Grace Farms Grace Farms Foundation's interdisciplinary humanitarian mission is to pursue peace through five initiatives ' nature, arts, justice, community, and faith ' and Grace Farms, a SANAA-designed site for convening people across sectors. Our stake in the ground is to end modern slavery and gender-based violence, and create more grace and peace in our local and global communities. As a part of this work, Grace Farms recently launched Design for Freedom, a new movement to eradicate forced labor in the building materials supply chain. The Foundation carries out its work through the publicly available facilities and integrated programs of Grace Farms, an 80-acre property owned and operated by the Foundation. Grace Farms was established as an essential platform for the Foundation, serving as a welcoming place where individuals, not-for-profit organizations, and government entities come together to collaborate for the common good. Learn more about our internationally-acclaimed architecture , news about our humanitarian work , and Grace Farms' leadership .
Company:
Grace Farms Foundation
Posted:
December 26 2023 on ApplicantPro
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Community Garden Summer Assistant is a Clerical Assistant Job at Grace Farms Foundation located in New Canaan CT. Find other listings like Community Garden Summer Assistant by searching Oodle for Clerical Assistant Jobs.
Community Garden Summer Assistant is a Clerical Assistant Job at Grace Farms Foundation located in New Canaan CT. Find other listings like Community Garden Summer Assistant by searching Oodle for Clerical Assistant Jobs.