Join Our Team as a Seasonal Team Member at The Riverford Field Kitchen Garden
We’re looking for a hardworking Seasonal Team Member to join our team at The Riverford Field Kitchen Garden — Kitchen Garden for our award-winning farm restaurant in the heart of Devon’s South Hams from April - September on a Fixed Term Contract.
About the Role…
We grow veg, fruit, herbs and flowers for the Field Kitchen restaurant and also supply small quantities to local farm shops. The garden is a space for restaurant customers to walk, relax and be inspired to grow and eat fresh organic produce as well as a popular relaxation spot for our busy Co-Owners.
The garden produces plumes of fresh herbs, heritage veg not available in the veg box scheme, trial crops and all manner of weird and wonderful crops. We offer helpful advice to visitors as well as farm tours, garden workshops, flower demos, festive wreath-making and occasional dining events. It’s a busy space and we take a real pride in making organic farming come to life in microcosm.
Summer is busy in the Field Kitchen Garden. If you love working outdoors (come rain or shine) and enjoy working as part of a small team including our restaurant chefs, you’ll find this is an extremely varied and rewarding role. You will get the opportunity to plant and harvest different crops as well as planting, weeding, and maintaining the garden. Previous experience of horticulture would be great, but a can-do, positive attitude and a resilience for doing manual work outdoors is equally important.
More than just a veg box….Riverford are mad about organic veg. It’s at the core of everything we do. We love to grow it, pack it into boxes, and deliver it to around 70, 000 homes across the UK every week.
This takes loads of brilliant people – and working here makes you a ‘co-owner’, since Riverford is employee-owned. Success means much more than just profits; we want this to be a place people enjoy coming to work, and a business our co-owners feel proud of!
We offer a whole bucket full of benefits—33 days’ holiday (pro rata, including bank holidays), free organic fruit and veg to take home, 30% off veg boxes and our online shop, time and a half on bank holidays, free meals during service, and free parking on-site.
Salary £12.65 per hour
Getting to us… This role is based at The Field Kitchen, Wash Barn, Buckfastleigh, Devon, TQ11 0JU.- We’re tucked away in the heart of the countryside, surrounded by fields rather than bus stops. That means you’ll need to live locally and have your own transport to get here.
What You'll Be Doing…
Plant & harvest vegetables to requirements of Head Gardener
Other work in the garden such as tidying, weeding, cutting flowers
Liaising with chefs on available produce and harvesting for the restaurant
Politely deal with members of the public visiting the garden
Adhere to our health and safety guidelines and policies.
Skills & experience..
Previous experience of working on a farm would be beneficial but, not essential.
DIY skills would be a great asset – helping repair fencing/gates/compost barriers
This is a physically challenging role in all weathers, so you must be able to cope with the demands of outdoor and polytunnel work.
This is a manual role which requires lifting, carrying, pushing and pulling and as part of this role you would be required to lift and manoeuvre crates of produce up to 10kg for this role.
You should have good communication skills and be able to speak and understand English to a level that enables you to comprehend instructions and the daily requirements of the role.
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For full details about the role, please see the attached Job Description.
Apply to work with us…We review applications as they come in and may close the advert early if we find the right person. If this sounds like the right opportunity for you, we’d love to hear from you—apply soon to avoid missing out.