Job Information
March Farms LLC Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery in Bethlehem, Connecticut
3 Full Time Seasonal H-2A Jobs available 05/10/2024 - 11/24/2024.
Workers will perform a variety of duties involved in planting, cultivation, processing, and harvesting of fruits and vegetables, including but not limited to: work in greenhouses, planting, staking, and suckering tomato plants. Harvest tomatoes and grade tomatoes with minimal bruising and spoilage. Prepare fields for planting, removing brush and stones. Plant vegetables, trees and bushes, mow around trees and bushes using a hand mower, and weed around growing plants. Thin fruit by hand, harvest fruit, place ladder in tree, climb ladder and place fruit into picking bucket. Transfer fruit to bin, careful not to bruise fruit. May grade and pack fruit and vegetables, load trucks and press and bottle cider. May make repairs to fences, farm buildings and equipment. May maintain farm grounds by mowing and split and stack firewood. One month experience required in duties listed.
Requirements:
- 1 month experience in duties listed
- Lifting requirement 50 lbs.
- Exposure to extreme temperatures
- Extensive Pushing or Pulling
- Extensive sitting or walking
- Frequent stooping or bending over
- Repetitive movements
The full terms and conditions of the job (form ETA790a) should be reviewed and provided to qualified applicants from this website: seasonaljobs.dol.gov