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Lake Forest Gardens, Inc Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery in Fombell, Pennsylvania
11 Full-Time Seasonal H-2A Jobs available 03/01/2024 - 11/30/2024.
Crops/Commodities: nursery stock, trees, shrubs. This job requires a minimum of 3 months of prior experience working in a tree and shrub nursery preferably including ball and burlap (B and B) field harvesting. Workers must be able to perform manual as well as mechanized activities with accuracy and efficiency. Workers will perform heavy mechanized field work using power equipment. Take inventory and grade plants, prepare trees and shrubs for digging by tying or wrapping as necessary; dig; wrap burlap or other covering around root balls and securing with twine and or pin nails; crimping wire baskets; lift, carry and load nursery stock; and unload, move or load supplies, including wire baskets. Hand digging of ornamental evergreens and conifers.
Manual tasks related to the growing of nursery stock will include some combination of the following: preparing fields for planting by clearing cull stock, brush and debris; planting seedlings or liners by hand (including riding and inserting liners in a mechanical planter); digging, loading, unloading or transplanting bare-root nursery stock; straightening, tying, pruning and shearing trees and shrubs; cutting, pulling or removing and mowing weeds or grass; moving irrigation equipment; spraying herbicides and insecticides and applying fertilizer. While fertilizing, workers will be expected to pick up and carry 35 pounds of fertilizer and distribute it with a 4 ounce cup. Accurate visual calibration and proper placement of fertilizer is required.
Most field work is performed in crews of from 3 to 6 workers who will be required to maintain the pace of the average crew member. Crew work may consist of hand hoeing around nursery stock. Weeds are to be removed by the root and not at ground level. Shearing conifers and evergreens must be performed with proper taper and angle of bud cut for quality.
Requirements:
- 3 month experience in duties listed
- Drug Screen
- Lifting requirement 60 lbs.
- Exposure to extreme temperatures
- Extensive pushing or pulling
- Extensive sitting or walking
- Frequent stooping or bending over
The full terms and conditions of the job (form ETA790a) should be reviewed and provided to qualified applicants from this website: seasonaljobs.dol.gov