Working at Wind Haven
Here at Wind Haven we strive to create a vibrant, talented, and efficient flower farming team every growing season! We do this through hiring local part time and full time employees.
Qualities we value in our employees:
- Positiveness and Inquisitiveness
- Can Do Attitude
- Promptness
- Efficiency
- Team Player
- Honesty, Trustworthiness
- Strong interest in farming, and flowers.
- Self-Motivated
- Energetic, Hard-Working and Motivated.
- Physically able to lift heavy objects all day and use repetitive movements day after day.
- Ability to work in all weather situations.
- Earth Loving Dirt Worshipper - sorry just had to put that one in there for kicks!
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A Typical Work Week at Wind Haven Farm:
- Monday- Harvest flowers from early morning until lunch. Lunch is typically 12:00-1:00. Continue harvesting if necessary. Help with processing orders and making bouquets until completed.
- Tuesday- Help load the van with the flower orders from Monday. Harvest for Wednesday orders. Sort wholesale orders and make up bouquet orders.
- Wednesday- Help load the van with flowers orders from Tuesday. Seeding, Transplanting, Maintenance.
- Thursday- Harvest for Bouquet Shares, and late week orders. Maintainance, transplanting, seeding.
- One Rotating Saturday a Month- Harvesting of Sunflowers and other flowers that open over the weekend that we can hold for early the next week. Generally this is 1-4 hours of work Saturday morning. This is not always necessary, but it is a good way to get extra hours if needed.
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Wind Haven Farm Part Time Team Member
There is one or two positions available for the 2021 season.
Please keep in mind that we have now moved to King William County near Central Garage.
The Wind Haven Farm's season where we typically need part time team members runs from mid May- late October. Part time team members will be working 20-30 hours a week on average. Employees will perform many tasks associated with flower farming including: seed starting, planting, harvesting, farm maintenance, pest control, soil preparation, stage of harvest, post harvest care, bouquet making, and order processing.
Applicants must be able to work at least Monday, Tuesday, and either Wednesday or Thursday, along with occasional Saturday mornings if necessary, not to exceed one Saturday per month unless the team member volunteers for extra hours.
If you enjoy working hard, being outdoors, are a self-starter, detail-oriented, positive, creative, love flowers, color, nature, thrive in a fast paced team working environment, and are physically able to work all day in all weather conditions and lift heavy objects (this is still farming folks, even if it is flower farming), please fill out the form below.
There is one or two positions available for the 2021 season.
Please keep in mind that we have now moved to King William County near Central Garage.
The Wind Haven Farm's season where we typically need part time team members runs from mid May- late October. Part time team members will be working 20-30 hours a week on average. Employees will perform many tasks associated with flower farming including: seed starting, planting, harvesting, farm maintenance, pest control, soil preparation, stage of harvest, post harvest care, bouquet making, and order processing.
Applicants must be able to work at least Monday, Tuesday, and either Wednesday or Thursday, along with occasional Saturday mornings if necessary, not to exceed one Saturday per month unless the team member volunteers for extra hours.
If you enjoy working hard, being outdoors, are a self-starter, detail-oriented, positive, creative, love flowers, color, nature, thrive in a fast paced team working environment, and are physically able to work all day in all weather conditions and lift heavy objects (this is still farming folks, even if it is flower farming), please fill out the form below.
Wind Haven Farm Full Time Team Member
We will be hiring one person for this position for the 2021 season.
Please keep in mind that we have now moved to King William County near Central Garage.
Full time team members work Monday-Thursday and typically work 40-45 hours a week. They are also sometimes required to do occasional Saturday morning harvests when absolutely necessary. The typical season for our full time team members can run from late January- early December. Although in the shoulder seasons the hours are reduced to part time. Part time hours generally occur in December- Mid March.
Full time team members also perform all the same tasks listed above in the part time description, with the difference that they should be prepared to take on more responsibility and leadership as they are present for the farms' entire work week operations compared to part time team members.
We prefer that applicants for the full time team member position have some farming experience, although if you have a resume that shows us a skillset we find valuable for our team, we do not absolutely require experience as long as you arrive with a can do positive attitude ready to learn.
We will be hiring one person for this position for the 2021 season.
Please keep in mind that we have now moved to King William County near Central Garage.
Full time team members work Monday-Thursday and typically work 40-45 hours a week. They are also sometimes required to do occasional Saturday morning harvests when absolutely necessary. The typical season for our full time team members can run from late January- early December. Although in the shoulder seasons the hours are reduced to part time. Part time hours generally occur in December- Mid March.
Full time team members also perform all the same tasks listed above in the part time description, with the difference that they should be prepared to take on more responsibility and leadership as they are present for the farms' entire work week operations compared to part time team members.
We prefer that applicants for the full time team member position have some farming experience, although if you have a resume that shows us a skillset we find valuable for our team, we do not absolutely require experience as long as you arrive with a can do positive attitude ready to learn.
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