2024 Spring Plant Nursery @ Farm
Come visit the farm for our 6th Annual Spring Plant Sale on the farm in Krestova! Our mission is to make it easier for you to grow and eat healthy food. Starting FRIDAY, MAY 3rd, we are open 10am to 5pm, EVERYDAY! We will have an amazing display of certified organic vegetable and herb transplants...
2024 Online Plant & Garden Supply Pre-Orders
When checking out of your online order for plants and garden products, you will be able to select from Farm Pickups, Local Home Delivery, or Canada Post Mail order options for your order’s “shipping”, as your order qualifies. If applicable, please note the date or weekend you have selected. If you do not have one...
Production Manager
We are looking for a manager to operate daily tasks of the farm operation. Experience in vegetable or agricultural production is required. This is a rewarding outdoor/indoor job to learn new production practices and develop management skills. Production Manager will oversee the management team and unite the sales with day to day activities. This production...
Harvest Supervisor
We are looking for Harvest Supervisor responsible for daily tasks for harvest and post-harvest. The tasks include harvest planning, harvesting, washing, packaging, organizing orders and maintaining the post-harvest building. Experience in organic vegetable production or food handling is an asset. This is a rewarding indoor and outdoor job to learn new production practices and develop...
Market Garden Intern
New Position! We have an opening on our crew for the new Market Garden Intern. We have opened this position to secure a candidate that would be interested in developing their skills with the intent to move into a management position within our operation. This is a rewarding outdoor job to learn about all aspects...
Market Lead
We are looking for a farm-hand responsible for attending and running our weekly markets in Nelson and Castlegar. This position will focus on delivering product to market, setting up the display, selling to customers, distributing CSA boxes and maintaining market supplies. The candidate should have experience in farming or food-handling and customer service and sales...
Market Staff
We are looking for a farm-hand responsible for attending and running our weekly markets in Nelson and Castlegar. This position will focus on delivering product to market, setting up the display, selling to customers and maintaining market supplies. The candidate should have experience in farming or food-handling and customer service and sales experience is an...
Greenhouse Workers
We are looking for one to two greenhouse workers to join our operation this coming season! This is a rewarding job to learn about production agriculture focusing on greenhouse horticulture. Greenhouse workers are vital to the operation’s many greenhouses and high tunnels for propagation and vegetable production. Download Official Job Posting: Job Posting – Greenhouse...
General Farm-Hands
We are looking for a couple of farm-hand employees to join our operation this coming season! This is a rewarding outdoor job to learn about production agriculture focusing on horticulture. Farm-hands are the heart of the operation and gain experience in all production methods. We are also looking for three additional qualifying farm-hand leads for...
Student Farm-hands
We are looking for student farm-hands to join our operation this coming season! This is a rewarding outdoor job for high school or college students to gain work experience and learn about production agriculture focusing on horticulture. This position is dependent on receiving wage compensation through the Columbia Basin Trust’s Student Summer Works, Canada Summer...
ABOUT AUTHOR
My mission is to guide people towards sustainable agriculture by becoming better growers and eaters. I have been known to share my experiences at farmers markets, conferences and through social media, but didn’t realize how valuable my information could be for my listeners. By utilizing this blog, I hope I can educate and inspire more people into sustainable agriculture.
– Matthew Carr