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Job description:

Employer Name:                            Berry Hill Farms

Farm Location:                               1544 268 Street, Langley, BC, Canada V4W 2N1
Email:                                              workatberryhill@gmail.com
Position:                                          General Farm Worker
Positions available:                       2
Duration:                                         Full time/Permanent
Hours:                                              35-40 hrs/wk

Wages:                                            $21.00/hr

Overtime Conditions:                   As per BC Provincial Standards

Language:                                       Not Required

Education:                                       None
Experience:                                    None

Job Duties:

• Dig holes for good depth and ensure they meet space requirements.
• Remove weak, dead, broken, and low growth plants
• Water the plants considering factors like temperature, humidity, crop age and health.
• Protect berries from birds and insects using appropriate methods like bird netting and insecticides.
• Pruning the blueberries to stimulate growth of new shoots.
• Apply sawdust like fir, hemlock to the bed surface to maintain mulch and suppress the weeds
• Install trellis system to hold the branches in an upright position during harvesting.
• Harvest blueberries using Berry scoop/ hand rake.
• Load berries to the carts for transportation

Working Condition: Outdoors, wet/damp, rain/ shine, odours, hot/cold.

**** Please submit all resumes via email: ****

We look forward to hearing from you and advise that only those shortlisted will be contacted.

Berry Hill Farms is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and values diversity.