Job Opportunities - 2 Gardeners

We are offering 2 positions in the garden. Compensation, commensurate with previous experience, will include salary, on-site accommodation, and various other tangible and intangible benefits.

If you don’t think you qualify for these positions, but would like to learn or discuss these positions, we would like to hear from you. Email us to explore the possibilities or check out this website to learn more about us.

Short Term Gardener

The position begins this spring and will be a spring through fall position. The gardeners responsibilities will include:

  • Knowledge and experience in growing herbs, vegetables, flowers and fruits.
  • Eagerness to live in a rustic cabin and live a simple life.
  • Enjoys people , giving tours and guidance for others to work in the garden.
  • Ideally likes to cook what they grow and provide occasional meals for 10-20 people.

Long Term Gardener

The gardener’s responsibilities will include :

  • Native plant nursery maintenance, sales and propagation,
  • Seed saving and sales,
  • Maintenance of perennial flower gardens (e.g watering, weeding, edging),
  • Lawn mowing,
  • Pruning and caring for fruiting bushes, canes and trees,
  • Making compost,
  • Harvesting and preserving herbs, flowers, fruit and vegetables, limited vegetable gardening,
  • Green house culture,
  • Conducting public tours

The successful applicant for the long term position must

  1. be an experienced meditation practitioner,
  2. work smart and effectively,
  3. be a well organized person with experience in horticulture,
  4. enjoy, and excel at, working with a team of people as a leader,
  5. be an excellent communicator,
  6. have experience in food preservation (drying, canning, freezing, and root cellaring),
  7. be computer literate,
  8. able to work with a budget.

Other desirable skills, abilities and experience include

  1. working with the public,
  2. use of “Open Space” and other “Art of Hosting” technologies,
  3. having lived in a rural community,
  4. beekeeping, forestry, and caring for domestic animals,
  5. implementation of clean energy technology, e.g. solar, wind, hydro, geothermal,
  6. knowledge of permaculture, bio-dynamics, 4-season gardening,
  7. having worked with The Natural Step, Ecological Footprint Analysis, or other sustainability programs.