What are the responsibilities and job description for the Gardener position at Where Earth Meets Sky Designs?
Gardener: Where Earth Meets Sky Designs
About Where Earth Meets Sky Designs:
Where Earth Meets Sky Designs is a Western Massachusetts, Hilltown and Valley based, woman owned, landscape design and garden maintenance business. Our desire is to cultivate spaces using native and pollinator species in thoughtful beautiful designs in our client’s gardens. This is our way of contributing something positive to help our ecosystems thrive and our clients experience the beauty and pleasure of engaging in their outdoor garden spaces.
Our aim is to create a personable and friendly rapport with our clients and collaborate with their vision to install, establish and maintain vibrant spaces and gardens around their homes and businesses. We create and maintain garden designs, using both perennial and annual plants, shrubs and trees with a focus on planting native and pollinator species.
We see and understand the need and importance of cultivating healthy, dynamic green spaces so that pollinator and native plant species can thrive. We also have begun to focus our efforts and attention on reclaiming lawns and creating wild flower, no or low mow, re-wilded spaces instead of lawns.
All our work is hand tool based. We rarely use fossil fueled power tools, with the exception of a battery operated lawnmower. Our work is quiet and thoughtful.
Job Description:
I am looking for hardworking folks who have a passion for the outdoors, nature, creativity and gardening. You have an eye for beauty and detail and a friendly, open demeanor. You are able to focus well and understand instructions with the tasks at hand while helping create thriving garden spaces. You enjoy working as a team with other folks and with the earth and plants. You are also able to work independently at a job site when given good instructions and tasks to follow.
It is important that you are fit, strong and can lift up to 50lbs. We weed, edge, mulch, compost, deadhead, plant, shovel, dig, wheelbarrow, move brush, bend over, squat and heavily use our hands. Experience with gardening is wonderful and I am also willing to work with and train the right person who has a love of nature and the outdoors and is interested in learning this trade.
Schedule:
I am looking for a part time employee who can work 1-3 days /week, 5- 7 hr long days. Availability in spring and fall is especially important. This is a seasonal position that starts in April and goes to November. Days of the week can be flexible and I will consider your schedule. There is a need for flexibility at times to address work days and schedules due to weather.
Pay:
Pay starts at $20/hour with pay increases for hard working, dedicated and loyal employees. One way of travel (up to an hour ) is part of your daily pay, 1/2 hour paid lunch and bathroom and water breaks as needed is included in your wages. You are paid via a payroll system and all income will be on the books.
Tools and materials needed:
Please own, wear and bring sturdy, comfortable clothes and shoes that you can get dirty, bring your own hand tools like a trowel, garden fork and hand pruners. If you have a shovel, pitch fork, rake, a wheel barrow, these may come in handy from time to time to bring along for certain jobs. However they are not necessary and I will provide these tools.
Job Type: Part-time
Pay: From $20.00 per hour
Schedule:
- 4 hour shift
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
Experience:
- Gardening: 1 year (Preferred)
License/Certification:
- Driver's License (Preferred)
Work Location: In person
Salary : $20