Nursery Workers
Employer: Wild Goose Farms, LLC (Nursery)
Location: Umatilla, FL
Workers needed: 21
Pay: $15.00/hour
Season: Jan 13, 2027 – Nov 12, 2027
Experience: 2 months
Employer-provided housing; Transportation provided/reimbursed
The job
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time.
Primary job duties are nursery labor, general farm labor and harvesting. Secondary job duties include occasional operation and maintenance of agricultural equipment and shuttle driving.
Nursery Labor: Workers will be responsible for planting, weeding, pruning, staking, spraying, and other activities related to growing, and loading potted trees, and shrubs. The workers will also be responsible for maintaining the grounds, and the existing irrigation system.
General Farm Labor and Facilities Maintenance: Workers will weed; mow grass, prune trees or hedges, clear land, remove brush, maintain fencing, repair irrigation, and plant young trees and bushes. Workers may help deliver meals to workers in the field, and may be asked to clean facilities including bathrooms, kitchens, and common areas.
Blueberry Harvest: If harvesting, workers will pick gallon buckets of ripe fruit on assigned rows while taking care not to damage or bruise blueberries. Full buckets are delivered to nearby wagon for inspection and weight. Workers are expected to harvest a minimum number of pounds of blueberries per hour, equal to Adverse Effect Wage Rate (AEWR) divided by the piece rate and will be subject to disciplinary action for failing to do so. After completion of training and the designated acclimation period,
workers are also expected to maintain quality standards by picking all ripe fruit from bush and avoiding the dropping of fruit on the ground.
Blueberry Packing: Packinghouse workers typically do a variety of jobs related the packaging and shipping of blueberries. Duties may include receiving, dumping inspecting, boxing, stacking, and shipping of fruit. Other jobs include making boxes, stickering boxes, cleaning equipment and facilities, and monitoring food safety. All workers in the packinghouse must wear long sleeved shirts, long pants, and closed toe shoes.
Citrus General Farming: Worker will remove fruit from the tree and place it into pick sack. When the pick sack is full, take full sack to fruit tub located in the grove and drop fruit from pick sack into tub. In order to perform this kind of work, worker must be able to work outside for at least 6 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat the picking process rapidly, working quickly and skillfully with their hands, and carrying a large number of sacks of fruit from the area in which the fruit is being harvested to the location of the tub. In some cases, a ladder will be needed to reach the top of the tree.
Field Walker: Workers will assist management in field walking. Showing other workers their assigned rows for harvest. Helping load fruit containers on the transport equipment and transporting the equipment and fruit from the field to the packinghouse located on the farm.
Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)
Meals: The employer had contracted with a caterer to provide three (3) meals per days to all workers residing in employer provided housing. The employer will charge each worker $16.78 per day for these meals, subject to change with the publication of new rates by the USDOL Office of Foreign Labor Certification in the Federal Register. If the caterer becomes unavailable, the employer will provide free and convenient cooking and kitchen facilities to all workers, and free weekly transportation to the grocery store to workers living in employer-provided housing which will enable workers to prepare their own meals.
Transport: Inbound: Workers will determine their own inbound travel arrangements to the place of employment to begin the job contract. The employer will reimburse all workers for their reasonable costs incurred by the worker for transportation and daily subsistence from the place from which the worker has come to work for the employer.
See Addendum C
Experience wanted: 2 months
The employer may conduct a drug and/or alcohol test post-employment at the employers expense.
Employer may increase wage based on experience or changes in market conditions, and may provide additional pay for performance and tenure.
Wage rates are subject to applicable federal and state law during the work contract period, including regulatory rate changes which are made effective after the application has been certified. If applicable law authorizes the employer to pay different wage rates to U.S. workers and H-2A workers who perform the same job tasks, workers will be paid in accordance with the minimum wage requirements applicable to their classification at the time services are performed
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