Farmworkers and Laborers
Employer: B & W Quality Growers, LLC (FL #6 Water Spinach 2)
Location: Fellsmere, FL
Workers needed: 68
Pay: $14.00/hour
Season: Jan 10, 2027 – May 31, 2027
Experience: 2 months
Employer-provided housing; Transportation provided/reimbursed
The job
Workers will perform duties as instructed and assigned by their supervisor.
Arugula Harvesting Arugula, and Spinach - Landcress, Arugula, and Spinach are a row crop, grown in rows on dry land and machine harvested. Workers will be issued a set of waterproof rubber boots, hairnets, Kevlar mesh gloves and a plastic apron. Prior to entering the bed, the worker must wash and sanitize his hands for food safety reasons. A truck stacked with totes (plastic slotted totes) and a harvesting machine are used for harvesting and the collection of the Landcress, Arugula, and Spinach. The worker designated to operate the harvesting machine is the Operator. The Operator drives the Harvesting machine up and down the rows. The worker designated as the walker, walks in front of the harvesting machine with a stick looking for foreign objects. The workers designated as the stackers collect the totes from truck, they collect harvested Landcress, Arugula, and Spinach from harvesting machine into the totes. Once totes are full and weighing approximately 1 lbs, stacker places full totes back on truck. Once truck is filled with 125 totes, truck is sent to packing house to be unloaded and reloaded with empty totes by packing house personnel. At all times, the worker is responsible for following directions from the supervisor to ensure uniform, high-quality product.
Harvesting duties: Workers will perform manual labor to plant, cultivate, maintain, and harvest water spinach grown in traditional open field conditions.
Field Preparation and Planting: Till soil to prepare fields for planting and after harvest. Use hand tools such as shovels, tampers, pruning hooks, machetes, hoes, and knives. Seed and transplant water spinach as directed.
Crop Maintenance: Manually pull weeds, mow, weed-eat, and remove used stakes and string. Stake, string, tie, prune, sucker, thin, and train crops as instructed. Remove or clean plant debris or vines from the ground or trellises. Clear and maintain fields and irrigation ditches. Participate in irrigation activities, including setting up, repairing, operating, and maintaining drip and other irrigation equipment.
Harvesting: Harvest water spinach by hand, selecting produce based on size, color, texture, maturity, and quality. Handle produce carefully to avoid breaking stems, bruising, dropping, or leaving appropriate product on plants. Count and check harvested produce in the field. Discard and destroy produce exposed to blood or showing signs of pest activity, fecal contamination, disease, physical damage, or that has been dropped on the ground.
Sanitation and Safety: Sanitize buckets, tools, and harvesting containers regularly to prevent contamination. Perform minimal maintenance tasks to deter wildlife from fields for sanitary purposes. Follow all sanitation, food safety, and hygiene protocols strictly.
General Requirements: Work efficiently, follow verbal instructions, and meet productivity standards. Report to the designated worksite on time each day. Be available for the entire employment period from September 14, 2026, through January 8, 2027. Employer may request, but not require, overtime or work on Sabbath or federal holidays. Work schedule may vary due to weather, sunlight, temperature, crop conditions, and other factors. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honeybees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect ability to perform duties.
Workers are responsible for following the recommendations of supervisors in performing these tasks.
Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)
Meals: The employer will provide free and convenient cooking and kitchen facilities 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. If the workers are coming from Mexico, the employer will provide and pay for a charter bus service from the consulate city to the place of employment for workers.
See Addendum C
Experience wanted: 2 months
Criminal background check and drug testing: B & W Quality Growers may conduct criminal background checks at the employer's expense on all new applicants post-employment. Failure to pass criminal background check and/or drug screening is grounds for termination.
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