Jobs on Farms
Are you a farmer looking for season workers? Or a student looking for a summer farm job? PickYourOwn.org would like to help match both of you! While pick-your-own farms obviously employ fewer staff than regular farms, they still need some help.
Here are some good resources for both farmers looking for staff and workers looking for employment. There are also agricultural jobs available to working travellers; doing planting, peeling, packing and picking fruit and vegetables. Keep in mind that many small scale farmers advertise their job openings in local newspapers or by word of mouth, so you might have more success asking around in Pubs and farm associations in the farm's local area.
Wages vary, but are generally the lowest of any job in any country. The hours can be long and often necessary to work overtime and everyday to get the crops picked when it is ripe, so even though wages are often low, the hours can make up for it. Some farmers pay by the hour but others pay by the amount you pick (also called piece work). In any case, you obviously need to be reasonably fit and hard working to make it pay. Accommodation is often provided, although it is pretty basic and Spartan. If you desire work in agriculture and on farms, understand that picking is the absolute bottom rung on the ladder. If you have any education and/or a functioning brain; you might want to try something further up the food chain; such as a manager, sales clerk, tending to animals, etc.
PLEASE READ THIS: You must contact these farms and companies directly yourself. PickYourOwn.org has NO affiliation with them, and we have NO jobs to offer. I just put this page together to help! Now I'm bombarded by eastern Europeans who apparently send emails to every website that has the word "farm" in it, without reading anything. <sigh>
- AgCareers - This website is like Monster.com for agricultural careers. Not really aimed at the seasonal field worker, this is more for people pursuing a career in agriculture. This is the link to their apprenticeship page: Agriculture Jobs at Farms.com AgCareers - AgCareers provides agriculture job listings and career resources to assist in developing your AgCareer. Job seekers can post their resumes and farms can post openings.
- Agriculture-jobs-online.com - Agriculture Job Search, Agriculture Jobs, Jobs In Agriculture - Agriculture job search guide. The one stop site for all your agriculture job search needs. Now Find Agriculture Related Jobs With the Department of Agriculture Jobs.
- AgriSeek - Agricultural Jobs - Agricultural Jobs, . All products, auctions, jobs, careers, Agricultural Jobs, farms for sale, machinery, animal, are brought by farmers, dealers.
- AgriSupport - Farm and agriculture jobs. US, Australian and other international farm job listings.
- AnyworkAnywhere - Farm, Fruit Picking & Packing Jobs. They also have jobs guides to help explain what the job conditions are like.
- BackdoorJobs in Farming - This website is virtually about jobs in "the simple life and living more sustainably (and organically!)". It's for those who want to transform their world into something completely different — learning to become more self-reliant, connecting with the earth, integrating skills from the "good old days" that many of us take for granted, and leading a more balanced and harmonious lifestyle.
- California State University Agricultural Jobs Listings - These are generally for college educated, degreed or intern positions in agriculture.
- EcoForest, Apdo Correos 29, 29100 Coin, Malaga, Spain; 011-34-661-079 950; info@ecoforest.org Small fruit farm in southern Spain that offers a place to live at low cost while changing to a healthy, sustainable way of life. They have a working visitor program, where work contributed subsidizes your keep. It is a vegan diet, all raw food. I guess that's "roughaging it"! :)
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The Farmhands UK service s targeted for Britain's crop growers, farmers, factory or packhouse operators with seasonal labour needs of minimum 10 people for periods of 2 to 10 months. The businesses should have accommodation available for the farm workers in the form of caravans, cottages, mobile homes, dormitories with amenities and kitchens available. The Farmhands UK is a service of Aston Ltd., which is a Slovak employment agency established in 1997. It is offering multiple student summer work abroad programs and personnel leasing to Slovak based manufacturing companies. We are a dynamically growing company concentrated on clients needs. For information about our programs and services, please visit our company web site at www.astonltd.sk.
- Fruitfuljobs.com was founded as a seasonal labour, web-based introductory agency by AMS in 2001 and has since introduced workers to employers from all areas of the land-based industry all over the UK. It is now used industry-wide to search for resources, jobs and candidates from graduate to board level as well as fulfilling short-term employment needs. Fruitfuljobs.com averages almost 400,000 hits a month and has strategic alliances to numerous industry organisations, higher education establishments, trade media and backpacker outlets. Due to our ongoing direct involvement with the sectors we recruit for, as well as an inherent understanding of the urgency job seekers and employers in our field often face, we can solve your recruitment, career and working holiday requirements.
- Farm Helpers in New Zealand, 16 Aspen Way, Palmerston North, New Zealand; tel/fax 011-64-6 355 0448; info@fhinz.co.nz, NZ$25 ($17) membership includes booklet listing over 190 farmers looking for helpers in exchange for room and board.
- HELP Exchange - Free info exchange for people who want to work for free accommodation and meals in Australia and New Zealand. It has about 150 addresses in Australia and 200 in New Zealand.
- in Iceland: see this page in Iceland and this page about working in Iceland.
- NationsJobs - Agricultural jobs.
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National Harvest
Labour Information Service -(NHLIS), helps growers in Australia
and jobseekers find each other at peak harvest times. Here's how to contact
them:
- Phone: 1800 062 332
- The website provides comprehensive information about harvest labour opportunities in all States of Australia
- Northern Victoria Fruitgrowers’ Association - PO Box 612, Mooroopna, Victoria 3629, Australia; 011-61-3-5821 5825 3700, administrator@nvfa.com.au. Actively recruits fruit pickers from January to March for about 200 growers. Also see the Victorian Peach and Apricot Growers’ Assn., 30A Bank Street, (P.O. Box 39), Cobram, Victoria 3644, Australia (011-61-3-5872 1729, vpaga@cnl.com.au ).
- PickingJobs.com - is the place to find unusual seasonal jobs abroad. Jobs involving picking fruit formed the basis of the website, but there are also jobs in the fields of organic farming, nature conservation, the environment and green and sustainable energy.
- Planorganic.com - based in West Cork, Ireland, posts a few vacancies on Irish organic and ordinary farms.
- Irish Organic Farmers and Growers Association in Co. Westmeath has a few members looking for live-in helpers.
- Rocky Creek Farm - 11007 Isis Hwy, Biggenden, Queensland 4621, Australia; tel/fax 011-61-7-4127-1377; worsley@isisol.com.au. Offers a 4-day course for jackaroos and jillaroos (farm hands) for AUS$484 which may include (for those with working holiday visas) placement on a Queensland property after the course.
- Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme (SAWS) - A organisation managed by the British government which allows up to 16,500 full-time students from outside the European Union to do harvesting and other manual work for participating farmers. Applicants must contact one or more of the nine participating agencies directly.
- Seasonal Work Australia - is a new, free-access, job-search website linking travelers directly with seasonal and casual work opportunities in Australia and with some relevant information about visas, accommodation, transport and adventure tourism.
- Seasonal Work NZ, PO Box 2075, Rotorua, New Zealand, 011-64-7-349 2865; janine@seasonalwork.co.nz. Publicizes short-term vacancies mainly in the fields of fruit harvesting and processing.
- Stablemate, (no website) PO Box 1206, Windsor, NSW 2756, Australia; 011-61-2-4587 9770; info@stablemate.net.au. Supplies staff with relevant experience to the horse industry. Operates equine (horsies) exchange program with the U.S.
- Torrens Valley Orchards - Forreston Road. Gumeracha, S.A., Australia; 011-61-8-3891405; tvo@hotkey.net.au. Orchard work Dec-Sept, especially cherry picking and packing (in December and January).
- Willing Workers on Organic Farms" (WWOOF) - the basis of which is you work in exchange for your keep and you can do so in the U.S. and all over the world. Check out their links around the globe:
- Wine Jobs:
- BBS "winejobs" Overview
- WineCountryJobs.com -a really good list of jobs in the wine business
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