Cut Flower Grower

Job Description

We are seeking healthy, strong, hard workers who appreciate beauty, fun, learning, quality, & a job well-done!

Deadline to apply: February 3, 2025

These are physically demanding positions with a lot of variability in the type of work. Flowers are beautiful, but our work is not easy or glamorous: those without tolerance or love for dirt, bugs, certain stinky smells, or mosquito bites need not apply. You will never be bored; there is so much to learn about flowers & how to grow them. You will be part of an important agricultural hub at the Treehouse Farm Collective, which also houses Speedwell Farm & Gardens, Ver de Terre Vermicompost, and The Tool Library.

Candidates from minority or marginalized groups or with multicultural backgrounds or experience are especially encouraged to apply. Artemis Flower Farm is dedicated to the principles of equal employment opportunity.

Job Purpose:

Support the farm owners in the daily work of running the flower farm.

Duties:

The Cut Flower Grower works with the owners, Helen Skiba and Nelson Esseveld, to grow, arrange, and sell cut flower crops. Primary field tasks include bed preparation, weeding, watering, transplanting, seeding, harvesting, spraying, mulching, pruning, and record-keeping, among others. Further tasks may include arranging flowers for the farm stand, cleaning buckets and studio space, preparing for and cleaning up after on-farm events, and flower deliveries.

These tasks require bending, lifting, stooping, kneeling, cutting, digging, pushing, and pulling. Good physical condition and stamina is essential to this position.

The Grower is expected to understand and anticipate the crop and harvest schedule, cultivate personal knowledge of flower crops, soil science, and farming techniques, actively communicate problems and seek solutions, help develop better and more efficient processes, and take a critical interest in achieving the farm’s goals.

Some Grower candidates may have management experience. These Growers assist in training employees on farming techniques, practices, procedures, and concepts; strives to listen to others’ questions and concerns and provides support in a positive manner; and leads and empowers others in tasks when guidance is needed.

Hours: 

  • Full Time, 40 hours per week, as early as 6am to as late as 6pm, Monday—Friday, and other days scheduled in advance with Employer.

  • Opportunities for more hours usually arise during harvest season, May – September.

  • Employment Start: March 3rd, 2025. Expected Employment End: November 26th, 2025

Compensation: 

  • $18-$22 per hour DOE

  • Paid Time Off: 40 total hours, to be scheduled at least 2 weeks in advance.

  • 1 hour of accrued paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked.

  • Take home flowers.

  • Attend any of our on-farm workshops free of charge.

Required Experience & Qualifications:

  • At least 1 season working on a commercial farm (not necessarily on a flower farm, but a farm selling produce as a business).

  • Reliable transportation to and from the farm. There is a Park-n-Ride on the Diagonal Highway about 3 miles from the farm; you could bike to the farm easily from there. 

  • Able to work outdoors in all weather conditions

  • Able to engage in physically active work every day on uneven terrain

  • Desire to learn and ability to remember plant names, seeding procedures, plant spacing, harvest techniques, and more specific standard operating procedures

  • Able to follow detailed directions

  • Strong communication skills

  • Able to work independently and also collaborate with a team

Preferred Experience & Qualifications

  • Two full seasons or more working on a production farm

  • Knowledge of cut flower names

  • Cut flower harvest & cultivation experience

  • A personal smart phone to use for work tasks

How to Apply:

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Learning Opportunities

(Number 11 Will SHOCK YOU! 😄)

  1. Cultivate & harvest over 100 flower varieties, including flowers from seed, cuttings, tubers, bulbs, corms, & perennials.

  2. Design floral arrangements for events and retail.

  3. Learn what it takes behind the scenes to run a successful farm business: crop planning, marketing, logistics, sourcing, delivery, and so much more.

  4. Research, scout, & apply biological pest controls.

  5. Brew & apply compost tea.

  6. Operate a walk-behind tractor.

  7. Learn about implements used on a four-wheel tractor; potential operator training depending on aptitude.

  8. Set-up & maintain drip & overhead irrigation.

  9. Care for & move farm’s chicken flock; learn about other animals on the farm.

  10. Learn from other farm operations on the property.

  11. Get plugged into the local farm scene through events and organizations.

Interview Us First

Learn what it’s like to work for us by getting in touch with previous employees.

  • Kailey harvesting allium in the field.

    Email: klittlehorn@gmail.com

  • Brett stuffing her pockets with dahlias.

    Email: brett.bidstrup22@gmail.com

Our Farm

Artemis Flower Farm is a specialty cut flower farm located at 8104 N 63rd St in Longmont. It is run by husband & wife Helen Skiba and Nelson Esseveld, who have a new baby born in August 2024. We have been growing cut flowers for 11 seasons, and 2025 will be our 5th season at this property as part of the Treehouse Farm Collective. We sell our flowers to the Colorado Flower Collective and local florists, at our farm stand, at our on-farm workshops, and to wedding clients.

We also sell & ship dahlia tubers and dried flowers in the winter. We currently farm on about 2 acres, with 3 caterpillar tunnels, and we are actively expanding our footprint along with managing the farm’s collective space. We grow over 160,000 stems of flowers each season and we are continuously improving & refining our practices.