We’re Hiring!
Urban Gardener
We are seeking a full-time crew member to join our Garden Maintenance team.
Our Urban Gardeners are responsible for the maintenance of our clients’ organic vegetable gardens, ensuring that they are beautiful and productive! On an average day they travel to 3-4 gardens, primarily residential, and maintain between 20-30 gardens over the course of a two-week period.
Gardeners work independently, driving from site to site, to perform all necessary garden tasks, and are supported remotely by our office crew and in the field by a team of experienced senior farmers. Our service area ranges throughout the beltway area, and each farmer is provided with a kit containing all tools needed to maintain gardens. Bulk garden materials are stored at our base of operations for employee use.
Winter work:
The season for garden maintenance runs from March through November. From December through February all employees work on our installation crew. Installation crew work requires driving our medium-duty trucks and more heavy lifting/bed filling etc. Garden crew members can choose not to work December through mid February, but if they do work year-round, truck driving and installation work is required for those months.
Maintenance tasks include:
Seeding, planting, weeding, pruning, harvesting and applying organic pest control practices.
Amending soil, soil fertility management.
Trellising, drip irrigation repair and management.
Ensuring the area in and around the garden is neat and well maintained.
Tracking visit details using garden tracking software on phone
Engaging with clients: teaching, sending recap emails, answering questions, receiving client feedback and applying feedback to gardens.
Necessary Qualifications:
1+ year experience with annual vegetable cultivation required
A valid driver's license and working personal vehicle required.
Knowledge of proper harvesting, weeding, transplanting, pest/disease ID, sowing, fertilization and rotation/succession planting techniques.
Ability to lift 50lbs, perform manual work, lift heavy objects, walk and stand for long periods of time
Ability to perform physical labor outdoors in various weather conditions (heat, rain, cold)
The ability to think on your feet and come up with solutions to common garden issues on the spot without immediate assistance.
Proactive, friendly, and prompt communication through phone and email.
Comfortable teaching adults and children gardening basics (using our supplied curriculum.)
Attention to detail and organization is critical
Compensation and Benefits:
Schedule: 7:30 AM - 6 PM, Monday - Thursday
Starting rate: $20/hr +, commensurate with experience.
Health and Dental insurance, 401k, and paid time off
Annual smartphone reimbursement
Annual gear credit
Mileage reimbursement for use of your personal vehicle on garden routes.
Vegetables to take home! Our headquarters has a large on-site vegetable garden for staff use.
Interested? Email a brief letter of interest and your resume to: [email protected]
Freelance Landscape Designer
We are seeking experienced and dynamic landscape designers to join our design team on a part time basis. Our design needs range from small row homes and pollinator gardens to property master plans. Our designers are the lead contact with new clients and guide them from vision to project installation. Essential duties and responsibilities include the following, though other duties may be assigned:
Design, Sales and Customer Service
Conduct initial onsite client consultation and interview to understand the client’s vision, experience, budget and goals. Some consultations lead to a design contract, some only require a site sketch of a raised bed configuration before moving to the estimate phase.
Personable! Communicate the design and installation processes to clients to help ensure realistic expectations, help them make informed decisions, and to recognize the importance of design expertise.
Site assessment: property measurements, site inspection, sunlight survey, slope, soil conditions, access etc.
Generate fair, thorough and accurate design proposals. Consultation follow up must be delivered with expediency.
Adhere to Love & Carrots design process to provide unique, high quality designs and vision that meet or exceed client’s needs.
Introduce clients to other Love & Carrots services. Recommend services/products that help ensure the vision of the design and the client’s evolving needs are met.
Project Management
Liaise between client and estimating team through the bidding process.
Communicate design intent and site logistics to the installation team and subcontractors.
Follow up with clients before, during and after installation takes place.
Revise plans according to project changes and communicate alterations to clients, crews and subcontractors.
Experience
Bachelor's or Master’s Degree in Landscape Design or Landscape Architecture
At least 5 years of relevant experience in landscape design
Strong knowledge of Zone 7-8 native ecology, perennials, shrubs and trees including local perennial edible possibilities.
Strong knowledge of vegetable gardening is a major plus
Skills
Excellent design, visualization and graphic skills. Strong hand graphic skills.
Excellent client relations skills, as well as writing and oral presentation skills
Must be proficient in Excel and CAD. We use Landscape Design software that is similar to CAD.
Strong collaborator
Requirements
Must reside in the DC DMV area. This is not a virtual position.
Must provide their own transportation and have a valid driver's license
Compensation ranges with experience and credentials. $25-40/hour plus sales commission. Driving compensation.
Interested?! Email a brief letter of interest, resume, and 1-2 work examples to: [email protected]
Community Partnerships:
We love living here and being involved in the DC Metro Area urban agriculture movement. We've partnered with local organization, schools, and non-profits on a number of great projects for our community.
We’re open to new ideas and projects– If you would like to partner with us, send us an email and let’s chat!
Interested? Email with your interest in the subject line: [email protected]
