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Garden Intern

High Plains Food Bank

Amarillo, TX

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JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Accounting, Agricultural Crops, Communication Skills, Community Banking, Cook Dishes, Disease, Disease Prevention and Control, Driver's License, Funding, Gardening, Interpersonal Skills, Lift/Move 50 Pounds, Mathematics, Nonprofit, Nutrition, Office Equipment, Order Picking/Packing, Organizational Skills, Pallet Jack, Physical Demands, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Reporting Skills, Schedule Development, Training/Teaching, Volunteer Management, Writing Skills
LOCATION
Amarillo, TX
POSTED
7 days ago
Benefits:
  • Training & development

Founded in 1982, the High Plains Food Bank is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Our mission is to alleviate hunger in the Texas Panhandle. As a member of Feeding America and Feeding Texas, HPFB provides the equivalent of 5 meals with every dollar donated, and 96-cents of every dollar goes directly to food and feeding programs. For more information, visit www.hpfb.org. 


Summary
The Garden at the High Plains Food Bank is a community-based project that grows fresh produce for distribution to the food insecure, establishes gardens in our community, and provides nutrition, cooking, and gardening education opportunities to those in our service area. The Garden staff is  ultimately responsible for planting and tending to the land, as well as collaborating with warehouse staff to pack the produce and distribute it through the Food Bank’s agencies and to collaborate with the Nutrition Education program.


Qualifications
The successful candidate will possess:
  • Experience growing vegetables, fruit, or other edible plants
  • General knowledge of growing produce without use of chemicals (herbicides or pesticides)
  • Ability to motivate and manage volunteers of all ages with little to no gardening experience
  • Access to a reliable, insured vehicle and a valid driver’s license
  • Proven organizational skills and the ability to work with little supervision 
Education/Experience             
  • High School Diploma
Language Ability
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills are required. Strong interpersonal skills with all clients  and contacts, internal and external, are required. 
  • Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. 
  • Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. 
  • Ability to speak effectively before groups of volunteers or team members of the organization.
Math Ability
  • Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. 
Reasoning Ability
  • Ability to understand and carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. 
Equipment
  • The position requires operation of standard office equipment, pallet jacks, tiller, and basic gardening tools.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The standard work environment is an outside setting in various weather conditions. There may be a minimum amount of time spent in a distribution setting with fluorescent lighting. 
 
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 


  • The employee must be able to  lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. 
  • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to speak, hear, and use hands. 
  • Moderate to long periods of walking or standing are required.
  • The employee must be able to be exposed to reasonable and varying weather conditions as determined by management. 
  • The employee must be able to bend or squat in order to conduct garden tasks. 

DUTIES


Year Round:


  • Facilitate garden planning and planting
  • Recruit, instruct, and manage volunteers
  • Act as steward of gardens to Food Bank agencies
  • Keep Garden tidy and presentable
  • Keep track of volunteer hours and In-kind donations and submit monthly to accounting
  • Compost spoiled produce from food bank warehouse
  • All other duties as assigned
Spring:


  • Start and maintain seedlings in greenhouse
  • Plant in ground spring crops
  • Repair irrigation
  • Put down weed barriers
  • Prune plants, shrubs, trees that need spring pruning
  • Begin monthly Garden classes
  • Put shade cloth on greenhouse once needed
Summer:


  • Assess and treat pest and diseases using organic methods weekly
  • Apply fertilizer and disease preventative regularly
  • Maintain weed control
  • Start and maintain Fall seedlings in greenhouse
  • Plant in ground fall crops
  • Harvest and track weight and usage of harvest
  • Manage livestock for productive use
  • Goats- Weeds
  • Chickens-Weeds and Insects
  • Ducks-Insect
  • Establish summer cover crop
Fall:


  • Harvest and track weight and usage of harvest
  • Amend soil
  • Plant winter cover crop
  • Start composting dying non-diseased plants
  • Harvest seeds for give away or next seasons use
  • Annual Harvest Festival- Recruit vendors, food, acti
  • Prepare animals for winter
Winter:


  • Maintain winter cover crop
  • Repair any structures that need repairs
  • Plant any additional cover cropping
  • Winterize animal structure-  heat lamps, heated waterers, bedding 
  • Winterize irrigation and faucets
  • Manage grazing schedule for live stock
 


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