Job Description
We have several opportunities available on our farm:
- Delivery Driver (2 days per week)
- Full & part time farm labor opportunities
- Building/carpentry work (infrastructure expansion and installation)
- Internship
Our farm has 250 acres and approximately 100+ head herd rotational grazing herdshare dairy & beef farm operation. We produce dairy products (fluid milk, butter, and cream), 100% grass-fed/finished beef, free-range chicken eggs, pastured poultry and pigs, honey, and seasonal produce as some of our farm products. Our farming practices do not use herbicides or pesticides.
Also on the farm is a custom lumber operation which allows us to produce building materials for farm infrastructure projects and garden/tomato stakes.
Require ownership of duties, work in all types of weather, proactively engage in improving methods and processes, attention to detail, self-motivated, and able to work without supervision.
Part-time and full-time opportunities during the week and weekends.
Skills/Requirements/Expectations:
General Skills:
- Strong work ethic
- Good customer interaction skills
- Willing and able to make decisions in a fluid working environment
- Able to identify needs, find solutions, and work with available resources to get the job done
- Detail oriented
- Willing to learn new skills and operate various pieces of equipment
Farm:
- Fence building (permanent and temporary) for cattle
- Equipment operation (tractors, hay equipment, loaders, small power and hand tools)
- Work outdoors in all types of weather
- Working with cattle (dairy and beef)
- o Rotational grazing
- o Assisting with calving and medical as needed
- Milking cows and bottling (we are installing a robotic milker)
- Working with pigs
- o Rotational grazing
- o Feeding/watering
- Working with poultry
- o Moving poultry tractors daily on pasture
- o Processing and packaging broilers
- o Collecting, washing, and packaging eggs
- Planting, maintaining, and harvesting produce in greenhouse
Delivery of farm products to retail stores & private customers two days per week using our refrigerated box van (delivery position only)
- Assist with farm maintenance and building construction
- Ability to assist with and learn equipment maintenance
You may not possess all these skills but there is plenty of work to go around! Previous farm experience helpful but not necessary. Skills in electrical, plumbing, building/carpentry, welding, and/or mechanical extremely helpful. We have a portable sawmill and associated equipment to produce lumber for the farm projects.
We can offer paid work along with a place to park your RV. We do not have a formal RV pad area, but there are options which would allow electric, water, and septic. Payment is commensurate with experience and work being done.
There is no smoking, vaping, or tobacco use of any kind on the property.
Our farm is in western Dinwiddie County, Virginia. We’re approximately 12 miles east of Blackstone and 35 miles west of Petersburg. The area itself is relatively rural, but all the basic necessities are within a 45 minute drive.
If interested in the delivery driver opportunity, must be over 25 years of age (insurance) and be able to provide us with a clean 3 year driving history to submit to our insurance agency.
Please submit resume or expression of interest to: jim@whiteoakmeadows.com