Experienced field worker with knowledge of various day-to-day tasks required to maintain both field and equipment. Comfortable working with both team members, volunteer members of varying age, and solo endeavors. Physically active and continuously move throughout the day regardless of weather condition. Used to physical strain in the heat and contains proper awareness of how to handle physical health. Knowledge of farm procedures including sustainable practices and food safety protocol.
- Assisted is crop harvesting, packaging, and cleaning
- Learned the basic everyday tasks for farm maintenance during the summer growing season
- Studied and applied various means of Intergraded Pest Management strategies to combat nuisances such as Deer, Potato Beatles, and Aphids
- Daily maintenance of field rows and crops through seed planting, weed clearing, and tarp placement in preparation for future crops
- Learned how to operate machinery used for field maintenance such as power hoes, lawnmowers, and mulch distributors
- Learned how to count and maintain inventory of collected crops
- Occasionally learned how to work with volunteers and manage large groups of visitors through basic tasks
- Completed various tasks for hundreds of peanut samples every day such as sorting, measuring, weighing, and packing
- Operated simple machinery associated with peanut sorting such as scales and sorting machines
- Learned how to separate peanut samples through complex machinery that specifically helped measure humidity content
- Regularly worked in wheat and maize fields collecting samples for study
- Operated machinery for pressing and cleaning maize and wheat seed for packaging
- Routinely cleaned operating warehouse and machinery
- Farm Equipment Operation
- Plant Propagation
- Harvest Procedure
- Greenhouse Work
- Irrigation System Operations
- Soil Preparation