Cut Flower Grower

Job Purpose:

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

Duties:

The Cut Flower Grower works with the owners 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.

Hours: 

• Employment Dates: March 2nd, 2026 — November 25th, 2026

• 30-40 hours per week, Monday-Friday, and other days scheduled in advance with Employer.

• Typical work hours are not over 8 per day, we take 30-60 minutes for lunch. You receive 15 mins paid break per four hours of work. In the early and late season, we work 9am-5pm, and adjust our work hours as the season demands; we shift to 8-4 and then to our main summer hours of 7am-4pm by mid-May. On days over 95°F we start at 6am and end at 12pm, but this doesn’t happen too often (fingers crossed). We believe in work-life balance.

• Opportunities for more hours, if you want them, usually arise during harvest season, May through September.

• Note: Colorado is an “at will” employment state. The Employee or Employer may terminate employment at any time, for any reason.

Compensation:

• $18-$22 per hour DOE

• Paid Time Off: 30 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.

• Space on the farm to grow your own garden.

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 smartphone to use for work tasks