Temporary/seasonal full time farm work in Berkeley County, WV from 4/20/2024 to 12/13/2024. In need of 7 Orchard Laborer's, Manually plant, cultivate and harvest fruit and vegetables including: cherries, strawberries, apples, pears, peaches, nectarines, plums, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, grapes, corn, beans, tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, squash, cucumbers, melons, okra, and pumpkins. Use hand tools such as: trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, knives, hammers and saws. Duties including manually cultivating all the different crops, hand thinning of any of the different crops, pruning weeding, removing problem vines. Construct and repair trellis systems, repair and painting of farm fences and buildings. The sorting and repairing bulk bins. Tying strapping and taping of different crops, the irrigation of plants. Using riding mowers, push mowers, and weedeaters to mow around the orchard property. Application of electrical posts and wires and applying tree wraps for deer and groundhog control. Occasionally, driving tractors to pick up garbage and brush in the orchard, pulling picking wagons forward, and possibly setting bins out for picking once it is proven that you are competent enough on a tractor. Manually picking up roots, rocks, old plastic and the laying of new plastic in prep for new plantings. Possibly working in packing shed when needed. Picking apples, pears, peaches, nectarines and plums for fresh marketing and/or processing. Hours of operation will be Monday-Friday 7:00am to 5:00pm and Saturday for 9.25 hours. Employer will not provide 3 meals per day to the employee. Employer will provide free and convenient cooking facilities to the employee. Employer will provide transportation to assure workers access to stores where they can purchase groceries and/or other incidentals, and/or medical necessities, and/or banking at least once per week. Dining, full kitchen/cooking facilities and other common areas will be shared by all employees. The employer maintains 3 fifteen passenger vans for transportation. Transportation is not provided for any employee that can reasonably return to their place of residence daily. Productivity must be at least 100-bushel boxes per day of fresh market fruit. All fruit to be handled with care to avoid bruising. Fruit injured by bruising shall not exceed 2% as defined in the US standard for grades. Workers must be able to pick tree fruit, most of which is done from ladders, with lower branches being picked from the ground. Picked fruit is placed in a molded plastic canvas covered picking bucket, with canvas straps that slip over the head and rest on the shoulders. Filled buckets weighing up to 60 pounds are emptied into bulk bins with capacity ranging between 13,1 and 1/8th bushel boxes to 25, 1 and 1/8th bushel boxes. Workers are to handle ladders up to 24 feet long and weighing about 2 pounds per foot. Inform farmers or farm managers of crop progress. Must by physically able to lift up to 75 pounds on a consistent basis throughout the day. Due to safety concerns of a farm, workers must understand some basic instruction in English. For workers who complete 50 percent of the work contract, and are recruited from outside the intended area of employment, the employer will reimburse the worker for the costs incurred by the worker for transportation to the place of employment. Subsistence for the days the workers are traveling to Appalachian Orchard Company from their homes will be $15.46 per day without documentation, and in accordance with current Federal register notice, for workers with receipts, up to $59.00 per day.