Featherstone Farm

Job Duties

Start Date: 05/25/2026

End Date: 02/28/2027

Work hours: 40 hours/week, Monday - Friday, 8 hours/day, 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Must Apply By: 10/12/2026

Job Duties:

Worker will examine and inspect containers, materials, or products to ensure that product quality and packing specifications are met. Duties may include harvesting, cleaning, grading, sorting, packing and loading harvested products from the field. Assemble, line, and pad cartons, crates, and containers. Obtain, move, and sort products, materials, containers, and orders. Mark and label containers, container tags, or products. Clean containers, materials, supplies, or work areas, using cleaning solutions. Remove completed or defective products or materials, placing them on moving equipment, such as conveyors, or in specified areas, such as loading docks.

Measure, weigh, and count products and materials.

The employer will furnish without cost all tools, supplies, or equipment required in the performance of work. All terms and conditions include in this job order will apply to all workers employed under this job order.

8 hours of work per day is normal. The worker may be requested but not required to work more hours per day and/or on the Sabbath or Federal holidays on a volunteer basis. Due to changing environmental, crop, and harvest conditions employees may be on call and available to work up to 16 hour days 7 days of the week on a volunteer basis. Employees will be compensated overtime rates pursuant to state and federal laws.

Minimum Education Required

None. No High School Diploma or GED required.

Minimum Experience Required

Workers should be able to lift 50 lbs., unassisted.

Must have 3 months experience.

Must be able to obtain a driver's license.

Job will require exposure to extreme temperatures.

Extensive pushing and pulling is required.

Extensive walking or sitting is required.

Frequent stooping or bending over is required.

Repetitive movements are required.

Featherstone Farm engages in a unique form of direct-to-consumer produce distribution (1000+ member community supported agriculture (CSA) program), which requires of employees a knowledge and judgement level significantly above industry standards. This knowledge and judgement can only come from experience in the field and pack house. For example, employees will be required to pick cantaloupe within a narrow range of ripeness standards (unlike conventional melons which are picked and shipped green.) They will be required to pack highly perishable salad crops not in a conventional 24 count leaf lettuce box, but in boxes of mixed produce where they can easily be crushed or damaged. They will spend large amounts of time grading heirloom tomatoes for ripeness, cosmetic and structural defects and suitability for delivery to very high-end customers. This skill alone can take weeks to develop, even for an employee who has months or even years of experience.

Shift

First (Day)

Number of Openings

3

Public Transportation Accessible

No

Veterans Encouraged to Apply

Yes

Physical Required

No

Drug Test Required

No

Compensation

$19.33 - $24.00 / Hourly

Additional Compensation

The employer in their sole discretion may pay more than the hourly wage rate, up to $24.00 per hour, based on an employee's tenure working for the employer, satisfactory attendance and disciplinary record, demonstrated safe operation of trucks and equipment, and other nondiscriminatory factors.

As required for all workers in Minnesota, hours worked in excess of 48 hours in a work week will be paid at the rate of 1.5 times the regular rate of pay.

Additionally, through a new partnership with the Fair Food Program (FFP) bonuses may be given to non-supervisor farm workers through payments from Whole Foods Market (WFM) which pays FFP partner farm works a bonus based on pounds of covered produce sold to WFM.

Postal Code

55971

Place of Work

On-site

Requisition ID

H-2A#26-367

Job Benefits

EMPLOYER ASSURANCES: Work guaranteed for 3/4 of contract period, starting with date of arrival at work site. Employer provides free housing for workers whose residence is beyond normal commuting distance. Employer pays inbound transportation and subsistence to work site upon 50% completion of work contract for workers whose residence is beyond normal commuting distance. Daily subsistence will be provided at a rate of at least $16.28 per day during travel to a maximum of $68.00 per day with receipts (Updated 03/24/2025). Required work-related tools and supplies provided free of charge by employer.

Effective Jan 1, 2024, per MN State Statute, an employee will earn one hour of paid sick and safe time for every 30 hours worked, up to at least 48 hours of accrued Earned Sick and Safe Time (ESST) per year, provided the employee works a minimum of 80 hours in a calendar year. Safe and Sick time can be used for mental or physical illness or preventative care, extreme weather, or school closure.

Application Instructions

Send resume listing experience to:

MN DEED/FLC

Attn: H-2A#26-367

180 E. 5th St., Suite 1200, St. Paul, MN 55101

FAX: 651-297-7722

EMAIL: foreignlaborcertification.DEED@state.mn.us

CALL: Mary Garcia 651-259-7513

Must have proof of legal authority to work in U.S.