Flower Farm Crew Job Posting

Farm Description

Since 2018 Raindance Farm has existed to serve our community in Washtenaw County by connecting children and adults with the beauty of nature and the gifts of wellness. We currently steward 44 acres of land and intensively cultivate only a few acres of cut flowers for local markets.

We are a small family farm run by a wife and husband raising three children on the farm. Our 2026 crew will be the two of us working full-time (but sometimes at odd hours) plus 5-6 crew members.

The work takes place in the outdoor fields, in hoophouses, and in our barn studios. It is mostly manual labor that requires an ability to work independently, quickly, and in all weather

Job Title: Flower Farm Crew Member— Harvesting & Fieldwork

Weekly Schedule, Hours, & Compensation

Season Dates: April through October

Hours: 20 hours/week— 8am-noon

Schedule: 5 days a week including either Saturday or Sunday

Rate of Pay: $20/hour

Raindance Crew Notes:

As farmers we work alongside everyone on the crew, and it is important to us that farm workers feel safe, comfortable, supported, and are getting what they need from this job.

Raindance seeks to be a safe & welcoming space for all kinds of people. Please know that if you are a person of color, a woman, a friend in the LGBTQ+ community, an immigrant, a stay-at-home parent, a person of any age, you are welcome in this space and with the folks who work here.

Job Description

This position is made for someone who loves physical activity and wants to work outdoors in Michigan’s varied weather April-October.

Harvesting folks will be trained how to harvest a variety of specialty cut flowers. A regular morning begins by washing and filling buckets for harvest, locating the harvest list, and independently harvesting an average of 200 stems each hour from the fields and/or hoophouses.

Farming is really hard work, so we don’t want to romanticize it too much. Sometimes the outdoors is uncomfortably hot or cold, or mosquitoes swarm, or there is squatting and bending involved.

Job Requirements

• Please only apply for this position if you have proven experience doing manual labor, preferably outdoors

• Are an early morning person with high morning energy

• Are able to move through a list of tasks with an eye toward efficiency and planning for what is next

• Have attention to detail and are able to do quality control as you harvest, tossing imperfect blooms quickly

• Have stamina for repetitive physical activity, such as cutting and stripping 300 sunflowers into 6 buckets and carrying full buckets to field edges to be transported to the cooler

Job Title: Flower Farm Crew Member— Bouquet Making

Weekly Schedule, Hours, & Compensation

Season Dates: March 16- October 30

Hours: 20 hours/week— 8am-noon

Rate of Pay: $20/hour

Number of Positions: 2

Schedule:

Position #1: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Sunday Position #2: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Sunday

Raindance Crew Notes:

As farmers we work alongside everyone on the crew, and it is important to us that farm workers feel safe, comfortable, supported, and are getting what they need from this job.

Raindance seeks to be a safe & welcoming space for all kinds of people. Please know that if you are a person of color, a woman, a friend in the LGBTQ+ community, an immigrant, a stay-at-home parent, a person of any age, you are welcome in this space and with the folks who work here.

Job Description

This position is made for someone who works quickly, has an eye for detail and an eye for color.

We know from experience that this position is very popular and sought-after, but it is important that you apply only if you can work quickly in an assembly-line format. This is a job where you throw away/compost a lot of flowers, and you rapidly make bouquets following a clear recipe. You move many heavy buckets of flowers each day.

It is good work, but it is fast-paced and not for folks who want to thoughtfully and artistically do floral design work as one might in a florist/event-design business.

Bouquet makers work inside the flower barn off-site from the flower fields. Bouquet makers will be trained in how to quickly assemble 30 bouquets an hour using the system and infrastructure the farm has in place.

A regular morning begins by moving heavy buckets of blooms out of coolers, assembling piles of flowers, and rapidly laying down piles of flowers to form into bouquets. We then cut and wrap the bouquets, loading them into buckets of clean water. Then we carry heavy buckets back into the cooler.

Farming is really hard work, so we don’t want to romanticize it too much. Depending on the season, the barn can be uncomfortably hot or cold, and there is a lot of lifting and repetitive movements involved.

The highlight of bouquet making is being in a role where you are constantly surrounded by beauty and color.

Job Requirements

• Please only apply for this position if you have proven experience doing manual labor, preferably in an assembly line format

• Are an early morning person with high morning energy

• Feel comfortable lifting buckets, moving flowers, assembling bouquets for 4 hours at at time, creating between 80-120 bouquets depending on the flower types and stem counts

• Pay attention to detail and are able to do quality control as you create bouquets, tossing imperfect blooms quickly