Orchard/Packhouse Hand

Seasonal roles at Monavale offer immersive, meaningful work within a dynamic organic farm environment. Whether harvesting in the fields or supporting production and hospitality, you’ll join a team committed to ethical practices and land stewardship. We welcome workers from near and far to contribute their skills and energy to the life of the orchard.

Our casual workforce typically spans orchard and packhouse roles, but there is some overlap and people will need to be prepared to pitch in where needed.

We are entering our summer management, harvest, and packing phase, and are building our team for contracts within the November-May period.

Our orchard roles typically include physical, outdoor horticultural and land-management tasks. You’ll be helping out with:

• Weeding
• Scrubcutting and whipper-snipping
• Loading berries
• Irrigation maintenance
• Plant management and disease prevention
• Berry harvesting
• General infrastructure maintenance

Our packhouse roles are largely indoors, inside our purpose-built packing shed. You will be involved in:

• Grading blueberries using our state-of-the-art equipment
• Cleaning to ensure strict organic and food-safe hygiene conditions are upheld
• Warehouse and order fulfilment
• Washing our picking gear to reuse in the field every day
• Sorting and packing berries into freezer-ready packaging

General duties may also include:

• Farmers markets stall customer service and sales
• Picking fruit and food preparation

If you have supervisory experience/aptitude, you may also be eligible and suitable for a higher-responsibility role as a team leader.

Experience Required:

• Horticulture
• Packhouse
• Organics
• Biodynamics
• Permaculture

Required Skills

• Physically Fit
• Time Management