Farm pickers

[mojo]

We are locked down in Kent site. Must be lots of picking vacancies soon. Where to find them?
Keep us active and cover loss of rent from our flat let.

 

[Ivory55]

4xtrahands is one of the places that advertise farm work

 

[denisejoe]

Suggest you do a google for Seasonal Farm jobs in Kent. Loads come up, including some agencies like Reed or something like Indeed.

 

[Spriddler]

We are locked down in Kent site. Must be lots of picking vacancies soon. Where to find them?
Keep us active and cover loss of rent from our flat let.

And the chance to pick your own veg would be good, unless you were unlucky enough to find yourself on a sprouts farm.

 

[xsparks]

I love sprouts!

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[Spriddler]

I love sprouts!

Well you'll not have any difficulty preventing people from coming within 2 metres of you.

 

[Vipar]

Try Kent Orchards nr Faversham various fruit and veggies. So you won’t have a boring diet and there is a site nearby if they are allowed to open if not I am sure you can park in one of the hundreds of orchards. Good luck

 

[Innkeeper]

This might help.
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[reckless]

Article in Daily Mail Online about this very thing, don't know how to share link. Article titled Who will dig for Victory and a campaign to recruit workers

 

[reckless]

Who will dig for victory today?

GUY ADAMS: The strawberry blossom has just started to appear on Christine Snell's farm, turning her corner of Herefordshire into a riot of colour and heralding the arrival of spring.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Does that work?

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[busby]

And the chance to pick your own veg would be good, unless you were unlucky enough to find yourself on a sprouts farm.

Oy I love sprouts,,BUSBY.

 

[martin2603]

There are Strawberries now in Sussex, I know that because I bought some from Aldi! All early fruit is in Pollytunnels , where you spot lots of tunnels will be a demand for pickers. Luckily all the strawberries are in waist high troughs these days , no more bending double . Late April May and June is Asparagus. Lincs, Cambs and Vale of Evesham. Also soft fruit there.
Cherries late June, everything else from then on .

 

[Spriddler]

There are Strawberries now in Sussex,

"Your loyal subjects are starving for want of bread, my Queen".

"Well let them eat strawberries".

 

[Ivory55]

It’s not just picking, cabbage planting etc is going on now plus covering crops with fleece.

 

[tinkering]

You need to be able to speak Polish, other wise you will not know ( when you know that they are talking about you) that there saying look at that slow old Fart?

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[xsparks]

Dzien Dobrey.

 

[mojo]

You need to be able to speak Polish, other wise you will not know ( when you know that they are talking about you) that there saying look at that slow old Fart?

Especially if it's a share out of the bonus.

 

[Ivory55]

If there is a flood of labour I don’t think that the bonus will be that great. There will be hauliers scraping over the work that is available and the rate will drop . Container drivers for instance will not be doing a lot at the moment, tippers will not be doing much if the sites are shut.

 

[bilM]

Here you go.
Applicants can apply through the Concordia, HOPS and Fruitful Alliance’s Ethical Labour website.

Workers will be at least paid minimum wage and many farms pay National Living Wage or more, depending on how much fruit and/or vegetables they harvest.

To date, more than 14,000 applications from people all over the UK have been sent in – with 50% of those coming from people who have lost their livelihoods due to coronavirus.

 

[Ivory55]

Having done cabbage cutting when I was younger, I know full well I am not fit enough to do that now.

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[mojo]

On reflection I think we will leave this to younger generations. The idea came from getting free of lockdown but some months away for main season.

 

[tinkering]

Having done cabbage cutting when I was younger, I know full well I am not fit enough to do that now.

Cabbage cutting was a doddle ,hoeing and weeding twelve acres gave you the guts ache Maiden Castle Farm Dorchester 1954 summer holidays, I was saveing up for my first motorbike a three fifty Airel Red Hunter ??

 

[MyrtleGuru]

You need to be able to speak Polish, other wise you will not know ( when you know that they are talking about you) that there saying look at that slow old Fart?

Uspokajać !!

Now there's a blend of cultures for you.

 

[Ivory55]

Cabbage cutting was a doddle ,hoeing and weeding twelve acres gave you the guts ache Maiden Castle Farm Dorchester 1954 summer holidays, I was saveing up for my first motorbike a three fifty Airel Red Hunter ??

I got on better weeding, rouging and hoeing. It was the being bent over cutting that got me

 

[Riverbankannie]

Strawberry farmer on TV today says they will be looking for pickers soon in Hereford. They are raised beds under cover so not too backbreaking. There are a lot of fruit farms in the 3 counties area, Hereford, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire.

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[Brains]

Thanet Earth in Kent
The largest greenhouse in the UK
They have a lot of seasonal workers

https://www.thanetearth.com/work-with-us

 

[Ivory55]

I guess it depends where you live or if you have your own accommodation as you would not get much social distances in the normal farm accommodation