Nursery Workers
Wild Goose Farms, LLC (Nursery)
📍 Umatilla, FL · Marion County
- ✔ Housing provided
- ✔ Daily transportation
How to apply
Contact the employer directly. Mention the job title and the case number. Case number: JO-A-300-26306-335915
- 📞 Phone: +1 (352) 409-5009
- ✉️ Email: terri@wildgoosefarms.net
Employer instructions
Workers are screened for compliance with the following criteria: a) confirm ability, availability, qualifications and willingness to perform work described and confirm intention to work the entire season; b) local workers confirm availability and reliable daily transportation to and from the job site for the entire season. Non local workers confirm availability of transportation to job side to begin work; c) confirmation of full disclosure of all terms, conditions, and nature of work; d) confirmation of legal qualifications to work in the US. The employer may terminate the worker (foreign and/or domestic) with notification to the employment service if employer discovers a criminal conviction record or status as a registered sex offender that employer reasonably believes, consistent with current law, will impair the safety and living conditions of other workers.
All referrals are encouraged to contact their nearest career center for pre-employment screening before contacting employer.
All referrals are to be made to Terri Martinez at 17255 S.E. Highway 452, Umatilla, FL 32784 Telephone: 352-409-5009. Collect calls will not be accepted. Walk-in applicants will be accepted. The office hours are Monday thru Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. All local intrastate applicants may apply directly to the employer. All interstate applicants are encouraged but not required to first contact the nearest [onestop] career center prior to contacting the employer for any updated information regarding the job prior to referral. For referrals from beyond normal commuting distance, a telephone interview may be requested. The employer will contact all applicants who have been referred from the career center by phone to conduct an interview.
Prior to referral, each worker should either read or have read to them a copy of the Job Offer and that they understand all terms and conditions of employment as noted in the order. All workers should also be advised that they will be expected to work for the total period of employment as noted in the Job Offer and should be available to work in any one of the listed job activities at the discretion of the employer. Additionally, workers who are not residing at employer provided housing must have transportation to the designated worksite/pickup location.
All hired referred and walk-in applicants must bring with them original documentation of identity and employment eligibility documents (original documents only), sufficient to complete the I-9 Form within 3 days of employment. All workers from within normal commuting distance recruited against this Job Order will not be provided housing and transportation.
✉️ Application email template in English
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Subject: Application for Nursery Workers (H-2A) - Case JO-A-300-26306-335915
Job duties
Original text, as filed with the Department of Labor.
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time.
Primary job duties are nursery labor, general farm labor and harvesting. Secondary job duties include occasional operation and maintenance of agricultural equipment and shuttle driving.
Nursery Labor: Workers will be responsible for planting, weeding, pruning, staking, spraying, and other activities related to growing, and loading potted trees, and shrubs. The workers will also be responsible for maintaining the grounds, and the existing irrigation system.
General Farm Labor and Facilities Maintenance: Workers will weed; mow grass, prune trees or hedges, clear land, remove brush, maintain fencing, repair irrigation, and plant young trees and bushes. Workers may help deliver meals to workers in the field, and may be asked to clean facilities including bathrooms, kitchens, and common areas.
Blueberry Harvest: If harvesting, workers will pick gallon buckets of ripe fruit on assigned rows while taking care not to damage or bruise blueberries. Full buckets are delivered to nearby wagon for inspection and weight. Workers are expected to harvest a minimum number of pounds of blueberries per hour, equal to Adverse Effect Wage Rate (AEWR) divided by the piece rate and will be subject to disciplinary action for failing to do so. After completion of training and the designated acclimation period, workers are also expected to maintain quality standards by picking all ripe fruit from bush and avoiding the dropping of fruit on the ground.
Blueberry Packing: Packinghouse workers typically do a variety of jobs related the packaging and shipping of blueberries. Duties may include receiving, dumping inspecting, boxing, stacking, and shipping of fruit. Other jobs include making boxes, stickering boxes, cleaning equipment and facilities, and monitoring food safety. All workers in the packinghouse must wear long sleeved shirts, long pants, and closed toe shoes.
Citrus General Farming: Worker will remove fruit from the tree and place it into pick sack. When the pick sack is full, take full sack to fruit tub located in the grove and drop fruit from pick sack into tub. In order to perform this kind of work, worker must be able to work outside for at least 6 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat the picking process rapidly, working quickly and skillfully with their hands, and carrying a large number of sacks of fruit from the area in which the fruit is being harvested to the location of the tub. In some cases, a ladder will be needed to reach the top of the tree.
Field Walker: Workers will assist management in field walking. Showing other workers their assigned rows for harvest. Helping load fruit containers on the transport equipment and transporting the equipment and fruit from the field to the packinghouse located on the farm.
Requirements
| Education | None required |
|---|---|
| Experience | 2 months |
| Other requirements | Driver's license required Lifting up to 60 lb Drug test |
The employer may conduct a drug and/or alcohol test post-employment at the employers expense.
Employer may increase wage based on experience or changes in market conditions, and may provide additional pay for performance and tenure.
Wage rates are subject to applicable federal and state law during the work contract period, including regulatory rate changes which are made effective after the application has been certified. If applicable law authorizes the employer to pay different wage rates to U.S. workers and H-2A workers who perform the same job tasks, workers will be paid in accordance with the minimum wage requirements applicable to their classification at the time services are performed
Benefits and conditions
| Schedule | 8:00 A.M. – 2:30 P.M. |
|---|---|
| Paid | Weekly |
| Pay details | Blueberry Harvesting: $0.55 and up per pound depending on condition; Estimated hourly wage rate equivalent for this piece rate is $15.00/hr, based on workers pulling 27.27 units; $15.00 per hour guaranteed. |
| Housing type | Employer-provided (including mobile or range) (Umatilla, Fl) |
| Housing | Employer owned housing. Family housing is not available and the provision of family housing is not a prevailing practice in the area of intended employment. Co-ed housing is not offered; all female workers will be housed with other females and all male workers will be housed with other males. Laundry service provided at no cost to the worker. |
| Meals | The employer had contracted with a caterer to provide three (3) meals per days to all workers residing in employer provided housing. The employer will charge each worker $16.78 per day for these meals, subject to change with the publication of new rates by the USDOL Office of Foreign Labor Certification in the Federal Register. If the caterer becomes unavailable, the employer will provide free and convenient cooking and kitchen facilities to all workers, and free weekly transportation to the grocery store to workers living in employer-provided housing which will enable workers to prepare their own meals. |
| Daily transportation | Daily Transportation: Daily Transportation: The employer will provide daily transportation to place of employment, and weekly transportation to a banking facility and grocery store, utilizing a 16 passenger shuttle van. |
| Travel to the job | Inbound: Workers will determine their own inbound travel arrangements to the place of employment to begin the job contract. The employer will reimburse all workers for their reasonable costs incurred by the worker for transportation and daily subsistence from the place from which the worker has come to work for the employer. See Addendum C |
| Pay deductions | The employer will make the following deductions: FICA taxes, income tax, cash advances, overpayment of wages; and charges for any loss to the employer due to the workers damage or loss of equipment or housing items where it is shown that the worker is responsible, any other deductions expressly authorized by the worker in writing. There will be no deductions of state income tax. |
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| Case number | JO-A-300-26306-335915 |
|---|---|
| Official occupation | Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse (45-2092.00) |
| Posted | Nov 2, 2026 |