Certified Orchard & Disease Mitigation Specialist
Le Noir Family Farms LLC
About this opportunity
Perform specialized orchard establishment, maintenance, pruning, and plant-health work for apple, cherry, and other fruit trees. Inspect trees for fungal and bacterial disease, insect pressure, nutrient deficiency, winter injury, structural defects, and other conditions affecting tree health or fruit production. Identify affected trees and carry out approved cultural and organic-compatible disease and pest-management practices.
- Dates
- Sep 25, 2026 – Jul 1, 2027
- Duration
- ~9 months
- Experience
- 3 month(s)
- Category
- agriculture
Requirements
- Experience: 3 month(s)
- Education: High School/GED
- N/A
- Prune young and established fruit trees using hand pruners, loppers, pruning saws, and pole pruners. Develop and maintain assigned tree-training systems, improve airflow and sunlight penetration, remove dead, damaged, or diseased wood, and support long-term tree health and fruit production. Sanitize pruning tools when disease risk requires it and remove or properly dispose of infected limbs, fallen fruit, mummified fruit, leaves, and other disease-harboring orchard debris.
- Monitor orchard blocks on a regular schedule and maintain written or electronic records of tree condition, disease and pest observations, weather-related risks, pruning completed, treatments applied, and follow-up work required. Apply approved biological, mineral-based, horticultural, and other organic-compatible products according to label directions, employer instructions, applicable regulations, and required safety procedures. Calibrate, operate, clean, and maintain backpack sprayers, hand sprayers, and related orchard application equipment.
- Plant, stake, tie, train, water, mulch, fertilize, and protect newly established fruit trees. Install and maintain tree guards, support systems, irrigation components, orchard fencing, and related orchard infrastructure. Perform grafting, limb training, fruit thinning, sucker removal, weed control, mowing, and other seasonal orchard-maintenance duties.
- The orchard is located on an agritourism farm that is periodically open to families, children, customers, and other members of the public. While performing the primary orchard duties described above, the worker may have incidental contact with visitors.
- The worker must communicate courteously and professionally, answer basic questions concerning orchard activities when able, direct visitors to designated public areas, communicate orchard safety rules, and promptly report hazards or visitor-safety concerns to the employer.
- When working in public orchard areas, the worker may provide limited assistance directly related to orchard operations, including explaining safe fruit-picking practices, directing visitors away from active equipment or treatment areas, and maintaining clean and safe orchard pathways. These visitor-contact responsibilities are incidental to the worker’s primary orchard establishment, pruning, cultivation, plant-health monitoring, disease-mitigation, and seasonal maintenance duties.
Work authorization
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- Work authorization
- H-2A Temporary Agricultural Worker
- International candidates
- Yes
- Employer sponsorship
- Required
- Confirmation
- Confirmed by source
- Official source
- U.S. Department of Labor
Benefits & conditions
- Housing
- Employer-provided (including mobile or range) — Employer will provide one worker with a private, furnished studio-style sleeping and living area located within the employer’s farmhouse. The worker will not share the sleeping area. The worker will have access to a shared full bathroom and a shared kitchen equipped for food storage and meal preparation. Housing, utilities, and kitchen access will be provided at no cost to the worker for the duration of the employment contract. The housing will be inspected and approved under applicable H-2A
- Transportation
- Employer-provided housing and the primary worksite are located at the same site; therefore, daily transportation between the worker's housing and place of employment is not required. The worker will be able to walk directly from the employer-provided housing to the worksite.
How to apply
Tel: +14172248654; URL: https://lenoirfamilyfarms.com/pages/employment
- slenoir19d@gmail.com
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Official source
U.S. DOL SeasonalJobs
- Case number
- JO-A-300-26250-219653
- Verification
- Last verified: September 20, 2026
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