Temporary/seasonal full time farm work in Berkeley County, WV. Hiring 45 workers. Start date is 04/26/2024 End Date: 11/14/2024. This job requires a minimum of 3 months of prior experience working on an ORCHARD manually planting, cultivating, and harvesting fruits and vegetables including cherries, strawberries, apples, pears, peaches, nectarines, plums, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, grapes, corn, beans, tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, squash, cucumbers, melons, okra, and pumpkins. Use hand tools, such as, shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks and shears, knives, hammers, and saws. Duties including manually cultivating all the different crops, hand thinning of any of the different crops, pruning, weeding, removing problem vines. Construct and repair trellis systems, repair, and painting of farm fences and buildings. The sorting and repairing bulk bins. Tying, strapping, and taping of different crops, the irrigation of plants. Using riding mowers, push mowers, and weed eaters to mow around orchard property. Application of electrical post and wires, and applying tree wraps for deer and groundhog control. Manually picking up roots, rocks, old plastic, and the laying of new plastic in prep for new plantings, Picking apples, pears, peaches, nectarines, and plums for fresh marketing and/or processing. Processing and packaging of fresh fruits and vegetables. Productivity must be at least 100-bushel boxes per day of fresh market fruit. All fruit to be handled with care to avoid bruising. Fruit injured by bruising shall not exceed 2% as defined in the U.S. standard for grades. Workers must be able to pick tree fruit, most of which is done from ladders, with the lower branches being picked from the ground. Picked fruit is placed in a molded plastic canvas covered picking bucket, with canvas straps that slip over the head and rest on the shoulders. Filled buckets weighing up to 60 pounds are emptied into bulk bins with capacity ranging between 13 1 and 1/8th bushel boxes to 25 1 and 1/8th bushel boxes. Must be physically able to lift up to 75 pounds on a consistent basis throughout the day. Due to safety concerns of a farm, workers must understand some basic instruction in English. Workers referred as result of this order must have a minimum of 3 months verifiable experience in performing the tasks described in this order, s.) The employer may discipline the worker, including brief suspension of work activities for a period determined by the supervisor, suspension from employment for a set period of days or termination of employment as described in the Work Rules attached hereto. Workers may not report for work while under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Employer retains the right to discharge any obviously unqualified worker, malingerer, or recalcitrant worker who is physically able but does not demonstrate the willingness to perform the work necessary for the employer to grow a premium quality product, or for any other lawful reason all terms and conditions included in the job order apply equally to U.S. workers as well as temporary foreign workers (H2A workers) For workers who complete 50 percent of the work period, the employer will reimburse the worker for the cost incurred by the worker for transportation to the place of employment. Subsistence for the days the workers are traveling to George S. Orr & Sons, Inc. from their homes will be $15.46 per day without documentation, and in accordance with current Federal register notice for worker with receipts ($59.00). Must be able to climb a 24' orchard ladder and MOVE it throughout the orchard. Ladder weighs up to 48 lbs. Will work as weather permits Monday-Saturday, 8 hours/day and 50 hours/week.