The Landworkers’ Alliance is a union of farmers, growers, foresters and land-based workers.
cy Cymraeg
cy Cymraeg

Feedback for us

If you have any comments, critiques, considerations, compliments, complaints, about anything the Landworkers Alliance is or isn't up to, do let us know your thought. We love feedback, it keeps a system healthy. Please fill in this quick form.

Membership / Supporter / Donation Queries

Please contact Lauren.Simpson@staging.landworkersalliance.org.uk

Requests for work, volunteering or internships

We are currently not recruiting for any roles but please read our newsletters for any announcements. We currently do not offer any volunteer or internship placements directly with the LWA, but keep an eye out in the newsletter or on the forum for any members looking for volunteers or workers.

Academic/Research Enquiries

Please look at the Agroecology Research Collaboration to see if it fits your area of research/work.

Membership Support / Advice

Currently the LWA does not have capacity or resources to help individual members or potential members on their specific projects, farms or programmes. We get a lot of requests for individual support and would love to have the time to respond to each request in full. We are fundraising for a new role for somebody to focus on membership support and services as we have identified it is a gap in our offering so please watch this space. Having said that, if your query is critical and urgent please email info@staging.landworkersalliance.org.uk including the word URGENT in the subject header and it will get picked up and we can try our best to help.

Contacting Individual Staff

Please take the time to explore our staff page here to see who the most relevant contact for your enquiry is. Our addresses format is firstname.lastname@staging.landworkersalliance.org.uk Please bear in mind we all work part time and have limited capacity to respond to enquiries outside our core areas of work. You can also find information under the About Us header about branch and regional organising, and identity groups within the LWA membership.

Press/Media Enquiries:

For any queries relating to press please email press@staging.landworkersalliance.org.uk

Merchandise/calendar Enquiries

For any enquiries to do with shop sales including the calendar please email merchandise@staging.landworkersalliance.org.uk

To Include an Item in Our Newsletter:

You can fill in this quick form to submit it to be included in the next bulletin/newsletter. The deadline to submit is the end of Friday each week for the following week’s member bulletin. With the same form you can also submit to the monthly non-member newsletter which goes out in the first week of the month.

All Other Enquiries:

For any other enquiries that are URGENT please email info@staging.landworkersalliance.org.uk with the word 'urgent' in the subject header and we will do our best to help.

SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER

Follow Us

Head Grower, Suffolk

Viewing 1 post (of 1 total)
  • Back to forum
    Posted in: 2. Work Opportunities
  • Jenny Allwood
    08/03/2023 at 5:59 pm #81575

    We are looking for a Head Grower to take on the running and management of our well-established organic market garden at Maple Farm, Kelsale, in Suffolk. To start ideally at the end of April.
    As part of a larger farm, our market garden makes up about 4 acres, with outdoor crops and 8 large polytunnels and is a brilliant opportunity for someone with growing experience who wants to continue pursuing their horticultural career in an organic setting.
    The Head Grower would be working as part of a small, tight knit team and should be able to work both independently and alongside others. Experience of working with volunteers would also be a bonus.

    We currently grow a wide range of fruit and vegetables mostly to supply our on-site farm shop which is much loved by the local community as well as to some local chefs and veg box schemes. It would be the Head Grower’s responsibility to take charge of crop-planning, propagation, cultivation and harvesting, assisted by our current, very knowledgeable grower.
    There is also room for the market garden to expand, evolve and the right candidate to bring their own experience, creativity and innovation to the project so if you feel that this could be you, please get in touch!

    It is essential that you have a passion for organic, sustainable food production and a desire to pursue a livelihood in it and that you have at least two years’ experience of horticultural work, ideally in food production.
    A horticultural qualification at level 2 or above would be fantastic (though is not completely necessary) and you should be happy to work in a hands on role, in all weather conditions throughout the year.
    Experience of working to Organic standards would also be a bonus.

    Salary payable would be £25k upwards depending on experience and a farm residence may also be available as part of the package, for the right candidate.

    Maple Farm is home to a community of complementary enterprises including a celebrated café, laying hens and our own flour mill. The farm attracts visitors and wider attention because of its pioneering work in regenerative agriculture. The role will appeal to someone enthusiastic, with good experience of horticulture, ambition and an appetite for building upon a business which has influence over a wide audience. http://www.maplefarmkelsale.co.uk .

    Please send any questions and applications to info@maplefarmkelsale.co.uk

    We look forward to hearing from you!

Viewing 1 post (of 1 total)

You must be logged in to reply to this topic.

Please subscribe to our e-newsletter.

This information will never be shared with a third party