"Being a crop care specialist is not a desk job"
Emily usually starts her day at 6am and spends her days performing a number of different tasks. The plants in the greenhouse typically grow a foot per week which requires Emily to do a lot of clipping and pruning. “All of our plants are on strings,” she explains, “Each week, I have to release more string from the coil and slide the plant along the wire that the string hangs from so the plants can continue growing.” Some of her other tasks are deleafing the plants and picking up “floor fruit” – tomatoes that fall off the vine and have to be sent away for composting. She chuckles, “that is my least favorite job, by far.” Emily’s workday typically ends at 2:30pm and her schedule is Monday through Friday.
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