Greenhouse Vegetable Worker

The day starts on the rows: planting, tying, thinning and taking off the side shoots, then opening or closing the vents as the weather turns. Picking goes into crates that travel straight to the packing shed. Picking is by colour grade, so you learn what leaves the farm and what stays another day. You check the drip lines each morning, report a blocked dripper or a torn sheet, and help clear and sterilise a tunnel between cycles. Hours are 06:00-13:00, six days, with an earlier start in warm weeks, and the field foreman sets the row order.

No qualification needed, the work is taught on the row

One season in field or greenhouse work is welcome

Fit for bending, standing and warm air under plastic

Careful hands, because fruit is graded and bruises are rejected

Six day week during the cycle, with Sunday off

Basic English or Italian to follow the foreman

Net salary from 1120 up to 1235 EUR per month

Six month seasonal contract under the agricultural agreement

Overtime and Saturday hours paid at the agreement rate

A room on the farm at 60 EUR a month, water and power included

Transport from the farm gate to each greenhouse

A crate of vegetables for the household every week

Gloves, boots, sun hat and rain gear provided

Workers who learn grading and the packing line stay through the spring cycle on a second contract, and a few move on to the irrigation and greenhouse climate job.

The plastic tunnels reach 30 degrees by midday, so the rows are worked early and the vents stay open. Drinking water at each tunnel, a shaded break area, gloves and boots are provided.