How do they match: Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse

  • Land Clearer
  • Landscape Nurseryman

  • Manually plant, cultivate, and harvest vegetables, fruits, nuts, horticultural specialties, and field crops. Use hand tools, such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, and knives. Duties may include tilling soil and applying fertilizers; transplanting, weeding, thinning, or pruning crops; applying pesticides; or cleaning, grading, sorting, packing, and loading harvested products. May construct trellises, repair fences and farm buildings, or participate in irrigation activities.

  • Clean work areas, and maintain grounds and landscaping.
  • Haul and spread topsoil, fertilizer, peat moss, and other materials to condition soil, using wheelbarrows or carts and shovels.
  • Move containerized shrubs, plants, and trees, using wheelbarrows or tractors.
  • Plant, spray, weed, fertilize, water, and prune plants, shrubs, and trees, using gardening tools.
  • Record information about crops, such as pesticide use, yields, or costs.
  • Trap and destroy pests, such as moles, gophers, and mice, using pesticides.

  • Prepare land for agricultural use.