Gardener (M/F)

Main Responsibilities:

• Maintaining and gardening a one-hectare kitchen garden combining flowers, fruits, and vegetables.
• Maintaining forest paths and meadows.
• Pruning and caring for trees.
• Regularly trimming boxwood and hedges.
• Performing various other tasks related to the general maintenance of the estate (painting, weeding, fence maintenance, leaf collection, minor repairs, occasionally looking after small farm animals, etc.).

Garden & Kitchen Garden (Spring/Summer):

• Gardening a one-hectare vegetable garden (sowing, tracking growth, harvesting).
• Trimming boxwood and hedges in a large formal French garden.
• Applying modern gardening techniques: permaculture, companion planting, mulching, greenhouse cultivation.
• Demonstrating a strong aesthetic sense and attention to detail.

Forest & Outdoor Work:

• Driving and operating a tractor.
• Using agricultural equipment (mulcher, flail mower, baler, etc.).
• Maintaining tools and equipment (e.g., sharpening chainsaws).
• Using a chainsaw for felling and cutting wood.
• Performing forestry maintenance (clearing young plants, removing fallen trees, brush clearing).
• Producing firewood (cutting, splitting).
• Installing fences (wooden rail and wire).