Kia Ora!

We need packers and pickers to start on the 27th December in Roxburgh.

Our beautiful orchard located in Roxburgh is looking for fast reliable and enthusiastic hands to join our team for the 2025/2026 fruit season.

We need people to join us from Late December/Early January to help harvesting and packing our cherries, apricots, nectarines and more. We have a diverse range of fruits which means there is always something new to do so why settle for an orchard with only 1 fruit type? Life on our orchard is just a little more exciting. We have jobs available From the 27th of December and the 3rd of January which include harvesting and pack house work.

Our season runs to late April. Currently we are looking for team members to commit to the end of our apricot, nectarine and cherry season approx. mid February with a couple positions available until the end of April.

We have onsite accommodation with all the usual amenities like showers, toilets, a laundry, kitchen, fridges, lounge, Wi-Fi etc. We also have campsites for vans and tents (you obviously have access to all shared facilities too).

Beds in a room are $15.00/night & camping $12.50/night per person.

We are lucky enough to have an onsite distillery too!! Up A Tree Distillery -so if you have brewing, distilling or bartending skills be sure to let us know, heck if your just excited about making cocktails for the team let us know about that too!!

Beauty, if any of this sounds like fun to you reach out and apply to join our family run orchard for the season and you'll be guaranteed to have a great time, learn about a great industry all whilst helping to feed the world.

Please be aware that harvest work is all done on ladders you need to be fit enough and confident enough to be on a ladder all day whilst doing some reasonably repetitive jobs. Don't worry too much, the conversation is good you'll usually be working in a team!!

Your versatility is appreciated - Any of our staff may be asked to go picking or packing or help out in our retail shop on any given day if that is what needs to happen for the success of the business, whilst we will always try to put you on a job that you like sometimes jobs just need to get done we appreciate your understanding.

(if you are interested in a job in our fruit shop - please let Jered know when you call him as we will be looking for shop employees soon - you must have customer service experience to apply and you must be able to commit to a minimum of 6 - 8 weeks to be considered.  We often have couples join our team where one will work in the shop and the other on the orchard!)

IF YOU WANT TO BE CONCIDERED FOR AN ORCHARD POSITION:

You will NEED to phone Jered Between 9:00am - 4:30pm on 0277121161.

We have received hundreds of applications for this position via email and emails are just getting lost now so PLEASE, if you really want to work here you will need to pick up the phone and speak to Jered directly.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Please only apply if you are already IN New Zealand AND your work permit (such as a Working Holiday Visa) is valid/current or your application will be removed as we are unable to facilitate the support required to obtain any type of visa(s).

Appreciate your understanding - Thank you,

Jered - Phone 0277 121 161

Must Not be colour blind.
Must be comfortable working at heights if applying for picking work