The Backyard Urban Farm Company (BUFCO) is an award winning, family-run, organic vegetable landscaping company that designs, installs, plants and maintains edible and native pollinator flower gardens for residential and commercial clients throughout the Toronto area. We empower urbanites to grow their own food and help them to reconnect with nature.
We develop and elevate committed, self-motivated nature-lovers who want to build a career in the organic land care profession. We provide challenging opportunities for all team members to enhance their skills, develop their interests, and test their limits in an encouraging, supportive, equitable and fun environment.
We strongly value and believe in diversity, and encourage all to apply. If the opportunity to join our team excites you, and you are driven to provide excellence in every endeavor, then BUFCO is the home for you.
Current Job Listings
We are always looking for inspired and inspiring people to work with us. BUFCO is an equal opportunity employer.
Gardener, Entry Level – Full time, Short contract
Position: Seasonal – Full time for 10 weeks with possibility to extend
Locations: Toronto and client locations throughout the city
Compensation: $19.00 per hour
As a BUFCO Gardener you are responsible for working as part of the gardening team, planting and maintaining beautiful, bountiful, incredible, edible gardens, as well as some pollinator and ornamental gardens. You will increase your already existing knowledge of organic growing methodologies and sustainable practices, and will assist the garden supervisor in helping to guide and coach our clients on basic vegetable, flower, and ornamental garden care.
Vegetable gardening is new to many of our clients who will look to the Gardening Team for information and inspiration. You will provide the highest quality work with great attention to detail, and participate in bringing a strong, unique aesthetic vision to their garden.
Installation Technician, Entry Level – Full time, Short contract
Position: Seasonal – Full-time for 10 weeks with possibility to extend
Locations: Toronto and client locations throughout the city
Compensation: $19.00 per hour
As a BUFCO Entry Level Installation Technician, you will be a part of a team of experienced landscapers who assemble and install raised garden beds and other landscaping projects in a timely and efficient manner. You are a hard-working, capable individual, who loves physical work, the outdoors, and working cooperatively with other like-minded team members. You are eager to enhance your skills through training and hands-on experience and you are excited about the prospect of growing within the company.
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This page was last updated March 13, 2023.
LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT and EQUITY & ANTI-RACISM STATEMENT
We gratefully acknowledge the privilege we have to be working and living on land that is the traditional territory of many First Nations, Inuit, and Mètis peoples, including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Huron Wendat peoples. This sacred territory known as Turtle Island has been a site of human activity for over 15,000 years and is the subject of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement to peaceably share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes. We recognize the violence and loss of culture that makes our presence on this land possible and recognize our responsibility to confront the violence and oppression in which we are complicit and to work to dismantle the structures and behaviours that perpetuate it.
BUFCO is actively working to recognize our own contributions to the systemic inequities that exist in our society. We are committed to doing the hard work required to uproot racism in all its forms and to amplify and support the voices of those who experience racism. We understand the importance of listening with an open mind and heart to people impacted by inequity. We strive every day, in every action, to nurture and maintain an equitable working environment; to provide a path forward to fair, prosperous and hopeful futures for all; and to welcome people of all races, religions, nationalities, cultures, genders, sexual identities, languages, and abilities, so all can feel comfortable, respected, and valued.
