Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse

Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Occupations · Job Skills & Competencies · SOC 45-2092 · 176 skills

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Record information about crops, such as pesticide use, yields, or costs.
Direct and monitor the work of casual and seasonal help during planting and harvesting.
Participate in the inspection, grading, sorting, storage, and post-harvest treatment of crops.

O*NET task statements are shown in their source language (English). Task data excerpted from the O*NET® 29.1 Database (USDOL/ETA) and used under CC BY 4.0.

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A bounded sample of popular skills mapped to this occupation, with at most one Skill from each GitHub repository. The complete mapped list follows.

composting-system

FerroxLabs/wayland

Designs a home composting system covering bin, pile, and tumbler options with brown-to-green ratios (25-30:1 carbon to nitrogen), turning schedules, and troubleshooting for common problems like odor and slow decomposition. Produces a composting plan with material lists and maintenance schedule. Use when the user asks about starting composting, choosing a compost method, what can be composted, compost ratios, or troubleshooting a compost pile. Do NOT use for commercial-scale composting, vermicomposting (worm bin) specifics, or municipal composting programs.

personamanagmentlayer/pcl

Expert-level precision agriculture, farm management systems, crop monitoring, and agtech

cultivate-bonsai

pjt222/agent-almanac

Cultivate bonsai trees from species selection through long-term seasonal care. Covers species suitability, structural and maintenance pruning, wiring technique, repotting protocol, soil mix preparation, seasonal care schedules, and contemplative sitting practice. Use when selecting a species for a first or next bonsai, performing structural or maintenance pruning, repotting when roots are circling or growth has stalled, wiring branches for shaping, developing a seasonal care calendar, or building a contemplative practice with a living tree.

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composting-system

FerroxLabs/wayland

Designs a home composting system covering bin, pile, and tumbler options with brown-to-green ratios (25-30:1 carbon to nitrogen), turning schedules, and troubleshooting for common problems like odor and slow decomposition. Produces a composting plan with material lists and maintenance schedule. Use when the user asks about starting composting, choosing a compost method, what can be composted, compost ratios, or troubleshooting a compost pile. Do NOT use for commercial-scale composting, vermicomposting (worm bin) specifics, or municipal composting programs.

seasonal-planting-calendar

FerroxLabs/wayland

Creates a zone-aware planting calendar based on USDA hardiness zone and frost dates, with planting windows for vegetables, herbs, and cool/warm-season crops. Includes succession planting schedules and seed-starting timelines. Use when the user asks when to plant specific crops, needs a planting schedule for their zone, wants to know seed-starting dates, or asks about succession planting for extended harvests. Do NOT use for full garden design and layout (use vegetable-garden-planning), plant problem diagnosis (use plant-care-troubleshooting), or indoor houseplant schedules (use indoor-plant-care).

vegetable-garden-planning

FerroxLabs/wayland

Creates a vegetable garden plan with bed sizing, crop selection based on USDA hardiness zone, companion planting guidelines, and a zone-aware planting calendar. Produces a complete garden layout with planting schedule and expected harvest windows. Use when the user asks about starting a vegetable garden, planning garden beds, choosing vegetables to grow, companion planting, or creating a planting schedule based on their location. Do NOT use for ornamental garden design, indoor gardening (use indoor-plant-care), commercial farming, or flower garden planning.

personamanagmentlayer/pcl

Expert-level precision agriculture, farm management systems, crop monitoring, and agtech

cultivate-bonsai

pjt222/agent-almanac

Cultivate bonsai trees from species selection through long-term seasonal care. Covers species suitability, structural and maintenance pruning, wiring technique, repotting protocol, soil mix preparation, seasonal care schedules, and contemplative sitting practice. Use when selecting a species for a first or next bonsai, performing structural or maintenance pruning, repotting when roots are circling or growth has stalled, wiring branches for shaping, developing a seasonal care calendar, or building a contemplative practice with a living tree.

pjt222/agent-almanac

Identify and safely gather edible and useful wild plants. Covers safety rules and deadly plant recognition, habitat reading, multi-feature identification methodology, the universal edibility test, sustainable harvesting practices, preparation methods, reaction monitoring, and building knowledge with beginner-friendly universal species. Use when supplementing food supply in a wilderness or survival setting, needing medicinal or utility plants, identifying plants around camp for safety, or in long-term scenarios where foraging extends available rations.

mushroom-cultivation

pjt222/agent-almanac

Cultivate edible and medicinal mushrooms from spawn through fruiting. Covers substrate preparation, inoculation methods, incubation conditions, fruiting chamber management, harvest timing, and successive flushes for oyster, shiitake, lion's mane, and other commonly cultivated species. Use when growing edible mushrooms without the risks of wild foraging, when a reliable supply of fresh culinary or medicinal mushrooms is needed, or when exploring mycelial ecology through hands-on cultivation practice.

plan-garden-calendar

pjt222/agent-almanac

Plan garden activities using solar, lunar, and biodynamic calendars. Covers USDA hardiness zones, frost date calculation, equinox/solstice anchoring, synodic lunar cycle (waxing/waning), ascending/descending moon, Maria Thun biodynamic calendar (root/leaf/flower/fruit days), succession planting schedules, and seasonal task planning. Use when planning a new growing season and needing a planting schedule, integrating lunar or biodynamic timing into garden practice, calculating frost dates and planting windows for a specific zone, setting up succession planting for continuous harvest, or conducting end-of-season review.

pjt222/agent-almanac

Assess and improve garden soil through testing, amendment, composting, and biodynamic preparations. Covers jar test, spade test, earthworm count, amendment by soil type (clay, sandy, depleted, compacted), composting methods (hot, cold, vermicomposting), no-till practices, cover cropping, and biodynamic preparations 500-508. Use when starting a new garden bed, when plants underperform despite adequate water and light, when transitioning to organic or biodynamic practice, when soil has become compacted or depleted, or when building a composting system.

pjt222/agent-almanac

Observe and assess a garden using a structured sensory protocol adapted from Coordinate Remote Viewing. Covers pre-entry clearing (meditate checkpoint), Stage I gestalt impression, Stage II sensory layer (leaf, stem, root, soil), Stage III pattern recognition with AOL management, and garden health triage matrix (heal checkpoint). Use before any intervention, when plants show stress symptoms, at seasonal transitions, when evaluating a new garden site, during regular health monitoring, or after extreme weather events such as frost or heat waves.

cultivate-bonsai

pjt222/agent-almanac

Cultivate bonsai trees from species selection through long-term seasonal care. Covers species suitability, structural and maintenance pruning, wiring technique, repotting protocol, soil mix preparation, seasonal care schedules, and contemplative sitting practice. Use when selecting a species for a first or next bonsai, performing structural or maintenance pruning, repotting when roots are circling or growth has stalled, wiring branches for shaping, developing a seasonal care calendar, or building a contemplative practice with a living tree.

pjt222/agent-almanac

Identify and safely gather edible and useful wild plants. Covers safety rules and deadly plant recognition, habitat reading, multi-feature identification methodology, the universal edibility test, sustainable harvesting practices, preparation methods, reaction monitoring, and building knowledge with beginner-friendly universal species. Use when supplementing food supply in a wilderness or survival setting, needing medicinal or utility plants, identifying plants around camp for safety, or in long-term scenarios where foraging extends available rations.