The posting
Nature's Herbs & Wellness | Garden City, Colorado (Greeley Area)
Interested in learning how commercial cannabis is grown? Nature's Herbs & Wellness is hiring a full-time Cultivation Technician at our Garden City facility.
This is an opportunity to learn commercial horticulture in an established cultivation operation, working with living plants, irrigation systems, specialized equipment, and experienced growers.
You'll help care for cannabis plants throughout their growing cycle, from propagation and transplanting to pruning, feeding, monitoring plant health, and harvest. Along the way, you'll develop practical skills in plant biology, nutrient management, environmental controls, and commercial agricultural production.
No previous cannabis cultivation experience is required. We're looking for dependable people who enjoy hands-on work, pay attention to details, and want to learn a technical trade.
What You'll Learn and Do
- Propagate cannabis plants, prepare clones, and transplant young plants
- Prune, train, and maintain plants throughout vegetative and flowering stages
- Prepare nutrient solutions and assist with irrigation and feeding systems
- Monitor plant health, growing conditions, and environmental equipment
- Learn to identify signs of pests, disease, and nutrient deficiencies
- Support integrated pest management and approved plant-care procedures
- Assist with harvest, plant handling, and production transitions
- Clean and sanitize cultivation rooms, equipment, and work areas
- Maintain accurate cultivation records and follow established SOPs
You'll start with the fundamentals and develop additional responsibilities as your skills improve.
What the Job Is Actually Like
Commercial cultivation is agriculture on a production schedule.
Some days involve detailed plant care. Others involve transplanting, pruning hundreds of plants, cleaning grow rooms, or preparing for harvest.
The work is physical, repetitive, and requires consistency. A procedure that works on one plant needs to be performed just as carefully on the next hundred.
You'll spend much of your shift on your feet, working in warm and humid environments, and handling plants and cultivation equipment.
This isn't a position where you spend the day discussing strains or sampling products. It's hands-on agricultural production, with deadlines, sanitation standards, and procedures that matter.
The people who do well here are curious, dependable, comfortable asking questions, and willing to learn why things are done a particular way.
If you enjoy working with plants, understanding how systems work, and seeing the results of your efforts over time, commercial cultivation can be a rewarding trade to learn.
Schedule & Compensation
Tuesday–Saturday | 11:30am–8:00pm Approximately 40 working hours per week Starting Pay: $16.00 per hour
This is a full-time, on-site position with a consistent schedule. Occasional overtime or schedule adjustments may be necessary based on harvest schedules and operational needs.
Performance and wage reviews are available as employees develop proficiency and take on additional responsibilities.
What We're Looking For
Experience in cannabis cultivation, greenhouses, nurseries, agriculture, landscaping, irrigation, or other hands-on production environments is helpful, but not required.
We're looking for people who:
- Show up consistently and take their responsibilities seriously
- Enjoy learning practical and technical skills
- Can follow detailed instructions and repeat processes accurately
- Pay attention to plant health, cleanliness, and small changes
- Work efficiently without sacrificing quality
- Communicate problems and ask questions when necessary
- Work well with others and accept constructive feedback
- Are comfortable performing repetitive physical work
Basic mechanical aptitude, comfort with measurements, or an interest in horticulture are additional advantages.
The position requires extended standing and walking, frequent bending and reaching, repetitive hand movements, working in warm and humid environments, and lifting and carrying up to 80 pounds when required.
Essential responsibilities must be performed with or without reasonable accommodation.
You don't need to make cannabis your entire personality to work here. You need to be interested in learning the work, comfortable around cannabis, and committed to doing the job correctly.
Colorado Cannabis Requirements
Applicants must be at least 21 years old and have an active Colorado Marijuana Enforcement Division (MED) Employee License before beginning regulated cannabis work.
An active MED license is preferred but not required when applying. Eligible candidates willing to obtain one before starting regulated work are welcome.
Employees are responsible for obtaining, maintaining, and paying for their required MED license.
Certain specialized duties, including pesticide application, require additional training and authorization.
Benefits
Full-time employees have access to our benefits package, including:
- Medical insurance through Kaiser Permanente
- Dental insurance through Delta Dental
- Vision coverage through VSP
- Supplemental accident, illness, and gap coverage through Transamerica
- Colorado SecureSavings retirement program
- Paid sick leave
- PTO/vacation beginning after six months, increasing with tenure up to four weeks annually after five years
- Performance and wage reviews
- Opportunities to develop additional cultivation skills and responsibilities
- Occasional overtime opportunities when available
- Participation in our regular customer loyalty program, including 10% back in loyalty rewards on eligible purchases, subject to program terms and applicable law
About Nature's Herbs & Wellness
Nature's Herbs & Wellness has operated in Colorado cannabis for more than 15 years and remains privately and locally owned by the same people who started the company.
From our Northern Colorado roots, we've grown into a vertically integrated cannabis company with dispensaries, multiple cultivation facilities, extraction, manufacturing, and distribution.
Our Garden City operation is part of the foundation of that business. The plants grown here contribute to the products supplied to our retail locations and other departments, giving our cultivation employees a direct connection to the finished products customers purchase.
We believe good cultivation is built on consistency, attention to detail, and an understanding of the plants and systems involved. We train employees in our procedures and provide opportunities to develop increasingly technical skills.
If you're looking for a practical job where you can learn commercial horticulture, build experience, and contribute to an established Colorado company, we'd like to hear from you.
Location: Garden City, Colorado — Greeley area Position: Full-time, on-site Current Schedule: Tuesday–Saturday, 11:30am–8:00pm Starting Pay: $16.00/hour Nature's Herbs & Wellness is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
