Apple Picking Season The picking season starts mid to end of February and lasts two months. Each tree is picked several times for the best fruit, and carefully handled into picking bags and then bins. Again it is physically tiring and hot work. You are paid on the bins picked – a bin being 410kg and worth between $28-$35. By emailing us you have applied for a seasonal job so you will hear from us – if you don’t just email again.Seasonal job Details The rates we pay vary depending on the difficulty of the job at the time, but once you have learnt the job the average worker can expect to earn about NZ$100 per day for thinning and early picking (March) and NZ$120 per day for late picking (April and May).
Accommodation in our Apple Orchard In Hawkes Bay accommodation on site, and backpackers charge around $110 a week, if you can get in. It is a big problem in the Bay. We rent caravans that we have on the apple orchard .Caravans (trailer homes) camp sites and separate cabins also add to the options that we have. Within all of our accommodation
We charge $56 a week per person for the caravans and $28 a week per person if you have a tent or camper van. On apple Orchard we have kitchen facilities, toilets a shower block, clothes washing area and a common room with internet access. It is all a bit rough and ready but most people say it has character.
Apple Pickers Find out how to come and enjoy a working holiday in the Apple capital of the world with Willowford Alma AltaLtd of Hastings. For over 10 years, people have been coming to our orchards in the Hawkes Bay countryside to pick fruit.
Working Holiday New Zealand The working holiday Scheme offers an opportunity for young people between 18 and 30 years of age to experience life in New Zealand on a working holiday .
This scheme covers an agreement between New Zealand and 18 other countries. It will allow you to work for Willowford for the entire fruit season. For some people there will be the opportunity to extend this period even further. You will need to apply while still in your own country.
For more information please check out the New Zealand Immigration Services(N.Z.I.S.) link: www.immigration.govt.nz
