Yohannes Cusimano

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Onancock Virginia 23417

Email: ad4g36@r.postjobfree.com 917-***-****

OBJECTIVE: To attain a position that will expand my education and creativity combining the culinary industry with local organic food sourcing and farming. Highlights of Qualifications:

Hardworking, team player, fast learner, self-motivated. Loyal to goals and objectives of a company.

Skilled at working with people with diverse

backgrounds. Lifetime interest in nature and nature studies. Wide range of manual skills, goal oriented. Managing projects and successfully meeting deadlines. Knowledge, Skills, Equipment:

Sixth generation of organic farming - Lavender Skies Farm Planted and pruned trees/shrubs, designed landscapes, maintained display beds through weeding, deadheading, mulching, edging, grass cutting.

Operate small and large engine equipment safely.

Backhoe/front loader (Kubota 13x23), Tr230 tractor, forklift, zero-point turn lawn motor, rototiller, all equipment used for agriculture. Hand tools, chain saws, drills, ground-prep tools, shovels, picks, sod spades.

Light carpentry, installed underground sprinkler system, installing fence posts and spikes. Skilled in the use of fresh pasta making machines, mixers, fryers, chef’s knife, tools, utility knife, salamander grill, hand grater, automatic sauce machine, high-powered blender, food processor, steam table, fruit sculpting, creatively planned menus, original recipes.

EXPERIENCE:

2018 to Present: Cusimano Garden & Yard Services

Preparing, building, and maintaining garden beds. Yard clean up, mulching, pruning, weed whacking, planting and removal of trees. Vegetable gardening. Building sheds, greenhouses, outdoor showers, decks, fencing, composts, and labyrinths.

2019: Mont Kush, LLC, Plainfield, VT – Hemp Growers – Seasonal Processing hemp for pressing, transporting, unloading, and drying hemp, weighing, sorting plant types, running tumbler, data entry, field work, setting up and maintenance of workstations. 2019: Sunsoil: Hardwick, VT – Hemp Growers and CBD Products - Seasonal Building greenhouse tables, assembling greenhouse covers, preparing planting trays, planting, testing soil, caring for seedlings, and making fish emulsion/kelp fertilizer. 2019: High Mowing Organic Seeds: Wolcott, VT - Seasonal Packing, sorting, and shipping customer orders, loading and unloading of trucks/shipments, setting up shelving, assembling carts, rearranging equipment and workstations, culling pallets, labeling inventory, and data entry.

2003 to 2018: General Manager, Lavender Skies Farm, Onancock, VA Responsible for product development organically grown quality control from farm to market (4 farmers markets), prepare production set up for distribution. Prepare sterilization for distillation of healing hydrosols, propagation of plants, seed germination, maintaining 8.82 acres of annual and perennial gardens, created and maintains acre Medieval Lavender Labyrinth, Head Beekeeper.

Constructed 4 greenhouses: 14x20x50 arched high tunnel, 20 x 20 x75 gothic greenhouse, 14 x 20 x75 gothic greenhouse, several vertical growing hoops houses (16x30/ 14x40/ 16 x25). Assist with special events, lectures with several Master Gardener clubs. EDUCATION AND TRAINING

2000 to 2001: Training hands on program through Montpelier High School, New England Culinary 2000: Montpelier High School, Vermont - Graduated

1999: Paramus Technical School, Paramus NJ (sophomore, junior) Skilled in the use of double boiler for preparation of chocolate and pastries including three layer cakes with intricate decorating motifs

1998: Pascack Valley High School, Hillsdale, NJ (freshman, sophomore) VOLUNTEER AND COMMUNITY SERVICE

VT - Hunger Mtn. Food Co-op Book and Clothing Swap Eastern Shore of Virginia Habitat for Humanity, Save the Bay Foundation, Nature Conservancy of ESVA Master Gardeners Club volunteer and donating creating English Lavender Garden (Kerr Place Museum) Master Gardeners of Chincoteague, Master Gardeners Club of Onancock, Master Gardeners Club of Cape Charles, Eelgrass Restoration of Cape Charles, Cultural Alliances of Chincoteague, Eastern Shore of VA National Wildlife refuge trail blazing recording log books, Eastern Shore Apiary Society Future Harvest Chesapeake Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture U.S.D.A. Natural Resources Conservation Services

REFERENCES: Available upon request.