5600–5700 block of W Wilshire Blvd (food service serving the block), Los Angeles, CA 90036
Set up and harvest an on-site herb-and-greens bed.
A worker with pruners cuts ready herbs and greens from a container bed on a patio or roof at 5600–5700 block of W Wilshire Blvd (food service serving the block) and carries the harvest to the kitchen pass. Read all of it
Not funded yet. Settles as earned credit, $80 proposed.
Proof it takes, the deadline, the level
- Proofbefore/after bed photos + planting log + harvest weight/count log + GPS
- Open until2026-11-17
- Levelentry
All of it: the words, the place, the proof
Set up and harvest an on-site herb-and-greens bed for a 5665-block kitchen. The Green Star rewards on-site growing, and the flat sunny patios and roofs on this block grow nothing. A container herb-and-greens bed the kitchen harvests to order is the shortest supply chain there is: garden to plate in one carry. Ripe produce left unharvested spoils on the plant and is lost. Start after the crew's safety orientation. Never pick produce that is moldy, spoiled or recently sprayed. For the payer: - Price: $55 per job, counted in pounds harvested, by variety. - Likely payer: A grant-funded nonprofit crew (LA Conservation Corps, LANI, Clean California or CAL FIRE grants), or the site's host. - No license is needed: picking, weighing and delivering produce is not construction work, so no contractor license applies.
Offer to pay $80. The receipt lands onchain once the proof is approved.
Safety, read before you claim
Wash your hands first and harvest only ripe, sound produce into clean containers; discard anything spoiled, moldy, animal-fouled or recently sprayed. Work in the cool morning with water and shade close, gloves and closed-toe boots on; employer provides N95s at smoke AQI 151 or more.
The full safety list for this job:
- Kitchen and property consent for the bed placement; food-safe potting media; follow the kitchen's hygiene rules when delivering to the pass.
- Use clean food-grade containers, and do not pick a bed that was sprayed inside its product label's waiting days. Keep water and shade within reach, and look before you reach under leaves for wasps, black widow spiders and snakes. Cut leafy greens by taking the outer leaves 2 inches above the base and leave the growing point; do not pull whole plants unless the host asks. Use clean pruners or a knife wiped or washed between beds. Keep the harvest in the shade and cool, and hand it over the same day; do not leave produce in a hot car. A tomato or squash that touched soil with animal droppings goes in the discard bucket. Leave the bed re-mulched, not bare.
- Site briefing: who to call, where water and a hand-washing station are (Title 8 section 3203).
- Harvest in the cool morning, a quart of water an hour, shade breaks, watch each other at 95 degrees F and above (Title 8 section 3395).
- Check the air quality index (AQI) for wildfire smoke; at 151 or more do not pick leafy greens for a meal without the host's word and offer an N95 to the crew (Title 8 section 5141.1).
- Gloves and a cut-resistant glove for knives and pruners; closed-toe boots for foot protection (Title 8 section 3384).
- Wash hands first and after a bathroom stop; do not pick while sick; keep clean containers off the ground (Title 8 section 3203).
- Finish: leave the bed re-mulched, not bare.
- Footwear, Title 8 section 3385: closed-toe boots for dropped crates and tool strikes.
How this work is done
How this work is done
A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.
Bring
- clean food-grade containers or crates with lids or cloths
- clean pruners or a knife, wiped or washed
- a kitchen or luggage scale
- gloves
- water and soap to wash hands
- a cooler or shade cloth for the trip
- a little straw or mulch to re-cover the bed
Steps
- Obtain the garden steward's or site host's written scope for this harvest before work (the beds, the date, and who receives the harvest) and, if a crew or grantee sent you, its work order. Get the site host's or agency's written consent to work there too. Write what you got at the top of your proof. With no written scope, stop.
- Site the container bed with the kitchen: sun, water access and out of the service path; photograph the site before.
- Build and plant the bed with fast, high-use culinary herbs and cut-and-come-again greens; record the planting.
- Harvest the ready crops cleanly to order and walk the kitchen through the pick-and-regrow routine so it survives you leaving.
- Ask the host which crops are ripe, when the bed was last sprayed or fertilized, and whether the receiving kitchen has said yes.
- Pick in the morning. Pick the ripe, sound crops by hand, cut leafy greens at the outer leaves, use clean cutting tools and food-grade containers, sort by variety, and never set produce on the soil.
- Set aside visibly spoiled or moldy produce, anything touched by animal or bird droppings or a spray, and anything the host will not vouch for.
- Re-mulch the bed with 1 to 2 inches of clean straw or leaf mulch before the after photo, and say so in the proof.
- Photograph the planted bed and each harvest, and log the weight or count delivered to the pass.
- Take the harvest straight to the kitchen, pantry or shared table the job names, carried cool and shaded. Hand it to a named person and get their name or a photo of the handoff.
What counts as done
- Before/after photos of the container bed
- Planting log (crops, date) and the pick-and-regrow routine handed over
- Harvest log (weight or count) delivered to the kitchen
- Photo of the harvest in its container with the scale reading.
- The name or initials of the person who received it.
- Photos show the bed re-mulched after, no whole plants pulled unless the host asked, and a weight that matches the crates in the photo.
- Scope: the garden steward's or site host's written scope for this harvest, and the work order of any crew or grantee that sent you, dated before the first photo.
- Site consent: the site host's or agency's written consent to work there, dated before the first photo.
- Sign-off: the site host or steward, or the supervisor of the crew of record, signs off the finished work in writing. Write who signed and the date, or the date you asked.
- Photos: take the before photo and the after photo from the same point (stand where the first one was taken and match its frame), each with its GPS point and its date and time.
Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.
The standard this serves
Michelin Craft, Garden to Plate. Garden to plate is the oldest idea in good cooking made rigorous: the shortest possible road between living soil and the finished dish. The Michelin Green Star honors kitchens where the menu is written by the season, not the supplier's truck. Mastery looks like a cook who can walk a garden row in the morning and see tonight's dinner in it. It begins the way this packet begins: tend one bed, pick one crop at its true peak, carry it to a kitchen the same day. That short walk holds the whole discipline.
What is promised, and what is not
Three separate acts, never one: a vote is a free signed preference that moves no money; a pledge is free signed backing intent, balance-checked, that moves no money and never marks the packet funded; funding is a real payment, made by the payer straight to the worker, with no Vealth fee. Paying Vealth is closed: Vealth takes no new card or wallet payment for a job. To fund a job, offer to pay the worker directly, then pay them yourself when you accept the proof, from your own wallet or by your own card or bank. From a wallet: prepare_token_offer, sign, submit_token_offer; after the proof is accepted you pay the worker on chain and the worker records it (prepare_token_settlement, or POST /labor/settle for USDC on Base). By card or bank: prepare_direct_offer, sign, submit_direct_offer; you pay the worker yourself and the worker records it with prepare_direct_settlement. Both are free, need no gas, and move no money through Vealth.
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