AI training jobs for farm and landscaping workers. $12 per accepted hour, out in the field.
Greenhouse hands, pickers, packing-shed crews, landscapers, and tree climbers clip a small camera to their chest and work a normal day. eeko pays $12 for each hour of footage a reviewer accepts, in addition to whatever the farm or the crew already pays you. The footage shows field and grounds robots what no manual can: how a person decides a peach is ready and works a row without bruising anything.
What are AI training jobs for farm and landscaping workers?
AI training jobs for farm and landscaping workers are paid recording work: you wear a camera while you seed, transplant, pick, grade, mow, prune, or muck out, and the footage becomes training data for the robots being built to do those tasks. You do not learn new software, label images, or sit at a laptop. You do the job you already know and upload the day.
The footage is worth paying for because outdoor work refuses to repeat itself. Every plant grows differently, every fruit hides behind a different leaf, every lawn has a different edge. A machine trained on a tidy lab bench falls apart in a real row. It needs thousands of hours of a person handling that variety, seen from the person's own eyes, and almost none of that exists yet.
This program is part of eeko's data capture practice, which records consented, human-made training data for the AI teams we build systems for. It sits alongside the other hands-on programs on our get paid to train AI hub, and the footage it produces is delivered to buyers through the agriculture training data line with a verifiable record on every clip.
Field, shed, barn, and yard: the whole season.
If it is done outdoors or under glass, with your hands, we want to see it. These roles are taking applications now.
The grower or the client signs first. Then you record.
Farms are private property, and so is a client's back yard. Nothing goes on camera until whoever controls the ground has agreed in writing.
How permission works on a farm or a route
- Farms, greenhouses, and sheds — the grower or landowner agrees. We would rather sign up the operation than one picker, so the whole crew records under a single agreement.
- Landscaping on private property — the client agrees. Companies add a line to the service contract; sole operators carry our one-page form on their phone.
- Public grounds and campuses — the employer or facility agrees, under any photography rules the site already has.
- Anyone in frame — houses, plates, coworkers, and passers-by are blurred before a clip is shared. The subject is your hands and the plant, not the property.
- A no is a no — if a grower or a client declines, you skip that site. Unrecorded time is simply not counted.
Run a farm or a crew yourself? Say so in the form. Growers and landscaping outfits can enroll as a group, every worker is paid for their own accepted hours, and we handle the consent paperwork for everyone.
Get paid to train AI as a farm worker in four steps.
Nothing is recorded until you are onboarded and the grower or client has signed. After that it is your normal day with a camera on.
Farm work footage, with the people taken out.
Buyers are paying to see how the job gets done. They do not want, and do not receive, anything about you, your coworkers, or the property.
Join the farm and landscape capture program.
Two minutes. A real person on the eeko data team reads it and replies within one business day. Nothing is recorded until you say yes on the onboarding call.
Thanks. A person will read this.
Someone on the eeko data team replies within one business day with whether the program fits your work right now and what the onboarding call covers. Prefer to write to us directly? thomas@eeko.systems.
Farm and landscape AI training jobs, asked often.
How much do AI training jobs for farm and landscaping workers pay?
$12 for each hour of footage that a reviewer accepts, paid in addition to whatever the farm or the crew already pays you. Plan around accepted hours, not hours on the clock: lunch, driving, and paperwork are not recorded, and reviewers in this program typically pass 70% to 85% of what comes in. Ten recorded hours with eight accepted is $96 for the week; thirty at the same rate is about $288. No ceiling, no floor.
Who has to agree before I record on a farm or a client's property?
The person who controls the ground: the grower or landowner on a farm, greenhouse, or packing shed, and the client for landscaping or tree work on private property. We hand you a one-page consent form, and in most cases we sign up the whole farm or landscaping company instead, so the crew records under one agreement and nobody has to ask on their own. Houses, vehicles, and anyone who wanders into frame are blurred before footage leaves eeko.
My work is seasonal. Can I still join?
Yes. Seasonal workers are some of the most useful people in the program, because harvest and planting footage only exists for a few weeks a year. Record while the season runs and stop when it ends; there is no set number of hours. Tell us when your season starts and we will finish the onboarding call before the first day, so you are not setting up a camera in the middle of a picking rush.
What camera do I need for farm and landscape recording?
A phone or an action camera you already own, on a chest harness or a head strap so both hands stay free. Outdoor work is the easiest case: natural light, no cables, nothing to trip on. We do not ship equipment, but we will look at what you have during onboarding and tell you whether it will pass before you spend a day recording. A dust or rain cover is a good idea in a packing shed or on a tree crew.
What makes an hour of footage accepted or rejected?
A person on the eeko data team watches every upload and checks four things: it shows genuine work from your point of view, the picture is sharp and bright enough to follow your hands, the grower or client signed off on recording, and it is not a repeat of something you already sent. If part of an upload fails, you get a note saying which part and why. Most people fix camera angle or pausing by the second upload.
Is this a job, and does it replace my wages?
No. You keep your job, your employer, and your normal pay. eeko pays you separately for footage that passes review, at $12 per accepted hour, under a short participation agreement covering consent and payment. No exclusivity, no quota, no penalty for stopping. The one exception to pay-on-acceptance is your first hour, which is paid in full even if it fails, as long as it is a real attempt at your normal work after onboarding.
Who ends up with the footage and what is it for?
Vetted AI and robotics organizations building machines for fields, greenhouses, and grounds. They license it from eeko under a written agreement, with your consent record attached to every clip and identifying details blurred first. It teaches a robot how an experienced person judges ripeness, reaches through foliage, grades produce, or shapes a hedge. It is never posted publicly or put on an open marketplace. Our verified human data page explains the record that travels with every item.
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