Thanks for tuning in as we continue our virtual book tour! This is stop number two. You can visit our first stop here.
If you don’t know already, we just wrote and published our first book, Seasonal Workamping for a Living, How We Did It! The book is all about our journey becoming full-time RVers and workampers.
We talk about the various seasonal workamping jobs we’ve experienced and detail how prospective workampers can find and land their first and next jobs. Plus, we include lessons we’ve learned after almost 6 years of workamping and include financial aspects of funding your full time RV travels through seasonal workamping!
One of the seasonal workamping jobs we highlight in our book is the sugar beet harvest. We enjoyed this experience so much that we joined up with the harvest for two consecutive seasons.
The sugar beet harvest is a rather popular seasonal workamping option for many RVers. Hundreds of RVers and local workers come together to harvest and pile sugar beets in order to store them before the sugar making process. It can be a very short and very profitable workamping venture.
The company that hires workampers for this October event which takes place in the upper Midwest is Express Employment Professionals. They hire RVers and locals to work, not in the fields, but at the piling stations where the sugar beets are stored before they are processed.
This 2020 year, Express Employment is changing things up a bit for workampers including a pay increase and other perks. Here to give us more insight on the sugar beet harvest is Alyssa Kaste . She is the Harvest Project Manager with Express Employment Professionals. (View our interview with Alyssa below.)
If you want to learn more about our experience with the sugar beet harvest we included a link to our sugar beet harvest series here. We posted a video every day that we worked and described our experience.
We have also written extensively about the harvest on our website here. You can also get an overview of our experience by reading our book available on Amazon in ebook and paperback formats, Seasonal Workamping for a Living: How We Did It.
If you are interested in applying for the Sugar beet harvest, simply go to their websites, theunbeetableexperience.com or michiganbeetharvest.com. If you do apply, pllleeeaaasseee be sure to let them know that Levi and Natalie Henley sent you! We do receive a little payment for each referral we send their way!
We hope this video gives you a better understanding of this seasonal workamping opportunity. Until we meet again, stay safe out there, happy job hunting, and happy trails!
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Wish people would learn that sugar beets are Monsanto GM. Please read:
Commercialized GM sugar beets make use of a glyphosate-resistance modification developed by Monsanto and KWS Saat. These glyphosate-resistant beets, also called ‘Roundup Ready’ sugar beets, were developed by 2000, but not commercialized until 2007.[1] All sugar beets has a Maximum Residue Limit of glyphosate of 15 mg/Kg in the final harvest [2] for international trade.[3] As of 2016, GMO sugar beets are grown in the United States and Canada. In the United States, they play an important role in domestic sugar production. Studies have concluded the sugar from glyphosate-resistant sugar beets is molecularly identical to and so has the same nutritional value as sugar from conventional (non-GMO) sugar beets.[4]