Employment Opportunities


Saratoga Sod is comprised of the following team members. Please contact Laurie at 518.664.5038 for all employment inquiries. Thank you.

1. Office Assistant - read pdf document for more information

2. Office Management Team Member - read pdf document for more information

3. Production Team Member - read pdf document for more information

4. Customer Service Team Member - read pdf document for more information

5. Driver/Company Representative - read pdf document for more information


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Saratoga Sod Farm, located along US Route 4 and the Hudson River in the towns of Stillwater and Saratoga, is a family business that is owned and operated by Steve and Laurie Griffen. The Griffen family has been farming in Saratoga County since 1786. With the desire to remain in agriculture, while combining their experience and Cornell educations, Steve and his father, Phil, seeded their first crop of 50 acres of Kentucky bluegrass in August 1986. Since that time, the business has grown and evolved as the market has demanded and allowed. The Griffens have diversified and expanded their turf varieties, harvesting methods and services to meet a wide range of customer’s needs.

Saratoga Sod currently grows approximately 750 acres of turfgrass sod, including Kentucky bluegrass, Fine Fescue/bluegrass mixtures and creeping bentgrass. Sod is harvested in either standard palletized rolls (2’x5’) or Big Rolls (4’x84’) for larger projects and sports fields. A range of seed and fertilizer products and a sod installation service are also available to meet customer needs.

Saratoga Sod depends on 20 full and part time people to get the job done. In addition to the daily production responsibilities of mowing, harvesting, ordering, scheduling, delivering, and machinery maintenance, Saratoga Sod is responsible for the marketing and sales of its products directly to the customer. Sod is either picked up at the farm or delivered directly to the jobsite for the customer. The brad customer base ranges from landscapers, garden centers, golf courses, sports fields, builders, to little leagues, schools, colleges, towns and individual homeowners. Jobs of particular interest that sport Saratoga Sod includes the National Baseball and National Soccer Halls of Fame fields, the state capital and the training camp fields for the New York Giants.

At Saratoga Sod you will see well managed fields producing turfgrass sod. You will also see the machinery used to cultivate and seed fields, harvest, mow, and deliver the sod. A number of conservation practices such as open ditching, subsurface tile drainage and field leveling have been employed over the years to improve the productivity of the farm’s alluvial soils. As with most cropping enterprises, proper resources management is key to successful crop production.

Finally, another interesting feature of Saratoga Sod Farm is its unique location. In a rapidly growing county, you will notice a lack of development immediately surrounding the main farm, as it is bordered on three sides by the Saratoga National Historical Park and Battlefield, with the Saratoga National Veterans Cemetery a couple miles away. In addition, development rights have been either purchased or are in the process of being purchased on many acres of surrounding agricultural lands.