Internship Title: Field worker, Carpenter, Program/Curriculum Designer Internship Site: Wild Roots Farm, Bristol, Vt Description: Building an 8×16 timber frame chicken coop, garden bed formation, mushroom inoculation, digging swales, planting food guilds, daily chores (feeding chickens, ducks and geese, distributing their manure into the gardens, changing water), building hugelkultur mounds, sharing knowledge, building community, setting […]
Continue readingTeaching from the Garden: Using Gardens to Enhance Student Learning Did you know that a shovel is not just a gardening tool but a tool to engage learners? Join us for an evening of discussion and demonstrations sure to get your garden season growing! – Learn how to use gardens as teaching tool – Learn about […]
Continue readingFight campus food waste and community hunger! Food Recovery Network is seeking talented individuals for nine month, full-time, paid fellowships to help build, grow and maintain our movement throughout the 2015-2016 school year from our national headquarters in College Park, MD. Learn more and apply by April 2, 2015: https://bit.ly/FRNfellows Founded in September of 2011, […]
Continue readingInternship Description Bright Blue EcoMedia March 2015 Site Description Bear Roots farm is a year-round, certified-organic, vegetable farm located in South Barre, Vermont. Bear Roots has teamed with Bright Blue EcoMedia to create educational programs that document and support their transition from a classic VT Dairy Farm to a diversified regenerative ecologically based farm. […]
Continue readingVermont SWEEP Spring Gathering Please reserve the first of April (no fooling!) to join the Vermont SWEEP community for an evening of presentations, workshops, resource sharing, and of course, great food! When: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 2015, From 4:30 pm to 7:30 pm Where: COMMON GROUND CENTER, 473 TATRO ROAD, Starksboro, VT 05487 Agenda Highlights Registration, Refreshments & Networking Welcome & Meeting […]
Continue readingSodexo, a world leader providing integrated facilities management and foodservice operations, today announced the hiring of Anne Rowell of Crafsbury as the director of its “Vermont First” local food initiative. Rowell – a Vermont native, Middlebury College graduate, and local food advocate – will lead Sodexo’s program to help grow the local food economy and […]
Continue readingCommunity Outreach Coordinator Green Mountain Farm-to-School, a nonprofit organization in northern Vermont seeks a dynamic, mission-driven local-food systems professional with strong project management and communication skills to manage our community focused programs and increase access to healthy local foods in the community. Complete job description available here. To apply, submit a resume and cover letter to jobs@gmfts.org. No […]
Continue readingA SEAT AT THE TABLE An Exploration of Leadership and Identity – 3 events in March March 16th: 6pm. Alumni Auditorium Representative Bill Lippert Presented by Rainbow Alliance March 19th 12:30pm Alumni Auditorium A conversation with Joe Bertolino, President of Lyndon State College about LGBTQ Identity and Leadership Presented by Rainbow Alliance, Student Life and […]
Continue readingAre you interested in social justice or food justice? Then you should come to Food Justice Activism: Through a Social Justice Lense workshop! This March 11th at Aiken 110 from 6-8pm, the speaker kat yang-stevens will be putting on an intersectional food justice workshop! This workshop will use an intersectional and anti-colonial framework to develop and deepen understandings and intrinsic connections […]
Continue readingCheck out what Sodexo is doing to take a stand against animal cruelty!