After a natural disaster, it’s normal to feel the impacts of stress like difficulty sleeping, intrusive images, dread, anxiety, future fears, and connections to past traumas.
5 in-person and online sessions are being offered to help reduce distress, increase resilience, stability, and coping.
After a natural disaster, it’s normal to feel the impacts of stress like difficulty sleeping, intrusive images, dread, anxiety, future fears, and connections to past traumas.
5 in-person and online sessions are being offered to help reduce distress, increase resilience, stability, and coping.
After a natural disaster, it’s normal to feel the impacts of stress like difficulty sleeping, intrusive images, dread, anxiety, future fears, and connections to past traumas.
5 in-person and online sessions are being offered to help reduce distress, increase resilience, stability, and coping.
After a natural disaster, it’s normal to feel the impacts of stress like difficulty sleeping, intrusive images, dread, anxiety, future fears, and connections to past traumas.
5 in-person and online sessions are being offered to help reduce distress, increase resilience, stability, and coping.
After a natural disaster, it’s normal to feel the impacts of stress like difficulty sleeping, intrusive images, dread, anxiety, future fears, and connections to past traumas.
5 in-person and online sessions are being offered to help reduce distress, increase resilience, stability, and coping.
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Old Road Farm is starting the search for a farm manager/crew leader position for the 2025 season. We are a VOF certified organic vegetable operation in Granville VT, growing on about 5 acres with eight greenhouses. We run a crew of about 3-5 people throughout the season. This role would help with day-to-day harvest and crop maintenance, work closely with farm owners to set weekly objectives, and lead the crew to ensure critical tasks are accomplished in an efficient manner when farm owners are called to other needs on the farm. Farm experience is required and some leadership experience strongly preferred. Pay starts at $20/hour with full time work available mid April through October and part time hours available during March, November, and December. There is the potential for on farm housing in a new private studio apartment starting this October for the right person. On farm housing would not be included in base compensation and is not required for this position. This could be a great position for someone with strong experience who is looking to take the next step in their farming career. Good people skills and a positive attitude are a requirement. We got our start working on other farms and have built up Old Road Farm through our own sweat equity over the past 9 years, so a workplace where everyone feels respected and valued while working towards common goals as efficiently as possible is important to us. For more information please contact [email protected].
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This training is for anyone interested in learning more about the organic regulations and how organic certification works. Participants gain specialized knowledge of organic regulations and certification, useful for farms interested in organic certification or practices (whether already certified or interested in transitioning), government agencies, non-profit organizations, technical service providers, or people interested in careers in organic certification.
Tags: vegetable ferments; sauerkrauts; kimchi; fermented hot sauces; kvass and wild-fermented fruit sodas.
Hello farmers!
Making a living growing and selling organic vegetables is a fulfilling and rewarding life work. However, it is hard work full of challenges, and there are many other farmers competing for customers, so the profit margin is narrow.
It is a well-established fact that value-added products made using vegetables, milk, meat, grains, etc... produced on the farm can significantly boost farmers' income. However, because of the long hours of hard work required to grow organic vegetables, farmers rarely have the time or energy to develop such additional enterprises on their farm.
My name is Jerome, I am a former organic vegetable grower, a passionate fermenter, cook, baker, small business owner and I have a great deal of experience creating, marketing and selling a variety of fermented vegetables, sauerkrauts, kimchi, hot sauces, vegetable kvass, dried or preserved shiitake and oyster mushrooms as well as artisan sourdough bread at farmers markets.
It would be my pleasure to help you develop and sell value-added products created from your farm's offerings.
In addition, I can help you transform low value items, i.e.; imperfect “ugly” vegetables and fruits, damaged herbs, fruit pomace, etc.. into valuable value-added products such as beautiful vegetable ferments, tasty pestos and salsas, artisan vinegars, wild fermented sodas, fruit kvass, and more.
Also, why not transform wild-foraged herbs, fruits and mushrooms into high value goods, such as dried culinary and medicinal herbs, fragrant teas, and preserved or dried mushrooms , etc..?
My goal is to help you set up and run a sustainable and successful value-added business based on your farm's production and the resources of the surrounding land.
I would be willing to train (and hire) a team dedicated to the creation (and sales) of value-added products from your farm.
I can organize and manage marketing and sales as needed. I have experience contacting health food stores, chefs, food co-ops, and doing food demonstrations at farmers markets. I am passionate about this work.
What I need: access to a certified kitchen, either on the farm or nearby (community kitchen, commercial kitchen, etc.), a walk-in cooler to store fermented products, a work area, a starting budget (to be determined) keeping in mind that I will quickly generate my own budget based on a percentage of my sales. And of course, a temporary (or long-term) place to live with food provided while I set-up, organize and launch the business.
Does additional income sound appealing? Do you need help to make it happen? Please don’t hesitate to call me, help is only a call away.
I can also come to your farm strictly as a consultant to help you evaluate the local markets and available financial resources (grants, low-interest loans, etc..) and determine what potential value-added business could be realistically developed that would fit best with your farm production, location, and resources.
I look forward to discussing in person details, logistics, and brainstorm potential business ideas with you.
Sincerely, Jerome
