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Shelburne Farms in Shelburne, VT is seeking Farm Based Educators to work in the Children’s Farmyard from April 24-October 22, 2025. The Farmyard is an outdoor educational space that is open to the public and school groups seven days a week, May through October. The goal of this public program is to educate and connect visitors to agriculture in a safe, engaging, and hands-on environment. The farmyard is part of our campus that supports our mission to inspire and cultivate learning for a sustainable future. The hourly rate for this job is $16-17/hour.

If this sounds exciting to you and you love people, ag, animals, and education - please check out all of the varied and fun parts of this job at https://shelburnefarms.org/about/join-our-team/seasonal-farm-based-educ…

I have several AC of land for lease - never been chemically treated for years - which would be suitable for grazing sheep, Llamas or Alpacas. Land located in Castleton area. I have a 5 Ac parcel fenced in with electric fencing which is powered by Solar Panel. If interested or any question please contact me at [email protected]

POSITION SUMMARY

The Center for an Agricultural Economy (CAE), based in Hardwick, VT, seeks a full time Production Staff for Just Cut. Just Cut is an essential connection between food growers, buyers, and eaters. Our team purchases, inspects, washes, and prepares Vermont-grown produce for institutional kitchens both large and small. By partnering with local farmers, food buyers across New England, and a regional delivery network, we help to ensure the viability of Vermont’s working landscapes and provide greater accessibility of high-quality produce to all markets. This job is working in an industrial kitchen setting where safe food handling practices, working closely with a team, and attention to detail are required. The ability to lift 50 pounds repeatedly and work on your feet all day is a necessity. 

JOB DETAILS 

Position: Just Cut Production Staff

Reports to: Just Cut Program Manager

Schedule: Monday- Friday 8-4, 32 to 40 hours a week

Compensation: Hourly range of $18.50 - $21.50, non-exempt 

Benefits:  Health insurance, Health savings account, Employer-paid short-term disability and life insurance, Paid Time Off, SIMPLE IRA, phone stipend, professional development 

Essential Functions:

• Good communication and teamwork skills
• Ability to follow all food safety protocols and best practices 
• Ability to follow instructions, and receive feedback
• Operate (with training) industrial processing equipment
• Clean and sanitize equipment and kitchen
• Ability to follow SOPs
• Dress in required production footwear, uniform, hair & beard nets, other necessary kitchen safety gear 

Additional Responsibilities:

• Participate in check ins and quarterly conversations with a supervisor 
• Contribute to a positive cohesive team culture that is welcoming, affirming, and connected 
• Respond to work phone calls, texts, and emails 
• 6 mo review process to reassess compensation and responsibilities

Physical Demands/lifting requirements:

• Work in commercial kitchen setting 
• Bending, twisting, lifting, and reaching
• Standing and walking: the ability to stand for up to 8 hours a day  
• Ability to lift up to 50 lbs frequently and repeatedly, occasionally up to 80 lbs
• Pushing and pulling carts up to 600 lbs
• Repetitive use of hands
• Fine motor skills for cutting, mixing, stacking, food prep, and similar activities
• With proper training, use manual and electric pallet jacks to occasionally maneuver raw and finished products throughout warehouse, freezers, and cooler space

Mental demands: 

• Ability to take directions quickly and efficiently
• Ability to follow established procedures and SOPs
• Attention to detail 
• Awareness of workflows and processes 

HIRING PROCESS

We are looking to fill this job position immediately and will accept applications until the position is filled. Selected candidates will have an initial phone interview, followed by a tour of Just Cut’s kitchen space. Candidates will be asked to provide references. CAE is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. CAE will make any reasonable accommodations needed for individuals with disabilities during the interview process and for our staff. For accommodation inquiries, please contact our Admin Operations Coordinator at jobs@caevt.org

TO APPLY

Email [email protected] with your resume and include “Just Cut Production Staff” in your email subject line. We’re interested to hear your thoughts on any life or work experience as it relates to this position. Let us know if you have any questions!

EOE STATEMENT

Building community leadership, investing in relationships, and listening to the needs of the community are core principles CAE applies to all our work. We strive to foster an inclusive and supportive staff culture where learning and growth are supported. CAE is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetics, disability, or veteran status. 

BACKGROUND ON CAE 

The Center for an Agricultural Economy is a catalyst for change based in Hardwick, Vermont. We support rural communities and working landscapes by building a more interconnected local food system. We work together with our neighbors and partners to cultivate interdependence and investigate how to create the conditions for socially, economically and ecologically thriving communities. We implement solutions through our foundational programs, innovative projects, dynamic partnerships and the resources available across our three distinct locations. Together, these components of our organization help ensure our rural food system is supported, our farms are thriving, and everyone is treated with dignity and respect.

Position Title: Fundraising Manager

Employee Status: Part Time (averaging 25-30 hours per week), hourly, non-exempt.

Food Connects believes that a workforce of individuals from varied backgrounds is essential to a thriving and adaptable business. Therefore, we encourage individuals of all walks of life to apply to join our team.  

Position Summary

The Fundraising Manager leads the organization’s fundraising, outreach and strategic community partnership initiatives. The position collaboratively develops and implements the organization's Annual Development Plan, cultivating a strong corporate and individual donor base. In addition to leading the organization’s Community Outreach Team, the Fundraising Manager works in close partnership with the Deputy Director, Leadership Team, Development Manager and other program staff to execute a comprehensive development plan. The position requires someone who is approachable in various interpersonal situations and comfortable speaking in public, enjoys problem-solving, thrives in highly organized environments, communicates proactively, and can confidently prioritize their tasks independently. They play an integral role in supporting our organizational mission to create healthy families, thriving farms, and connected communities.

Core Competencies

Building Collaborative Relationships: The ability to develop, maintain, and strengthen partnerships with others inside or outside the organization who can provide information, assistance, and support.

Strategic Thinking: The ability to analyze the organization’s competitive position by considering market and industry trends, existing and potential customers (internal and external), and strengths and weaknesses as compared to competitors.

Managing Performance: The ability to take responsibility for one’s own or one’s employees’ performance, by setting clear goals and expectations, tracking progress against the goals, ensuring feedback, and addressing performance problems and issues promptly.

Attention to Communication: The ability to ensure that information is passed on to others who should be kept informed.

Results Orientation: The ability to focus on the desired result of one’s own or one’s unit’s work, setting challenging goals, focusing effort on the goals, and meeting or exceeding them.

Empowering Others: The ability to convey confidence in employees’ ability to be successful, especially at challenging new tasks; delegating significant responsibility and authority; allowing employees freedom to decide how they will accomplish their goals and resolve issues.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

Development Administration

• Collaborate on management of the Annual Development Plan with the Development Manager, with support from the Deputy Director.

• Nurture Food Connects’ culture of philanthropy, serving as ambassador to external stakeholders and educating staff and Board about the importance of charitable support.

• Maintain the donor database with support from the Administrative Coordinator, including: gift entry and acknowledgment; quarterly and annual reporting to ED and Board; revenue reconciliation process with finance.

• Along with the Marketing Director, advise design updates to any publications related to fundraising or donor stewardship.

Fundraising & Community Engagement 

• Identify and pursue potential funding opportunities. 

• Leads fundraising efforts pertaining to community engagement and donor (corporate and individual) stewardship.

• Manages company Outreach Team, ensuring and expanding FC’s presence at key regional gatherings.

• Manage fundraising event coordination and execution.

• Manage the Annual Appeal process.

• Assists in creation of Development's content calendar - utilizing email, social media, and annual appeal letter

• Travel as needed (in the region) to support communications and development priorities, as well as occasional paid off-hours meetings and events (with plenty of advance notice).

• Manage any future Capital Campaign process deemed necessary for fundraising goals. 

• Lead Board members in development efforts, monitoring fundraising data and compiling regular reports for the Board.

Grants

• Work with the Development Manager to develop the annual grant portfolio. 

Additional Responsibilities

• As needed for various projects, coordinates and collaborates with Marketing, Development, Finance and program teams to execute projects. 

• Develop internal systems to support fundraising efforts.

• Assist with other projects as needed to support FC’s growth.

• Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops and reviewing professional publications.

• Fill in for other staff with related roles when needed. 

Skills and Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years experience in relationship cultivation and fundraising for nonprofits.

• Demonstrated success developing and nurturing corporate, donor and community partnerships.

• Demonstrated experience coordinating and executing community events.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.

• Detail-oriented organization, planning, and management skills.

• Ability to work both collaboratively and independently and effectively handle multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.

• Effective time management and task prioritization skills.

• Demonstrated comfort with technology.

• Ability to collect and analyze data to measure the fundraising effectiveness of various projects

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or higher degree in a related field.

• Familiarity with our regional food system or local farming community.

• 3+ years prior experience in a related field.

Working Conditions & Physical Demands

Food Connects aims to make reasonable accommodations to enable individuals of all abilities to perform the essential functions of their role.

• Schedule: This position is expected to work 25-30 hours per week with available hours during the traditional Monday-Friday 8a-5p schedule. We expect this role to scale to full time in the Fall of 2025.

• Location: The position is based in the Food Connects office in Brattleboro, although Food Connects promotes a flexible working schedule that allows for a hybrid-remote model. This role is required to work a minimum 2 days per week in office, in order to experience what it's like to live out our mission on a day-to-day basis. Evening and weekends may be required rarely, and with plenty of notice for planning.

• Working Conditions: This position entails extensive use of a desktop or laptop computer, sitting or standing at a desk workstation. 

Compensation and Benefits

• This is a part-time, hourly, non-exempt position. We anticipate that this role will scale to full-time in the Fall of 2025.

• Pay starts at $24.50/hour, negotiable depending on experience and in alignment with our Compensation matrix. 

• Benefits: 

• 15% Employee Discount on Food Purchases through the Food Hub

• Accrued PTO (up to 27 days for full time employees)

• Beginning after 90 Day intro period:

• Access to fairly-priced vision and dental insurance

• Employer paid Short Term Disability and Life Insurance.

• 2% Flat Retirement Contribution (SIMPLE IRA), no employee contribution required

Position Title: HR Generalist (Part Time Manager)

Supervisor: Deputy Director

Employee Status: Part-time (20-30 hours per week), Hourly, Non-Exempt

Who We’re Looking For

Food Connects is seeking an experienced HR Generalist to lead the organization’s HR and Culture initiatives, ensuring the engagement, development, and wellbeing of our workforce (currently 33 and growing).

Food Connects believes that a workforce of individuals from varied backgrounds is essential to a thriving and adaptable business. Therefore, we encourage all to apply to join our team. 

What You Will Be Doing

The HR Generalist’s primary responsibility is to foster a culture of trust, accountability and wellbeing while managing daily HR administration. They must model comfort and confidence navigating brave conversations swiftly. This position plays a pivotal role in developing our staff through effective recruiting, retention and continued training initiatives. This role is responsible for HR administrations including: confidential record-keeping, hiring and onboarding, benefits enrollment and development, and regulatory compliance. They will have the opportunity to develop new organizational systems, policies and practices that align with our strategic cultural goals.

Experience and Knowledge Needed

This position requires excellent interpersonal, communication and organizational skills, as well as knowledge of employment regulations and best practices. The right candidate will be skilled at: 

• Building Collaborative Relationships: The ability to develop, maintain, and strengthen partnerships with others inside or outside the organization who can provide information, assistance, and support.
• Empowering Others: The ability to convey confidence in employees’ ability to be successful, especially at challenging new tasks; delegating significant responsibility and authority; allowing employees freedom to decide how they will accomplish their goals and resolve issues.
• Thoroughness: Ensuring that one’s own and others’ work and information are complete and accurate; carefully preparing for meetings and presentations; following up with others to ensure that agreements and commitments have been fulfilled.
• Managing Change: The ability to demonstrate support for innovation and for organizational changes needed to improve the organization’s effectiveness; initiating, sponsoring, and implementing organizational change; helping others to successfully manage organizational change.
• Fostering Teamwork: As a team member, the ability and desire to work cooperatively with others on a team; as a team leader, the ability to demonstrate interest, skill, and success in getting groups to learn to work together.
• Developing Others The ability to delegate responsibility and to work with others and coach them to develop their capabilities.
• Managing Performance: The ability to take responsibility for one’s own or one’s employees’ performance, by setting clear goals and expectations, tracking progress against the goals, ensuring feedback, and addressing performance problems and issues promptly.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

Serves as primary HR personnel for the organization, including: 

• recruitment and retention
• maintenance of job descriptions
• onboarding and offboarding processes
• benefits administration and development
• regulatory compliance
• staff training and development
• behavior management and conflict resolution

• Manages FC cultural development and cohesion, including staff engagement activities and events, professional development initiatives, and annual review processes.
• Leads HR and Culture related communications to staff, in collaboration with Deputy Director and Marketing.
• Maintains staff records and data in a manner that ensures confidentiality including basic employee documentation, personnel files, complaints, and benefits paperwork.
• Reviews and prepares payroll data for time and attendance tracking, regular audits for workers compensation insurance, and as needed.
• Partners with the Deputy Director to ensure compliance with the Compensation Philosophy and Employee Handbook, including maintenance, updates and creation of new policies.
• Partners with the Deputy Director to ensure that all human resource matters are handled appropriately, swiftly, and in compliance with applicable local, state and federal regulations and laws.
• Partners with the Deputy Director and Leadership Team to develop new organizational systems that align with culture goals. 

General Administration

• As needed, collaborates with other department staff on projects and communications.
• Partners with the Deputy Director on continued HR systems development.
• Partners with the Deputy Director in development and implementation of policies, processes and procedures.
• Assists with other projects as needed to support FC’s growth.
• Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops and reviewing professional publications.
• Fill in for other staff with related roles when needed. 

Skills and Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 2 or more years in an HR Generalist or similar role.
• 3 or more years prior experience managing people.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including nonviolent communication and conflict resolution.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to manage their own schedule and prioritize competing tasks independently.
• Ability to create and maintain harmonious relationships with a diverse workforce.
• Ability to exercise sound judgment and to maintain confidentiality.
• Clarity and groundedness in a fast-paced business or non-profit environment.
• Demonstrated experience and comfort with technology.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or higher degree, in a related field.
• Prior experience in a non-profit setting.
• Familiarity with our regional food system or local farming community.

Working Conditions & Physical Demands

Food Connects aims to make reasonable accommodations to enable individuals of all abilities to perform the essential functions of their role.

• Schedule: This position is expected to work between 20-30 hours per week, ebbs and flows dependent on hiring activities, and be available to work between 8am and 5pm Monday through Friday.
• Location: The position is based in the Food Connects office in Brattleboro, although Food Connects promotes a flexible working schedule that allows for a hybrid-remote model. This role is required to work a minimum 2 days per week in office, in order to experience what it's like to live out our mission on a day-to-day basis. Evening and weekends may be required rarely, and with plenty of notice for planning.
• Working Conditions: This position entails extensive use of a desktop or laptop computer, sitting or standing at a desk workstation. 

Compensation and Benefits

This is a part-time, salaried and exempt position. 

Pay starts at $24.50/hour, negotiable depending on experience. 

Benefits: 

• 15% Employee Discount on Food Purchases through the Food Hub
• Accrued PTO (up to 27 days)
• Beginning after 90 Day intro period:
• Access to fairly-priced vision and dental insurance
• Employer paid Short Term Disability and Life Insurance.
• 2% Flat Retirement Contribution (SIMPLE IRA), no employee contribution required

Carversville Farm Foundation

Position: Seasonal Livestock Farmer

Reports to: Livestock Manager

Compensation: $19 per hour

Benefits: Housing available, PTO

Schedule: March - November 26, 5 days per week, 40 - 50 hours per week

Carversville Farm Foundation (CFF) is a non-profit that runs a philanthropic, diversified, regenerative, certified organic farm. We grow produce, eggs and meat to the highest standards and donate 100% of our harvests to Philadelphia-area soup kitchens, year-round. Want to join a talented, committed crew in beautiful Bucks County, PA and improve your farming skills while raising chef-quality harvests to give away to communities in need ? Join us!

About the position:

Our livestock team cares for grass fed beef cattle and pastured poultry (laying hens, turkeys, broiler chickens). Duties include collecting eggs, moving fences for rotational grazing, feeding and watering animals + weekly poultry harvest in high season.

Requirements

• 1 year livestock experience preferred
• Experience operating equipment
• Demonstrate record keeping ability
• Poultry processing

Responsibilities

Working with our team to execute daily tasks including:

• Daily chores
• Collecting and washing eggs
• Moving fencing and infrastructure for beef, poultry and goats
• Support record keeping
• Repair, maintenance and cleaning of animal infrastructure
• Hatching and brooding young poultry stock
• Contribute to a safe and orderly working environment

Skills

We are looking for people committed to our mission and procedures with these abilities:

• Work independently and on a team
• Dependable and observant 
• Strong work ethic
• Positive and proactive problem solving skills
• Readiness to work outside in all weather conditions
• Ability to lift 50 lbs repetitively
• Detail oriented
• Knowledge and experience in good food handling and processing
• Desire to learn
• Flexible in schedule and tasks

This job description covers key responsibilities but does not capture all job duties. We work as a team and there are times we need all hands on deck to accomplish a task. Flexibility is key to joining our dynamic team.

Carversville Farm Foundation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 

Willing Hands is currently hiring for a full-time, seasonal farm assistant position. The Farm Assistant works closely with the Farm Manager to accomplish all tasks related to growing and harvesting vegetables in Willing Hands' gardens in all of our 4 growing locations in the Upper Valley of VT/NH. The Assistant will also lead or co-lead volunteer groups during scheduled garden work sessions, support communication with volunteers, accurately enter crop data, and work collaboratively with the gleaning, communications, and operations team. 

About Willing Hands and the Garden Program:

Willing Hands’ Mission is to reduce food waste and expand equitable and reliable access to fresh food. Willing Hands grows, gleans, and recovers nourishing fresh food and distributes it for free to our neighbors in need through a network of approximately 80 human service organizations in the greater Upper Valley region of Vermont and New Hampshire.

Our four gardens play a crucial role in our goal to provide fresh produce throughout the year to our recipient organizations. Gardens located in Norwich VT, East Thetford VT, and Lebanon NH provide Willing Hands the opportunity to engage hundreds of volunteers in our work, and to grow targeted food crops that supplement our food recovery efforts.

To learn more about the position and apply: https://willinghands.bamboohr.com/careers/28

We are currently seeking two more amazing people to work on our team in 2025. Both full time and part time positions are available.  The ideal candidate is someone with a passion for flowers, farming, values hard work, is self directed, comfortable working both as a team and independently, and is capable of working in all weather conditions outside. 

We strive to create a work culture that is respectful and kind, fun and focused, transparent and full of clear expectations.  

We are currently seeking a few amazing people to work on our team in 2025. Both full time and part time positions are available.  The ideal candidate is someone with a passion for flowers, farming, values hard work, is self directed, comfortable working both as a team and independently, and is capable of working in all weather conditions outside. 

We strive to create a work culture that is respectful and kind, fun and focused, transparent and full of clear expectations.  

When: April - October 

Qualifications for this job:

• Have a drivers license
• Able to lift 50lbs
• Experience working on a production farm preferred
• Self directed
• Comfortable with direct communication and feedback
• Reliable and able to show up on time, ready to work
• Good attention to detail
• Committed to working the full season

This job will include task such as: 

• Harvesting
• Weeding
• Digging and Planting bulbs and tubers
• Mowing and weed whacking
• Processing fresh and dried flowers
• Operating some equipment

• Deliveries to customers

   

Hourly wage starts at $18/hr-$21/hr DOE

Perks include free flowers, plants and tubers for your own garden, treats throughout the season, 1 week paid time off and an end of the season bonus.

Please send us an email with letter of interest and resume and we will respond promptly.

About Us

Karmê Chöling is a Shambhala Buddhist meditation center located in Barnet, Vermont. Established in 1970, Karmê Chöling offers mindfulness programs in a welcoming community setting for both new and experienced practitioners in Buddhist meditation. Our 460-acre property includes trails, retreat cabins, an organic garden, and a main building that hosts up to 60 residents and participants

Overview of the Roles

The Garden Assistant will work closely with the Garden Manager to grow vegetables, flowers, herbs, shiitake mushrooms, and berries. This role is for someone with gardening experience, and a desire to live and work in a mindful, community-centered environment. 

The Landscape Assistant ensures that Karmê Chöling’s outdoor spaces remain vibrant and welcoming. This role focuses on sustainable landscaping and organic gardening methods. Working closely with the garden team, the Landscape Assistant tends to the property’s perennial and annual flower beds, trees, shrubs and lawns. Responsibilities include: assisting in garden design, balancing native ecology with local esthetics, seeding, transplanting, irrigating, and weeding existing annual and perennial flower beds, pruning trees and bushes, assisting with composting, and other general garden duties. This is a seasonal, full-time position running from April through September.

Both positions are seasonal, full-time positions from April through October, and start April 1, 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter.

How to Apply:
 

To apply, please go to our website under “Job Opportunities” and select “Apply Now”: https://www.karmecholing.org/about/jobs-volunteer/job-opportunities