Summer through December
20 to 40 hrs/wk
Farmstand and Café Crew members work primarily in the farmstand and will be trained to work in the Hello Café as needed. In this customer-facing service role, you must be able to work efficiently and skillfully under pressure. The ideal candidate for this position will have a service-minded attitude, a friendly demeanor, and a strong interest in food, cooking, and local, organic agriculture.
General duties include:
• Greeting customers and helping them locate items
• Answering questions about the products we sell, our growing practices, CSA, education programs, and farm policies. Directing customers to other departments or administrative staff to get their questions answered in a timely manner.
• Ringing up customers and processing payments
• Following food safety protocols
• Maintaining a clean and presentable workspace
Farmstand duties include:
• Setting up, breaking down, and restocking produce displays
• Receiving and stocking merchandise
• Assisting customers with CSA signups. Setting up and adding value to CSA Cards, with the help of the Outreach and Engagement Coordinator
• Answering the phones as needed and distributing messages
Hello Café duties include:
• Preparing hot and cold coffee and espresso drinks, teas and lemonades
• Serving baked goods
• Communicating with the Farm Kitchen to keep baked goods stocked
• Stocking and keeping track of inventory
Prior customer service, barista, or retail experience is a plus but not required. Applicants should be excellent communicators, possess strong attention to detail, and be able to operate a cash register, do simple math, and make change. All applicants must be able to lift 50 lbs repeatedly and be comfortable spending a full shift on their feet.
Applicants must be able to work weekends. This position is 5 days per week, one or two weekend shifts per week, and up to 40 hours/week.
This is a seasonal position, 20-40 hours per week from mid-April through October, with the option to work part-time hours in November and December. The Full-Season Farmstand and Café Crew is an hourly position with benefits including sick time accrual, fresh produce, and a discount to our farmstand. Salary is $15-17/hr depending on work experience.
Fill out an employment application on our website, or email a resume and cover letter to Sam Ranger, Farm Retail Manager, at [email protected]. Please notify us of all planned vacations in your application.
Evening Song Farm is a certified organic farm growing for a diversified CSA in Rutland County. Farmers Ryan and Kara have implemented many practices like the use of mulches, fabrics, cover crops, and no-till to reduce soil loss and improve soil health. The farm also produces crops year-round in the tunnels, and this workshop will feature the transition of summer to fall crops.
Small Axe Farm is a small, certified organic market garden on a steep hillside in Barnet. The farm grows a diversity of crops for local markets using no-till practices. Farm owners Heidi Choate and Evan Perkins will describe their approach to managing soil health and preventing erosion on a slope, how they produce a bounty of crops with no-till methods, and how nurturing the natural habitat around the farm has reduced pest pressure on crops.
Join entomologists Vic Izzo and Scott Lewins to discuss emerging strategies to deal with some of the region’s most challenging pests: Swede midge, Colorado potato beetle, leek moth, and wire worm. They’ll share current participatory action research they are conducting with farmers to develop management techniques such as scouting and delayed planting.
Burnt Rock farm is a certified organic farm in the Huntington River Valley that specializes in winter storage crops and summer greenhouse crops. This workshop will focus on specialized equipment for vegetable production, especially for accurate fertilizer application, and water management.
Heart’s Ease Farm is a small farm in Danville, VT. Barn/land space and housing available now for new farmers while they work towards finding their own place. Please see the posting on Vermont Land Link for more details and/or contact Jo Oliver, [email protected].
Experienced, young farming couple seeking land lease beginning in 2025 for start-up poultry/vegetable operation. Open to a variety of acreage and tenure agreements. Would like to be in Windsor County. Please reach out with any leads or to discuss any opportunities!
The Center for an Agricultural Economy (CAE), based in Hardwick, VT, seeks a Database & Communications Coordinator to support organization-wide communications systems, social media, and events. This is a new position that engages in outward-facing communications activities as well as developing internal communications systems that support our staff across the organization. This role will be responsible for developing and improving our back-end systems, for example, developing web forms that feed into our CRM database; importing external contact lists; and setting up automated workflows. Outward-facing communications duties include developing and posting social media content, supporting program-related communications needs, and supporting in-person events. The Database & Communications Coordinator is a translator and a bridge who will do back-end work, help staff get relevant information into our systems, and work well with people.
The Database & Communications Coordinator is part of the Development & Communications Team and reports to the Communications Manager. This role can be fully in person, or a hybrid position. The team generally works in person in Hardwick 2-3 days a week. There will be occasional afternoon and weekend events. The ideal candidate would have a strong comfort and excitement about technology, enjoy creative problem solving, love to learn and connect effectively with our community at in-person events or online.
JOB DESCRIPTION
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HIRING PROCESS
The job application deadline is July 22, 2023. The hiring process is led by a team of CAE staff. After an initial review of materials, selected applicants will have an initial phone interview (15-20 minutes), which may be followed by an in-person interview (1-1.5 hour) and a tour of CAE spaces. Candidates who go on to interview with us will be asked to provide 3 references, a short writing sample, and a design sample if you have a graphic design background. Interview questions will be shared ahead of time and will be conducted by a team of 3-5 CAE staff. We will begin holding interviews in early August with an ideal start date in mid-September.
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 [email protected].
TO APPLY
Please check out our full job description on our website. Email [email protected] with your resume, a cover letter, and please include ‘Database and Communications Coordinator’ in your email subject line. In your cover letter, please address why you are interested in working with CAE, why you are interested in this particular role, and how you feel your skills and experiences align with the responsibilities described here. We encourage you to showcase your personal writing style and include anything you feel is relevant to the position and want to share. Lived experience has value to us whether on or off your resume.
Let us know if you have any questions!
The Regeneration Corps is hiring two new positions!
The Regeneration Corps:
Our mission is to empower youth with the knowledge to mitigate and respond to climate change and its constituent impacts, while building community resilience and strengthening local food systems. Through a Just Transition framework, we teach the intersections of Regenerative Agriculture, Climate Change Resilience, and Racial & Social Justice.
As a learning movement for land justice we enable students to earn credit through the Flexible Pathways program in the following areas:
Our model presents regenerative food systems as a key element of addressing climate change and socio-economic resilience. Our scholastic and organizational partners train participants in agricultural literacy, community organizing, social justice, and a broad spectrum of hands-on and place-based content. This is an opportunity for youth to earn credit and/or satisfy proficiency based learning requirements and further academic studies while building life skills and a regenerative future across the region. We are dedicated to working with schools and students to make sure that this program is accessible to all by helping to overcome obstacles to participation on a case-by-case basis.
How We Work:
We are a horizontally organized collective that is working to dismantle dominant systems of oppression. We do that by sharing power, decision making and acknowledging that regardless of the role we have in the collective, all are equal and valuable. We acknowledge the places where we hold privilege whether it is in race, class, gender, creed, learning style, longevity with the collective, social capital and otherwise. We can not do this work without each other; we uplift everyone for what they bring. When we speak of our successes, we honor all those that come before us and after us in the work for liberation. We base our work on love for each other and Earth.
The Lead Educator works horizontally with the Core Team to perform all responsibilities related to curriculum development, outreach, program implementation and organizational development. This position is primarily responsible for developing and implementing RC curriculum and programming to our partnering schools, currently approximately 10 schools around the Upper Valley.
The ideal candidate will have experience and proficiency in the following areas:
The Lead Educator will work horizontally with the Staff Collective to perform all responsibilities.
The Youth Empowerment and Action Coordinator is a flexible, part time, remote position based in the Upper Valley of Vermont. This position is one member of a team that works closely together to develop and implement curricular and experiential academic experiences steeped in Climate Justice to youth in the region.
The Youth Empowerment and Action Coordinator works horizontally with the Core Team to perform all responsibilities related to facilitating the group, Youth Empowerment and Action.
