Chicago: Author seeks Book Research Intern

BOOK RESEARCH INTERNSHIP
I am a Chicago-based writer working on a book called Seasonal Markets of the Heartland, to be published by University of Illinois Press. Last summer and fall I took off in my sporty red Mustang to explore farmers markets in eight states:  Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri.  Now back at my desk in Chicago, I find a need for a detail-oriented intern to help pull together the final sections.  The book will be 65,000 words (about 250 pages) with about 80 color photographs.

NYC: Just Food seeks Farm School NYC Program Director

THE ORGANIZATION:
Just Food is a non-profit organization that works to develop a just and sustainable food system in the New York City region. Our programs help keep local farms in business and build access to fresh, affordable, healthy food for New York City communities, including low income neighborhoods. We train local residents to share their skills with their neighbors in order to develop markets, grow food, and build awareness about the connections between environmental sustainability, healthy farms and healthy communities.

Illinois: Angelic Organics Learning Center seeks Program Manager and Enterprice Facilitator

Supervisor: Program Director, Urban Initiative
Salary: Salary range is $26,000 to $32,000 with a benefits package.
Application Deadline:P October 15

Position Description:
Our Urban Initiative works with clusters of community-based organizations to develop food systems and urban agriculture projects and enterprises in Rockford, IL. The position provides program management leadership for the Learning Center’s Urban Initiative Rockford and coaches community leadership teams to plan, budget, implement and evaluate their food system projects, and to build capacities (through customized training and coaching) to sustain the projects. This position provides enterprise facilitation support for individuals and community-based organizations emerging from these food system project initiatives.

Mississippi: University of Mississippi seeks Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow

Southern Studies/ Southern Foodways
The University of Mississippi seeks a postdoctoral teaching fellow and adjunct assistant professor in Southern Studies for 2011-2012.
 
The successful candidate should have a Ph.d. by the time of appointment and should study the relationship between foodways and cultural life in the American South. Teaching responsibilities will include two courses–a Southern Studies course entitled Foodways and Southern Culture and a second course related to foodways in his/her discipline, i.e., History, English, Sociology, Anthropology, or another liberal arts discipline.

Washington State: WSDA Farm-to-School Program seeks Project Coordinator

Our WSDA Farm-to-School Program is seeking an extraordinary individual to work with us to implement two exciting projects to build farm-to-institution models—
 
·         An 18-month start-up farm-to-school program in a larger school district (including building assessment tools and staff training).
·         A one year project to support for senior meal programs and child care programs to incorporate more local, seasonal food into their menus.

Oregon: Corvallis Environmental Center seeks Community Food Center Planning Coordinator

The Community Food Center Planning Coordinator works as a team with Corvallis Environmental Center staff members, planning committee, community stakeholders and partner organizations to formulate and implement a 12-month community planning process to inform the design and construction of a Neighborhood Food Center.  The Coordinator will coordinate a strategic planning process by developing community partnerships, conducting community assessments, and facilitating multi-stakeholder meetings. The Coordinator will lead the development of a business plan for a Neighborhood Food Center that will meet the growing food access challenges of the South Corvallis community. 

Wisconsin: Fondy Farm Project seeks Farm Manager

Position Announcement: Farm Manager, Fondy Farm Project

Contact: Young Kim, Executive Director – (414) 562-2282 or young@fondymarket.org

Agency Mission Statement: Fondy Food Center connects Greater Milwaukee to local, fresh

food – from farm to table. We do this through 1) Support of small-scale Wisconsin farmers to

secure the supply of fresh food to Milwaukee; 2) Cooking-based nutrition education for youth

and adults; and 3) Filling the need for fresh, locally grown food in Milwaukee’s North Side

neighborhoods through a historic farmers market tradition.

Wisconsin: Michael Fields Agricultural Institute seeks 2011 Public Policy Interns

“I could not have asked for a better introduction into a career in sustainable agriculture policy.”
 
“It solidified my interest in policy work, and I learned that this is where I want my career to go.”
 
“Such a unique opportunity. I can’t say how grateful I am.”
 
“It was a permanent transformation in terms of what I learned.”
- former interns
 
Background and Purpose – The Michael Fields Agricultural Institute (MFAI) is a non-profit agricultural institute founded in 1984 in East Troy, Wisconsin. Our research, education, technical assistance and public policy work seeks to revitalize farming and help both urban and rural populations meet common concerns.  These concerns include how our food is grown; whether farming is a profitable enterprise; the long-term fertility of the soil; purity of water; and conservation of the Earth’s resources.

DC: Union of Concerned Scientists seeks Washington Representative

Washington Representative
Food and Environment Program
Location: DC Office

The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) is the leading science-based nonprofit working for a healthy environment and a safer world. UCS combines independent scientific research and citizen action to develop innovative, practical solutions and to secure responsible changes in government policy, corporate practices, and consumer choices. What began as collaboration between students and faculty members at MIT in 1969 is now an alliance of more than 300,000 citizens and scientists that includes people from all walks of life: parents and businesspeople, biologists and physicists, teachers and students.

Vermont: UVM seeks Assistant Professor in Anthropology of Food Systems

The University of Vermont, Department of Anthropology invites
applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the
Anthropology of Food Systems (sub-field open). We seek a broadly
trained anthropologist who will contribute both to the department and
to the UVM trans-disciplinary Spire of Excellence in Food Systems.

NYC: Growing Leaders Garden Program seeks Assistant Coordinator

Assistant Coordinator for the Growing Leaders Garden Program

The Expeditionary Learning School for Community Leaders

 

The Growing Leaders Garden Program at The Expeditionary Learning School for Community Leaders

is seeking an assistant garden coordinator. We are a new, small, public high school located in Bensonhurst,

Brooklyn. Last year we started our school garden program in collaboration with SlowFood NYC and this

year we are expanding our operations to take over 4,000 square feet located in the school parking lot.

New York: Syracuse University seeks Full-Time Tenure-Track Faculty in Food Studies

The Department of Health and Wellness in the College of Human Ecology at Syracuse University is seeking to recruit a full-time tenure-track faculty in food studies effective Fall 2011. The Department seeks a high energy faculty member with expertise in one or more of the following areas: interdisciplinary study of food and food-ways, healthy food policy and law, disparities in access to healthy food choices, public health approaches to obesity, and social marketing/healthy food promotion programming. This academic appointment is in anticipation of establishing undergraduate and graduate programs around the issues of foods studies/food security, nutrition, and health.

Georgia: Farm Burger seeks Sous Chef

Farm Burger is a restaurant in Decatur, Georgia serving 100% grassfed beef from exclusively local southeastern-raised animals. Our cows are never fed antibiotics, hormones, or grain. Our menu is seasonal and sourced from local farms, including our own, Full Moon Farms. We are the sister operation to restaurant Farm 255 in nearby Athens, Georgia. We are sustainable, local, humane, chef-driven restaurant hoping to help reroute our food system to function more like an ecosystem than a corporation.

San Francisco: Project Open Hand seeks Kitchen Receiving Coordinator

REPORTS TO: LEAD SOUP COOK/LOGISTICS COORDINATOR 
 
LOCATION: 730 POLK STREET, SAN FRANCISCO 
 
BENEFITS: YES 
 
STATUS: FULL TIME/NON-EXEMPT 
 
GENERAL DESCRIPTION: 
 
Project Open Hand, a leader in providing nutrition services to people living with symptomatic HIV/AIDS, to seniors and to homebound people living with critical illness, seeks a Kitchen Receiving Coordinator. The KRC will spend 70% of the shift working in conjunction with the Project Open Hand Receiving Department.

New Hampshire: FarmPlate seeks Web Developer

THIS POSITION HAS BEEN FILLED.

FarmPlate (www.FarmPlate.com) is an ambitious start-up seeking an innovative, experienced individual to act as our webmaster and primary in-house website developer. Principal responsibilities include troubleshooting, maintaining and updating our Drupal-based website, managing our growing customer database, and contributing cutting edge solutions to continuously improve and evolve our website. We’re looking for candidates who are creative, flexible and take initiative. You should be able to anticipate the technical developments needed for the best possible web experience for our users and our staff. This position is full-time, salaried and based in our Hanover, NH, office.

NYC: NYC Coalition Against Hunger seeks National AmeriCorps*VISTA Program Coordinator

The New York City Coalition Against Hunger (NYCCAH) is a 501c3 non-profit organization that represents the more than 1,200 nonprofit soup kitchens and food pantries in New York City and the 1.4 million low-income New Yorkers who can’t afford enough food.  The Coalition works not only to meet these residents’ immediate food needs but also to enact innovative solutions to help society move “beyond soup kitchens” to ensure economic and food self-sufficiency for all Americans.

British Columbia: Foxglove Farm seeks Farm Manager

Foxglove Farm is a 120 acre mixed fruit, vegetable, and grain farm on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia, Canada. The farm is also the home of the Center For Arts, Ecology, and Agriculture which was established to demonstrate and interpret the vital connections between farming, land stewardship, food, the arts, and community well being; model the economic possibilities for small and medium scale sustainable agricultural and forestry projects, and nurture the human spirit through public programs, classes, and events.

Connecticut: F.R.E.S.H. New London seeks Farm Manager

Our mission is to encourage and empower broad participation in the hands on transformation of our food system from what it is to what it ought to be: healthy, just, sustainable, accessible, productive and beautiful!

Illinois: FamilyFarmed.org seeks Administrative Assistant

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North Carolina: Toxic Free NC seeks Assistant Director

If you are a talented manager with serious fundraising chops, a collaborative style and a passion for grassroots advocacy and a sustainable world, we want to meet you. This is a full-time position with competitive pay and benefits, based at our office in historic downtown Raleigh.