Month: May 2014

Hannah Rae Murphy

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Hannah Rae Murphy

IMG_20140530_194834Hannah Rae (‘14.5) is a farm girl from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (Yoopers unite!) studying Conservation Biology with a Sociology minor. Cooking, agriculture, and rural communities have been her daily reality and biggest passion since she was just tall enough to help her mother can peaches and make bread. She will be working at Lincoln Peak Vineyard this summer where she hopes to learn more about the integration of small businesses into the local culture. The plant nerd in her is also very excited to be working with such an interesting plant as cold climate grapes! 

FoodWorks Program Begins on Sunday, June 1st!

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Welcome FoodWorks Fellows to your summer of learning about and exploring food systems. The FoodWorks Team has been working hard to organize a fulfilling program of 5th day field trips, guest lectures and video conferences. In preparation for Orientation on Sunday, please be sure to have read “Bringing It To the Table” Introduction, Chap 1: Nature as Measure 3-10, Chap 2: Stupidity in Concentration 11-18, Chap 3: Agricultural Solutions for Agricultural Problems 19-30 AND Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front   (Poem by Wendell Berry)  http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/manifesto-the-mad-farmer-liberation-front/.

We will kick-off the program with a video conference between the Louisville and Middlebury sites at 2 pm, led by John Elder.

Take a look around the blog to see bios of your fellow FoodWorks fellows, current events and articles relating to the food system under Readings and Resources, as well as an updated Calendar. We are looking forward to this summer!

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Sterling College is hosting a Food Jobs Summit

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An announcement from Sterling College: “Food Jobs Summit on June 14, 2014

Sterling College announced that it will be holding a Food Jobs Summit on its campus. The Summit will be held on June 14th, from 11 am to 1 pm.

The Summit is designed for people who are interested in jobs in the sustainable agriculture and artisan food fields, and it is co-sponsored by the Center for an Agricultural Economy and Good Food Jobs.

Some of the employers that will be at the Food Jobs Summit include: Pete’s Greens, High Mowing Organic Seeds, Caledonia Spirits, the Cellars at Jasper Hill, and Vermont Soy.”

For more information click here