Interested in Community Organizing/outreach and Food Insecurity?

Here are two full-time, temporary job postings from the Everyone Eats program (led by Knoll co-founder Jean Hamilton ’04 and fellow Midd alum Benjy Adler ‘03)! They could be perfect for students who are either deferring for the Spring semester or are only taking classes part time. They are both temporary jobs through the summer but pay a […]…Continue Reading Interested in Community Organizing/outreach and Food Insecurity?

VT Farm to Plate: Food System Jobs

Food System Jobs Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund/New England Food System Planners Partnership, Project Manager, New England Feeding New England ProjectIntervale Center, Conservation Nursery ManagerKnoll Farm, Program and Communications ManagerVermont Youth Conservation Corps (VYCC), Food & Farm Project LeadBlack Dirt Farm, Route OperatorVermont Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets, Produce Program Contracts AdministratorChittenden Solid Waste District, Drop-Off Center OperatorNOFA-VT, Direct Markets CoordinatorVermont Community Loan […]…Continue Reading VT Farm to Plate: Food System Jobs

Potential Project for Food Studies Students? Survey for Online Market

From Professor Molly Anderson: “If anybody is interested in this, please let me know (mollya[at]middlebury.edu)! No pay, but you might be able to turn it into a credit J-term internship.” “Amanda Landry, who is the owner and farmer of Cream Hill Stock Farm, and a grad student at UNH in the Community Development Policy and Practice program […]…Continue Reading Potential Project for Food Studies Students? Survey for Online Market

Interested in Creating a Best-in-Class Model for What Healthy School Food Environments Look Like?

Today’s the day: Applications are open! Are you ready to serve up change? Applications are now open for our next class of FoodCorps AmeriCorps service members! As a service member, you’ll connect kids to healthy food in school, from the classroom to the garden to the cafeteria. We encourage you to apply early; we are reviewing applications on a rolling basis […]…Continue Reading Interested in Creating a Best-in-Class Model for What Healthy School Food Environments Look Like?

VT Food System Jobs

Just a reminder that “Farm to Plate is Vermont’s food system plan being implemented statewide to increase economic development and jobs in the farm and food sector and improve access to healthy local food for all Vermonters.” They also have wonderful resources including a Vermont food systems job listing online HERE. For those of you looking […]…Continue Reading VT Food System Jobs

Down to Earth: Nourishing Change in the Champlain Valley

Friday, November 15, Wilson Hall, McCullough Student Center, 9:00a – 12:30pm Imagine a perennial future by joining the 2nd annual Conversations in Ag and Culture Conference on regeneration, reciprocity, relationship, and recovery in the Champlain Valley and beyond.  Down to Earth: Nourishing Change in the Champlain Valley will feature keynote speaker Dr. Aubrey Streit Krug, director of The Land Institute’s […]…Continue Reading Down to Earth: Nourishing Change in the Champlain Valley

Looking for a cool environmental project here on campus? Try Aquaponics

Would you like to help set up an aquaponics facility in the McCardell Bicentennial Hall (MBH) Greenhouse?  Send a note to Bea Kuijpers (bkuijpers at middlebury.edu), if so — she and Catherine Pollack developed a great plan for raising fish sustainably last year, but didn’t have the Institutional Review to handle live animals finished in […]…Continue Reading Looking for a cool environmental project here on campus? Try Aquaponics