Thanks Lucy, I will post it around.
Here is a great position if anyone is interested!
Lydia
-----Original Message-----
From: Lucy Norris [mailto:lucy@psfn.org]
Sent: Sat 8/7/2010 5:40 PM
To: Lydia Caudill - 20RE
Subject: Americorps position at NABC in Mt Vernon
Hi Lydia- We can officially post this Americorps Farm to Community Coordinator position should you know anyone who lives close to Skagit that would be right for this job with PSFN. The other one is working on Whidbey Island. Thanks.
AmeriCorps Opportunities at NABC
The Northwest Agriculture Business Center (NABC) has service opportunities for two AmeriCorps volunteers. Both positions relate to underserved communities: eliminating hunger and providing access to food in low-income urban and rural communities.
Farm to Community Coordinator:
The Northwest Agriculture Business Center's Puget Sound Food Network (PSFN) is receiving partial funding for its participation in one of two HEAL grants awarded to Seattle Human Services. This project is focused on connecting local food to Seattle's least served communities through the Congregate/Home Delivered Meal Program. The goal of this project is to make healthy foods, preferably local products, affordable for senior congregate and home-delivered meals and child care centers by cooperatively purchasing fresh local produce through a Farm-to-Table partnership. The Farm to Market Coordinator will work with NABC staff and partnering organizations to support development of this innovative program.
PSFN is seeking an AmeriCorps volunteer with solid academic research and writing experience in social sciences or the humanities, who is a critical thinker with good analytical skills, and is eager to learn. Prefer an academic background or equivalent experience in public health, has research and data gathering skills, organizational skills. NABC ideally would prefer someone who dreams of this kind of opportunity as an open door into a career in public health/food policy or childhood or geriatric nutrition.
Farm To Market Coordinator:
The AmeriCorps volunteer will work with the staff and students of NABC's Greenbank Farm Training Center, collaborators from outside organizations, and members of the public to support production of, and access to, locally produced food for all members of the community based on the CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) model. Responsibilities will include marketing and other research, assisting with farm product processing and delivery to low-income familiies, demonstrating products and developing marketing materials to raise awareness of local products and the value of locally grown food, working with agriculture busineses to help increase their sustainability and profitibility, coordinating educational workshops for farmers and the public, project administration and related support activities.
For more information about joining AmeriCorps, please contact:
Jennifer Rice,
VISTA and AmeriCorps Coordinator
Skagit County Community Action Agency
jen@servenorthwestwa.org
360-588-5720
360-416-7585 ext. 1185 (main desk)
For more information about PSFN and the HEAL project, please contact:
Lucy Norris, Project Manager
Puget Sound Food Network
lucy@psfn.org
347-268-1781
360-336-3727 (main office)
For more information about the Greenbank Farm Training Center project, please contact:
Maryon Attwood, Project Manager
Maryon@agbizcenter.org
360-336-3727 (main office)
Lucy Norris
Regional Food System Developer
Puget Sound Food Network
http://www.psfn.org
419 S. 1st Street, Suite 200
P.O. Box 2924
Mount Vernon, WA 98273
360-336-3666 phone
360-336-3751 fax
347-268-1781 cell
206-420-1229 home office
PSFN is a project of the Northwest Agriculture Business Center
http://www.agbizcenter.org
Thanks Lucy, I will post it around.
Here is a great position if anyone is interested!
Lydia
-----Original Message-----
From: Lucy Norris [mailto:lucy@psfn.org]
Sent: Sat 8/7/2010 5:40 PM
To: Lydia Caudill - 20RE
Subject: Americorps position at NABC in Mt Vernon
Hi Lydia- We can officially post this Americorps Farm to Community Coordinator position should you know anyone who lives close to Skagit that would be right for this job with PSFN. The other one is working on Whidbey Island. Thanks.
AmeriCorps Opportunities at NABC
The Northwest Agriculture Business Center (NABC) has service opportunities for two AmeriCorps volunteers. Both positions relate to underserved communities: eliminating hunger and providing access to food in low-income urban and rural communities.
Farm to Community Coordinator:
The Northwest Agriculture Business Center's Puget Sound Food Network (PSFN) is receiving partial funding for its participation in one of two HEAL grants awarded to Seattle Human Services. This project is focused on connecting local food to Seattle's least served communities through the Congregate/Home Delivered Meal Program. The goal of this project is to make healthy foods, preferably local products, affordable for senior congregate and home-delivered meals and child care centers by cooperatively purchasing fresh local produce through a Farm-to-Table partnership. The Farm to Market Coordinator will work with NABC staff and partnering organizations to support development of this innovative program.
PSFN is seeking an AmeriCorps volunteer with solid academic research and writing experience in social sciences or the humanities, who is a critical thinker with good analytical skills, and is eager to learn. Prefer an academic background or equivalent experience in public health, has research and data gathering skills, organizational skills. NABC ideally would prefer someone who dreams of this kind of opportunity as an open door into a career in public health/food policy or childhood or geriatric nutrition.
Farm To Market Coordinator:
The AmeriCorps volunteer will work with the staff and students of NABC's Greenbank Farm Training Center, collaborators from outside organizations, and members of the public to support production of, and access to, locally produced food for all members of the community based on the CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) model. Responsibilities will include marketing and other research, assisting with farm product processing and delivery to low-income familiies, demonstrating products and developing marketing materials to raise awareness of local products and the value of locally grown food, working with agriculture busineses to help increase their sustainability and profitibility, coordinating educational workshops for farmers and the public, project administration and related support activities.
For more information about joining AmeriCorps, please contact:
Jennifer Rice,
VISTA and AmeriCorps Coordinator
Skagit County Community Action Agency
jen@servenorthwestwa.org
360-588-5720
360-416-7585 ext. 1185 (main desk)
For more information about PSFN and the HEAL project, please contact:
Lucy Norris, Project Manager
Puget Sound Food Network
lucy@psfn.org
347-268-1781
360-336-3727 (main office)
For more information about the Greenbank Farm Training Center project, please contact:
Maryon Attwood, Project Manager
Maryon@agbizcenter.org
360-336-3727 (main office)
Lucy Norris
Regional Food System Developer
Puget Sound Food Network
http://www.psfn.org
419 S. 1st Street, Suite 200
P.O. Box 2924
Mount Vernon, WA 98273
360-336-3666 phone
360-336-3751 fax
347-268-1781 cell
206-420-1229 home office
PSFN is a project of the Northwest Agriculture Business Center
http://www.agbizcenter.org
Brady Ryan
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 13:51:15 -0700
From: Jason Salvo <jason@localrootsfarm.com>
To: Brady Ryan <bradyr@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Internship Position Local Roots Farm
Local Roots Farm (www.localrootsfarm.com), a 6-acre diversified vegetable farm located 25 miles East of Seattle is looking for one or two part-time or full-time interns to help
us this summer/fall.
Siri and I are expecting our first child this October and are anticipating needing extra assistance starting in late-August and continuing through late-November or longer,
depending on what sort of winter we have.
We currently pay our interns $500-600/month plus room (in a small travel trailer) and board (all the grains, beans, rice, and vegetables you can eat) for 6 days per week of work.
By the end of September, the work week shrinks to 4-5 days a week, and by the end of October 3-4 days per week.
Because we are looking for help primarily for the end of the year, we can make accommodations for anyone who wants to work part-time and/or live off the farm.
Your primary duties will be harvesting and tending vegetables and occasionally vending at the farmers market.
If you are considering a farm internship for next summer, this would be a great opportunity to get your feet wet and find out if you are suited to working long hours at somewhat
tedious work.... there's a lot of that in farming! If you are interested in working on our farm in particular next season, we do give preference to returning interns.
If you are interested, please send a cover letter and resume to jason@localrootsfarm.com
Thanks,
Jason, Siri, and Dan
Local Roots Farm
www.localrootsfarm.com
206-679-9512
Farm Bill Workshop & Kick-off the formation of the Seattle Farm Bill Action Group!
Sunday August 8, 4-6:30 pm
Workshop Description: Through interactive activities participants will learn about how the Farm Bill affects them personally and create a vision for the Farm Bill we want! Guest speakers Ben Burkett and John Fawcett-Long will help participants understand the basics of the Farm Bill, its impacts on farmers, communities and consumers in WA state, and the struggles to improve the Farm Bill in 2008, including what lessons we can learn from these past efforts to be more effective in 2012.
About the speakers: Ben Burkett is a 4th generation Mississippi Farmer, President of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives and the National Family Farm Coalition, and involved in the international movement of farmers and farmworkers, La Via Campesina. He will be in Seattle to give the keynote at CAGJ's annual dinner, Strengthening Local Economies Everywhere. John Fawcett-Long has been a long-time advocate organizer for a sustainable and justice food and farming system. He was raised on a farm in southwestern Minnesota and moved to Seattle in the mid-80s. He has served as Director of the Western Sustainable Agriculture Working Group and on the Steering Committee of the National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture. He is a co-founder of the Washington Sustainable Food and Farming Network. John served as a key grassroots food and farming organizer in 1999 regarding the World Trade Organization's meetings in Seattle.
Free! Potluck following - please bring something to share if you are able!
Location: New Hope Baptist Church
116 21st Ave. - between Fir & Yesler in the Central District of Seattle
Would you like to volunteer at a farmers market? Even better, with a group that really needs your help? Work with the Refugee Farming Project, and the Hope Burundi Cooperative, and help them market their crops at farmers markets!
We currently have much produce to sell, and people who are able to harvest and prepare it. We have also recognized a new need on the farm, we need help marketing at the farmers markets.
Limited English and a developing understanding of American culture makes it challenging for the farmers to sell their best and excel at the markets. This is a great learning experience, and support from a mentor or assistant at the market would provide a a safer place for them to practice their developing English and see what many people expect the farmers market experience to be like.
These helpers will help them set up at the market, talk to customers, and be support for anything that comes up. The markets are currently expanding, and most of them are in S. King County, but we will be grateful and as flexible as we can to create a way for you to help us.
Here is an example of students at Highline Community College helping market on their campus. The farmers have given feedback that it is a great experience for them to be supported and the students helped more than they realized by showing how to work with customers.
If you are interested, please email Lydia at lydiac@chs-wa.org and she can answer any questions you have and help you find where you are most needed.
For more about the farmers and the farm, please visit http://burstfarmer.wordpress.com. Thank you!
Would you like to volunteer at a farmers market? Even better, with a group that really needs your help? Work with the Refugee Farming Project, and the Hope Burundi Cooperative, and help them market their crops at farmers markets!
We currently have much produce to sell, and people who are able to harvest and prepare it. We have also recognized a new need on the farm, we need help marketing at the farmers markets.
Limited English and a developing understanding of American culture makes it challenging for the farmers to sell their best and excel at the markets. This is a great learning experience, and support from a mentor or assistant at the market would provide a a safer place for them to practice their developing English and see what many people expect the farmers market experience to be like.
These helpers will help them set up at the market, talk to customers, and be support for anything that comes up. The markets are currently expanding, and most of them are in S. King County, but we will be grateful and as flexible as we can to create a way for you to help us.
Here is an example of students at Highline Community College helping market on their campus. The farmers have given feedback that it is a great experience for them to be supported and the students helped more than they realized by showing how to work with customers.
If you are interested, please email Lydia at lydiac@chs-wa.org and she can answer any questions you have and help you find where you are most needed.
For more about the farmers and the farm, please visit http://burstfarmer.wordpress.com. Thank you!
