Sharing the Harvest is looking to hire farm education specialist

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Since 2006, Sharing the Harvest Community Farm has grown and donated more than 207,000 pounds of fresh, healthy produce to be donated to our community neighbors in need.

Sharing the Harvest Community Farm in Dartmouth, MA is seeking an Americorps*VISTA Farm Education Specialist. The position is a one-year capacity building project to help the farm build an education program to supplement our hunger relief initiatives. Learn more and apply here.

Farm Education Specialist Responsibilities:

  • Strengthen our educational capacity and education partnerships to build capacity for the program.
  • Develop materials and research local opportunities to provide agriculture, healthy food and food availability education (potentially including educating field trips that visit the farm, travelling to local schools for classroom presentations, and educating community groups in our beneficiary area).
  • Build a database of materials, best practices, information and resources so that agricultural and food education efforts continue after their tenure has passed.
  • Work with our food security partners to help develop a community assessment of food resources available in our region.
  • The FES would be crucial to helping people understand why we operate the farm and why local food is important to local health, both in body and community.

Benefits:
As an Americorps*VISTA position there are some unique benefits to this position. VISTA volunteers receive a small living stipend to cover basic costs and an education award which can be used towards student loans and other educational costs. For more information about VISTA please visit http://www.vistacampus.gov/.


About Sharing the Harvest:
Since 2006, Sharing the Harvest Community Farm has grown and donated more than 207,000 pounds of fresh, healthy produce to be donated to our community neighbors in need. Serving the southcoast of Massachusetts from Fall River to Wareham, Sharing the Harvest hosts thousands of volunteers annually in an effort to increase our impact through higher education and more efficient production.


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