Company description

Poughkeepsie Farm Project began in 1999 as a small community farm with a commitment to education and food justice. The first season, 15 CSA shareholders enjoyed produce from 3 acres of reawakened farmland leased from Vassar College.

Now we have expanded to 12 acres and over 500 households take part in our CSA. We are leaders in cutting edge practices in today's sustainable agriculture. We harvest over 180,000 pounds of produce per year and donate over 30,000 pounds of it to those in need in our community. In addition to our food cultivation, we train and educate the community on healthy growing and eating practices year round.

Job description

The primary responsibilities of the part-time Education and Herbal Garden Coordinator are to provide critical support to the delivery of garden and nutrition-based learning primarily for Poughkeepsie youth, along with co-managing the Herbal and Education Gardens.

Responsibilities include:

• Prepare, set up, and clean up materials for education sessions
• Co-facilitate Farm to School and summer garden-based education classes
• Maintain the school garden and support lesson planning as needed
• Model respect and curiosity for learning; encourage student’s interests and talents
• Ensure safety of children by being aware of potential hazards and addressing them
• Maintain accurate records of education sessions that you co-facilitate.
• Support and manage herbal garden volunteers
• Communicate with the greenhouse manager to obtain garden plants as needed
• Support other education programs as needed
• Interest in organic gardening, farming and food justice, including social, racial and language justice work
• Experience or strong interest working with youth
• Ability and willingness to do physical work outside in variety of weather conditions
• Commitment to and willingness to deepen understanding of PFP’s vision and values of equity, mutual respect and collaboration;
• Culinary experience a plus
• Spanish language proficiency is a plus, but not required. Language justice is a part of our work at PFP.

Compensation and schedule: The hourly rate for this position begins at $21.00 per hour. Bi-Weekly.

A half-share full season CSA share plus access to additional excess produce, access to our Pick-Your-Own fields, and access to discounted “Share Add-ons” such as yogurt, cheese, fruit, and egg shares.
Prorated paid time off starting at 21 days of vacation time in the first year, and 10 sick days

Compensation

this position is: hourly, $20/hr +

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Deadline

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