Good Food Jobs is a job search tool designed to link people looking for meaningful food work with the businesses that need their energy, enthusiasm, and intellect. We post opportunities with farmers and food artisans, policy makers and purveyors, retailers and restaurateurs, economists, ecologists, and more.
GFJ INSTAGRAM CHALLENGE
The warm weather has us outdoors, itching to document signs of life all over. Sometimes this can happen in the most unlikely (read: URBAN) locations. We challenge you to keep your eyes open for evidence of urban growth and tag your photos with #GFJurbanspring. Don't limit yourself to rooftop farms or backyard chickens - you might find flowers coming up in the cracks of the sidewalk, spy herbs on a windowsill, or discover your nearest community garden.
The entry with the most likes at 8 AM on Tuesday, May 13th wins 2 tickets to the Hort and W. Atlee Burpee Co. Urban Agriculture Conference on May 29th / 30th in NYC.
Psst: tag your photo with the official conference hashtag #uac2014 for maximum coverage. Here's a peek at your competition.
WEB DEVELOPMENTS
Our job search engine is a work in progress. Check out these and other web developments on goodfoodjobs.com :
We're working on those pesky email alerts. We've heard from many of you that despite your narrowed down geography the site is sending you posts from all over the country. We're working hard to fix the issue.
Do you have a recommendation? Constructive criticism? Or have you noticed a glitch? Let us know. And stay tuned for more updates. We're always scheming.
NICE THINGS PEOPLE SAY
Through Good Food Jobs, I found the ideal employees and interns to help me install more edible gardens. Thanks, Good Food Jobs. Because of you, more lawns in Greater Boston have been transformed into beautiful organic edible gardens!
Ben, Job Poster
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Anyone who knows Taylor knows that she loves a good word pun. Which is why this week's newsletter title, 'A Count Ability', was just too good to resist. What's that? You want to hear more about this great pun? We thought you'd never ask...
First of all, it references this week's Words of Wisdom (We know that you know it's in the left sidebar, so we promise to stop reminding you): the more action you take, the more things are going to happen. This might seem fairly obvious in theory, but it's much harder to practice. If we have 'a count ability' we can determine that the more that we put ourselves out there, the more progress we'll be able to make. How many times have you taken action today? This week? This month?
The second meaning is, in a word, accountability. We covered this in depth two weeks ago, but it's worth reinforcing the message. It's not enough to throw things at the wall and see if they stick. The more we take meaningful action, the more good things are going to happen.
All of this is relevant as we reflect on two of the opportunities presented in last week's newsletter, 'Enter to Win', and the actions that transpired as a result.
In the first case, when we launched the Food Book Fair Ticket Giveaway, nearly 150 people RSVPed for the 50 spots available to the Food Book Fair Foodieodicals event. But on the day of the event, even after several folks wrote in to warn us that they wouldn't be able to make it after all (and we were able to give all of their tickets to someone else on the standby list), fully one third of the folks never checked in.
Oh bugger. We stopped to consider why this might have happened. Was it something we did? Or said? Were we not clear in explaining the rules of the game (i.e. please only respond if you can actually attend)? Were people just enjoying the Spring sunshine and couldn't pull themselves away for an indoor event? Or did they get lost on the subway? Should we have built in some sort of tactic to make folks more accountable? And how do we get everyone to truly value opportunities that are free of charge? Psst, if you have ideas on how we could do that, let us know. We will never turn down inspiration.
We ask these questions because this event was, indeed, an experiment to see if we can fashion similar meetups in other geographic areas. We know that we haven't quite nailed it, and want to ensure that we get a grasp on how to turn our active online community into meaningful off-line relationships.
We hope that those that did attend enjoyed the experience (we'd love to hear how it went!). And we are sorry to those that wrote in and didn't get tickets. We hope to have a better method of ensuring that every last one is used to its fullest extent next time.
The second example is related to the Edible Institute Ticket Giveaway. To date we've received 20 entries - not bad! But only 6 of those entries complied with the submission guidelines (below). While we appreciate the enthusiasm of the incomplete entries, we must choose a winner fair and square. We encourage you to reapply:
In five sentences or less, send us (via the link below) the most important question we should be asking about unpaid labor in the USA, and one possible answer/solution. Get creative, and don't be afraid to think beyond the realm of (what seems like) possibility.
Entries are due in our inbox by 9am EST on Friday, May 2nd. We'll choose a winner and publish his or her entry in the May 6th newsletter.
ENTER FOR EDIBLE
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Life happens. We know that we can't all be on our game 100% of the time (any of our regular readers know that we've had our fair share of blunders). In the internet age, when the web makes everything seem both anonymous and sped up, we urge you make the effort to slow down.
Read the Fine Print. Think. Analyze. Reach out. Make the most of every opportunity. Creatively use all of the resources around you. Connect the dots. And if you hit a stumbling block along the way, just know that all hope is not lost. It's never too late to try again. It's an endless evolution rather than a race with a finish line.
Used in the right way, 'the web' can tie us all together, strengthen our efforts, and help create so many good things.
So let's practice what we preach and try this again . . . Anybody in Washington, DC want to meet up for a beer Wednesday night? April 30th, 9 PM; Logan Circle area. Taylor will be in our nation's capital for GFJ related work, and would love to meet you. Exact coordinates will be shared with the first 6 readers that RSVP. (As always, please only RSVP if you can make it. Thanks!)
Cheers,
Taylor & Dorothy
Co-Founders, Good Food Jobs
the GASTRO.GNOMES BLOG
Rachael Hoover Lekic
Director of Sustainability
Patachou, INC.
We love the way that Rachel thinks about the act of eating. Yes, there are thousands of folks across the country focusing in on their plates in meaningful, exciting, and fun ways, and Rachel might just be another one of them, but she sure has the power to help us see beyond the heady experience of tasting. Her specialty, as it turns out, is thinking about food in a way that just might open up your senses to another dimension. Read More
GOOD FOOD JOB HIGHLIGHTS
and over 1,200 other active jobs, too . . . see the full website for the latest.
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Long Island City, NY
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Hot Bread Kitchen
New York, NY
WHOLESALE ACCOUNT MANAGER
Mast Brothers Chocolate
Brooklyn, NY
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