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
Opportunities are popping up thicker than dandelions these days. Spring brings no shortage of inspiration for forward momentum and growth.
The winner of this Instagram Challenge will get a free ticket to the upcoming UVM Food Systems Summit (details below), so we only thought it fitting to align the theme of the event and this contest. The Summit is focused on having dialogue surrounding the most pressing food systems issues facing our world. So we want you to put your thinking caps on and tell us: what do you think are the most pressing food systems issues facing our world? See below for inspiration. Click on each photo for the on point commentary.
Tag your photo with #GFJfoodforthought. The submission with the most likes at 8 AM on Tuesday June 10th wins a free ticket.
UVM Food Systems Summit
June 17 - 18th
Burlington, VT
We look forward to seeing what you have to say.
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 some big picture tweaks, namely the newsletter and right sidebar redesign. Stay tuned!
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
We use Good Food Jobs to find folks who want to work in food and also want to make a difference. As a non-profit organization that also operates a community market, we want to find people at that intersection of caring about food and caring about people, and my experience with GFJ candidates has been that they overwhelmingly fit both criteria. Everyone we've interviewed or hired through GFJ has so much passion for working in food.
Emily, Job Poster
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There are many milestones that we use to mark the passing of time and important transitions. Be it births, birthdays, or weddings, each event reminds us to take pause and reflect on what holds meaning in our lives. This weekend in particular, we got to experience the extremes. While Taylor celebrated her brother-in-law / sister-in-law's wedding (check out #cutieswedding for the drool worthy photo recap) AND her grandmother's 80th birthday, Dorothy enjoyed the simple pleasures with days in the garden and nights by the barbecue.
While there is so much to learn from our adventures, we dedicate this edition of the newsletter to Oma (seen below left, circa 1981 at Tay's parents' wedding). 80 is a measurement of years but it does no justice to the magnitude of her impact.
For years she always exposed us to things that were not necessarily of huge interest to teens - genealogy charts, plays put on by the local theater group, repairing electronics that you could purchase new for cheaper.
But she did, indeed, act as if what she did made a difference. And because she did, over and over again, when I was ready to appreciate these special things, I wholeheartedly did. The very things that I used to roll my eyes at are now ironically the ones that I value most - connecting with distant relatives rooted wherever I happen to be heading, respecting older items because now 'things are just not built like they used to be', and wearing her perfectly preserved clothes (see below - Oma circa 1981 at my parents wedding, wearing an Irish crocheted linen dress; and me this past weekend - 33 years later - sporting the same exact item).
 
So we're grateful for the milestone marker, but we respectfully say that it's not the age that's important - it's what you make of your years. Thanks Oma, for the endless inspiration. With each new day I soak up more of your goodness, and it makes a huge difference.
Every day we have the opportunity to put positive contributions into the world. What are yours?
Even better, if there is someone who has made a difference in your life, let them know. It's the second greatest form of repayment, right behind passing their legacy on to others.
* Tag your tweets and instagrams with #GFJlegacy if you're willing to share.
TEVA SEMINAR: JEWISH OUTDOOR, FOOD, AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION in case you missed it
Our Teva Seminar ticket giveaway is over, but because they received so many great responses via our contest, they are eager to attract other GFJ users. What can we say? They concur that we're an incredible crowd.
Enter the code GOODFOODFRIEND at checkout to get a 50% discount. The event takes place in Falls Village, CT which is 2 hours north of NYC (and easily accessible by a metro north train / cab ride).
The event includes five days and four nights of lectures, panel workshops, and connecting with a broad community of folks just like you - food lovers, farmers, activists, and people who desire to be great stewards of the Earth. Oh, and they practice what they preach - farm fresh and fair trade food and beverages available all week.
If you're still on the fence, feel free to email Sarah at seminar@hazon.org. She was sure to mention you need not be Jewish to attend and appreciate the programming.
Teva Seminar
June 9th - 13th, 2014
Falls Village, CT
Additional details
GFJ & STERLING COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS
1 week left to submit to win a scholarship to Sterling College's artisan food intensives.
We're offering one 50% scholarship in each of the following sessions:
- List your name, phone number, and email address.
- You must include for which program you are applying: Charcuterie or Fermentation
- Answer the following questions in the body of your email (total length: 500 words or less):
- If GFJ could provide any additional resource or tool to support the good food movement, what would be most useful/beneficial and why?
- Share your greatest summer memory, as it relates to food or any of your other passions.
- Application emails are due by 8 PM on Wednesday June 11th. Our winners will be contacted directly via the email provided in the scholarship application.
LOOKING FOR A SIGN?
This is it. Vermont's Northeast Kingdom is calling. Sterling College is hosting their first ever Food Jobs Summit on Saturday June 14th, which is free for job seekers (note: RSVP required). There will be a keynote from Chuck Ross, Vermont Secretary of Agriculture, as well as an optional tour of local food producers and other sites of interest.
There only only 50 spaces left, so act accordingly. How we spend our days is how we spend our lives. And there's no better place to live them than within the bounty and beauty of the NEK.
Cheers,
Taylor & Dorothy
Co-Founders, Good Food Jobs
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Anthony Fassio
CEO
Natural Gourmet Institute
We have always wanted to tell the small stories, the ones that make a big difference. We often profile people whose job, or company, you've probably never heard of. But even when we interview someone like Anthony, whose resume is enough to intimidate any of us, we find ourselves drawn to the humbler details, like the simplicity of growing up on a farm, and it reminds us that every story is small in some way. Read More
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