Food Sovereignty ProgrammingAt — Raíces y Cariño
Research and communicate at Raíces y Cariño with local agricultural, cooking, and social justice groups and businesses to guest facilitate workshops and events on the justice aspects of being able to grow your own food, seed save, and consume local, delicious, nutritious, and culturally relevant to you foods.
Research and communicate with marginalized groups to guest facilitate culture keeping workshops and events such as: growing, harvesting, preserving, cooking Community contacts may include:
- Food, What?!;
- UCSC Center for Agroecology;
- Second Generation Seeds and associated farms;
- Renee's Garden Seeds;
- Seed Savers Exchange;
- Botanical Interests;
- Food Not Bombs;
- Esperanza Farms;
- Homeless Garden Project;
- Areperia 831; and local farms and orchards
Create monthly event for one or more of the following age groups (0 - 5, 5 - 10, 11-13, 14 - 18, 18+, mini & me). Meet to create lesson plans.
2 service learner spots
- Background Check (e.g. fingerprinting/livescan, driving record)
- Computer Literacy
- Bilingual Desired
Onsite or remote one-on-one meetings with executive director and partner organization leaders to begin program research and development. Weekly meetings and calls as needed. Contacts to professional collaborators in the field. If you feel you meet some, but not all of the description and qualifications, we still encourage you to apply.
Weekly check-ins by phone, video, or in-person. Mentoring provided by executive directors and RC staff.
Students may be required to work at night (after 6pm). Or, students may be supervised less than 50% of the time or the supervisor will be overseeing more than 8 people. This position can be fully remote.
Interested students can contact Nora Yerena, Co-Executive Director, at nora@rcfam.com or 831-288-3105 (text is best).