Food Sovereignty ProgrammingAt — Raíces y Cariño

Opportunity Summary 

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
Opportunity Training 

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.

Additional risk specific to this opportunity 

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.

Opportunity Application Instructions 

Interested students can contact Nora Yerena, Co-Executive Director, at nora@rcfam.com or 831-288-3105 (text is best).

 

Program 
Service Learning
Location Type 
Hybrid (combination of on-site and remote)
Location 
Watsonville, CA
United States
Students required to have a personal vehicle 
No
Fees students may incur with this opportunity 
No Fees will be incurred by students
This opportunity provides some form of compensation 
No
Opportunity Availability 
Ongoing