Hiring Summer Educator - Farm Discovery at Live Earth

[Itzel Hernandez]

Join our fantastic team in empowering youth and families to regenerate health in food, farming, nature and community.

We are looking for a highly motivated, detail-oriented and energetic people person for the position of Educator. This position will help lead food, farming and nature education programming. Farming components include assisting with the up to 3-acre Discovery Garden, Education Fields, small goat herd and chicken flocks, as well as coordinating with farm staff and volunteers to accomplish large seasonal projects. You will be a key member of the program team in running programs with youth on the land and in the kitchen.

This position will train in working with youth, farm production and in the kitchen. You are someone who wants to build outstanding education, farming, cooking and relationship building skills, who can engage and inspire the youth we serve about multiple aspects of the food system from production to consumption and food justice. You are approachable, a great communicator, and passionate about our mission. You’re comfortable being you, and willing to share your personal magic with Farm Discovery students while creating safe space on the farm and in the kitchen.

Who we are

Live Earth is a nonprofit organization working in the Pajaro Valley community to empower youth and families to build and sustain healthy food, farming, social and natural systems.Our home, Live Earth Farm, is a 150 acre patchwork of working organic farm, riparian corridor, oak and redwood forest in the Pajaro Valley of Santa Cruz County, California.

What we care about
We believe that we can transform personal and community health and improve our impact on earth by building and sustaining collaborative agricultural, ecological and social systems. We believe that communities equipped with knowledge and the skills of inquiry can transform food, farming and natural systems for the better.

What we do
* Farm Discovery offers educational programs that inspire youth and families to transform their relationship to food, farming and nature.
* We steward our working farm and its wild spaces as an environmentally and economically viable piece of the food system and a learning space.
* We grow and deliver nutritious, organic food with students for community members most in need – seniors, veterans, foster youth, farmworkers and more
* We collaborate with community partners to learn from each other and extend our collective impact in the community.

View full job description and application here: https://www.indeed.com/job/educator-outdoor-6df0bf6efdf32168