Full time
AmeriCorps
Stowe, VT, USA
VYCC’s Food & Farm Program is a youth and workforce development initiative that provides hands-on agriculture training while advancing food security and food-as-medicine programming to improve the health and resilience of Vermont communities. We believe in the power that food has to connect us with the land, our community, and each other. On the farm, young people take part in the daily work of organic vegetable production, gaining hands-on experience in every aspect of growing food. The produce they cultivate is distributed to more than 400 families through the Health Care Share—a public health initiative that connects Vermont families to locally grown food through their medical providers. Patients experiencing diet-related illnesses or barriers to accessing fresh produce receive a free weekly share of vegetables, supporting both individual and community health. In addition to vegetables, the farm raises laying hens for eggs, chickens for meat, and grows flowers and herbs,...

