President’s speech: “Rooted in good soil”
What makes our community so unusually fruitful? Because we are rooted in good soil. We are like a prairie.
Careers in the Food System
Career opportunities in Sustainable Food Systems are varied and numerous! Below is a continually updated list of links maintained by Goshen College’s Sustainable Food System faculty and staff.
Webpages that keep updated lists of available jobs:
- North American Food Systems Network
- Good Food Jobs
- Community Alliance with Family Farmers
- Orion Grassroots Job Source
- National Center for Appropriate Technologies – farm internships & apprenticeships by state
- Midwest Organic & Sustainable Education Service
- Americorps – must search their wider offerings, food systems are well represented
- USAID
- USDA
- Fair Trade Jobs
Listservs – community-based message boards that are sent straight to your email
- COMFOOD
- Sustainable Ag Education Association
- SUSTAG
- FOODSPEAK – Michigan focus
- ECOLOG
Twitter Feeds
Sustainable Agriculture Jobs, Internships and Apprenticeships
Rodale Institute’s Farmer Connect
Graduate Programs in Sustainable Food Systems
https://nesawg.org/job-resources
https://sd.appstate.edu/academics/careers
Learn more about the Agroecology Summer Intensive, a unique hands-on experience for sustainable food systems majors and agroecology minors.
Research team studies effects of prescribed burns in Kenya
For two weeks in February, five Goshen College students joined Ryan Sensenig, professor of biology, in Kenya to assist with prescribed burns inside the Kenya Long term Exclosure Experiment (KLEE).
Defending peace, defending the climate: Anabaptist organizations collaborate on climate change
Leadership from 18 Anabaptist organizations in the United States and Canada convened at the Anabaptist Collaboration on Climate Change (ACCC) on Jan. 26 and 27 to address what many consider a moral emergency.
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