UACE Tucson Village Farm Culinary Educator

This position will have the AmeriCorps Volunteer working as a farm-to-table culinary educator, assisting with harvesting locally grown produce to turn into delicious and healthy food for programming and outreach programming at Tucson Village Farm. This position is ideal for someone who wants to work in a face-paced kitchen chopping, cleaning, creating and developing recipes that will be eaten and tasted by the nearly 16,000 people who come to the farm each year.
Serving at Tucson Village Farm and the 4-H Healthy Living Center, an AmeriCorps Volunteer has the opportunity to engage in a variety of tasks. From teaching culinary classes, to turning harvested vegetables into value added products, to reducing food waste by the creation of innovative dishes. An AmeriCorps Volunteer working here needs to want to work hard, enjoy interacting with volunteers of all ages, be flexible and have a willingness to be a team player. AmeriCorps Volunteers will receive culinary skills, canning and food preservation and harvesting techniques.