Share your love as a cook! Provide nourishing meals in a farm based community centered around working with youth grades 5 and up during 2.5 overnight visits on a beautiful ridgetop farm with mountain views. Our kitchen is the place that makes folks arriving to the land feel at home, the aromas move across the air beckoning farmers and kids to our bunkhouse to enjoy meals in community! Kids love to cook and are just waiting for the opportunity to put on an apron! Share your love with them and connect over food. On the job training on allergens and serve safe certification provided. Cooking, preservation, inventory, kitchen management experience is great, but a key requirement is that you find joy, fulfillment and purpose when you work with youth!

Summary

Cook Teacher Posting (Full Time Year Round)

About Us:

The Farm School (TFS), founded in 1987, is committed to its mission of connecting people to the land. Thirty-five years in, we’re listening to the land and to one another to deepen our response to the earth and its people’s yearning. The Farm School is a generous community of thoughtful educators, earth workers, animal tenders, forest stewards, cooks, and playful leaders. Our Program For Visiting Schools (PVS) along with our Summer Programming and Home School Cooperative (The Chicken Coop School) welcomes over 1500 youth and their teachers each year. Seeded within our youth programming is enough bounty – vegetables, fruit, eggs, milk, meat and more – to feed ourselves and offer these gifts to our connected communities. We’re strengthening our relationships and are committed to an ecology of liberation and mutualism.

About the Job:

The Farm School is looking for an experienced cook to join our Nourishment Team as a Cook Teacher. The Nourishment Team consists of a Kitchen Coordinator, Cook Teachers and support staff, all of whom work closely with our Farmer Teachers to give an authentic farm and kitchen experience to visiting students while feeding our community.

The Cook Teachers empower small groups of students in preparing various components of each meal, as well engaging in independent prep, dishwashing, organizational tasks and menu planning. Our menu is highly variable based on seasonal availability. Opportunities for exploring other farm work and play areas are available- and exploration of this sort is encouraged. A major area of work for this position is to receive, organize and manage the inventory of meat. With support from the Kitchen Coordinator, the Cook Teacher creates cut sheets for our livestock that will meet the needs of the kitchen, staff and the connected communities that also receive our meat. They will also work in collaboration with the livestock team to track meat yields and relevant data for herd planning and distribution allocation planning, and storytelling.

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Compensation Information

Benefits include: 6 weeks of vacation, sick time, health insurance, dental option, free housing as available, health/copay reimbursements, annual 2% Simple IRA contribution, relocation benefits, free access to farm products as available including eggs, milk, meat and vegetables, working in a kind, fun loving and forward thinking community! Salary is based on experience. Beginning Cook Teacher $38,500, Cook Teacher $41,000, Cook Teacher collaborating with Kitchen Management $43,500