In-School Garden & Cooking Programs Assistant (WINTER)

Great Kids Farm offers Winter-season in-school farm to classroom programming to pre-K through high school students in all Baltimore City Schools. In-school programs focus on farm-to-table cooking, planting, or tasting.

Days, Times: Monday-Friday, during school hours. Activities are 2 to 5 hours, including set-up and clean-up, and depending on the number of classes we visit.

• Volunteers commit to volunteer one day per week, Tues-Fri from Dec. 8 to Feb 29, excluding holiday vacation.
• Start and end times might range from 8a to 4p but are typically between 9a to 2p

Locations: Programs take place at various Baltimore City Schools.

Volunteer Roles:

• Cooking, Planting or Worm Exploration/ Food waste programs - Assist with program set up and clean up, including dishwashing if applicable. Engage positively with and assist small groups of students during cooking or planting tasks. Assist the flow of the program with tasks such as set-up, cleanup, and interacting with and helping students.
• Garden "Party" Programs: Some of our programs are a tasting program called "Garden Party" in which we invite all our veggie friends (us, wearing veggie costumes) to the 'party' to learn all about how they support our bodies to grow and have health. We look for folks who are comfortable being enthusiastic and getting into character in front of a group of pk to 5th graders for this program in particular.

More about the programs: In-school programs bring a bit of the farm to schools and help teach students about where their food comes from, about nutrition and connect food and farms to ELA, social studies, science and other academic areas.

If you're passionate/curious about working students of all ages and food education, then this position may be for you!