July 24, 2018 – Earthbound Farm’s Farm Stand is looking to fill a dozen positions ahead of its much-awaited reopening in August.
Among the jobs listed on Earthbound’s career page are one full-time and four part-time Baritsa/clerks, a full-time senior retail store clerk/cashier and a full-time lead café staffer. For its certified organic kitchen, the Farm Stand is also hiring a lead cook and two part-time cooks. And for the working farm that surrounds the Farm Stand, Earthbound is hiring two part-time farm laborers.
First opened 25 years ago, the Farm Stand and it’s kitchen—the only certified organic kitchen in the surrounding area—both closed on January 7thso Earthbound could begin work on a much-need replacement of its foundation.
Earthbound has also used the intervening months to reconfigure the more than 100-year-old building that houses its kitchen, café and grocery displays in ways that best serve its customers, which come to Earthbound not only for its organic and exceptionally fresh and hyper-local produce and pantry items, but also to enjoy its beloved organic soups, baked goods, other prepared foods and salad bar on its stunning property or to take away.
Construction is still being completed—drywall will go up soon—but a peek inside the farm stand this week revealed the place where a new exterior window will offer ice cream, and a convenient reconfiguring of counter service at the left as you enter. And among other changes, the fresh produce is being moved up to the front right, and an indoor seating/meeting area will augment the café tables and picnic tables outside. Stay tuned for more!
Interested applicants should go to the Earthbound website and scroll to the bottom for the Careers page link or click here for more information about the openings and how to apply.
About the author
SARAH WOOD—founding editor and publisher of Edible Monterey Bay—has had a life-long passion for food, cooking, people and our planet.
She planted her first organic garden and cared for her first chicken when she was in elementary school in a farming region of Upstate New York.
Wood spent the early part of her career based in Ottawa, Canada, working in international development and international education. After considering culinary school, she opted to pursue her loves for writing, learning about the world and helping make it a better place by obtaining a fellowship and an MA in Journalism from New York University.
While working for a daily newspaper in New Jersey, she wrote stories that helped farmers fend off development and won a state-wide public service award from the New Jersey Press Association for an investigative series of articles about a slumlord who had hoodwinked ratings agencies and investment banks into propping him up with some early commercial mortgage securitizations. The series led Wood to spend several years in financial journalism, most recently, as editor-in-chief of the leading magazine covering the U.S. hedge-fund industry.
Wood now lives with her family in Washington, DC, where she is a freelance writer and manages communications for Samaritan Ministry, an antipoverty and antiracist nonprofit that provides struggling Greater Washington residents with highly personalized and compassionate life counseling and coaching.
