Location: Chicago, IL Opportunities: 8-10 week unpaid internship, “The goal of our internship program is to provide a realistic experience as an urban farmer. Interns work alongside UGC staff learning tangible skills and play a key role in our day-to-day operations. They assist UGC staff in all aspects of our operations – including community food systems, urban agriculture, small farmer outreach, and youth development – via innovative sustainable approaches. This is a hands-on urban farming experience.” Website: https://urbangrowerscollective.org/internships/

Location: South Chicago, IL Opportunities: Weekly recurring volunteering and group volunteering Website: https://urbangrowerscollective.org/volunteer/

Location: Chicago, IL Opportunities: Various workshops that may include but are not limited to orchard care, medicinal plant walks, oyster mushroom production, compost and vermicompost, harvesting, plant medicine propagation Website: https://urbangrowerscollective.org/trainings/

Location: Chicago, IL Opportunities: ”Our members have the option to purchase a Full Season Share, which includes 16 boxes delivered every week July through October, or a Monthly Share, which includes 4 boxes delivered every week during that month. Shares are distributed each Saturday and are available for pick up or delivery.” Website: https://urbangrowerscollective.org/csa/

Location: Chicago, IL Opportunities: “The ‘produce aisle on wheels’ works toward closing the ‘food access gap’ by bringing produce to schools, community centers, churches, and health clinics — places that folks already frequent — to make good food as accessible as possible. Customers board bus and shop for delicious local fruit and vegetables. The produce is priced to be affordable for all and to provide a fair return for the farmers.“ Offerings include Organic Grower’s Collective produce, pantry staples, Partner’s produce, and value-added products Website: https://urbangrowerscollective.org/freshmoves/

Location: Chicago, IL Opportunities: “Urban Growers Collective’s Farmer Incubator program provides new and emerging farmers and ranchers with hands-on training in intensive urban agriculture production, post-harvest handling and wholesale volume, and business planning, and marketing. Participants also receive long-term mentoring support to improve and develop farm operation viability and as a foundation for promoting food security in communities with limited food access. Black, Indigenous, and farmers of color are especially encouraged to apply.“ Website: https://urbangrowerscollective.org/farmerincubatorprogram/

Location: Chicago, IL Opportunities: “In partnership with After School Matters, our Youth Corps teen job training program engages and employs over 200 youth annually across our farms, which serve as a safe spaces for teens to explore their interests, work collectively, share their talents, learn from one another, and develop skills that they can apply to school, work, and life. During their time spent on our farms, our Youth Corps ambassadors expand their understanding of many aspects of urban farming, community food system, and business development through a STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) curriculum. The Youth Corps program aims to serve as both a job training experience and to encourage leadership development. It’s our goal that teens graduate with a comprehensive understanding of sustainable food system development and the ability to connect and communicate how the skills they’ve gained at the farm translate to any career path they may follow.” Website: https://urbangrowerscollective.org/youth-corps/

Location: Chicago, IL Opportunities: There are two locations for community gardening offered by Urban Grower’s Collective. Community garden plots are 10 ft x 10 ft. It costs $25 for a plot. The season lasts from April-October and orientation is offered to gardeners. Website: https://urbangrowerscollective.org/communitygardens/

Location: Chicago, IL Opportunities: “In partnership with Heartland Alliance, UChicago Urban Labs, and the City of Chicago, Urban Growers Collective is one of several partner job-placement sites for adult Black and Latino men employed through Heartland Alliance’s 24-month job training program. At Urban Growers Collective’s farm sites, READI (Rapid Employment and Development Initiative) Chicago participants learn every aspect of farming, from planting seeds to harvesting crops. Participants who enter the program are able to see an entire growing season at the farm, which spans building beds in the spring to cover cropping beds in the fall. Men in the program also learn light carpentry and are responsible for building our hoop houses for year-round growing.” Website: https://urbangrowerscollective.org/farmers-for-chicago-adult-jobs-program/

Location: Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, IL Opportunities: Search through the Urban Ag mapping projects (refined by address, ward, district and community area). You can search for school gardens, urban farms, congregation gardens, food pantries, and food donation sites Website: https://cuamp.org/#/searchGardens?q=208&community=-1&ward=-1&boardDistrict=-1&municipality=-1

Location: Virtual, Online, International! Opportunities: Regeneration International provides a searchable event calendar where they hold a multitude of events relating to regenerative farming including but not limited to topics like pollinators, removing atmospheric carbon, soil health, seed saving, food forests and agroforestry, starting seeds at home, soil structure, composting, regenerative fashion, building garden beds, conferences and more! Website: https://regenerationinternational.org/events-calendar/

Location: International You can find locations based on a map found here: http://foodnotbombs.net/new_site/index.php You can call the HUNGER HOTLINE 1-800-884-1136 to find locations If there is no location in your community, you can start one! More information on that here: http://foodnotbombs.net/new_site/seven-steps.php Opportunities: (taken directly from their website http://foodnotbombs.net/new_site/volunteer.php) Visit local groceries, bakeries and markets to schedule the recovery of their surplus food. Recover unsold food from grocery stores, bakeries, produce markets, food producers and farms. Deliver surplus produce and bake goods to local shelters and food programs. Clean, cut and cook the recovered produce, grains and other ingredient to make vegan meals to share on the streets and at protests. Collect cooking and serving equipment or other supplies to help your local Food Not Bombs group. Help set up the food, literature and banner at the meals. Help share the prepared food at the meals. Wash the plates, silverware, pots, pans, cooking equipment and the kitchen where the meals were prepared. Make sure your meal location is clean and free of litter. Help load and unload your food deliveries. Write, illustrate, design and print flyers about the work your local Food Not Bombs is supporting. Staff the literature distro at the regular Food Not Bombs meals. Design and paint banners and signs to display at your meals. Post flyers at cafes, book stores, schools, laundry mats, libraries, groceries, bakeries, music shops and any place people will read and enjoy them. Organize a benefit concert or other event to bring awareness to your local Food Not Bombs group. Respond to emails, phone calls and other communications to your local Food Not Bombs group and share all communications with everyone in your chapter. Build bike carts to help collect and deliver the food, dishes. literature and banners. Book a venue for the regular meeting. Help develop the agenda for the next meeting. Post a Facebook for your chapter or design a website to list the day, time and location of your meals and contact information. Organize music, puppet shows or other cultural events at your regular meals. Participate in the meetings of other organizations, unions or other activist groups to find out how your chapter can offer support. Help organize a Really Really Free Market, Food Not Lawns community garden, seed bank, Bikes Not Bombs repair day, Homes Not Jails housing take over or other project and produce a flyer to promote the project at your regular meal. Organize a movie night, concert, play, puppet show or other events to introduce more people to the work of your Food Not Bombs group. Write letters to our political prisoners. Visit www.greenisthenewred.com to learn more and find their addresses. Help organize a protest, occupation or other action. Make sprouts and bring them to the meal. Make a solar oven to bake bread at the regular meals. Walk around the area before your meal and invite people to join you. You can hand out a quarter page flyer to each person with the day, time and location of your meal. This will help you share food with more people. Organize a presentation by Food Not Bombs cofounder Keith McHenry at your local college, bookstore, cafe or community center.”

Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, PA Opportunities: Volunteer Roles include Culinary Training, Food Education, Catering / Events, General Office / Admin Assistance, Guest Chef Website: https://www.ckpgh.org/volunteer

Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, PA Opportunities: “Community Kitchen Pittsburgh offers workforce development programs, catering services, restaurant management services, and co-packing partnerships – all of which provide training opportunities and experiential learning for our students who strive towards achieving professional advancement, wage progression, and gaining the stability in their lives needed to succeed.” Workforce development programs include culinary job training, transitional job opportunities (for those who are unemployed, currently or formerly incarcerated, or facing other significant barriers), and apprenticeship training Website: General information and contact information on programs: https://www.ckpgh.org/workforce-development To enroll in programs: https://www.ckpgh.org/enroll

Location: Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles, CA, Ponoma, California Opportunities: Mediation classes, nursery appointments, art workshops Website: https://healinggardens.co/post/sarvodaya-farms-and-nursery

Location: Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles, CA Opportunities: Farm tour, "Welcome to Sarvodaya Farms, a regenerative organic urban farm and nursery in the heart of historic Pomona, California, organized and operated by Sarvodaya Institute. Come to our magical land on one of the few remaining "homestead" lots in this land of former Walnut and Citrus orchards." Website: https://healinggardens.co/post/sarvodaya-farms-and-nursery

Location: Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles, CA Opportunities: Jobs may include but are not limited to farm and nursery manager, farm events manager, documentarian and social media intern Website: https://sarvodayainstitute.org/pages/job-openings

Location: Maricopa, California, Maricopa, CA Opportunities: Varied positions including but not limited to work trade, farm co-director, program director Website: https://www.quailsprings.org/about-us/opportunities/

Location: Online, Virtual, Remote, Maricopa, CA, Maricopa, California Opportunities: Permaculture Design Certification Course, Farm Tours, Natural Building, Wild Series (earth-based skills and crafts) Website: https://www.quailsprings.org/programs/program-calendar/

Location: Varies, Remote, Virtual Opportunities: "Engage with our tribe on social media as we make our path toward collective liberation through the preservation of Black agrarian custodial landownership, ecological stewardship, and food and fiber economies in the South." Website: https://acresofancestry.org/events/