Change Food for Good

The anxiety from code deployments is real… here’s our favorite ways to procrastinate on it. 🙂↕️ #developerlife #webdevelopment #anxietysquad #plantmom #dogmom #webdevelopment #changefoodforgood #fridayfunnies

Now Hiring: Program Coordinator - Part Time! $25/hr!  We’re looking for a Program Coordinator to support our job training & educational programs, partner coordination, and community resource efforts! 🌟 ️Pay Rate: $25 per hour 🌟 ️️20-25 hrs per week ️🌟 ️Experience in career coaching and employer engagement required ️🌟 ️Valid Driver’s License required Review the job description here: https://lnkd.in/eV64B8aA If you or someone you know is looking for a job, we have the perfect role for you! Email your resume & cover letter to  sam@changefoodforgood.org today! 

Intro to AgTech Cohort 7’s First Day of Carpentry Skills with Soulful Synergy, LLC taught us so much! As usual, we got to learn about site safety, how to measure and make cuts & drill on our hand tools and power tools (by drilling we mean memorize names and usage 🥁). We prepped our lumber for our cohort’s first construction project at El Coqui Community Garden - stay tuned for our recap of Day 2 to see what our participants built! 🙌🏽 (quick nod to John at Soulful Synergy and his infamous phrase about repetition & practice 🤓) #soulfulsynergy #carpentry #carpentryskills #constructionlife #changefoodforgood #practicemakesprogress

Back at it with our grow tent farm assembly 🥳 We’re taking all of the lessons learned over the past year and applying them to our new farm system. Our goal is to minimize manual labor for maintenance& increase yields and crop variety. 🍓🥒🫑🍅 All of the food grown will be used for food relief for NYC residents, so we’re hopeful this system will provid a healthy, consistent supply for our partner sites. ❤️ We don’t have a name for this farm yet, though… any suggestions? 👀 #coldstratification #hydroponics #farming #agtech #changefoodforgood

This last growing and training season was our busiest yet, with more than 120 students receiving hands-on training at Kwa Njenga Primary School in Nairobi at our hydroponic farm site - “Pole Pole”. 🙌🏽 We also were able to harvest more than 16 KGs of #SukumaWiki from our farm, thanks to our team members. 🥬 These training efforts brought out organization’s participants served to over 1000 participants to date! 🫡 We can’t wait to keep growing in the new year. 🌿 #Hydroponics #nairobifarm #farmers #futurefarmer #changefoodforgood

Our Final Internship Testimonial for 2024 comes from our Collective Focus Hub intern, Yailenne! 🙌🏽 Yailenne shared, “My favorite part of [my internship] is coming to work in a community that prioritizes care, not just through physical resources, but by nourishing people’s lives with compassion.” 🫶🏽 We just onboarded 3 new intern team members supporting @collectivefocushub’s food distribution, community organizing and fridge maintenance needs and couldn’t be more excited to see how they thrive in their internships. 🫡 #fooddistribution #freefood #foodisaright #changefoodforgood #collectivefocushub #nycfood

🔥 Kimchi-Jjigae Inspired Stew 🔥 This recipe has been our Fall hyperfixation meal and was a HIT amongst our Cohort 7 ITAG job trainees! 🫡 Spicy, silky, packed with healthy probiotics & nutrients from the Kimchi & Enoki Mushrooms (and of course, our hydroponic cilantro bunches)! 🍄🟫🌿🥬 Easy to make, quick comfort foods (ft. a Quick Yoga Intermission) is definitely perfect for the season. 😌 Try it at home and let us know how you like it! 🥰 #kimchijjigae #kimchistew #enokimushroom #mushrooms #hotpot #changefoodforgood

Replying to @Chrisrismyname: Our toothache plant yield so far 😋 3 weeks into it’s grow cycle.

Our first farm tour at Farm.One was full of flowers, facts and flavors we’ve never seen before! 🌸 The Farm.One team dove deep into the process and practices that guide their culinary herb and flower production in Brooklyn! 🙏🏽 We even got to try #ElectricDaisy (aka Toothache Plant) flowers which we’re now growing in our central site! It’s unique combination of umami and scezchuan peppercorn numbing heat was a 🔥hot🔥 topic amongst our team and students! 😋 This trip also served as a reminder that improving our food system isn’t just about growing food. It’s also about knowing how to iterate the packaging, transport, logistics and processing of farms, so they can be efficient and sustainable! 🤓 We can’t wait to come back next cohort, thank you Farm.One! ✨ #hydroponics #aeroponics #urbanfarms #changefoodforgood #farmone

Our Intro to AgTech Cohort 7 participants got to visit Hudson 🍃 in Hudson, NY! 🌿 This had to be one of the most in-depth, detailed tours we’ve ever been on. 🤯 The staff were so generous in every way - from sharing knowledge about their operations, answering hard questions, branching into the meta-attrtibutes that you want to embed in your career journey, to even, buying everyone 🔥 tacos for lunch. 🙏🏽 We loved learning from the Hudson team, hearing about their origin story as a family-owned hemp farm, and how deeply their values for sustainability are practiced on the farm by their team members! ✨ We cannot wait to go back with our future cohorts! Thank you Hudson 🍃 Co. for having us! 😌 #hudsonvalley #farmlife #sustainablefarming #regenerativeagriculture